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Arizona State University

Arizona State University is an internationally recognized metropolitan Research I university serving approximately 47,000 students at 3 anchor campuses in the Phoenix area (Main, West, and East) and Extended Campus locations throughout the Valley of the Sun.

The Arizona State University Department of Dance

The ASU Dance Department is a tightly-knit, accomplished group of professionals who, together with their students, dedicate themselves to development, enlightenment, and artistry through dance. From performance to pedagogy, classical ballet to ethnic dance, and dance science to multi-media performance, the comprehensive excellence of the ASU Dance curriculum allows students to discover the artists within.

The Arizona State University Institute for Studies in the Arts

is the research center of the College of Fine Arts, Arizona State University. The ISA conducts and supports creative activity that extends traditional frameworks of knowledge and experience in the arts; explores collaborations among the arts and other fields of human activity; investigates new applications of technology in the arts; increases awareness and understanding of new art forms, new media, and new concepts; and expands the critical, theoretical, educational, and philosophical traditions within the core disciplines of dance, music, theater, and visual art.

Credo Interactive Inc.

Makers of Life Forms character movement software. Life Forms is an innovative tool for 3D animation, dance choreography, movement planning, game development, multimedia content creation and education.

The Dance and Technology Zone

is a resource for artists and others who are particularly interested in using new media and information technologies in the creation and performance of dance, dance theater and related live performance works.

Illuminations

produces multimedia work for museums, galleries, and the arts community either as permanent installations, CD-ROMs, or Websites.

The Interactive Media Technology Center: The Dance and Technology Project (at Georgia Tech)

IMTC is a key player in an ongoing collaborative project between the Atlanta Ballet and Georgia Tech's Robert Ferst Center for the Arts. The project's charter is to find innovative ways to integrate technology and the arts, specifically dance.

Kontext

New technologies challenge definitions of the body in dance and performance. Interactive applications shift the perception from observing a representation to an active participation. The idea of a technological body provides material for utopia and criticism. Experiments by dancers and performers currently explore these areas of tension. Lectures and video lectures reflect on the use of new media as a means for the stage, analyze possibe interfaces between bodies and technologies, and initiate debates on questions of body art.

The MIT Media Laboratory

Founded in 1985, the Media Laboratory carries on advanced research into a broad range of information technologies including digital television, holographic imaging, computer music, computer vision, electronic publishing, artificial intelligence, human/machine interface design, and education-related technologies.

The Ohio State University Department of Dance

Dance at Ohio State allows for an intensive exploration of dance as a major art form. Studies encompass the physical, intellectual, and creative aspects of dance and provide the basis for further involvement in professional dance, education, or graduate study.

STEIM

is a unique electronic music studio based in Amsterdam, Netherlands which is entirely dedicated to live performance. STEIM is involved in the research and development of new electronic music instruments and software for musical and theatrical use. In addition, STEIM offers residency opportunities to performing artists drawn by the fitness of technology to the realization of their artistic goals.

STELARC

is an Australian-based performance artist whose work explores and extends the concept of the body and its relationship with technology through human/machine interfaces incorporating the Internet and Web, sound, music, video and computers.

ZKM

ZKM Karlsruhe promotes art in connection with electronic media. Its Institute for Visual Media and Institute for Music and Acoustics are equipped with studio facilities in which visiting artists are able to translate their project concepts into visible, audible media art-works.