about the artists:

Kit Fitzgerald is a media artist and video director. She has created  over 50 works in video, film, and new media spanning live performance, video art, music video, digital painting, documentaries, and narrative film. Her works are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and were twice in the Whitney Biennale. Her live performances have premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Hetmusiktheater, Amsterdam and LaMaMa E.T.C. Her collaborators have included composers Peter Gordon, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Max Roach; poet Seiku Sundiata; and choreographers Donald Byrd, Bill T. Jones, and Bebe Miller. Her hi-definition video, Painted Melodies, won 1st prize at the Electronic Cinema Festival in Montreaux, and was presented in the New York and Tokyo Film Festivals. Her film, The Deadman produced by the North Netherlands Theater, won 2nd prize at the Riccione Film, Theatre and Television Festival. She has earned grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the Japan Foundation, and the NHK Foundation of Japan. Ms. Fitzgerald heads the New Media Department at Concordia College.

Peter Gordon’s work is noted for its original blend of lyricism, wit and drama. Gordon first gained attention in the late 1970s with the Love of Life Orchestra – one of the first “downtown” composer-driven ensembles, frequently featured at La Mama. Working with electronics as well as instruments and voice, Gordon has composed for numerous theater and performance works, earning him the Obie Award and the Bessie Award. Works with the Talking Band include Party Time, Bitterroot and The Necklace.  His ongoing collaboration with Kit Fitzgerald has included Passion of Passion, and Spectacolo (both at La MaMa) and The Return of the Native (at BAM/Next Wave). Other past projects include scores for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Company, Alvin Ailey, Donald Byrd, Mario Martone and Richard Foreman; the opera The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin (with Lawrence Sacharow and Constance Congdon, at La MaMa); the opera The Society Architect Ponders the Golden Gate Bridge with Lawrence Weiner, Berlin/Oper Bonn); and he created orchestrations for Michael Tilson Thomas’ Thomashefsky Project at Zankel Hall. Gordon’s work for film and television can be heard in Joe Versus the Volcano, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Desparate Housewives and Déja Vu.

Gerd Stern
"I dea and Me dia" is a three screen plus spoken poem and live guitars multimedia presentation dealing with three stages of state of the art technology from the "sixties through here and now.
Gerd Stern is a poet and artist using electronic media, video and word collage. A founder of the  "60's collaborative commune USCO, he has published three books of poetry and his oral history "From Beat Scene Poet to Psychedelic Multimedia Artist" is in print and online by the University of California, Berkeley. In the past few years USCO works were  featured in "Summer of Love" at the Tate, Liverpool, Kunsthalle Frankfurt and Vienna and New York's Whitney Museum of American Art and in "Traces du Sacre" at Paris' Centre Georges Pompidou and in Munich. 

Paul Gregory is a registered new york architect and a player of varied guitars including bass. He and his firm develop architectural projects for residential, commercial, and industrial clients, and provide detailed project management. Gregory's university background includes his concentration on environmental policy planning. He has played with garage bands on both coasts and is heavily into blues. Last year he composed and played at East Village's "Stone" as Gerd Stern read a long series of short poems, titled "Awake and Aware".

Robert Holswade is a musician and video producer. He has played drums with various bands in both rock and jazz. During the 1980's he worked for a number of video production houses and for the last twenty years he has owned Holtech Video Labs in Tenafly, New Jersey. He shoots, directs and edits for schools, hospitals and other business and arts organizations and specializes in the production of family histories and events. Holtech digitizes and makes transfers from all formats of film and video to NTSC and PAL standards. Editing together, Robert Holswade and Gerd Stern have produced over a dozen art and documentary works for Inermedia Foundation during the past seven years.

Shelley Hirsch to learn about our moderator go to www.shelleyhirsch.com

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