PRODUCERS

Art Culture & Technology (ACT)

ACT was founded in 1995 to explore the relationship between the visual and performing arts and new technology. ACT views the development of cross-disciplinary collaborations and new commissions for digital media environments as a means of strengthening and extending the richness of global culture. ACT specializes in designing programs that address contemporary issues, including artist and community access to new media and technology. ACT has produced public art installations for the Art Shuttle and the Downtown Arts Festival in New York; The New World School of the Arts, Art Center South Florida, and Miami Light; the American Music Theater Festival at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia; and the Atlanta Centennial Olympics and the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Currently, ACT produces the Storm King Music Festival (SKMF). Now in its fourth year, the Festival has presented works by major contemporary classical composers including Chen Yi, Tania Leon, Sidney Corbett, Eric Ewazen, Judith Shatin, Raymond Torres-Santos, and Carman Moore.

SMARTlab UK

Based at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, as part of the first phase of their new Innovation Centre for the London Institute, The SMARTlab is a research incubator and production center facilitating a range of linked projects using innovative digital technologies in the service of site specific live and media arts. All of the work is ‘site specific’ either in real time and space or in customized virtual or mediated spaces. Some projects are designed for and/or performed in non-theatrical spaces with a particular emphasis on the site as a ‘character’ in performance. Some are culturally specific international projects made by teams of artists and scholars in developed and developing countries and urban areas, that are shared with audiences in the UK and worldwide. The SMARTlab’s Partners in Innovation include: The European Commission, The Gulbenkian Trust, The Arts Council of England, Ars Electronica, The Banff New Media Institute, BBC Digital Radio, BBC Imagineering, BBC Innovation and Learning, Ecole Superieure de l’Image, Performing Arts Labs/NESTA, Stichting de Zwijger, UCLA VR Center, and the C3 Lab Budapest. Corporate partners include: Bell Labs, British Telecom, and NOKIA. For the September, 2002 production of The Art of Fugue, SMARTlab will work closely with its primary institutional partner in the US, the Center for Advanced Technology Laboratory (CATlab) at New York University, New York.