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| [CURRENT
POSITION] Thorington is the founder (1981) and Co-Director of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (aka Ether-Ore). From 1987-1998, NRPA commissioned and produced the New American Radio series for the public radio system, and since 1996 has commissioned and produced net art for its Turbulence website. | |
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[NEW MEDIA] | |
| [NETWORKED PERFORMANCES] | |
| interaXis, an investigation into the possibilities of improvisation, form, and presentation in a multi-site, network-based performance that included Wadada Leo Smith, Mark Trayle and Jesse Gilbert at UCLA, Los Angeles and Nick Didkovsky, Leroy Jenkins, Dafna Naphtali, and Thorington at Harvestworks, New York City, December 2001. | |
| Adrift | A
streamed Internet performance, Adrift
was a collaboration
with Marek Walczak, Jesse
Gilbert, Martin Wattenberg,
Jonathan Feinberg and
Hal Eager. Thorington
wrote the texts and contributed photographs and ambient/musical selections to
the sound score. She also provided live voice narrative. See Adrift
in a Sea of Senses by Joel Johnson, PForm.org; Outlook
for 1998: Better Online Art and More of it by Matthew Mirapaul, New
York Times; Navigating the Narrative in Space: Gender and
Spatiality in Virtual Worlds, Mary Flanagan, Art Journal, Fall 2000; Text
Object, Rhizome.org. |
| Spaces 4.18.99 Feedback 12.6.98 Loose Ends/ Connections 9.19.98 | 50-minute improvisational, networked performance events originating from three locations: @ Mills College, Oakland, CA; @ Harvestworks, Inc., NYC; and the @ Morton Street Studio, NYC. Made available to local audiences in the three locations and to Internet users. With Maggi Payne, Brenda Hutchinson, Les Stuck, Beth Coleman, Shelley Hirsch, Pauline Oliveros, Jim Pugeleise, Jesse Gilbert, and others. |
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Turbulence
with Joseph Celli and Nick Didkovsky: a 35 minute sound/music composition
created for artnetweb's
project, PORT
a simultaneous presentation of digital art on the Internet and @ the List Center
for Visual Arts at MIT. Performances from el.net studios in NYC by RealAudio every
Friday, January 31 through March 28, 1997. Solitaire (1998) with Marianne Petit and John Neilson. Selected for presentation at numerous festivals including the Exchange 2000 Online Exhibition, Bristol, UK; the Maid in Cyberspace Festival, Quebec, Canada 2000; the REDesign Festival, 2000, Barcelona, Spain; and the 1999 Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media. Reviewed in the 6th edition of CIAC's Electronic Art Magazine. Finalist in the Trace and Alt-X first International Hypertext Competition, 1998-1999. Used in numerous syllabi/courses including Creativity, Collaboration, Collective Learning @ Kids on the Net; Hypertext Fiction and Theory, Department of English, University of California at Santa Barbara; and Tale, Text, and Hypertext, beyondwriting.com. North Country, Part 2 (1997) and North Country, Part 1 (1996). Selected for the University Art Gallery, Central Michigan Universitys Subverting the Market exhibition, 2001 and other exhibitions and festivals 1997-1999. Also @ the Women's New Media Gallery, Trace Online Writing Center. (TOP) [WEB SITES] http://somewhere.org, February 1996present: a web site that includes: an archive of the New American Radio series from 1987 to 1998, including excerpts from artists' works, artists' writings, scripts and scores, a catalogue, reviews and writing on the radio medium. http://turbulence.org, April 1996present: Turbulence commissions work made for the net/web. Reviewed by numerous on-line magazines including Netscape's iguide; RealAudio; Hot Wired, Cybertimes, Art in America, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, and TemaCeleste online. (TOP) [CD-ROM] North Country (1995) a short interactive narrative with an interactive soundscore. Funded by a New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Individual Artist Award and a Meet the Composer Commissioning Award. Presented at ORF (Austria); SFB (Berlin); ISEA, Montreal; and in art festivals and shows in NYC from 19951997. (TOP) [INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE] Going Between (1993) with performing artist Jackie Apple. A performance fiction on traveling between universes, commissioned by ORF (Austrian radio) and TRANSIT on the occasion of their On the Air Symposium in Innsbruck in 1993. Performed in concert at the Subtropics New Music Festival, Miami, Florida, 1995. Partial Perceptions a 30-minute composition premiered at DiverseWorks in Houston, Texas in February 2, 1992; presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art; and at Philip Morris on March 13, 1992 as a performance/installation. Funded by a NYSCA Music Commission and a grant from the Electronic Arts Grants Program of The Experimental Television Center. A 20-minute version can be found on Radius#1 (What Next? Recordings). Angels Have Been Sent To Me (1991) sound score, in collaboration with Jerri Allyn, presented at various locations in NYC and the Tyler Gallery, Philadelphia. Loco-motive (1991) exhibited at the 2nd International Festival of Radio Art in Wroclaw, Poland. Endangered (1990) sound score, in collaboration with Jerri Allyn for the Anchorage show in Brooklyn, NY. Terra dell Imaginazione (1990) performance/installation commissioned by RAI (Italy) for their Audio Box Festival and presented in the caves of Matera, Italy. (TOP) | |
| [SOUND] | |
| [FESTIVALS/EXHIBITIONS] Calling to Mind, Workspace Projects: Surround Sound, Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, 01.26 -02.04.06, Cologne, Germany; Pixilerations v.2, FirstWorksProv, Pixilerations Gallery, Providence, RI, 09.29-10.15.05; Deep Wireless Radio Art Festival, Toronto, Canada, 06.01.05 (Commissioned by Deep Wireless) 9_11_01_scapes, Honorable Recognition, Prix Bohemia Radio Festival, Czechoslovakia, 2003; Winner, Aether Festival, KUNM-FM, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2003; Essay: September 11th, Magnum Photos, 2006; The Sonic Memorial Project. FILE-2003,
the Electronic Language International Festival, Cultural Institution and Museum
(Paço das Artes), São Paulo City. 5 audio works included in their
Hipersonica sound productions festival. [FOR DANCE] (TOP) | |
| Radio,
Art, Life: New Contexts, feature article
on the evolving context for sound and radio practice, exploring networked
media, participatory platforms and the sonification of every-day objects.
An introduction to a series of Radio Art including recent work by Christof
Migone and Sarah Washington, Intermedia:
New Media, Sound and Performance, Tate
Modern, May 2008. | |
| 2008 2006 | |
| 2007: Networked
Performance: Off the Desktop and Into the Street,
Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts 200406: Mentor, Art Insititute of Boston at Lesley University, Boston, Massachusetts 2003: School of Visual Arts, New York University, New York City: New Media Art History: Radio Art 2002: Graduate Seminar, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. 2001: Workshop, Arts Technology Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 1997: Radio Production, College of Staten Island, Staten Island, New York. 19811990: Radio Workshops. (TOP) | |
| 2004 Deep
Wireless Commission 2003 Honourable Recognition, PRIX BOHEMIA RADIO FESTIVAL, Czechoslovakia 2003 Winner, AETHER FESTIVAL, KUNM-FM, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2001 New York Foundation on the Arts Creative Fellowship Award: Emerging Forms for Digital Art 2000 Creative Capital Grant for Adrift 1999 Creative Capital Grant for Adrift 1998 New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Music Commission 1997 Meet the Composer Commissioning Program Award 1996 Artist in Residence, Harvestworks, Studio Pass, New York City 1995 Meet the Composer Commissioning Program Award 1995 New York State Council on the Arts, Individual Artists Award, Media 1995 Paul Robeson Fund, Radio Grant 1994 Paul Robeson Fund, Radio Grant 1993 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Media Arts Award 1992 NYSCA, Music Commission 1992 Electronic Arts Grants Program of the Experimental Television Center 1991 First Prize, MACROPHON, the First International Festival of Radio Art, Poland 1991 NEA, Media Arts Award 1990 NYSCA Individual Artists Award, Media (with Jerri Allyn) 1990 NEA, Media Arts Award (TOP) | |
| Graduate Studies Course work completed for Ph.D. in English Literature, Rutgers University, 19651967. Special Studies in the English Comic Novel with John Bayley, New College, Oxford University, England, 19591961. English Literature, University of Minnesota, 19561958. Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1951. Bachelor of Arts, Biblical History, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, 1950. | |
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