Credits

Concept, design and realization (on vocals): Nancy Nowacek, Katie Salen, Marina Zurkow
Producers: Nancy Nowacek, Katie Salen, Marina Zurkow
Music produced and arranged by: Lem Jay Ignacio
Costume fabrication: Scott Paige
Remedios the Squirrel Cub: Adrian Mejia
Lighting design: Marcus Doshi
Wiring and installation support: Ministry of Transport
Engineering and electrical consultant: Bob Grimm
Needlepoint: Carol Stakenas
Knitting: Knitta
Education liaison:
Cynthia Taylor
Technology Intern: Diem Dang

Karaoke Ice was designed and produced in collaboration with students and graduates of the San Jose State Cadre Laboratory for New Media.

The CADRE Laboratory at San Jose State University is an interdisciplinary academic and research program dedicated to the experimental use of information technology and art. As a Visionary Sponsor of ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, CADRE and SJSU co-sponsored Karaoke Ice in collaboration with the Montalvo Arts Center Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs. 

Karaoke Ice's unique residency involved a collaboration with graduate and undergraduate students from the CADRE Digital Media Art program.

Cadre Laboratory Team (the believers):
Joel Slayton, Executive Producer
Michael Weisert, Line Producer

Web Development Team (html funk):
John Bruneau
Bruce Gardner
Kristin O’Friel
Michael Weisert

Software Development Team (code connivers):
John Bruneau
Kristin O’Friel
Corrie Tse
Michael Weisert

Build Team (heroes of heavy metal):
Thomas Asmuth
Sarah Lowe
Owen Premore
Ben Ward

The residency was co-supported by The Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs, an international, multi-disciplinary residency center, which opened in the fall of 2004 within the Montalvo Arts Center. The Lucas Artists Programs foster temporary communities of highly motivated, talented, committed, creative and critical minds from a range of disciplines and from different parts of the globe.Collaboration and network development form key emphases of the Programs, whether in the form of fellows working with each other, with Silicon Valley industry, with Montalvo's education program and other departments, or through ties with Bay Area, national, and international arts, cultural, and academic institutions.

Artist Bios:

Nancy Nowacek is a graphic and sound designer interested in narrative, identity, and social interaction. She has worked on interactive community-based narrative installations for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and UNICEF, as well as producing polite mischief and social discourse through The Starlings, a collaboration with Marina Zurkow.

She is presently the art director at Metropolis magazine, where she illustrates, photographs, and occasionally writes, in addition to the designing the magazine. With the belief that design is inherently a multi-modal activity, she has previously worked on and for a diverse body of studios and disciplines, including Bruce Mau design, RGA Interactive, Gap Inc, MTV, and the International Coalition of Site Museums of Conscience, to name but a few.

In addition to Metropolis, Nancy has written about design for journals, most recently about typography and character for Visual Communication’s special issue, "The New Typography" and for several of Steven Heller's books. Her work has been featured in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial, as an ADC  'Young Gun', and most recently, in Teal Triggs' newest book, _Experimental Typography_. She is currently a visiting critic at Parsons Graduate Design and Technology program.


Katie Salen is a game designer and Director of Graduate Studies, Design and Technology program, Parsons the New School For Design.

Salen has worked on a range of projects for clients such as Microsoft, SIGGRAPH, the Hewlett Foundation, XMediaLab, the Design Institute, gameLab, and mememe Productions. Co-author (with Eric Zimmerman) of Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (MIT Press 2004) and The Game Design Reader (MIT Press 2005), she is also a member of Playground, a design team focused on large-scale, experimental, urban games. Playground recently invented a new genre of games—Slow Games—for the 25th anniversary issue of Metropolis magazine. Slow Games take 25 years to play.

A contributing writer for RES magazine, Katie worked as an animator on Richard Linklater’s critically acclaimed animated feature Waking Life. In 2003-04 she partnered with screenwriter and director Hampton Fancher (Minus Man; Bladerunner) to develop an animated storytelling experience distributed through Xbox Live, a beautiful disaster by all accounts. She’s curated programs at the Lincoln Center, Cinematexas, ZKM, Exploding Cinema, and the Walker Art Center on machinima, the practice of creating animated films using game engines, and lectures widely on game design and game culture. She too, lives in Brooklyn.


Marina Zurkow works with character and narrative in animated cartoons, interactive installations, print and pop objects.

Zurkow’s recent projects include The Space Invaders, a site-specific single channel video for WNET/PBS in New York; and the seven channel animated installation, Nicking the Never, which premiered at FACT in the U.K. in 2005. She created the award-winning episodic cartoon Braingirl,; the reactive character installation Pussy Weevil, or How I Learned to Love the War;; and PDPal, a public art project for screen, web and mobile devices (with architect Scott Paterson and technologist Julian Bleecker). Zurkow’s icons and characters have been incorporated into films, hotel design, lightboxes and clothing. Upcoming projects include Funnelhead: Adventures in Psychotropia, which will be realized as a graphic novel and as an animated, sculptural installation.

Zurkow’s work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including Sundance, the Rotterdam Film Festival, Ars Electronica, Creative Time, The Walker Art Center, and Eyebeam Atelier, She has been a NYFA Fellow, a Rockefeller New Media Fellow, and received numerous grants, including Creative Capital, the Jerome Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts. She teaches at the Parsons Graduate Design and Technology Program and at NYU’s Interactive Technology Program (ITP) and hey guess what: she lives in Brooklyn.

Thomas Asmuth is a MFA student at the CADRE Laboratory for New Media. A dreamer, Thomas, can often be found setting off white-hot reactions, turning prescriptions into plush toys, and monitoring cosmic ray bursts inside mason jars. http://dma.sjsu.edu/~tasmuth/index.html

John Bruneau recently completed his MFA degree in Digital Media from The CADRE Laboratory for New Media at SJSU. During his time as a graduate student he was an instructor at Cadre as well as an editor for Switch. He did his undergraduate work at UCSD and holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts and Music. Much of his work revolves around surveillance and interface. However, recently John has switched gears a bit, getting back to his roots. His research of late has turned more towards gaming, cellular automata, and information systems visualization. Currently John Bruneau works as a web developer for the San Jose Convention Center and Visitors Bureau as well as an instructor for the Television Radio Film and Theater department at SJSU. John is currently working on three other projects also to be featured in ISEA: Ex_XX :: Post Position, BodyDaemon, and DrumFi. John Bruneau feels it awkward writing about himself in the third-person.

Art should make people wake up and look around with out telling them what to think.Art should be in flux and engaging not stagnant.Artists shouldn't take them selves too seriously... Seriously.
http://www.artfail.com/

 

Sarah Lowe Sarah Lowe is an MFA student in the CADRE Laboratory. She received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and served a two-year apprenticeship at the Johnson Atelier Technical School of Sculpture. Currently, she is the Assistant Technical Director at the California Shakespeare Theater in Berkeley, California. At her upcoming MFA thesis show will premiere the notorious Quantitative Plague Chandelier.

Krisitin O'Friel is a BFA graduate of the CADRE Laboratory.  She resides in San Francisco.

Owen Premore is a MFA student at San Jose State University in spatial arts. He earned his BA from University of Oregon where he studied sculpture and painting. For Karaoke Ice, Owen Premore worked with Thomas Asmuth to problem-solve and execute the mounting and safe operation of the generator (the steel work was beautifully fabricated by Ben Hunt), the installation of the service window, and the rack system for technology storage. Mechanized and installed guard railings. Problem-solved and fabricated the mounting of the mirror ball. Installed the top sign panels on the lighted mount fabricated by Sarah Lowe and researched possiblities for the rotation of the sign (sign rotation was later cut due to budget). Installed the exterior sign. Fabricated curtain hanger from materials provided. Assisted Sarah Lowe in the demolition of the large wooden shelves that came with the truck.

Corrie Tse, born in Hong Kong, now lives and works in San Francisco, California as a graphic designer. She is a graduate from the CADRE Laboratory for New Media whose work ranges from design and photography to new media installation and digital art works. Her recent projects include “Made In Here”, an installation that examines post-modern product identities and “Keyhole”, a public artwork that investigates the nature of voyeurism.

Michael Weisert is a MFA graduate of the CADRE Laboratory and received his BFA in Art and Technology from the Ohio State University.  His work involves haptic interfaces, gaming and video.  His most recent works involve 9 foot plush neurons and Telepresent Tug-of-War machines.  www.mweisert.com

 

Special Thanks:

Mike Berk
Chris Bregler
Louis Brossard
Greg Brown
Cory Clarke
Dan Core
Dave Della Costa
Steve Dietz
Marcus Doshi
Ernie Fertado
Scott Flora
Bob Grimm
Lem Jay Ignacio
Adrian Jones
John Keith
Gordon Knox
Steve Landau
Criswell Lappin
Lawyers for the Arts
Paul Leduc
Dan MacAuliff
Paul Makovsky
Metropolis Magazine
Scott Paige
David Pepe
San Jose State Foundry
Rijin Sahakian
Dave Sardy
Score
Joel Slayton
Carol Stakenas
Bob Stockwell
Michael Sweet
Beau Takahara
Cynthia Taylor
Katharine Wallerstein
Ben Ward
Wanda Webb
David Wilhoit

 
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