beatrix*JAR:
Sonic Playground
YOU are the STAR in Beatrix*JAR! Sing! Play AM
radios paired with flash cameras! Activate modified children's toys! DJ with
samples and electronic beats! Sound Art Duo Beatrix*JAR take audience
participation to a new level with a hands-on audio playground where you create
the sounds! Noted for their unique musical performances and non traditional
approach to sound art, real life couple Jacob Roske (JAR) and Bianca Pettis
(Beatrix), draw their inspiration from the Fluxus Art movement and artists like
John Cage and Jean Michel Basquiat.
Beatrix*JAR self-released three albums of note: I Love You Talk Bird (2005), Golden Fuzz (2007) and Art*Star (2010) and are recipients of a 2010 Archibald Bush Fellowship in Media Arts. The duo has been featured at the Hammer Art Museum (LA), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Wexner Art Center (Columbus, Ohio) and the American Visionary Art Museum (Baltimore).
Check out Bending Circuits with Beatrix*JAR on the IMA Blog.
Beatrix*JAR self-released three albums of note: I Love You Talk Bird (2005), Golden Fuzz (2007) and Art*Star (2010) and are recipients of a 2010 Archibald Bush Fellowship in Media Arts. The duo has been featured at the Hammer Art Museum (LA), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Wexner Art Center (Columbus, Ohio) and the American Visionary Art Museum (Baltimore).
Check out Bending Circuits with Beatrix*JAR on the IMA Blog.
Shawn Decker
Shawn Decker is a sound and media artist, Chair of Sound Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Irish fiddler, and brew pub entrepreneur / Sketchbook Brewing Co. He is a composer, artist, and teacher who creates sound and electronic media installations and writes music for live performance, film, and video. His work is positioned at the intersection of music composition, the visual arts, and performance, where he works with physical and electronic media to investigate, simulate and praise the natural (and unnatural) worlds.
His work has been frequently performed, seen, and heard in the US and Europe at a wide variety of venues. Recent exhibitions of both solo and collaborative work have shown at venues such as: the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, the Museum of Art and Design in New York, the Pritzker Pavillion in Chicago’s Millenium Park, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the 2003 Biennial of Electronic Art in Australia, among others. Decker has collaborated with fiber and installation artist, Ann Wilson and WFU’s own Lynn Book in duo concert and video projects for the past several years. They will perform together when Decker visits Wake for IF LABs, March 24 – 27.
Links to recent art works:
Prairie – a large scale sound installation project that has been mounted at the Chicago Cultural Center, Indianapolis Museum of Art and in Krems, Austria: http://www.shawndecker.com/Prairie
http://www.sketchbookbrewing.com/about/
His work has been frequently performed, seen, and heard in the US and Europe at a wide variety of venues. Recent exhibitions of both solo and collaborative work have shown at venues such as: the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, the Museum of Art and Design in New York, the Pritzker Pavillion in Chicago’s Millenium Park, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the 2003 Biennial of Electronic Art in Australia, among others. Decker has collaborated with fiber and installation artist, Ann Wilson and WFU’s own Lynn Book in duo concert and video projects for the past several years. They will perform together when Decker visits Wake for IF LABs, March 24 – 27.
Links to recent art works:
Prairie – a large scale sound installation project that has been mounted at the Chicago Cultural Center, Indianapolis Museum of Art and in Krems, Austria: http://www.shawndecker.com/Prairie
http://www.sketchbookbrewing.com/about/
Albert Bressand
Dr. Albert Bressand is Professor of International Strategic Management in Energy at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia Law School - Earth Institute, Columbia University in New York. He is also a member of the faculty of the Columbia Business School’s Senior Executive Program (CSEP). Professor Bressand was previously Executive Director of the Columbia Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University. Dr Bressand serves as Special Adviser to Andris Piebalgs, Commissioner for Development at the EU Commission in Brussels.
In the early 2000s, as a member of the Shell Global Leadership group, Dr Bressand led the Global Business Environment department in Royal Dutch Shell's global headquarters in London, responsible notably for designing a new generation of Shell Global Scenarios around an enhanced methodology for risk assessment. Earlier in his career, Dr Bressand was the co-founder and managing director of PROMETHEE, a think tank on the global networked economy ranked among ‘the world’s 20 good think tanks’ by The Economist’, and, before that, Special Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, Deputy Director of the French Council on Foreign Relations (IFRI) and a member of the Policy Planning Staff in the Executive Director’s Office at the World Bank, Washington DC. He has published extensively (Foreign Affairs, International Affairs, Clingendael energy Program, Brookings, OUP) and is a member of the Oxford Energy Policy Club at St Antony’s College, Oxford, as well as a member of the Advisory Boards of the European Center for Energy and Resources Security (EUCERS) at King’s College London, of the Natural Resources Governance Institute (Oxford), of Politique Internationale (Paris) and of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum—OMFIF, in London.
Dr Bressand holds advanced degrees from Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and La Sorbonne in Paris and a PhD. in Political Economy from Harvard University.
In the early 2000s, as a member of the Shell Global Leadership group, Dr Bressand led the Global Business Environment department in Royal Dutch Shell's global headquarters in London, responsible notably for designing a new generation of Shell Global Scenarios around an enhanced methodology for risk assessment. Earlier in his career, Dr Bressand was the co-founder and managing director of PROMETHEE, a think tank on the global networked economy ranked among ‘the world’s 20 good think tanks’ by The Economist’, and, before that, Special Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, Deputy Director of the French Council on Foreign Relations (IFRI) and a member of the Policy Planning Staff in the Executive Director’s Office at the World Bank, Washington DC. He has published extensively (Foreign Affairs, International Affairs, Clingendael energy Program, Brookings, OUP) and is a member of the Oxford Energy Policy Club at St Antony’s College, Oxford, as well as a member of the Advisory Boards of the European Center for Energy and Resources Security (EUCERS) at King’s College London, of the Natural Resources Governance Institute (Oxford), of Politique Internationale (Paris) and of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum—OMFIF, in London.
Dr Bressand holds advanced degrees from Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and La Sorbonne in Paris and a PhD. in Political Economy from Harvard University.