Susie Ramsay
versión en español |
|
Biography: |
Canadian-born artist who has worked in dance, theatre, and installations with and without interactive technologies; writer, translator; producer and organizer of art and new media exhibitions and conferences.
At the ARS Electronica 97 Festival, Flesh Factor, she produced the relational architecture piece "Displaced Emperors". She is co-webmaster and adviser for the Art and Technology Foundation in Madrid, the institution that sponsored The Fifth International Conference on Cyberspace 5CYBERCONF in June 1996 which she coordinated. Adviser for IN ART, an annual symposium in Tenerife exploring the culture of digital technology and co-creator of the Comparative CyberLexicon, an online English to Spanish dictionary. She was on the production team of "The Trace, Remote Insinuated Presence", a telepresence installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (collaborator Will Bauer) at ARCO'95 1995 and for the electronic art exhibition "Arte Virtual" in Madrid, May 1994. Her article on dance and new technologies, "Bring Your Body", was published in the German art journal Kunstforum in 1996. She co-wrote "Spain Wide Web" and edited the interview with Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun for Telepolis Online Journal. She has choreographed for over 10 dance and theatre productions and interpreted in 14 dance pieces. Her choreographic works include "Surfacing I & II", "Cover Up" , "Surface Tension" and "Hue and Cry". She has been invited to perform at SIGGRAPH'93 Festival (Anaheim) and the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste (Nüremberg) as well as in festivals and centres in Canada, Mexico and Spain. She has taught at The National Arts Centre in Mexico City and done residencies at the Facultad de Ciencias de Información of the Complutense University in Madrid. Founder of "Susie Ramsay Temporary Dance" (1994), co-founder of "Transition State Theory" (1992) with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Will Bauer and co-founder of "One Hundredth Monkey Network" with Stacey Engels (1990). |