WANTED: Artists and audiences for this year’s 10th Annual ImageMovementSound 2006 Festival

Two performances:

Sunday, April 2, 2006
7:00 pm
Ingle Auditorium, Student Alumni Union Building
Rochester Institute of Technology
1 Lomb Memorial Drive
(Intersection of Jefferson Road and East River Road)
Henrietta, New York 14623

Saturday, April 22, 2006
8:00 pm
Visual Studies Workshop Auditorium
31 Prince Street
Rochester, New York 14607

Tickets: $5, students with ID free

IMS Web site: www.imsfestival.org

For more information, contact:
Stephanie Maxwell, sampph@rit.edu

About IMS:
(Please note: For a more detailed history of IMS, please refer to the ABOUT page on the IMS Web site.)

The ImageMovementSound festival began in March 1997 with a hybrid film exhibition/concert presented by the Eastman Computer Music Center and the RIT School of Film and Animation to a standing-room-only audience of 500 in Eastman's Kilbourn Hall. Showcasing innovative techniques in computer-generated and live acoustic musical production, experimental animation and live action filmmaking techniques, the show was repeated in September on the visiting artists series at Colgate University. In October 1997, the Department of Dance at SUNY Brockport jointed RIT and the Eastman School of Music as partners in co-producing an expanded, annual festival.

The enthusiasm generated from this artistic partnership led in 1999 to the development of an inter-campus multimedia collaborations course targeted at university students interested in creating innovative combinations of visual, musical and choreographic art forms.

In the ten years since its inception, ImageMovementSound has continued to grow. In 2001, thirty two collaborating artists and more than forty performers and technicians contributed to the twelve works presented at the festival, including multiple projections of still and moving videographic imagery; live dance and musical performances; interactive abstract explorations of textured space; and a film noir in which music, rather than dialog, serves to carry the action and provide character development.

Similar diversity has characterized IMS productions of the past four years. Performances are now presented at two or three partnership sites each April, on a rotating basis, in order to break down geographic barriers hindering participation within various segments of the artistic and civic communities.

During the 2006 season, in which we are celebrating the tenth anniversary of IMS, we will be presenting 12 innovative works by collaborative artists, multidisciplinary teams of student and faculty artists (38 artists and performers in total) drawn from seven Rochester area universities and colleges: Rochester Institute of Technology, Eastman School of Music, SUNY College Brockport, SUNY College Geneseo, University of Rochester, Nazareth College, and the Visual Studies Workshop.

IMS 2006 FESTIVAL PROGRAM
The following four works represent example collaborative pieces from this year's ImageMovementSound 2006 Festival program. For a complete listing and descriptions of all festival works please refer to the PROJECTS page on the IMS web site. For biographies of the artists please refer to the ARTISTS page on the IMS Web site.

1.Live dance, live interactive computer generated imagery and sound
Title: WOMAN HANGING ON
Length: 7 minutes
Description: An article of clothing takes center stage amid ghost images of its life in other environments. What happens when the woman behind the paper cut out reveals herself? The clothes do not make the woman.
Collaborators:
Image, W. Michelle Harris (RIT) and Elouise Oyzon (RIT)
Choreography, Juanita Suarez (SUNY Brockport) and Jocelyn MacIntosh (SUNY Brockport)
Sound Artist:
Greg Ketchum (SUNY Brockport)
Dancers:
Juanita Suarez (SUNY Brockport) and Jocelyn MacIntosh (SUNY Brockport)

2.Screen dance
Title: COHERENCE
Length: 11 minutes
Description: Coherence explores personal movement through space and time. Through a sophisticated time-based manipulation of human movement, the abstract and illogical portrayals of the dancers are juxtaposed with the fundamental sound of life, breath. This work creates a truly unique cinematic and evocative experience through an expressive combination of sound, image and movement.
Collaborators:
Composer, Abby Aresty (ESM)
Filmmaker, Matt Costanza (RIT)
Choreographer, Missy Pfohl Smith (SUNY Brockport)

3.Live dance, music and video projection
Title: EXCESS
Length: 10 minutes
Description: EXCESS is a comic multi-media work that explores American materialism and pack-rat culture which clutters our time, environment and lives. The work will feature choreography for five live dancers, 17 nondescript wooden chairs, an original music score, video projection and ice cream.
Collaborators:
Choreographer, Missy Pfohl Smith (SUNY Brockport)
Composer, Abby Aresty (ESM)
Filmmaker, Jesse Spielman (RIT)

CONTACT
Should you wish to interview the IMS festival directors and artist participants, please contact any of the following persons.

For complete listing and bios all 32 IMS artists,
please see the ARTISTS page on the IMS web site.

IMS 2006 DIRECTORS

Allan Schindler
Director, Eastman Computer Music Center
aschindler@esm.rochester.edu
(585) 274 1575

Stephanie Maxwell
Professor
School of Film and Animation
RIT
sampph@rit.edu

Jack Beck
Associate Professor
School of Film and Animation
RIT
jckbck@aol.com
(585) 264 1425

Matt Costanza
RIT graduate student
Interim Associate Director of IMS 2006
mattcostanza@gmail.com
(585) 245 2467

ARTIST PARTICIPANTS

Juanita Suarez
Choreographer, Associate Professor
Department of Dance
SUNY College Brockport
IMS participant for four years
jsuarez@brockport.edu
(585) 395 5137
(585) 964 9604

Elouise Oyzon
Media Artist, Assistant Professor
Information Technology
RIT
ero@it.rit.edu
3louis3@gmail.com
(585) 475 6542
(585) 750 3409

Kelly Ferris
Choreographer, graduate student
Department of Dance
SUNY College Brockport
kferris@brockport.edu
(585) 313 5226

Michaela Eremiasova
Composer, graduate student
Eastman School of Music
meremiasova@yahoo.com
(585) 313 1147

Leah Garland
Choreographer, Assistant Professor
SUNY Geneseo
garland@geneseo.edu
(585) 245 5842

Jon Turner
Composer, Lecturer
Music Department
Nazareth College
jturner9@naz.edu
(585) 461 0319