Distributed Arts Collective: Multimedia, Sound Art, and Performance in Aggregated Creative Practice
This workshop will be offered online.
The Distributed Arts Collective brings together artists of any background to develop new works disseminated in a joint online exhibition. As a networked collective, we will meet each day for lectures, discussions, demos, and to explore improvisatory creative practices. The heart of the workshop involves the creation and development of special topic artworks that will be presented on the final day of the workshop. The audience is free to navigate the multilayered experience as they choose.
The workshop consists of both online and offline components. We will meet regularly in the morning (Pacific time), with additional individual sessions in the afternoon, and materials provided for developing projects throughout the week. The workshop will address various topics regarding multimedia practices, including:
- performance practices
- improvisation and listening
- music and video performance software
- networked performance and online broadcasting
The workshop is open to musicians, visual artists, programmers, designers, writers, dancers, actors, or artists of any discipline.
Apply for a Diversity Scholarship HERE by June 13.
Alex Chechile is an artist and composer whose work develops in parallel with research in neuroscience, psychoacoustics, and the biomechanics of hearing. His electroacoustic compositions and installations bring transparency to otherwise invisible processes in biology and technology. His projects have been supported by The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Harvestworks (NYC), Issue Project Room (NYC), the Experimental Television Center (NY), the Deep Listening Institute (NY), and the American Embassy, and his work has been presented worldwide at venues including MoMA (NYC), IRCAM (Paris), and ICMC (Utrecht). Alex was a founding member of Pauline Oliveros’ Tintinnabulate ensemble, collaborated with Mercury Rev, and performed a solo opening act for Primus. Chechile holds a PhD from Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), an MFA in Electronic Art from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a BA in Music from Tufts University.
Constantin Basica is a Romanian composer living in the San Francisco Bay Area, whose current work focuses on symbiotic interrelations between music, video, and performers. His portfolio includes pieces for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, orchestra, electronics, and video, which have been performed in Europe, North America, and Asia at various venues, festivals, and conferences. Constantin holds a DMA in Composition from Stanford University (CA), an MA in Multimedia Composition from the Hamburg University of Music and Drama (DE), as well as two BA degrees in Composition and Conducting from the National University of Music Bucharest (RO). As an educator, he has taught courses and conducted workshops at Stanford University, Escuela Superior de Música in Mexico City (MX), the 2021 Network Performing Arts Production Workshops, the 2016 SMC Summer School in Hamburg (DE), and at the International Center For Research And Education In Innovative Creative Technologies in Bucharest (RO). Currently, Constantin is a lecturer, postdoctoral scholar, and the concert coordinator at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).
