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Artistic Directors

Sean Clute  |  Co-Artistic Director

Sean Clute is an inventor of sound, video, installation, and performance. As Co-Artistic Director of DOUBLE VISION, Sean has organized, curated, and performed in numerous events including Evolutionary Patterns and the Lonely Owl, Involution 2 (Brooklyn), 13 Dreams of a Dying Clairvoyant, and Equinox 12 11 11 Kimi Yax.  He has built and performed in geodesic domes, suspended pods, and interactive sonic environments.  His diverse creative activities have been presented at venues such as The Kitchen, CEAIT Festival, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, TED2005, Uspannwerk Kreuzberg (Germany), Shabla Solar Eclipse Festival (Bulgaria), La Case A Chocs (Switzerland), La Ma Ma etc., Times Square Deli Dance, CBGB's, REDCAT Theater, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, California College of the Arts, Mills College, and California Institute of the Arts.
 
Sean has also been recognized with a Fulbright Award and residency at the MuseumsQuartier Wien in Austria, a Djerassi Resident Artist Award, and a Meet the Composer Award. He has an extensive background in music and intermedia art and holds an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College where he was awarded the Music Alumnae Scholarship, Crothers Award, Hellman Award, Lynn T. White Award, and Frog Peak Collective Experimental Music Award.  Additionally, Sean was awarded a scholarship to attend The Kitchen Summer Institute in New York City and a recent scholarship to attend the Anderson Ranch in Colorado.  Sean holds a BA in Music at the University of New Mexico where he studied classical guitar and composition.
 
Sean has also worked in performing arts and technology organizations with positions held at Orban/CRL broadcast technologies, Columbia University Music Library, and The Kitchen. He has guest lectured at Cal State University Stanislaus, Mills College, and California College of the Arts on intermedia art and technology.   
 
Sean is the founder of experimental music groups X-Ray Vision Network and Passing Strange, as well as the co-founder the electronic music group Cloud Full of Clowns. He has collaborated on a number of projects with groups Ransom Corp., Amoeba Technology, Jose Roque Ensemble, choreographers Pauline Jennings, Nic Petry, animator Nick Fox-Gieg, musicians Zemi 17, Pauline Oliveros, Jessica Catron, Dorsey Dunn, and designer Ben Coolik.

http://www.seanclute.com/

 

 

Pauline Jennings  |  Co-Artistic Director

Pauline (click here for cv) is a contemporary dance choreographer interested in prophesizing and questioning the future of humankind through movement. The society she sees is one that is evolving with exciting technological advances, an onslaught of media pushing ideas and products, and in-debt zombie workers afforded little time for reflection and critical thought. Pauline believes that advances in life-extending tools, online communities, media conglomerates, and cybernetics will transform the definition of human nature and should not be permitted to do so unnoticed or unquestioned. Her work attempts to viscerally capture the excitement, confusion and fear that accompany this rapidly changing society. Through her work, she hopes that viewers will have an opportunity to reflect upon and take a more active role in determining their own evolution.

Since 2003, Pauline has completed over 90 performances involving collaborations between dancers, musicians, video artists and technologists. Her choreography has been performed in festivals and showcases nation-wide, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City. Her choreography for Disembodied Head #2 was filmed for national distribution as part of PBS' Meaning of the 20th Century series. She has both performed and presented work at such venues as the SF Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ODC Theater, and Dance Mission Theater.

Pauline currently is a Visiting Artist for the Mills College Dance Department's Repertory Dance Company and has particpated in conferences held at the University of California at Berkeley, California State University, Mills College, Brighton College (UK), and Doncaster College (UK). She has also lectured and taught classes at Mills College, College of Santa Fe, Arizona State University, University of Arizona, University of New Mexico and University of Colorado at Boulder.


Dancers

 

Blaine Bookey

Blaine Bookey co-created the Bluestockings Dance Collective and serves on the Board of Directors for the CounterPULSE community art space. Blaine studied Social Policy and Gender Studies at Northwestern University before working in the areas of asylum and deportation defense. She is currently pursuing her juris doctorate in Public Interest Law from University of California at Hastings.

 

Emily Gorman

Emily Gorman holds an MFA in performance and choreography from Mills College, where she had the privilege of performing in works by esteemed choreographer Molissa Fenley and others. She is on the dance faculty at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

 

Wendy Marinaccio

Wendy Marinaccio choreographs for El Gato Del Diablo Theatre Company and the Uphill Both Ways sketch comedy group. Wendy earned a minor in dance from Stanford University and a M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a focus in dance and gender studies. Prior to joining DOUBLE VISION, she danced with the contemporary dance company Dog Patch Superstars for five years.

 

Jennifer Mellor

Jennifer Mellor can't imagine a life without dance. Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, she has performed with civic ballet company Tulsa Dance Theater, modern dance troupe Dance On Tulsa, rhythm tap duo FootSong, and A Call to Feet Tap Dance Ensemble. Jen came to the Bay Area to get her B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Science at Stanford University, and other than a short stint in Philadelphia, she has been in the San Francisco area ever since. Jen is currently dancing and choreographing with High Release Dance, and she is happy to be collaborating with DOUBLE VISION.

 

Cecelia Peterson  |  Managing Director

Cecelia Peterson is DOUBLE VISION's Managing Director. In addition to her training at Santa Clara, Cecelia has trained with the Ailey School and Repertory Dance Theater in Salt Lake City. She has also danced with local choreographer Amy Lewis and taught creative dance to children in Salt Lake City, the Bay Area and Belize.

 

 

Current Collaborators

 

Andrea Campbell  |  Mistress of Costuming

If you ask Alice she would tell you, since Andrea was 3 years old, when people would ask her what she wanted to do when she grew up ... ''I wanna make clothes''.  Born and raised in the City of Angels she attended college in the City of Stars.  Preferring the type of art you can hold/wear she spends her time sewing, knitting, sculpting ... when you can part the computer from her hands.

 

Caitlyn Carradine

Caitlyn Carradine, born and raised in Los Angeles, is a choreographer and contemporary ballerina whose work transcends various venues, mediums, and roles as she feels the spirit of her native home is what guides her practice. She trained at and graduated from Vienna Austria's Wiener Staatsoper Ballettschule (1998-2001) and danced in productions at both the Wiener Staatsoper and Volksoper Wien before returning to Los Angeles, California in 2002 to establish her company: Los Angeles Contemporary Ensemble (LA.C.E.) an avant-garde experimental dance theater. LA.C.E. has produced 25+ original evening length dance productions including "dancing with paints" which was used to create a billboard for Hollywood Boulevard. L.A.C.E. resided in the abandoned portion of the Camarillo State Hospital from 2003-2006 and since has been a nomadic company most recently moving to Vienna, Austria where it will serve as a collaborative production base. Collaborating with DOUBLE VISION in Europe has come as a synchronistic and natural next step and it is all very thrilling to help represent California halfway around the world.
http://www.dancingwithpaints.com
http://www.lace-theater.com

photo credit: Jay Matsueda

 

Naomi Clark  |  Set Designer

Naomi Clark is an interdisciplinary painter and textile designer living and working in Brooklyn NY. She received her BFA in painting from the University of Colorado at Boulder and her MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY. Naomi also is the co-founder of the design art house Fortmakers located in the Navy Yards in Brooklyn NY.
http://www.naomiclark.com

 

Ben Coolik  |  Lighting Designer

Ben Coolik is a collaborative artist whose work crosses and often combines multiple disciplines including lighting design, music composition, interactive multi-media design and programming as well as performance. His most recent collaborative efforts, Paradise Hotel and E.L.I., were supported by grants from ICE (Ideas for Creative Exploration) where Ben is currently serving on the Interactive Performance Research Task Force. Ben holds a Master of Fine Arts in Theatrical Design, UGA 2005.

 

Dorsey Dunn

Raised in East Asia and a veteran of many cities, Dorsey Dunn is a San Francisco-based artist. His work in sound, text, and image, in the form of installations, performances, and written and recorded works, is an extended meditation on the perimeters of language, the movements of silence, and the vagaries of comprehension. The human voice, through speech and other sound, is an important component of his work, as are considerations of public and private, revelation and hiding, fear and freedom. Dorsey has performed and exhibited his music and sound installations in the US and Europe. He is currently at work on a full production of his large-scale installation piece, The Narcissus Project, and on a series of live performances of music for alto saxophone, midi saxophone and electronics. He has scored and produced music for film, theater, and dance; his latest score, for the film "IPO", will appear at the Slamdance and Cinequest film festivals this spring. Previously, he edited an international literary magazine, Trafika. He was educated in New York City.
www.dorseydunn.com



Jessica Gomula

Jessica Gomula joined California State University, Stanislaus as the professor of printmaking and new media in the Fall of 2005. She currently enjoys dividing her free time between hiking at Yosemite and being a member of the performance group DOUBLE VISION in San Francisco.

She received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1996, and her MFA from Illinois State University in 2000. She has since taught new media and web design for Bradley University and Heartland Community College, IL.

www.gomula.net

 

Dave Holton

Dave Holton makes automatic electronic music programs for the Anarchy
wing of DOUBLE VISION.

 

Jason B. Jones

Jason B. Jones has been involved in multi-media events in the San Francisco Bay Area, Southern California, Albuquerque, and New York City since 1998. His credits include curating, producing, performing, and installation artist. Most recently working with DOUBLE VISION.

Hailing from Missouri, he became interested in photography and installation art in high school. He took that interest to the University of New Mexico, where he received a B.A.F.A. in Art History, with a specialization in the History of Photography. During this time, he began experimenting with perception based installation art and sensory environments. While in Albuquerque, Jason was involved in a number of shows and events, frequently with Sean Clute and Overcast Records. This culminated in his multi-sensory piece "Splitting Atoms."

During January of 2000, Jason moved to Los Angeles, and continued to write about and practice art. He also began handling and installing artwork in museums, galleries, and for private collectors. For the next year and a half, he would do several site specific pieces. Most notably, "Deprivation," at Lake Isabella, California.

Upon arriving in the Bay Area, he began collaborating with Sean Clute once more. This partnership lead to shows at the Autonomous Mutant Festival, in New Mexico, and through the San Francisco Bay Area. Jason was witness to the creation of DOUBLE VISION, and continues write about and practice art with them.

 

Elisabeth Kohnke

Elisabeth has been involved in music, art and dance since she was a child. From opera and modern dance choreography to sculpture and electronic music, she finally settled for a BA in music composition and recording techniques at Mills College in Oakland, CA. During her time at Mills she studied with Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, and John Bischoff, and recieved the Paul Merritt Henry Prize Music Award. Kohnke then went on to perform and study sound diffusion and electronic music at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Around this time video had also become a passion of hers, and she began to experiment with user interface interactivity exhibited in a video piece entitled Useful Garbage. Currently Elisabeth works as a free-lance videographer, editor, and DVD designer for private clients and local groups like Pinch Me Films and Berkeley Community Media. As for her own projects, she co-produces and composes music for a local television show called Affordable Entertainment which currently airs in the San Francisco Bay Area.

 

Peter Matthews

Peter Matthews is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a founding member of Boxcar Theatre and serves as Associate Artistic Director. He has tried his hand at artistic direction assuming the role of Artistic Director/Choreographer for Synergy, an improvisational movement ensemble, which he directed for three years before moving home to the West Coast. He is also a member of SFStageWorks and Eastenders Repertory Company. He received his B.A.s in Theatre Arts/Performance and Spanish from the Pennsylvania State University, School of Theatre and the College of Liberal Arts. He has had the great joy of studying acting locally with Gregory Wallace of the American Conservatory Theater and Rodney Hudson while working with Shakespeare Santa Cruz. He also studied and performed with premiere Fosse dancer, Spence Ford, and also with Patricia Heigel-Tanner of the original Doris Humphrey Company.

 

Anne Peattie | Photographer

Anne Peattie is currently a grad student within UC Berkeley's Integrative Biology program. When she isn't examining gecko setae, she's busily snapping photos for DOUBLE VISION and others. You can find her work throughout this site and on FLICKR: flickr.com/photos/anniemack/

 

Tim Thompson

Tim is a software engineer by day and software artist by night. For more than 20 years he has been experimenting with algorithmic and realtime music, developing his own programming language (KeyKit) along the way. Moving to the Bay Area in 1996, Tim has been inspired by events such as Woodstockhausen and Burning Man. His performances and creations tend to use unusual controllers, ranging from qwerty keyboards to wireless joysticks to playstation dance pads. His Burning Man installations include a 12-foot high lyre and an antique radio. Most recently, in addition to working with DOUBLE VISION, Tim has been doing realtime graphics and video processing with an improvised art ensemble called dud.

http://nosuch.com/tjt

 

Bill Wolter

Bill Wolter is a musician/composer, multimedia artist, and sound engineer from the San Francisco Bay Area. His work hovers around the sounds of experimental rock, jazz, and new music, emphasizing rhythmic quirkiness and melodic angularity. Bill is an accomplished electric guitarist and bassist. He has also studied composition with Fred Frith and Alvin Curran at Mills College. Most recently he has been working on a track for a Wesley Willis tribute album.
www.tribalgenes.com

 

Nicole Zvarik

Nicole Zvarik has an MFA in Choreography from Mills College, where she studied with Molissa Fenley, Kathleen McClintock, Sonia Delwaide-Nichols, and Anne Westwick. Originally from the East Coast, Nicole received her Bachelor's degree in Dance and Sociology from Wilson College. While at Wilson, she danced with Chambersburg Ballet Theatre, performed and choreographed for Wilson's Modern Dance Ensemble including performing for Italia Dance Festival in Cesena, Italy. Her path in choreography has been an eclectic exploration of possibilities including dramatic narrative (Who wears Red Shoes), site specific (Pathfinders), mathematical concepts (Degrees of Order), and audience participation (Mutation of Mondrian). Nicole is one of the founders of Deep Root Dance, a collective of modern dance artists who promote and support dialog about the art making process through low cost performances and workshops in the bay area. Nicole is currently producing her own work throughout the bay area and is an active collaborator with DOUBLE VISION.
http://nzvarik.googlepages.com