Sean Clute is an inventor of sound, video, installation, and performance. 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, TED2005 (Technology Entertainment Design Conference), 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, Krannert Center (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), California College of the Arts, Mills College, and California Institute of the Arts.
Sean is also the co-founder and Un-Director of the intermedia performance collective DOUBLE VISION. He has organized and curated a number of performances and events for DOUBLE VISION including, Involution 2 (Brooklyn), 13 Dreams of a Dying Clairvoyant, and Equinox 12 11 11 Kimi Yax. In addition, 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 Amy Nielson.
Sean has an extensive background and education in music and multimedia art. He 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. Previously, Sean graduated cum laude with a BA in Music at the University of New Mexico where he studied classical guitar and composition. While at UNM he composed works performed by the UNM String Orchestra, Percussion, Brass, and Choral ensembles, and for the Intuitive Music Ensemble.
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 also worked for the video artist and president of The Kitchen, Molly Davies, as well as former literature curator Annie Lanzillotto.
Recordings of Sean's work including the CDs Where Prairie Dogs Go, Southwest Roadtrip, and Drive Thru Tree (Summer 2005) are available on Overcast Records. His open source live-video processing software called VJMixer is available for download at http://www.robomoto.org/ (Summer 2005). DVD's of his live performances are available at his website http://www.seanclute.com/
Pauline Jennings
Pauline Jennings is a co-founder and Director of Double Vision. Pauline has an MFA in Dance Choreography and Performance from Mills College, where she studied with Molissa Fenley, Mary Cochran, Sonia Delwaide-Nichols, Kathleen McClintock, June Watanabe, Anne Westwick and Mary Ann Kinkead. She is originally from Pennsylvania, where she received her B.A. in Integrative Arts and a Schreyer's College Honors Degree in Theater Arts from The Pennsylvania State University. There, she also founded and directed the performance group, Synergy, which focused on blurring the boundaries between theater, dance and performance art. In the past year, Pauline has worked with artists like the legendary composer, Pauline Oliveros and Australian choreographer, Leslie Braithwaite. She has taught at Amherst College through Excel-Putney and served as a teaching intern with the AXIS Dance Company.
In the past year, Pauline's choreography has been shown at Dance Mission (San Francisco), Jon Sims Center for the Arts (San Francisco), WORKS/San Jose (San Jose), 23 Windowz (Brooklyn), Oakland Metro (Oakland), Oakland Black Box (Oakland), Shotwell Studio (San Francisco), and 848 (San Francisco). She has also performed at many of those spaces and as part of the Signal Flow Festival (Oakland), East Bay Choreographer's Alliance's Works in the Works (Berkeley), Women's Work Festival (San Francisco), Dance Mission's Harvest Festival (San Francisco), and the sfSound Series at ODC (San Francisco). Additionally, Pauline's collaboration with Sean Clute, "Disembodied Head #2" has been shown on KQED's Spark! And will be premiered nationally as part of PBS's "Meaning of the 20th Century" (premiere Fall 2005).
Throughout the past year, Pauline has been investigating Choreography for Video as an independent art form, believing that it has the potential to combine the kinetics and artistry of dance with the artistic and practical capabilities of video. She has created several pieces consisting only of video or combining video with live dance: Not Yet and still : (to be moved), reIllusioned, and Disembodied Head #4. Pauline also enjoys exploring new mediums, such as network art and collaboration via sensors, motion tracking and other new technologies. Throughout all of these experiments, however, she remains firmly rooted in her love of "just" dance, which she explores by choreographing modern dance pieces for stage. Pauline often combines complex counting systems and repetition with virtuosic movement, insisting on making the dances she creates equally challenging on both the cerebral and physical levels for her dancers.
