Big Timber, Chop! Chop! (by Anne Peattie)

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 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 co-founding DOUBLE VISION in 2003, Pauline has completed over 100 performances involving collaborations between dancers, musicians, video artists and technologists. Her choreography has been performed in festivals and showcases nationwide, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City and internationally in Prague, Zurich, Vienna and Pecs. 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, MuseumsQuartier (Vienna), and the Institute Intermedii (Prague).

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, University of New Mexico, University of Arizona, Arizona State University, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien (Austria), Pécsi Tudományegyetem Művészeti Kar (Hungary), Institut Intermédií (Czeck Republic), Brighton College (UK), Doncaster College (UK) and ZHdK Zurich University of the Arts, ICST Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology + Tanz Akademie Zürich. She has also lectured and taught master classes at Mills College, College of Santa Fe, Arizona State University, University of Arizona, University of New Mexico and University of Colorado at Boulder. She is currently directing a second residency at the Garage in San Francisco.