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2007/2008 Recipients of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts Awards
Jaclyn Biskup, MFA student in Theatre, for "Un-Enchanted Show: a devised performance inspired by ladies' fashion"
George Cederquist, MFA student in Theatre, for "Reagan's Children: An Opera-Oratorio"
Chloe Johnston, PhD student in Performance Studies, for "Theoretical Isolation: A Post-Atomic Experiment"
Jung Hyun Lee, MFA student in Radio/Television/Film, for "Waste Away"
Sage Morgan-Hubbard, PhD student in Performance Studies, for "I used to love... A Hip-Hop Choreomarriage"
2006/2007 Recipients of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts Awards
Prof. Pamela Bannos (Art Theory and Practice) for "Hidden Truths: Lincoln Part and the Chicago City Cemetery, Then and Now"
Thomas Castillo and Leigh Jurecka, MFA students in Radio/Television/Film, for "Sworded at 70 mph," a collaborative short film project
Prof. Michael Rakowitz (Art Theory and Practice) for "The invisible enemy should not exist"
Prof. Debra Tolchinsky (Radio/Television/Film) for "The Horror Show," an artists' book/catalog to accompany an exhibition at the Chicago City Arts Gallery (www.chicagocityarts.org) and on the web at Secondlife.com
Prof. Patrick Wong (Communication Sciences and Disorders) for "Neuroscience and Metalistening in Music"
Jonathon Kirk and Lee Weisert, PhD students in Music Composition, for "The Argus Project"
2005/2006 CIRA Awards
Casey Farina, a PhD student in Music Technology, has been awarded a CIRA grant for Project CONDOR, which aims to produce a spatial, electro-acoustic experience implemented through the choreographed performance of a synchronized "flock" of robotic helicopters. The project involves collaborators from Northwestern and outside the university whose disciplines include: electrical engineering, computer programming, music technology, choreography, show design, and music composition.
Sangwon Lee, a PhD student in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, is receiving a CIRA grant for "Digitally Analyzing and Recreating Jackson Pollock’s Paintings," an experiment in Interactive 3D Fluid Jet Painting, which will allow novice users to create abstract paintings in the style of Jackson Pollock. The project combines an appreciation for art with expertise in computer programming, the physical characteristics of fluid streams, and fractal geometry.
Anne Peterson, an MFA student in the department of Radio/Television/Film, has been awarded a CIRA grant for "Seduction in C-Sharp," a film noir dance short to be choreographed to an original jazz score. One goal of the project is to simultaneously rehabilitate dance from over-identification with femininity and film noir from its strong association with masculinity by creating a hybrid of the two artistic forms. Collaborators include Northwestern undergraduate students as well as individuals from outside the Northwestern community.
2004/2005 CIRA Awards
Jeanne Dunning (Art Theory and Practice), with guidance from Neurology and Psychiatry at Northwestern's Medical School for "Alien Hand," a film exploring real-life instances of stroke patients who become dissociated from parts of their own bodies.
David Schoenbrun (History), Kearsley Stewart (Anthropology), Harlan Wallach (Academic Technology) for "Meaning, Value, and Art: Contemporary Glass Trade Beads in Africa, Europe, and the USA," a web based project that will document meanings and values attached to glass trade beads by master glass artists, consumers, and traders in Ghana, Italy, and the USA.
Jay Alan Yim (Music Composition), Ian Hoswill (Computer Science), Marlena Novak (Art Theory and Practice) for "Verge upon Verge," an artistic inquiry into the ways in which visual perception combined with sound cognition can dynamically alter the mind's ability to grasp a visual sequence.
Shoshanna Utchenick (Art Theory and Practice) for "Ice Cream Truck Project," which will insert performance art into an everyday context, opening up a dialogue about consumer behavior and the culture of privatization between contemporary art and nontraditional audiences.
Abigail Derecho (Comparative Literature and Screen Studies) for "Philippine Deep," a multimedia play based on the histories of three generations of one family from the Philippine Islands as played out through themes of migration, interracial marriage, intrafamily conflict, and war.
Habib C. Iddrisu (Performance Studies) with participation from Music, Anthropology, Performance Studies, and PAS, for the creation of an African drum and dance ensemble at Northwestern.
2003/2004 CIRA Awards
Meghan O'Halloran (Communication Sciences and Disorders, Dance) and Eric Tal (Radio/TV/Film) for "Dance on Video," a study between dance, film, and sound.
Meida Villafana-McNeal (Dance, Theatre, Cultural Anthropology), Ayinde Jean-Baptiste (and other members of Thickroutes Performance Collage), and Hoble Douglas Dance Company (Trinidad) for "Race Travels," for a simultaneous, networked live performance in Trinidad and Chicago.
Rodrigo Cadiz (Music Technology) and Carmen Gonzalez (independent Spanish Visual artist) for "Time Exposure," which will use painting, music composition, video art, and technology to create a work using time and its physical effects on artistic material.
Michael Elyanow (Radio/Television/Film), Jeremy Cohen (Naked Eye Theatre), Cindy Gold (Theatre), Andre Pleuss (sound designer), Mikhael Garver (choreographer), Kathy Eldon (journalist), Patty Kim (journalist), and students from theatre from Medill for 12 Volt Heart, a play based on the life of photojournalist Dan Eldon.
Rati Gupta (Psychology, Dance), Lauren Nagel-Werd (Theatre) Casey Baker (Theatre), Daniel Truog (Radio/TV/Film), Emily Levada (Theatre) for "Boomshaka," to enable this student group to expand their presentation of rhythm to include other media.
Kelly Marie Breslin (Art Theory and Practice) and Soo Choi (fashion designer) for "Spelling Bee," for the creation and exhibition of a high-end fashion show based on visual word play exhibited at the Block Museum.
Sarah Fraser (Art History) and Gendun Dargay (painter and teacher) along with Sichuan University's Center for Tibetan Studies to develop a multimedia, interactive approach to the teaching and research of Thangka Painting in Tibet.
Dave Tolchinsky (Radio/Television/Film) and Debra Tolchinsky (independent artist) for "Going Up," an interactive installation of synchronized monitors in the Norris elevators, inspired by the controversey surrounding recent limb-lengthening procedures.
Mark West (Performance Studies), May Cotterman and Jennifer Richards (Northwestern University Prosthetics-Orthotics Center), Joanne Tilley (Dual Purpose), Peter West (Chihuly Studios), and Zuzana Sadkova (Photographic Center Northwest) for "The Woman with the Glass Arm," a public fashion show in Crowe Inner Courtyard that celebrates the fusion of prosthetics, glass blowing, and performance.
2002/2003 CIRA Awards
Annette Browning (RTF) and Drew Browning (University of Illinois, Chicago), Leif Mangelson (Columbia College), Quoc Thao (actor and theater director, Vietnam), Nyuyen Thi Minh Ngoc (playwright and screenwriter, Vietnam) for "A Tale of Two Countries," a performance and website using a virtual environment to explore the tension between conflict and cooperation, mistrust and understanding.
Leslie Buxbaum (Performance Studies), David Pavkovic (composer), and Gary Ashwall (video artist) for "The Aristophanes Project," a theater production created by twelve artists, loosely based on The Birds.
Michelle Citron (RTF) with Amnon Wolman (Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music) for "Mixed Greens," an interactive new media artwork that is a meditation on the complexities of identity.
Dan Devening (Art Theory and Practice) along with nine artists for "Infra-Thin," a portable group exhibition book that addresses the social, psychological, and emotional incidents that occur within the interstices of daily experience.
Sarah Rose Graber (Theatre), Margo LaFontaine (Art History), and Moses Lei (Music Composition) for "Imago: A Journey Through the Imagination," a mask play adaptation of Spenser's The Faerie Queene.
Ana Puga (Theatre), Jill Wissmiller (RTF), Jorge Coronado (Spanish and Portuguese), Martine Balmaceda (director, New York) for "Finished from the Start/Hechos Consumados," which will use workshops, performances, and symposium to explore the use of video to enhance the cross-cultural experience of a bilingual production of a work by Chilean playwright Juan Radrigan.
Jeff Shuter (Performance Studies), Rachel Davis (RTF), and Noreen Khalid (Art History and Performance Studies) for "Speed of Light," a multimedia play that uses string theory and theoretical physics to explore the intricacies of being human.
Dan Zellner (Digital Media Services, NU Library), Sandra Richards (Theatre), Kathryn Farley (Performance Studies), Sam Ball (Theatre), and David Saltz (University of Georgia) for "The DuSable Project," a media-intensive live performance event that tells the story of Jean Baptiste du Sable, Chicago's first non-native settler.
2001/2002 CIRA Awards
Jyoti Argade (Performance Studies) and Rodrigo Cadiz (Music) for "Ambio-Natyam," an interactive, interdisciplinary performance piece combining improvised stylized movement with wireless motion sensors to create ambient music in real time with live dance.
Alex Harvey (Theatre), Dixie Uffelman (History), Jason Hanggi (Computer Science), and Samantha Friedman (English/Art History) for "The Winter's Tale," a production of Shakespeare's play using Japanese music and dance.
Can Evgin (Economics), Nicole Montez (Radio/TV/Film), and Ethan Sawyer (Performance Studies) for "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," a multi-dimensional media event based on a short story by Raymond Carver.
Dawn Mora (Theatre), Dominic Missimi (Music Theatre), Lara Teeter (Music Theatre), and Beth Austin (Radio/TV/Film) for "Flatt Out," a series of DVDs archiving the work of the American television choreographer Ernest Flatt, to be available for classroom use.
Magy Seif El-Nasr (Computer Science), Mary Pool (Theatre), Jessica Lacher (Radio/TV/Film) for "Mirage," an interactive experience where a participant acts as a character within a drama.
George Newman (Psychology) and Rebecca Laks (Communication Studies/History) for "The Mosaic of Community," an investigation of concepts of community through the art of mosaic-making with K-12 students.
Lisa Boggio (Hematology/Oncology, Medical School) and David Lachman (Art Theory and Practice) for "Compelling Evidence," a series of video installations that address the tension between subjectivity and objectivity in scientific medicine, displayed in public areas of the Northwestern University Medical School.
Liz Lytle (Radio/TV/Film) and David May (Communication Studies) for "Hangin' Out," a multmedia inquiry into media and its effects on human interaction.
Craig Kinzer (Theatre) and Helene Cixous (Avalon Distinguished Professor of Humanities) for a workshop production of "Drums on the Dike," involving faculty and students from Theatre, Dance, Performance Studies, and Music.
Henry Russell Bergstein (Radio/TV/Film), Philip Crippen (Radio/TV/Film), Perry Hampton (dancer, Chicago), Ethan Sawyer (Performance Studies), Derek Norton (Material Sciences Engineering), and Jill Wissmiller (Radio/TV/Film) for "Entrenched Environments," a project combining dance, experimental sound, video, and sculpture to create three site specific installations in an abandoned gold cart facility in rural Illinois.
Ali Yurukoglu (Economics/Mathematics) and Andrew Perez (Theatre) for a multimedia stage adaptation of Anthony Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange."
2000/2001 CIRA Awards
KinYan Szeto (Performance Studies), Jose Bernard Capino (Radio/TV/Film), Shao-Lan Les (Music), and Katarzyna Lewinska (Theatre) for "Between East and West: Simulacrum Hong Kong," a multi-media stage production of cinema, music, and performance of cultural theory.
Jennifer Montgomery (Radio/TV/Film), Ioana Szeman-Ureche (Performance Studies), and Daniel Peltz (Radio/TV/Film) for a digital video inspired by writing by and about members of the anti-psychiatry movement in the 1960s and 70s.
Rebecca Rossen (Theatre and Drama) and Elizabeth Meister (Radio/TV/Film) for a multi-media dance theatre work exploring Jewishness and Jewish-American identity.
Heon Seo (Radio/TV/Film), Ananda Chakrabarty (Art History), and Marit Folstad (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) for "The Hatred of Poetry," a theatrical exhibit of performance, sound, and moving image expressing the philosophy and poetry of George Bataille.
Gary Ashwal (Performance Studies), for "poetc.", a multimedia performance project created by a team of six undergraduate artists with focus on video, poetry, electronic music, theatre, and performance studies.
David Sabel (Theatre), for "BFG," a puppet-theatre performance project adapted from the story by Roald Dahl.
David Donkor (Performance Studies) and Daniel Peltz (Radio-TV-Film) for "Who's Who," the creation of a documentary film focusing on Ghanaian concert parties.
1999/2000 CIRA Awards
Paul Berliner (Music) with faculty from Music Composition, Performance Studies, and Radio/TV/Film for A Library in Flames, a multimedia performance piece about the plight of musicians during Zimbabwe's war of liberation/civil war and its aftermath.
Lauren McConnell (Theatre and Drama) with Eric Honour (Music), Ann Boyd (theater director), the Jewish Theatre Ensemble and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, for an adaptation and performance of stories by Serbian writer David Albahari.
Michael Pisaro, (Music), Carrie Boilo (percussionist) and Mauser (Artist, Cologne) for Compression/Weiss a 16-day installation/ performance with music, reading and text.
Jennifer Walshe (Music) and Benjamin Meyer (Radio/TV/Film) for the creation and performance of a piece for live musicians with projected images.
Elisabeth Zapol (American Studies) with Sandra Richards (African American Studies) for the composition and performance of a show based on African-American feminist activist Eva Jefferson Paterson.
Ian Horswill (Computer Science and the Center for Art and Technology) with Annette Barbier (Radio/TV/Film and the Center for Art and Techology), David Mickenberg (Block Museum) and Gary Kendall (Music) for "Portal." Working with students, they will design, construct, and create the first piece of artwork for a computer controlled display system embedded in the doors of the new Block Museum.
Pamela Bannos (Art Theory and Practice) and Farhad Zadeh (Physics and Astronomy) for a project and exhibition presenting three approaches to rendering "space" - astronomical optical images (visible space), astronomical radio images (invisible space), and original fabricated photographs (imagined space).
Mireille Rosello (French and Italian), James Ferolo (MultiMedia Learning Center), Janine Spencer (French and Italian), and Mathew Taylor (MultiMedia Learning Center) for "Passport Please," a web-based simulation which examines the nature and dynamics of the immigration process.
Joshua Bowes (Music), William Slauter (History), Aaron Glass (Music and Electrical Engineering) for the creation of an installation with a robot in an unexpected campus location.
Gregory Foster-Rice (Art History) and Anthony S. Chen (UC-Berkeley) for a web-based documentary about race relations in Decatur, Illinois.
1998/1999 CIRA Awards
Larry Bogad (Performance Studies), working with the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, for a multi-media production of "Haymarket" about the Haymarket Square Confrontation of 1886-87.
Molly Briggs (Art Theory and Practice) and David Daskal (Law School) for "Habitat," a combined art exhibition and performance about the changing nature of human habitat.
Sarah Fraser (Art History) and William Parod (Academic Technologies) to help develop interactive, 3-D models of 10th century Chinese Buddhist cave temples, in collaboration with Fan Jinshi (Dunhuang Research Institute).
Peter Glazer (Performance Studies) for "Heart of Spain," a musical theater piece about the Spanish Civil War, created with Eric Brain Peltoniemi.
Paul Hertz (Information Technologies), with Joe Reitzer (University of Illinois) and Marcus Thiebaux (USC) for the creation of "Airplay," an interactive, virtual orchestra.
Gary Kendall (Music Theory and Composition), with Don Valerio Cohaila (Peruvian Shaman), for a 3-D Sound Installation of Peruvian Shaman ceremonial songs.
Thomas Simpson (French and Italian) and Melissa Kievman (Theatre) for "Sintesi Teatrali," a bi-lingual performance of Italian Futurist Theatre with students from CAS and Speech.
Amnon Wolman (Composition Music and Technology), Ursula Oppens (Music Performance), and Rita Dove (poet) for a chamber opera.
Yvonne Welbon (Radio/TV/Film) and Ruth Ellis (community activist) for web site about the lives of African-American lesbians.
Jonathan Chen (Music Performance Studies) and Dov Scher (School of the Art Institute) for an installation with words and music.
Jean Dunning (Art Theory and Practice), Leslie Dick (Novelist), Hollis Clayson (Art History), and Tania Modleski (feminist and cultural theorist) for a collaborative art book about art and criticism.
Judy Ledgerwood (Art Theory and Practice) and Jason Pickelman (JNL Graphics) to use printing technology to simulate painting.
Craig Quintero (Performance Studies) and Natsu Onoda (Performance Studies) for a theatrical adaptation of Nasume Soseki's "Ten Nights' Dreams."
1997/1998 CIRA Awards
Mary Zimmerman (Performance Studies), Eric Rosen (Performance Studies), Kyle Hall (About Face Theatre, Chicago) for an adaptation and performance of Proust’s "Remembrances of Things Past."
Marlena Novak (Art Theory and Practice), Michael (Art History), and Frances-Marie Uitti (cellist) for a collaborative venture in light-construction, two-bowed cello and prose poetry.
Annette Barbier (Radio/TV/Film), Sam Ball (Theatre), Peter Webster (Music Academic Studies and Composition), Dave Tolchinsky (Radio/TV/Film) and others for the creation of an interactive CDROM which will explore the various meanings of home.
Robin Lakes (Dance) and John Buccheri (Music Academic Studies and Composition) for a project exploring rhythm and time in music and dance.
Derek Goldman (Performance Studies) and Leon Forrest (African-American Studies) for an adaptation and staging of "Divine Days."
Larna MacHutchin, et al. (undergraduate students from Speech, CAS, and Medill) for a film production project about the representation of women.
Judy Ledgerwood (Art Theory and Practice) for a student printmaking workshop in response to a poem by Reginald Gibbons (English poet and editor of TriQuarterly magazine).
1996/1997 CIRA Awards
Tim Raphael (Performance Studies) for a performance adaptation of Michael Lesy's book "Wisconsin Death Trip," with graduate and undergraduate students from Performance Studies, Theatre, and CAS.
NU undergraduates (Speech, CAS, Medill) and Street Level Video (Chicago) for an HIV/AIDS video made by two different groups of students, from two different perspectives: that of urban, African-American/Latina, heterosexual teenage women; and that of gay Northwestern undergraduates.
Tim Breen (History) and Tom Willis (Music) for seed money for the commissioning, production, and documentation of the creation and performance of a new opera by African-American composer T.J. Anderson, based on research conducted by Tim Breen, on the institution of slavery in Revolutionary Massachusetts.
David Mickenberg (Block Museum), Jerry Goldman (Political Science), and Peter Hayes (History) for "The Last Expression: Art from the Archives of Auschwitz", a website that will provide a multimedia, interactive environment to understand the role that the arts play in periods of severe cultural constraint.
Last updated: May 20 2008 12:18PM
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