Alyce Dissette, a performing arts/television/digital media producer is currently Co-Director of the Digital Performance Institute (DPI) and Producer of the Pick Up Performance Co(S.) in New York City.
For over 20 years she has worked with a wide range of artists on projects including David Gordon, Ain Gordon, John Kelly, Art Spiegelman, James Turrell, Nona Hendryx, Philip Glass, and Robert Wilson. Ms. Dissette was Executive Producer of the PBS national series "Alive From Off Center/ALIVE TV" where her programs merging experimental film and the performing arts won numerous awards and citations including a Cable Ace Award for a co-production with MTV.
She was director of one of the first digital art works competitions "New Voices, New Visions" sponsored by Paul Allen, the Voyager Co. and WIRED Magazine with the winners presented at the Lincoln Center Video Festival in 1994. She serves on the Boards of the Alliance of Resident Theaters (A.R.T.)/New York and ODC (Dance Co./Theater/School) in San Francisco.
Liz founded Learning Worlds Institute with John Reaves in 2008, with the goal of applying the business and innovation methodologies of Learning Worlds to the nonprofit world.
As COO at Learning Worlds, Liz oversees the management of client relationships and works closely with John Reaves on new business development, as well as managing company operations. Liz currently acts as account executive for LexisNexis and SAP, and she is the main facilitator for client brainstorm workshops that apply the lessons learned in theater to business situations, in an arts-based learning approach. Outside Learning Worlds, Liz conducts lectures and artist talkback sessions for a variety of arts institutions.
Liz joined Learning Worlds in 1998 as VP of Production, focusing on managing and scheduling complex distance education and corporate digital projects, including a multi-screen software application for IBM showcasing their technology developed for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and a multiscreen video installation for Lucent Technologies.
Liz was Production Manager for GSRT's award winning production of An Epidog with Mabou Mines. She produced live and remote events using videoconferencing, digital technologies and the Internet, including a multi-site rehearsal between actors in New York and St. Petersburg; a remote collaboration and master class between puppeteers in New York and Tokyo, Japan; a collaborative workshop between students in the U.K. and NYC, based on Arthur Miller's The Crucible, in which Mr. Miller spoke to students around the world; an online multimedia "virtual textbook" (for which Liz was sole producer) and videoconference classes between Binghamton University students and artists in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Tokyo and Seoul.
At Yale School of Drama, Liz specialized in producing live events, and she stage managed across the country at theaters such as the Yale Repertory Theatre, The Huntington Theatre in Boston, and Seattle Repertory Theatre, The New York Shakespeare Festival and BAM.
Media effects artist and primary technologist at LWI, Hal Eagar is Director for Digital Performance Institute (DPI), and has served in years past as Technology Director for HERE Arts Center and Video Associate with The Builders Association. His focus is on facilitating innovation in live performance technology, putting new media on stage. He designs digital puppets and animations for theatrical productions as well as providing technical solutions and creating innovative hardware and software for multi-screen projection, robotic projection, and real-time/live animation. He is currently absorbed in robots, projection, 3d animation, video, puppetry, and the occasional installation and internet artworks, sometimes all at once.
Hal created the MediaBeam, a movable projection system with anti-distortion software that allows the artist to reshape video images. The MediaBeam has allowed nonprofits access to effects that would otherwise be too costly in productions like Cynthia Hopkins's Accidental Nostalgia (St. Ann's Warehouse, Walker Arts Center), director Kristin Marting's alt musical Orpheus (HERE) and James Scruggs's solo performance piece, Disposable Men (HERE), and a lobby installation at Dodgers Stages.
In 2003, Hal created the Digital Performance Institute's (DPI) equipment loan and artist residency programs, which he has directed for 3 years, providing free equipment to 80 productions and residencies to many media artists. Through his consulting, he aims to share his knowledge with the greater arts community.
Hal led the innovative production of Mr. Z: I was a Teenage Cryptologist, performed at GSRT and the List Gallery, M.I.T. He co-created two interactive Web artworks and gallery installations with visual artist Margot Lovejoy Confess and TURNS -- which has toured internationally, Whitney Biennial 2002, ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie), the Queens Museum, Media Lab Madrid and several other museums. He works with digital artist Marek Walczak on projects such as Adrift, last shown at the New Museum NY, and TimeMaker, a commission by the Nabi Art Center Korea. In 2004, Eagar co-created an installation and performance series with puppeteer and visual artist Kate Brehm, OnRed, the installation extended through the entire One Arm Red theatrical space and onto the Internet. These six projects are a mix of computer, network, installation and theatrical techniques.
Hal has also designed digital projections for GSRT (Ubu Roi, Making of Americans and The Sandman), Dreamweaver Productions (Continuum), and Mabou Mines (An Epidog), as well as video projection and special effects for puppet works with puppet artist and director Erin Orr. He has worked with director Kristin Marting and video artist James Scruggs implementing environmental projections systems on (Orpheus, Disposable Men, and Lush Valley.) He also co-created the Video/Puppet piece "My Name is Hal" with Kate Brehm, which premiered at the Bangkok International Fringe Festival in 2005.
Liz is a word wrangler with a special talent for categorization, summarization, and characterization. At Learning Worlds she writes copy for client projects including Nationwide, LexisNexis, SAP, SCIOInspire, Lumension, Microsoft, and Happy Science. She researches and reports on special topics that have included innovation, ecology, social networking, car accidents, ERP software, happiness, and pomegranates.
Her original play Prince Charming: Anatomy of a Cybersex Love Affair was produced at HERE in July 1997. She collaborated with Tim Maner on book and lyrics for his trilogy of deconstructed musicals based on Nathaniel Hawthorne works, which included Blithedale: A Virtual Utopia (HERE, 1998); 7: A Haunted Deconstruction of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables (HERE, 1996); and A: A Carnival Adulteration of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (Tiny Mythic, 1992). Also for Tim, Elizabeth wrote book and lyrics for Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus (Tiny Mythic, 1991), a musical based on Mary Shelley's classic novel; and collaborated on text for Las Sirenas (Tiny Mythic, 1990), the myth of Odysseus and the Sirens retold in film noir style. She presented her adaptation of the fairy tale Bluebeard at Tanya Elder's Oral Text: Literature for Ear Organs reading series (HERE, 1998), and collaborated with Tanya on a stage adaptation of Hop-Frog by Edgar Allen Poe for The American Living Room Solo Series (HERE, 1996).
She wrote theater reviews for EDGE NY, a magazine for independent theater (1999); PROPAGANDA, the NY International Fringe Festival paper (summer 1997 & 1998); and OFF Journal of Alternative Theater (1996-1998). She was a singer/songwriter with NYC bands including Elizabeth City, Y'ALL's Cowgirl Chorus, and TV Goodbyes.
Liz graduated summa cum laude from Hunter College in 2005 with a B.A. in English Language Arts. Her undergraduate thesis "The Pecking Order: Conversational Style and Identity in NYC Women" was chosen for presentation at Georgetown Linguistics Society Student Conference, Washington, D.C., February 2005. She also holds a Copyediting Certificate, UCSD Extension, 2005, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Jon Goodman is a two-time Emmy Award-winning freelance writer, director and producer. His most recent film, Freedom Songs: The Music of the Civil Rights Movement, airs on PBS stations nationwide in June 2009. Prior to Freedom Songs, Jon was the Sr. Producer, and Supervising Story Producer, of Storm Chasers, a popular primetime Discovery Channel series. Over the course of more than two decades in the film and television business, he has written, produced, directed or supervised more than 300 hours of programming for broadcast in the United States and abroad.
From 2004-2006 he was an Executive Producer at Partisan Pictures Inc., a New York City-based production company that supplies high-end documentary and factual programming to a wide range of broadcasters including PBS, the National Geographic Channel, the Discovery Channel, Court TV, and the History Channel. Partisan produced more than 30 hours of programming for broadcast in the United States and international markets during Mr. Goodman's tenure.
Prior to joining Partisan, Mr. Goodman spent eight years in Washington, D.C. as Senior Writer and Senior Producer for the National Geographic Television series Explorer. Explorer premiered 26 hours of non-fiction programming each season, from long-form adventure, exploration and investigative pieces to blue-chip natural history fare. During his time at NGTV, Mr. Goodman was instrumental in the conceptualization and development of the seminal 8-hour PBS series: Africa: A Continent & Her People (NGTV/WNET/PBS, 2001), as well as famous for his popular, 10-week Story & Structure seminars, which were open to producers, associate producers, writers and researchers.
In 2002, Mr. Goodman spent several months in Singapore and Hong Kong supervising the inaugural round of productions commissioned by a joint venture between National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) and Singapore's Economic Development Board. The co-production arrangement identified Asia-based filmmaking talent, and facilitated the production of quality, made-in-Asia documentaries and factual programming for NGCI distribution and exhibition outside the United States. Jon guided the conceptualization and pre-production of 10 films, conducted Master Classes in story and structure for producers, directors and writers, and oversaw commencement of production of the Fund's first cycle of programs. The Fund is now in its sixth consecutive year.
In addition to writing, producing and directing, Jon is the author of The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot (2005, National Geographic Books) and, in 2006, accepted an appointment as adjunct professor of the arts at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program, where he teaches Directing to 3d-year MFA candidates.
A graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Law, Mr. Goodman began his career in film and television as an entertainment attorney in New York City.
David Green has worked in the arts and technology for several decades. His extensive work with non-profits has built his expertise in making projects happen in the face of limited funding. As Solutions Manager at Learning Worlds, he spearheaded development of an NSF project to advance scientific literacy and STEM skill development in the American workforce through arts-based learning. He currently leads two development projects for Epson, managing client expectations and coordinating product development and concept design teams.
At the NY Foundation for the Arts, first in artists' fellowships, then as director of communications, David coordinated the implementation of ArtsWire, an early online network for artists and the arts. As founding executive director of the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), a coalition that networked across the Big Five cultural communities (Libraries, Archives, Museums, Arts Organizations, and Scholarly Societies), he developed and executed strategies to create a body of online resources and a national coalition of cultural professionals. He published the NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation & Management of Cultural Heritage Materials, co-organized an influential Computer Science & Humanities initiative, and produced the Copyright & Fair Use Town Meetings across the country.
Since 1996 David has been the principal of Knowledge Culture, assisting cultural and academic organizations to maximize their digital resources. Clients have included the Canadian Heritage Information Network, OCLC, International Foundation for Art Research, Innodata Isogen, Inc, Mellon Foundation, Wesleyan University and Center for Educational Technology. David has a Ph.D. in American Studies from Brown University and is currently studying for an MS in Management and Systems at NYU. Recent publications have included iQuote (The Lyons Press, 2007) and "Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts," a special issue of Academic Commons.
Charles is a writer and producer at Manhattan-based agency Learning Worlds, an innovation consulting firm serving global accounts such as Epson, Microsoft, SAP, Lexis-Nexis, and Sun Microsystems. He's currently working on directing and producing "Space Watch," an industrial video about the making of a new mechanical, precision timepiece developed for astronauts and civilian space explorers. The piece is created as a documentary chronicling the rigorous design, testing, and ultimately, launch into outer space of the Seiko Space Watch. Charles is also director of the documentary "Nolan's Run," which chronicles the struggles of a third party candidate running for President of the United States. Shot in a vérité style, this feature length film has screened in film festivals and theatres in New York City and Atlanta.
Previously, Charles was creative director at one of America's storied companies, AT&T. Working in the Brand & Marketing group of this Fortune 50 global business, Charles led a team of video producers, writers, interactive artists, and web developers in creating a range of media -- broadcast, print, and online.
Charles is also a writer and associate producer for "The Power," a 120-minute documentary film on the Information Age with WETA (Washington, DC PBS affiliate) as a sponsoring station. His story treatment for the film has been green lighted by PBS (National), and given a "common carriage" primetime slot. The project is a production of Sconset Media, Inc., and is currently in the fund-raising stage.
Before working at AT&T, Charles was a partner and founder of Telosphere, Inc., a Silicon Alley interactive media agency. Prior to founding Telosphere, he worked in the film and video industry as a writer and independent producer/cameraman shooting industrials and spots. He also served as an art director and photography editor for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and GQ magazines.
He is a published writer, author, and playwright, having written for a variety of publications such as New York Newsday and Bon Appetit. He has also written for and been produced on the New York stage, with his play "The Remarkable Richard Feynman and His Half-Assedly Thought out, Pictorial semi-vision Thing" recently enjoying revivals in several theaters on the West Coast. His fiction has aired nationally on National Public Radio's award-winning show, "Selected Shorts."
As CFO, Kim handles receivables for all clients, and she performs financial planning and accounting duties for both Learning Worlds and Learning Worlds Institute. As business operations and HR manager she covers office management, vendor administration, benefits administration, new hires, IT oversight, and event planning. She has recently stepped into the role of executive producer at Learning Worlds, leading a product development team for a major client.
Kim is also an accomplished singer and musician. She became interested in music at age 5 when her father (drummer, guitarist, and sound engineer) taught her to play guitar and sing. Her instrumental toolbox has expanded since then and now includes voice, flute, oboe, piano and some guitar.
Kim attended Lebanon Valley College in Annvile, PA to study opera and later transferred to the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College in Purchase, NY, to complete her studies in Jazz Vocal Performance. Kim studied under NYC jazz greats including Jon Faddis, Doug Monroe, Todd Coolman, and Roseanna Vitro. During and after college Kim sang often at Cleopatra's Needle, an Upper West Side jazz club. She currently performs at benefits for a local charity and at functions close to her Bronx home.
Kim is also a semi-accomplished flutist. While auditioning for a state orchestra, she was picked by a judge to audition for a guest spot with the Aspen Wind Quintet and went on to perform with them while still in high school. Kim reduced her studies with the flute while in college to pursue her vocal talents, but still plays.
Kim is co-founder and owner of The Geekbouteek, LLC, an online store where she designs and sells "geek"-themed t-shirts.
Parallel to his performing arts work, Tim has built a career as an independent digital media designer and creative director. In 2000, he became a full-time member of the Learning Worlds staff, using his artistic training and background to assist global companies in solving their unique challenges. In his most recent project with Nationwide, Tim guided client and internal teams through the process of idea, audience, and product development, coordinating focus group data and creating "persona objects" to bring the target audience to life for the client. Clients have included IBM, the Olympics, Lucent, NBA, The Meyerhold Museum (St. Petersburg), LexisNexis, Epson, Microsoft and SAP.
Tim was a founder and artistic director of the critically acclaimed Tiny Mythic Theatre Company, Inc. In 1993, he became co-founder and co-director of HERE, the award-winning multi-arts center in SoHo, NYC. His theatrical producing and presenting history with these two companies spans hundreds of productions including: Basil Twist's Symphonie Fantastique (Drama Desk Nomination 1999, OBIE Award 1999), Music Theater Group's Running Man (Pulitzer Prize Nomination 1999), Target Margin's Mamba's Daughters (OBIE Award 1998), and Eve Ensler's now world-famous and oft-mentioned The Vagina Monologues (1997 OBIE Award, Drama Desk Nomination).
As a performer Tim originated roles in Robert Wilson's OBIE Award Winning Hamletmachine (NYC and European Tour) and in Wilson's controversial production of Strauss' opera Salome at La Scala, Milan. He has also performed in several original dance-theatre works by Kristin Marting (now Artistic Director at HERE), and in Strindberg's Ghost Sonata directed by Travis Preston (now Artistic Director of the Center for New Performance at Cal Arts).
As an artist in his own right, he has written, directed, musical directed, and produced over 20 original theatrical works including: The Hawthorne Project, a six-year collaboration with writer/adaptor Elizabeth Banks building a trilogy of multi-layered multi-media events adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne's three American novels, which brought together over 100 artists (performers, musicians, composers, writers, dancers, poets, designers, poets, and philosophers); and The Opeara Project, a five-year collaboration with composer Matthew Pierce and writer Ruth Margraff creating a series of original New Wave Operas. Tim's original works have received substantial support from foundations and government sources including the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has also directed at The New York Shakespeare Festival/Joseph Papp Public Theatre, New Dramatists Guild, Harvard University, and New York University. Currently Tim is working on a new full-length version of his rock musical Lizzie Borden, with composer Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, which has been optioned for an Off-Broadway production scheduled to open in 2009.
Tim has been a Guest Artist/Teaching Fellow at Harvard University, and a Guest Lecturer at NYU, SUNY Binghamton, and Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. He received his BFA in Directing from New York University.
Michael Oberle is a multimedia environment designer, storyboarder, product conceptualist, user interface designer, web designer, graphic artist, and brainstorming sketch artist. At Learning Worlds he has performed the lead role in the design and production of web applications, print, identity, multimedia, web design, and packaging, maintaining brand compliance for all types of media for worldwide client companies. He designed characters and environments for a line of animated tours of a software company's new mid-market solution -- and the main character is now known company-wide and used as a sales tool example. He developed product design recommendations for a global electronics company looking for untapped markets and new socially conscious devices. And he oversaw the localization of a software demo containing five 11 min. sections and video into nine different languages with synced actions to each language. Michael's goal as a designer is to uphold elements of craft and art while producing something tangible and real within graspable timelines.
Michael came to LW first through GSRT, where he designed costumes for projection of "The Making of Americans." Since then he has been noted by the New Yorker for creating costumes that "belong in a museum" for a piece for dancers and puppets choreographed by Christopher Williams, which won a Bessy award. He has created costumes regionally as well as in NYC. In 1999 he was instrumental in the design and production of "Les Costume et Les Troupe," the companion book to 25,000 costumes for the Fete des Vignerons, Swiss Wine Festival, and he designed labels for collectors' edition wine bottles.
Michael revels in the uncommon edge of theater, specializing in multi-media, dance and puppet theater. He has assisted internationally in opera, regionally and on Broadway. Michael is also a painter and lowbrow artist, as well as an amateur photographer. He received his BFA in painting from Washington University in St. Louis and his MFA in theatre design from Yale University.
Chris has spent the last 14 years as an arts administrator, grantmaker, performer, educator, and writer in NYC. As a lead in new product research and development at Learning Worlds, she focuses on implementing user-centric design methods and contributes to a self-organizing approach to strategy. Within Learning Worlds Institute she is currently contributing to the development of the DPI Performing Arts Database (PADb), a comprehensive, community-centered, internet database of information on live productions.
Chris is adjunct faculty in the Communication, Design & Technology MFA Program at Parsons School of Design, where she helps students articulate why and how they make what they make. In non-profit management, Chris has had the pleasure of working alongside innovators Elizabeth Streb and Trisha Brown as an administrative director.
Her experience in private philanthropy included five years at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation evaluating, managing and advocating for grants to some of the most highly regarded visionary American artists and service organizations including Bang on a Can, Merce Cunningham, New York Theatre Workshop, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and Appalshop/Roadside Theater. During that time she also served on the New York Grantmakers in the Arts Dance Task Force and the Dance/NYC Advisory Committee. In 2002, she managed the Foundation’s $20 million grantmaking process for the benefit of NYC cultural organizations affected by the events of 9/11. Chris was a founding member of Next Generation Arts Administrators (NGAA), a group of arts administrators under 40 dedicated to improving the professional future of young people working in the arts.
As an “independent,” Chris is the co-creator of the phantom Organization for Better Underground Living (OBUL). She authored its sole initiative, which declared that “the first car of ever subway train running in New York City’s five boroughs is hereby declared The Singles’ Car, a free zone for unattached New Yorkers to meet the commuter of their dreams.” Chris received her BA in Dance from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College.
John Reaves has been a consultant in education, marketing, and innovation for over 30 years. His educational background includes an undergraduate degree in anthropology, an MS in development sociology, and an MFA in playwriting.
As a training and marketing consultant, he worked with a variety of Fortune 500 companies, from Exxon and GM to AT&T and Pepsi.
As a founder of the non-profit Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre (GSRT), he has been a pioneer in the application of digital technology to the performing arts and arts education. A core focus has been collaborative applications, using a wide range of tools and technologies. The work of GSRT has been featured by CNN, PBS, NBC, and other business and industry publications.
He is a founder of Learning Worlds, a for-profit marketing and innovation consultancy, and has spearheaded the company's interest in digital media, networked content, and innovation processes. Learning Worlds clients have included IBM, NTT, Lucent, Microsoft, Arm & Hammer, Nationwide, and LexisNexis.
In 2008, he founded the Learning Worlds Institute, to apply lessons in innovation from arts and business to urgent social needs, including education, health care, and the environment. LWI projects have included work with Advocates for Children, the Vera Institute for Justice, and the Peace Dividend Trust.
Paul is an interactive media producer/project manager/writer-editor with decades' experience in a wide range of interactive, web-based, and traditional linear media. His work in managing video production, staged, and tradeshow events includes using technology to facilitate collaboration among team members, clients, and partners.
As producer for interactive media and online training development for Learning Worlds, Paul has provided sales and marketing enablement services to technology companies including SAP, Microsoft, SUN, and LexisNexis. He is currently Senior Manager/Team Lead for the Seiko Epson and Seiko Watch accounts, which involves new product development, business strategy development, and internal marketing communications for audiences in both the U.S. and Japan. He is involved on behalf of the client with the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), LegalTech, NAB and CubeSat.
Prior to Learning Worlds, Paul was Director of Business Development and Studio Management at Interflix Studio, a start-up digital video-based production and post-production facility. He was Vice President and Chief Knowledge Officer at First Light Communications, where he supervised content development efforts for numerous web, multimedia and communications projects, and led the team that developed First Light's Cornerstone Methodology, which codified processes, procedures and a matrix-oriented project management approach to develop e-business and media projects.
Paul has co-produced several documentaries, one televised on Showtime. He holds a patent for Muze for Video, a database-driven, interactive, multimedia catalogue for the home video market, available in kiosk and desktop configurations. He is a recipient of the Rothschild Fellow of the Writers Guild of America award and grant for "excellence in documentary writing."
Harvey Seifter, one of the world's leading authorities on arts-based learning and creativity in business, is the CEO of Seifter Associates, a New York City-based international consulting firm. Founded in 1995, Seifter Associates helps businesses, governments, and the non-profit sector develop creative leaders, effective organizational strategies and dynamic new programs.
Harvey is also a classically trained musician with a 25-year career at the helm of distinguished arts organizations such as Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Magic Theatre of San Francisco. During his tenure these organizations garnered five Grammy Awards and the Kennedy Center Award; brought live programming to millions on PBS, National Public Radio and the BBC; and developed innovative new programs in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, and Carnegie Hall.
In 2003, Harvey founded Americans for the Arts' Creativity Connection program, which helps corporations foster creative thinking and enhance organizational learning through arts-based learning. Over the past decade, he has brought arts-based approaches to innovation and high-performance teamwork to IBM, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, McGraw-Hill, Real Networks, Siemens and the National Science Foundation. He has lectured at universities all over the world including the Columbia University Graduate School of Business (as a member of its Senior Executive Faculty), Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and Conservatoire de Paris.
Harvey is the author of Leadership Ensemble: Lessons in Collaborative Management from the World's Only Conductorless Orchestra, published by Holt/Times Books and translated into nine languages. In 2005, he guest edited the Journal of Business Strategy's "Arts-Based Learning for Business"; a second volume will be published later this year.
A participant in the White House Global Cultural Initiative, Harvey has pioneered the use of arts-based learning and cultural exchange programs to create bridges of international understanding with ground-breaking arts-business collaborations throughout Asia, Europe and North America. He is a sought-after speaker on creativity and innovation, keynoting such recent gatherings as the Conference Board Growth and Innovation Conference, the China Innovation Conference, the Taipei International Arts Festival, the Dutch Performing Arts Congress, the Canadian National Management Conference, and the inauguration of the Baker Idea Institute.
Harvey is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Art (UK), Senior Fellow at the Learning Worlds Institute, and a member of the International Advisory Council of the Banff Leadership Center in Canada. From 2006-2008, he served as Principal Artistic Advisor to the National Music Center & Museum in Washington, DC. In 2008, was named one of 20 Transformational Leaders from Around the World by the James MacGregor Burns Leadership Academy and the Fetzer Institute.
Zoë is a visual artist and musician who enjoys projects that require creative solutions to patterning and presenting visual information. She makes animations, videos, sketches, collages, writes songs, thinks up unlikely scenarios and ways to make them real, and throws elaborately themed parties. Recently at Learning Worlds, Zoë was the lead designer on two multi-stage animation projects for SAP, taking the concepts from original sketches to storyboards to animatics and finally to fully realized animated demos that were invaluable in SAP's product development process.
As a video designer, Zoë has created animated video segments for projection in production of Lizzie Borden, A Rock and Roll Road Show, directed by Tim Maner; and she collaborated with choreographer David Gordon to produce projected video content for Trying Times: Reimagined, performed at CalArts and Dance Theater Workshop in New York. She has done graphic design and animation for UNICEF, The Weather Channel, Catalyst Connection/Technical Learning Consultants, and iKnowthat.com.
She has been in a number of rock bands, and has collaborated on several multimedia dance pieces, including Noemie LaFrance's site specific Agora II in the empty McCarren Park Pool in 2007. Zoë is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Art, where she specialized in Electronic and Time-based Media. She is currently working on a short film about vastness, isolation, suburbia, radio, and 1950's and 1980's pop music.