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Artists in Residence


Our intentions in creating this artist in residence program are to promote experimentation in the performing arts, support artists in a transitional, or new period in their career, give visibility to artistic work that we believe in and that might be under the radar in Philadelphia, create a safe, exciting space for performing artists to test out new ideas, to promote exchange of ideas and practice between the mediums, and to support a dialogue between performing artists, philosophers, scientists, and regular people.



Joo Won Park
Joo Won Park Joo Won Park (b. 1980) is an electronic musician residing in Philadelphia. His music has been featured in several conferences such as the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States Conference, Seoul International Computer Music Festival,  Bourges Electroacoustic Music Festival, and International Computer Music Conference. His research is printed in Electronic Musician, Computer Music Journal, The Audio Programming Book and The Csound Book.
He received an M.M and Ph.D. in composition at the University of Florida, and graduated from Berklee College of Music majoring in Music Synthesis and Contemporary Writing/Production. Joo Won was an associate director of Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, and currently serves as an assistant professor of music at the Community College of Philadelphia.  His music is available on ICMC DVD, Spectrum Press, MIT Press, and PARMA recording.
Web: www.joowonpark.net


Nicole Elizabeth Cook
Cook
 Nicole Elizabeth Cook (b. 1986) is the 2012 Playwright in Residence at <fidget>, a collective promoting experimentation in the performing arts and supporting a dialogue between performing artists, philosophers, scientists, and audiences.

Nicole's interests are the interdisciplinary relationships of painting, literature and performance.  She also examines issues of gender, class, and race in art.  She holds a BFA in painting and printmaking from Moore College of Art & Design and an MA from Temple University.

Nicole is excited to be workshopping of her first play, Quaaludes and Champagne at <fidget>.  The piece examines, questions, and revisions the statutory rape trial of a well-known film director in 1970s California.  Nicole’s second play, currently titled Jungle Juice, will be presented as a work-in-progress reading Fall 2012 at <fidget>.

Nicole is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Delaware, specializing in early modern art of Northern Europe.  Her dissertation will focus on the intersections between 17th-century Dutch theater and painting in a post-Iconoclasm world.


Lauren Mandilian Huot
Huot
Lauren Mandilian Huot graduated from Drexel University with her Bachelor of Science (2006) and Master of Science (2007) in Digital Media. While in college, Lauren enjoyed dancing and was a member of the Drexel Dance Ensemble. Combining her interest in dance with digital media, Lauren developed a collaborative multimedia dance performance named "Information Overload".
In June 2008, Lauren was offered an internship in New York City under projection artist, Peter Nigrini, on the Bill T. Jones 3 Tony Award winning musical, "FELA!". While in New York, Lauren had the opportunity to work with renowned dance photographer Lois Greenfield on "Projected, a work in progress".
Lauren continues doing freelance projection design for shows in Philadelphia and New York City. She is the Resident Projection Artist for SHARP Dance Company. In addition she has worked with such artists as Klip Collective, anonymous bodies, Nichole Canuso and readySetGO. Lauren has worked on a number of Off-Broadway shows as well as the Broadway hit, "Rock of Ages".
Web: www.mandilian.com


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