{"id":33,"date":"2019-07-07T22:47:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T22:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expo.calarts.edu\/2020\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2023-10-25T19:54:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T19:54:58","slug":"directors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/expo.calarts.edu\/2020\/directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ajay Kapur<\/h1>\n

Ajay Kapur defines himself as a \u201cMusical Scientist.\u201d The \u201cScientist\u201d in him organizes experiments on how computer programming, electrical engineering, and digital signal processing can be used in artistic practices. The \u201cMusician\u201d in him gathers all the current technology from his laboratory into modules that can be used in the concert hall, writing modern music while blending traditional techniques. A large body of his work is centered around how humans and machines can interact symbiotically to create new forms of artistic expression. More specifically, Ajay's research revolves around one question: \u201cHow do you make a computer improvise with a human?\u201d Using the rules set forth by Indian Classical music, he has been driven to build new interfaces for musical expression by using microcomputing, sensor technology, and artificial intelligence, while designing and building programmable mechatronic musical instruments. He now leads a team of artists and engineers exploring the intersection of music, composition, storytelling, science, and technology in the KarmetiK Machine Orchestra.<\/p>\n

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Madeline Falcone<\/h1>\n
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Madeline Falcone is a producer and violinist dedicated to the performance of contemporary music and to the support of innovative artistic events. As a producer, Madeline has been part of the CalArts Expo team since 2014, and has produced creative events and festivals for the Ojai Music Festival, The Broad Museum, the Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestras, and REDCAT. As a performer, Madeline co-directs the Los Angeles-based Isaura String Quartet, and has performed and recorded with artists including The Eagles, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, The Temptations, All-American Rejects, Angel Olsen, J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson, and Deltron 3030. Madeline holds a MFA from CalArts in Violin Performance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Juan Herrera<\/span><\/h1>\n

Juan Herrera is an LA and Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator, whose practice as a bilingual\/bicultural individual is invested in sexual and cultural identity, working in performance, video, photography and installation. He received an MA in Spanish at University of Iowa as well as an MA in Visual and Critical Studies at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. At SAIC, he was photo-editor of Fnewsmagazine. <\/span>He is currently perusing a Master of Fine Arts in Photography + Media with Integrated Media specialization at the California Institute of the Arts, where he is the 2019-2020 ArtChangeUS Journalism and Media fellow. He has been awarded the Lillian Disney Scholarship by Calarts and The Stephen Reinstein Memorial Scholarship by The Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Fallon Williams<\/span><\/h1>\n
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Fallon Williams is a LA-based designer. Originally from Houston, TX, she holds a BFA in Arts Administration from Howard University in Washington D.C. Her CalArts credits include Oedipus The King and Ubu Roi, which was featured in the Prague Quadrennial Studio: Common Design Project exhibition. Fallon is so happy to be working with CalArts Expo for a second year curating the amazing work of her fellow CalArtians. She would like to thank God, her family, and the CalArts Expo for this opportunity. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Moon Wang<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Joana P. Cardozo<\/span><\/h1>\n
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Joana P. Cardozo is a Brazilian visual artist based in Los Angeles and Sao Paulo. Her photographs create unconventional portraiture by examining the relationship amongst domestic spaces, their inhabitants and their objects. Her acrylic installations discuss the futility of human attachments in an impermanent world. Cardozo's work has most recently been exhibited at Texas Contemporary Art Fair (Houston), Foto Relevance (Houston), Klompching Gallery (New York), San Francisco Bay International Photo Show (San Francisco), and Rencontres d\u2019Arles (France). Cardozo holds an LL.M. from King's College London (UK). She graduated from the International Center of Photography in 2015 and is an MFA candidate in Photography & Media at California Institute of the Arts. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Anastasia Goncharova<\/span><\/h1>\n

Anastasia is a Ukrainian filmmaker currently majoring in Film\/Video at Calarts with a minor in Integrated Media. Her work mostly centers around experiential and documentary styles with a strong lean into the themes of family, personal happiness and exploration of different stylistic techniques. She loves organizing anything an everything and is very glad to be helping with the Calarts Expo this year. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Jessica Peng <\/span><\/h1>\n
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Jessica Peng is a California-based graphic designer who focuses on the cross sections where humans interact with design. Working in a broad range of mediums\u2014both print and digital, she is always trying to discover new ways humans can interact with learning, communication, and both their local and global communities. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Jessie Hodges<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Gin<\/h1>\n
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Gin is a director, playwright, actress and singer. She playwrote and directed Legends Of Sword, Violet Evergarden, a musical piece called Jehad and The Castle Killings which is an immersive theatrical performance. Gin is an inheritor of Chinese opera Baiju, and she used to give charity performance every week in Ganxi Palace. Gin has produced several talent shows and winter art festivals as the art president in student union of Nanjing Foreign Language School. She has led her class and won the first prize three times in annual art festivals. She used to perform in Nanjing Anime Expo, Nanjing New Year Poetry and Chinese traditional culture festival.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Shang-Wei Jayden Chien<\/span><\/h1>\n
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Jayden is a BFA3 lighting and scenic designer. He views himself as a storyteller through design, and his inspirations often come from interactions with people around him. Having been immersed in diverse cultures, Jayden loves to collaborate with artists across all disciplines. He is excited to curate this unique experience for both his peers and a wide range of audiences as a member of the Expo production team.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Max Fishman<\/span><\/h1>\n
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 is a Los Angeles-based musician, producer and creative coder.<\/div>\n
He is currently a BFA - 3 Music Tech student.<\/div>\n
This is Max\u2019s second year working as part of the EXPO creative team.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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