GRISHA COLEMAN: Composer/ Choreographer
Born and raised in New York City, Coleman is currently a fellow at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1991-1994 she danced with the Urban Bush Women. In 1995, Coleman created the music-performance group HOTMOUTH which toured extensively nationally and internationally and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for "Most Unique Theatrical Experience."
For the development of echo::system, Coleman has worked with multiple collaborators working outside of specific art disciplines, conducting residencies for research and development at the Banff New Media Institute in Canada, Beall Center for Art and Technology at UC Irvine, and California Institute for the Arts. Coleman is a graduate of the College of Letters at Wesleyan University and received her MFA in Composition and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts.
Arizona State University::
Collaborators
Research Assistants
Shaun Ylatupa-McWhorter, School of Sustainability
Isaac Wallis, AME
Christopher Miller, School of Dance / AME
Matthew Mosher, School of Art
Blake McConnell, School of Art / AME
Boyd Branch, School of Theater and Film
Kimberlee Headlee, School of Music / AME
Ramiya Pulavarthi, School of Computer Science
Jenea Sanchez, School of Art
Special Advisors
Dr. Simon Ortiz, Professor, English
Dr. Joni Adamson, Senior Research Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
Dan Childers, Professor, School of Sustainability
The Ohio State University's Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design
Past Collaborators::
Michael Bryant: Population Biologist
Onome Ekeh: Writer
Tony Mulanix: Lighting Designer
John Oduroe: Architect
Robert Peagler: Information Architect
Performers::
Anitra Brooks
Sherwood Chen
Wendell Cooper
Reginald Ellis Crump
Soomi Kim