Curriculum Vitae
NEAR EAST FAMILY
David and Tara Gladden
neareastfamily.org
chimaay@gmail.com
tara@neareastfamily.org
- Education -
David and Tara Gladden:
2009 MFA | Performance and Interactive Media Arts | Brooklyn College.
Areas of specialization: Digital Arts | Interdisciplinary Collaboration | Multi-Media Direction and Composition.
David Gladden: 1995 BA | Creative Writing | University of Colorado Boulder.
Tara Gladden: 1994 BM | Voice Performance | Boston University.
ALL OF THE FOLLOWING PERTAIN STRICTLY TO DAVID AND TARA GLADDEN'S COLLABORATIVE WORK AS NEAR EAST FAMILY.
Selected Works | Performances | Collaborations
- 2011 -
The Ida May Project | 2006-present | Long-term, video documentary project geared toward education, community and story sharing. It chronicles a family’s determination to rebuild a boat, the history and importance of the Skipjack and the commercial fishing industry to Deal Island, MD while investigating the changing landscape of the area and the ecology of the Chesapeake Bay.
The Lumen Festival | live performance, NEF with Anarcho Art Lab | Staten Island | NY.
New Roots | live cinema performance | Anarchist Art Festival | The Living Theatre | NYC.
The Highway | live cinema performance | Salisbury University Electronic Gallery | Salisbury | MD.
- 2010 -
Requiem | live cinema performance | The Metro Gallery | Baltimore | MD.
Passing Apparitions | live cinema performance for The Drift Project | curated by Brinson Renda | The Hexagon | Baltimore | MD.
The Blame Show | curated by Larry Lit | live performance | Emily Harvey Foundation | NYC.
Chrononaut Detritus | live cinema/dance performance | 2010 Performance MIX festival presented by New Dance Alliance | Joyce SoHo | NYC.
- 2009 -
YouTunes | in collaboration with Preston Poe | Over the Opening Gallery | NYC | Baltimore Contemporary Museum | Baltimore | MD.
Trans | in collaboration with Adriana Varella | Sound Design and Composition for 5 channel video installation | Oi Futuro Museum | Rio de Janiero | Brazil.
Particle Motion Machine | live cinema performance produced by Play with Fire Festival/Harvestworks | NYC.
Mirror Organism | in collaboration with Adriana Varella and Dizzi Kohatsu | Sound Design and Composition for Video Installation | Leo Kuelbs Gallery | NYC.
Behold these beings | in collaboration with Butoh dancer and choreographer Shizu Homma | Musical Direction, Composition, Video | Dixon Place | NYC.
Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate | The Living Theatre | NYC.
Partnership | live cinema/movement performance | Grace Exhibition Space | The Living Theatre | Santos’ Party House | NYC.
Meeting God | in collaboration with Adriana Varella | Sound Design and Composition for video installation | Leo Kuelbs Gallery | NYC.
Ahoy 2.0 | Sound and Video Compostion, Performance | The Sky Box Theatre | Brooklyn | NY.
- 2008 -
of the Bush Terminal | live sound and light installation for “Labor Party” | curated by Michael Connor | Industry City | Brooklyn | NY.
The Interactive Keyboard Project | in collaboration with Abraham Nowitz | Sound Design, Composition | “Labor Party” | Industry City | Brooklyn | NY.
MIKA | Musical Direction, Composition, Performance | Multi-media theatre piece created with international theatre company Global Theatre Ensemble as part of the United Nations campaign to end violence against women | The United Nations | Consulate of Argentina | NYC.
BetaToys | performance on circuit bent toys | Beta Spaces | Brooklyn, NY.
Coffin’ it up | mobile, multi-media interactive public performance installation | Judson Memorial Church | the streets of NYC.
Iphigenia | Composition, Musical Direction, Performance | Directed by Helen Richardson | Vorhees Theatre | Brooklyn | NY.
- Discography -
Partnership | DVD | 2011.
Spore Print | CD | 2010.
Of the Bush Terminal: Live from Industry City | CD | 2009.
- Grants and Awards -
Maryland Traditions Grant | 2011-12 for the Ida May Project.
Experimental Television Center | 2010 presentation fund grant via New Dance Alliance for appearance in their 2010 Performance Mix Festival.
Brooklyn College | Graduate Investment Program Grant | research materials | 2008 and 2009.
Brooklyn College | Graduate Investment Program Grant | travel to attend Mutek Digital Creativity Festival, 2008.
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