Jack Straw New Media Gallery
The Northwest’s premier space for immersive installation art combining sound, digital media, and other genres.
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Steve Barsotti is a sound artist and educator who lives in Seattle. His work includes studio based explorations of sound for radio broadcast, site specific sound installation, improvisation on electro-acoustic instruments and sound as an integral part of performance. He has performed in the United States, Canada and Europe, and he is a current member of the Seattle Phonographers Union. Barsotti has been a staff engineer at the Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) in Chicago and at Jack Straw Productions. While at ESS, he produced In the Eye of the Ear, a festival dedicated to the promotion of artists who use sound as a primary medium of expression, and co-produced BONES, a series of audio works from Chicago sound artists. He is currently the Academic Director of the Audio Production program at the Art Institute of Seattle. |
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Tracey Fugami received a BA from Cornish College of the Arts and an MA from New York University in Visual Arts Administration. She has held positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Drawing Center, NY; and The Paine Art Center, WI. Recent curatorial endeavors include Glow: Art in the Age of Technology, Wired Forest, and Seeing Green. She has also contributed art criticism to publications such as Afterimage, Art Papers, and Sculpture Review. She is currently the Associate Director of Education of Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle. |
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Susie Kozawa, a sound artist, composer and performer, works mostly with sound collages and site-specific installations. She has been a Ford Foundation Collaborating Artist with Northwest Asian American Theatre’s International Artist Collaboration Project. She was recently a guest artist at The International Workshop for Spatial Media hosted by the University of Aizu Wakamatsu in Japan. She has also designed live sound compositions for several dance and theater productions including the Crispin Spaeth Dance Group for the Composer/Choreographer IV Series produced by Gamelan Pacifica. She is a founding member of Aono Jikken Ensemble, an experimental music and performance group that specializes in live music/sound for silent films and performance theater. In 2007, Kozawa performed as a live foley artist for the world premiere of director Guy Maddin’s silent film Brand Upon the Brain! starring Karen Black. |
The Jack Straw Writers Program, Artist Support Program, and New Media Gallery Program offer established and emerging artists in diverse disciplines an opportunity to explore the creative use of sound in a professional atmosphere through residencies in our recording studios and participation in our various presentation programs.
The Jack Straw Writers Program was created in 1997 to introduce local writers to the medium of recorded audio; to develop their presentation skills for both live and recorded readings; to encourage the creation of new literary work; to present the writers and their work in live readings, an anthology, on the web, and on the radio; and to build community among writers.
The Artist Support Program has been assisting artists working creatively with sound since 1994, including writers, choreographers, multidisciplinary artists, theatre sound designers, radio producers, film makers, visual artists, and musicians and composers of all types. Every year, up to eight artists are awarded twenty hours of studio recording and production time with a Jack Straw engineer; an additional twelve artists receive matching awards for studio time.