has been nationally and internationally active as a choreographer, dancer, and video-artist since 1992. In March of 2004 Dance Magazine, in the article "Rocky Mountains Dancing," described her as "one of the most innovative multimedia choreographers living in Boulder." In 2003 she co-founded Avant Media Performance with Randy Gibson. In 2005 she co-founded The Sans Souci International Festival of Projected Dance with Michelle Ellsworth. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of Dance at Texas State University. She also works and performs with Los Angeles based Corpus Delicti and is a co-director of the Boulder based Sans Souci Festival, and an artistic director of New York based Avant Media Performance.

She holds a Licentiate of Choreography from the Centro Nacional de las Artes, in Mexico City. In 2000 she moved from Mexico to the United States and attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, from which she received her MFA in Dance with an emphasis in Video Dance. While in graduate school, she conceived and directed projects in several venues outside the University, the highlight being a solo exhibition with performances at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.

The collaborative aspects of Baer-Carrillo’s work have led to projects and performances with choreographers Nancy Spanier, Kim Olson, Gabe Masson, and Tarek Assam; filmmakers Elliot Caplan, Victor Jendras, and Hamel Bloom; and musicians Randy Gibson and Marcelo Gaete, among others. During her most recent artistic engagements she has presented work in Germany, France, Mexico and various venues on the west coast, such as The Theater of Note in Los Angeles and the Yugen Theater in San Francisco.

Upcoming engagements for the beginning of 2007 include: working with Nancy Spanier in Kauai filming a new solo dance piece and editing her "Flesh Sites" video footage; a video collaboration with the Trinity College Theater Department’s production of "The Laramie Project"; "Fenced", a multidisciplinary performance at Highways Performing Space in Los Angeles, and a video dance and music workshop at the Chattanooga Performance Arts School with Avant Media artists Randy Gibson and Dani Beauchamp.

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is a composer and performance artist living in New York City. His pieces combine live and electronic elements to create sounds and textures that would otherwise be impossible. His works are often fused with visual elements creating a truly unique collaborative performance in which all elements inform and grow from each other.

Originally from Boulder, CO, he started life as a percussionist specializing in marimba and world music. He began composition studies with Michael Theodore after reaching a plateau in his work as a percussionist. In 2001 he moved to New York to further his experience, and, in 2003 began composition and vocal studies with the seminal minimalist composer La Monte Young. He has studied marimba with Keiko Abe, Doug Walter and Pete Ehrman, Balinese Gamelan with I Made Lasmawan, and Electronic Music at the Centre de Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX) in Paris.

Gibson has received commissions from soprano Karie L. Kerner, the UK marimba and saxophone duo Snapdragon, film artist Ana Baer-Carrillo, as well as several dance companies and choreographers including Kim Olson/ Sweet Edge, Notes In Motion, the University of Colorado, The Interstate Dance Collective, Lauren Beale, Michelle Nance, Chantal Downing, Sarah Hauss, and Courtney Krantz. His pieces have been performed around the world and at several major festivals, including the Spark Festival for Electronic Music and Art, The Dusseldorf Internationale Tanzmesse NRW, the Boulder International Fringe Festival, the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the Sans Souci Film Festival and the Erick Hawkins Legacy Forum.

Most recently he has collaborated on several pieces with the film artist and choreographer Ana Baer-Carrillo including their 2007 premiere of "Anger". "Anger" brings to fruition many years of collaborative work integrating video and music into a seamless evening performance that breaks the barriers of traditional performance. After their extremely successful 2002 collaboration "Alicia," Gibson and Baer-Carrillo decided to form an organization to allow themselves and others to be able to work in such a truly collaborative manner.

In 2003 Gibson and Baer-Carrillo founded Avant Media Performance, an interdisciplinary artist organization dedicated to the production of multi-media collaborative events.

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A professional musician since the age of twelve, he is a visionary artist with a background in non-linear mathematics, sacred systems and cosmology. As a classically trained bassist and sitar player he has gained extensive experience in orchestral ensembles, world music traditions, jazz combos, and solo sitar performance. Whilst studying sitar and North Indian classical music with the legendary Ustad Imrat Khan, Mark began delving deeper into the universal fundamentals of music and their underlying frequency structures. These studies culminated in 1999 with Mark being awarded the US patent for his ground breaking new instrument the Bazantar - a five-string acoustic bass fitted with an additional twenty-nine sympathetic strings and four drone strings. The result is a remarkable instrument that weaves a mesmerizing soundscape of resonance, and evokes all the power of Western classical music with the depth and nuance of Eastern traditions.

Since the creation of the Bazantar, and the critically acclaimed release of his first solo album "Fool", Mark has been performing extensively world wide. His awe-inspiring solo sitar and Bazantar performances have drawn rave reviews from the international music community and have generated invitations for Mark to perform at the Juilliard School of Music, Merkan Concert Hall, Earthdance International, The Hawaiian Contrabass Festival and many other high profile venues. Mark recently completed the theatre score for a much lauded French production of Steven Berkoff’s adaptation of Poe’s "Fall of the House of Usher". On the collaborative side, his music has attracted an eclectic array of some of today’s finest musicians, including Grammy award-winning cellist David Darling, film composer David Julyan (Insomnia, Memento), seminal Chicago rock band Tortoise, virtuoso erhu player and principle soloist with the Beijing National Symphony Yang Ying, and jazz luminaries such as William Parker, Roy Campbell, and Hamid Drake.

Mark currently resides in San Francisco while working on his second solo release, the film score for Roko Belic's (Ghenghis Blues) new film "Twilight Men", and collaborative projects with Dijeridu master Stephen Kent and musician, scientist Jaron Lanier. The word is getting out and some of the most respected musicians, scientists and sonic adventurers are looking to him as a revolutionary guide to these newfound realms of vibration and sound.

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collaborating with sweet edge choreographer kim olson, explores plasticity of materials, using the kinetics of form to challenge ideas and concepts through costume, as idiom of the second skin. Hutman Design /Studio PaNdau, founded with Hmong needle artists in 1986, (an applied anthropology venture incorporating culturally sensitive styling to textile creations) to make couture and original costume for private clients including, Devotchka, Dr. Lenore Walker for Oprah Winfrey appearances, Maestra Joanne Falletta, Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, Kim Olson/Sweet Edge, Third Law Dance, and choreographers Danielle Hendricks, Diane McIntyre, Donald McKayle, Cleo Parker Robinson, Franca Telesio, Lisa Thomas, and others. Westword named her Galleria of Wearable Art at Studio PaNdau the "Best Cultural Art Gallery". Paula Hutman has presented at Jacob’s Pillow, Belmar Museum, Denver’s Museum of Nature & Science, Denver Art Museum, Foothills Art Center, Kunming Provincial Museum, and venues in Washington D.C, Milwaukee, Aspen and Denver and Papua, New Guinea. Hutman curates historical exhibitions for the public library system where regional historical themes are highlighted by costumed characters who shaped local culture in the West. As a member of the Jefferson County Historical Commission, she brings an artist’s voice to the community of historic preservation, public history and education.

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received a masters degree in writing and poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. An excerpt from her play "Rehearsal: Phenomenon in Flux" was published in the journal Nerve Lantern. Her screenings of film installation "Rehearsal" premiered at the Boulder Museum for Contemporary Art, and her film "Cut from Speech" premiered at the Performing Arts Center at Naropa. Current projects include: "the dot chronicles" (novel), "from the angel series" (graphic/ textual response to the photographs of Francesca Woodman), "how to deal with a tarantula" (short film). She is a recipient of the William F. Burroughs Award for Writing.