GORDANA CRNKOVIC
A native of Zagreb, obtained her undergraduate degrees in Comparative Literature and Philosophy from the University of Zagreb, and received her Ph.D. from the Program in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. Author of numerous articles on literature and culture, Crnkovic published the book Imagined Dialogues: Eastern European Literature in Conversation with American and English Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2000), and is currently writing the collection Azra and Other Stories.
DAVID HAHN
Composes music for concert performance, dance, theater, spoken-word, television, and film scores. He creates diverse styles of music ranging from the experimental sounds of a quartet of electronically-processed guitars to chamber music featuring traditional instruments and choir. Commissioned and performed by a number of established professional ensembles in the US and Europe, Mr. Hahn's music has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Soros Foundation, ArtsLink, the Jack Straw Foundation and Artist Trust. A professional guitarist, mandolinist and lutenist, he has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony and Opera Orchestras, Boston Musica Viva, the Seattle Symphony, Musica Nel Chiostro in Florence, and the City of London Festival.
David Hahn's site:
http://www.davidhahnonline.com
VICTOR INGRASSIA
Has been playing with the arrow of time for 25 years in his films, animations, audio collages and photography. His early work with experimental film, hand drawn rotoscope animation, pixillation, layered sound/film collages, stereoscopic photography and hand colored photographic prints, has expanded into explorations of digital painting, video compositing and computer animation via Victrolux Productions. He has taught film production and avant-garde film history at The University of Colorado at Boulder. His films have screened in Atlanta, Berkeley, Boulder, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Seattle. He has produced the audio collage radio program "Warp & Weft" for KSER-FM, Everett, WA.