Jo-Anne Green & Helen Thorington
http://jo-annegreen.com
http://new-radio.org/helen
Jo-Anne Green
is an artist, and arts administrator. She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. After graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand with a BFA Honours in Printmaking and Art History, she emigrated to the United States in 1983. Green volunteered for a Fund for a Free South Africa (FreeSA) from 1985 to 1992; there, she co-founded Cultural Resistance to educate the American public about apartheid through the art and culture of South Africa.
Green lived in New Mexico from 1997 to 2001. She was instrumental in starting an artist-in-residence program at the University of New Mexico’s High Performance Computing Education and Research Center; she later worked for the College of Fine Arts’ Art Technology Center and
Arts of the Americas Institute. She is currently Associate Director of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.|Turbulence.org.
Green has a MFA in Painting, and is nearing the completion of a Master of Science in Management with a specialization in Arts Administration. She has exhibited her paintings, one-of-a-kind artist’s books, and installations in South Africa, Boston and New York.
Helen Thorington
is a writer, sound composer, and radio producer whose documentary, dramatic, and sound compositions have aired nationally and internationally for twenty years. Her productions for
National Public Radio were among the first radio art works broadcast nationally. Thorington’s commissioners include RAI (Italian radio), RNE (Spanish Radio) and ORF (Austrian radio). She also wrote and performed several soundscores for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company;
“Blauvelt Mountain†was performed at Jacob’s Pillow, Massachusetts in 2002, and will be performed at the Kitchen in New York City in Fall 2003. Thorington has also created compositions for film and installation that premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, the Whitney Biennial, and in
the Whitney Museum’s Annual Performance series.
Thorington has produced three narrative works for the web and she played a principal artistic role in the cutting edge multilocation Internet performance “Adrift†that was most recently presented as a performance and installation at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, 2001.
Thorington is the Executive Director of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (aka Ether-Ore), and the founder and producer of New American Radio (1987-1998), and Turbulence.org.
Jo-Anne Green & Helen Thorington participate in
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Memorial for the Victims of Terror
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