People
Alexis Bhagat, Co-Curator
Alexis Bhagat is a writer, sound artist, curator, and activist. He is the co-editor with Gregory Gangemi of Sound Generation (Autonomedia, 2009), a collection of interviews with contemporary sound artists and composers. He has organized concerts, discussions, and "listening lounges" of sound art and phonographic work in New York, Japan, Vermont, and Delhi, India. Since 2007, he has lectured about sound art and "cinema for the ear," developing relationships with the art-centers we expect to partner with.
Lauren Rosati, Co-Curator
Lauren Rosati is a Brooklyn-based artist, curator and writer who has worked with composers, curators, artists, audio engineers and writers on international projects. She is the Assistant Curator of Exit Art since 2007 and a PhD student in Art History at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has curated a variety of sound art projects, including Ice Cream Headache, an audio tour for which reinterpreted ice cream truck jingles were broadcast to an unsuspecting public from a Mr. Softee truck, and LOUD5, a sound art magazine.
Damian Volpe, Sound Editor/Mixer
Damian Volpe is a sound designer, editor, mixer, supervisor and Foley artist who has worked on dozens of major feature films (Winter's Bone, Amelia, Married Life, Happiness, The Squid and the Whale, The Namesake, etc.), independent films (including Forty Shades of Blue, Billy the Kid, Blank City), television shows (The Venture Brothers, Damages, etc.) and various projects for theaters and museums.
Emmett Van Slyke, Sound Engineer
A world-renowned composer for theater, orchestra, film and jazz ensembles, Van Slyke is also a multi-instrumentalist who has performed as a session musician, and as a live backing musician for theater, rock bands, and world class musicians, actors and artists. He most recently created and composed music for Reflecting Poe, a multimedia theater piece on the prose of Edgar Allen Poe, performed in Oswego, NY.
James Nichols, Dolby Consultant
James Nichols is a Master Recording Engineer, Executive Producer and Master Audio Engineer and recording industry expert who has worked in the field since 1973. He worked at A1 Studios for two years under Herb Abramson, co-founder of Atlantic Records; Electric Lady Studios, where he assisted, engineered and performed on The Clash's "Sandinista!" album; at RCA Recording Studios, where he worked on numerous films including Malcolm X (Spike Lee) and on the Broadway hit "Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk"; and at Manhattan Center Studios where he worked on films including Ed Wood (Tim Burton). He is the winner of two Grammy Awards (1996, 1997) and has worked with Dolby Laboratories since 2005.
CURATORIAL ASSISTANTS: Nashwa Zaman, Zachary Crumrine, Aisling Deng, Susie Warhurst, Ryan Torino
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