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Beyond the screen in Paris by Elise Co : 7/02/2005 _ 13/03/2005

Elise Co

Elise Co, 1976, is a creative of plastic shapes, machines, programs.
She is currently requested to animate workshop, for exemple at the HGK in Basel Swiss where she is teaching in the visual comunication department. She worked in "Small Design Firm" in Boston as an interactive designer. She has been a researcher at the MIT Media Laboratory (Cambridge), Aesthetic and computing (ACG) under the direction of profesor John Maeda. before arriving at the laboratory, she studied architecture at the Massachusetts institute of technology, from where she graduated in1998. During her university career, Elise developped her interest in the sciences connected with computing aside her architectural studies; this double interest in design and computing did lead her at the ACG. Elise prduced a lot of researches and realised her thesis on how electronic and computing can expand fashion possibilities, using the body,expression and communication. Elise Co knows how to use her experience and sensibility in the diferents fields she explored. Her work is visible in Tokyo and New-York.

programing: C/C++, Java, OpenGL, Inventer, HTML
experience with Perl/CGI, Javascript, Scheme, Python.
applications : Protel (printed circuit board schematics and layout), MPLab (PIC microprocessor programming) Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver.

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Cesar Minoru Harada

Cesar Harada was born in Bayonne France in 1983 from a french mother and a japonese father. He studied in France and Japan, studied music in St Malo cathedral's choir, glass-blow at the ADAC center Paris with master Pedro Veloso. He graduated from "école Boulle" from the arts applied section, studied graphic design in Central Saint Martin (London UK) as an exchange student from the "Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs"(Paris FR) where he is now studying animation film. He is actualy preparing his thesis about "troubles in space perception" and his diploma will be an interactive film about travelling. To travel Cesar is building his own boat wich will be his tripod for filming natural landscapes. Cesar Harada personal exhibitions: 2003 "QUEST" in Islington water tunnel London, 2003 "human experience" in CSM London, 2004 "le parc d'attraction" in ENSAD Paris. Collective exhibitions : 2000 "formes" (glass-blow sculptures) at "la maison des ateliers" Paris 75001, 2001 "pas cher" (fashion acessory) at "la manufacture des oeillets" Ivry s/Seine, 2002 "INFO TRAFIC" (choregraphic + video performance) at the french ministry of equipment la Défense, 2002 "Happyjoy family" (5 animation films) at the British Council Paris, 2003 "va chercher bonheur" (multimédia) at the ENSAD Paris, 2003 "pauvre de nous" (installation) at the "musée de l'homme" Paris, 2004"chaos magazine", "MADRID 11-03-04", "peace-war", "la grotte" in Kifisia art centrum and Polychronopoulos museum of Skironio Greece.

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