Joshua HIggason 130 Chestnut St Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: 970-430-1712 E-Mail: [email protected] Education B.A. Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. History and Sociology. 2005. Boettcher Scholar: Four year full-ride academic scholarship to any school in Colorado Teaching and Educational Experience • Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Technical Instructor, Music And Theater Arts. Sept 2016- • Technical Instructor teaching design in the Division of Theater Arts. Fall 2016- 21M.840 “Performance Present Media”; Spring 2017- 21m.841 “Interactive Design and Projection for live performance”. Fall 2017 “Lighting Design”; Spring 2018 21m.841 “Interactive Design and Projection for live performance”. • The New School, CT2: Live Video & Performance. Visiting Instructor Jan 2016- May 2016 • Co-teaching a third year class on the integration of live video into theatrical performance and creation. • Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Jay Scheib. Sept 2015 • Guest lecture on video and media integration in live performance for 21M.606 Intro to Stagecraft and 21M.273 Opera while at MIT working on Persona with Jay Scheib and Keeril Makan. • IATSE Local 4 Stagehands Union, Brooklyn Academy Of Music; Introduction to Video April 2015, • Introducing video engineering, system design, and troubleshooting techniques to IATSE stagehands. July 2015 A one day class introducing both hardware and software video systems. • NYU Polytechnic, DM6103 Performance Studio Seminar: Media and Performance. Guest Lecture. Prof. Deborah Oct 2014 Johnson. • Incorporating live camera and performance using Isadora software for a Media and live performance technology class. • BRIC Media Arts, “21st Century Storytelling”. Oct 2014 • Two day Master Class on creating devised theater and incorporating media and live camera into performance with The Builders Association. • Bennington College, VDR4308 Manipulating the Moving Image. Visiting Professor. Spring • Guest Professor for semester course in media and interactive integration in live performance. Topics Semester included performance/media theory, media creation, live computer manipulation with Isadora / Mad 2014 Mapper / Watchout softwares, tracking of live performers with IR camera, Kinect camera. • Duke University, ARTVIS 190FS Media, Self & Performance. Master Class with The Builders Association. Nov 2013 • Guest Artist (as a member of The Builders Association); “21st Century Storytelling”. Two day Master Class on creating devised theater and incorporating media and live camera into performance. • Princeton University, ATL 494 Princeton Atelier - Sounding Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Alchemy in Music and Feb 2013 Theater. Prof. Mark Dechiazza and Dept Chair Steven Mackey. Guest Lectures. • Taught two one-day workshops during the semester on integrating interactive media and live performance using Isadora software and live cameras. • Ohio State University, Visiting Artist Residency with The Builders Association. Mar 2012 • Worked with various undergraduate students while developing the original work House / Divided with the Builders Association during a six week residency. • Princeton University, Princeton One-Act Opera Project (Princeton Atelier/Music Dept co-production) Mar 2012 • Worked with director Mark DeChiazza and undergraduate and Graduate composers, librettists, and performers to integrate video both dramaturgically, thematically, and practically into a set of three original operas. • Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Jay Scheib. Feb 2011 • One day Live Video in Performance workshop with Prof. Jay Scheib for two of his undergraduate classes. • NYU, Playwrights Horizon School. Guest Lecture. Prof. Jared Mezzocchi. Oct 2010 • Guest lecture on Video Design in Experimental Theater. Joshua HIggason • Long Island University, New Media Arts and Performance MFA Program Sept 2009- • Year long workshop series in topics such as Isadora programming, Live Camera Integration, Interactive May 2010 Control via OSC, Wii, and IR, and Projection Mapping. • Long Island University, New Media Arts and Performance MFA Program May 2009 • Student advising and Video programming for Thesis Projects. Dept Chair: Donna Uchizono. • University of Illinois: Champaign-Urbana, Visiting Artist Residency with The Builders Association Oct 2008 • Worked with various undergraduate students while developing the original work Continuous City with the Builders Association during a nine week residency . Design Experience (Select) Production Director / Company Venue (Date) • World of Wires (Video and Lighting Design) Jay Scheib / MIT TA MIT W97 (April 2018) • 3 Americanisms (Video Design) Paul Lazar / Harvard TDM Farkas Hall (April 2018) • TED Conference Community Stage TED Vancouver Convention Center (Scenic Design) (April 2018) • The Object Lesson (Projection Design) Geoff Sobelle National Theater of Taiwan (Feb 2018) • Aquanetta (Video Design) Daniel Fish/ BMP Gelsey Krikland (NYC) (Jan 2018) • Like (Projection and Interactive design) ZviDance New York Live Arts (Nov 2017) • Everybody (Projection Design) Anna Kohler / MIT TA MIT W97 (Nov 2017) • Persona (Video and Lighting Design) Jay Scheib; BMP/ LA OPERA REDCAT (Los Angeles) (Nov 2017) • Hansel Und Gretel (Projection Design) Sven Eric-Bechtolf / Teatro Alla Scala Teatro Alla Scalla, Milan (July-Aug 2017) • Dancing the Bears Ears (Video Design) ZviDance Salt Lake City (May 2017) • King Arthur by Henry Purcell Sven Eric-Bechtolf and Julian Crouch/ Staatsoper Berlin (Jan 2017) (Projection Design) Staatsoper Berlin • Seven Things I’ve Learned by Ira Glass Ira Glass Various US Tour stops (2016) (Projection design) • On The Road (Projection and Scenic Design) ZviDance BAM Fisher Theater (Dec 2016); American Dance Institute (Oct 2016); MassMoca • Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Video Design) Jay Scheib / MIT TA MIT (Nov 2016) • TedWomen 2016 (Scenic design) TED Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco ((Oct 2016) • TED@UPS (Scenic design) TED Atlanta (Sept 2016) • Carmen (Video Design) Jay Scheib YoungArts, Miami (June 2016) • Death, Sex, and Money With Anna Sale. (Scenic Anna Sale BAM Harvey Theater (Feb 2016) and projection design) • Aging Magician (Video and Lighting Design) Julian Crouch; Composer: Paola MassMoCA; Walker Arts Center; Krannert Prestini Center; New Victory Theater (NYC) 2016 • Phantogram US Tour (Creatiev Direction; Scenic Phantogram Various US Tour Stops (2016) Design; Video Consulting) • Control (Five Landscapes for Orchestra) Composer: Nico Muhly Abravanel Hall, Salt Lake City (Dec 2015) A new commission by the Utah Symphony (Video and Scenic Design) • Alas, The Nymphs (Video Design) John Jahnke BAM Fisher Theater (Dec 2015) Joshua HIggason • Persona (video design, Lighting Design, and Jay Scheib; Composed by Keeril MIT; National Sawdust (NYC) (Oct 2015) Live camera operator) Makan • JR JR Concert Tour (Video Design, Creative Josh Epstein 40 City US tour (Fall 2015) LED Technology integration) • Swamp is On (A collaboration between Pig Iron Dan Rothenberg; Pig Iron Theater Philadelphia Live Arts Festival (Oct 2015) Theater Company and Dr. Dog) Co. (Video Design and Live Performance) • Lake Nona Projection Mapping Project Creative Director: Michael Counts Orlando, FL (Fall 2015) • (Video Design, Projection Mapping) Die Dreigroschenoper (Video design) Julian Crouch; Salzburg Festival Festspielhaus, Salzburg (Aug 2015) Sufjan Stevens Concert Tour “Carrie and Lowell” Sufjan Stevens US/Euro Tour (79 Cities, 18 Countries) (Video Design) (2015) • Metric Concert Tour (Creative Direction/Design) Jon Morris 40 City US Tour (2015) • Radiolab: The Tell Tale Hearts (Video and Scenic Jad Abumrad, Ellen Horne BAM Opera House (April 2015) Design. Stage Direction) • Tumblr @ SXSW (Video and Scenic for 6 concerts) Tumblr SXSW, Austin, TX (2015) • Round Up (A Film with Live Music by Sufjan Sufjan Stevens BAM- Harvey Theater (2015) Stevens) (Projection and Scenic Design) • Gabriel Kahane’s The Ambassador (Video design) John Tiffany UNC, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)- Harvey Theater (2014) • Radiolab: Trusts No One (Video and scenic Jad Abumrad, Ellen Horne BAM Opera House (2014) design; Live audience Smart Phone integration) • SUPERNOVA- Ray LaMontagne Concert Tour Maureen Towey 40 US City Tour (Summer/ Fall 2014) (Scenic and Video Design with Candystations) • Platonov; Or The Disinherited Jay Scheib The Kitchen (NYC), Live streaming to AMC • (Video design, Live cinema mix and broadcast) Times Square and BAM Cinema (2014) • Sundance Sings feat. Christine Ebersole Leigh Silverman Symphony Space (2014) • (Video design) Dream of a Red Chamber (Video and Scenic Jim Findlay; Times Square Art The Performing Garage; Brill Building, Site design) Alliance and Ps122 Specific Installation (2014) Radiolab: Apocalyptical (Video, Scenic, and Jad Abumrad, Ellen Horne 25 city US Tour (Fall 2013) Lighting design) • Platonov; Or The Disinherited (Video and Scenic Jay Scheib; LPJ WoW Festival La Jolla Playhouse (Oct 2013) design) • Powder her Face (Video design) Jay Scheib; BAM Opera House (2013); Opéra de New York City Opera; Opéra de Québec (2013) Québec • Ich, KurbisGeist (Video design) Big Dance Theater Chocolate Factory (Fall 2012); New York ( Annie-B Parsons and Paul Lazar) Live Arts (Fall 2013) • Sontag: Reborn (Scenic design) The Builders Association Public, Wexner (2012); NYTW, Seoul Arts ( Marianne Weems) (2013); Weslyan, Arts Emerson (2014) • World of Wires (Video and Lighting design) Jay Scheib The Kitchen (NYC), Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston),KRT Festival (Krakow),