Neil Rolnick, an innovator in the use of Internet2 for arts performance, will be the speaker this week for a Digital Media Center presentation. Rolnick will explain how advanced network applications and technologies have been used within the Internet2 university/industry/government consortium for multisite performances.

Rolnick

Images will be shown from The Technophobe & the Madman, the first Internet2 musical, which was performed by cast members who were 162 miles apart--half at New York University in New York City and half at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. The show was performed simultaneously in the two locations with three streams of audio and video operating between the two theaters.

The event will take place from noon to 2 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 21, in suite 226 of the Mattin Center on the Homewood campus.

The presentation will set the scene for a JHU Writing Seminars/UMBC Dance Department Internet2 collaboration in mid-April.

Rolnick has performed his music around the world, exploring forms as diverse as digital sampling, interactive multimedia and traditional musical theater. Over the last two decades, he has been responsible for the development of the first integrated electronic arts graduate and undergraduate programs in the United States, at RPI's iEAR Studios in Troy.

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'Technophobe' performance
Neil Rolnick