Thorington is also a writer, sound composer, and radio producer, whose radio documentary, dramatic work, and sound/music compositions have been aired nationally and internationally for the past thirty years. She has created compositions for film and installation that have been premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, the Whitney Biennial, and in the Whitney Museum's annual Performance series. She produced three narrative works for the web including Solitaire, which combines game and storytelling; and she played a principal artistic role in the cutting-edge performance work, Adrift, presented as a performance and installation at the New Museum in New York City, October 19-December 21, 2001.
Thorington has also composed for dance. She performed with the Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Dance Company at Jacob's Pillow, MA in 2002, and at The Kitchen, New York City in 2003. She has won numerous radio awards, most recently Honourable Recognition, Prix Bohemia Radio Festival, Czechoslovakia; and Winner, Aether Festival, KUNM-FM, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Thorington was an invited speaker at Upgrade! Johannesburg, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa in '06; MIT5: Creativity, Ownership and Collaboration in the Digital Age, an international conference in '07; and a keynote at Digital Arts Weesk: The Meeting Point Between Art and Technology at ETH Zurich. She was also a speaker at the Music in the Global Village Conference in Budapest in December '09.
Thorington has taught new media classes at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) and at Emerson College (Boston). She has published numerous articles including two on networked musical performances for Contemporary Music Review (2005, 2006); and a feature article on the evolving context for sound and radio practice for the Tate Museum (London) in 2008. She is currently collaborating with visual, performance and media artist, Jacki Apple, on an experimental narrative; and composing a sound score for "i_magine", a sound-light performance by Ajaykumer to be premiere at Waterman's Arts Centre, London in June 2010. Visit her web site!
Green has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Emerson College, Boston; and the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
After graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand with a BFA Honors in Printmaking and Art History, she emigrated to the United States in 1983. While studying for her MFA at UMASS Dartmouth, she volunteered for a Fund for a Free South Africa (FreeSA) from 1985 to 1992, where she co-founded Cultural Resistance to educate the American public about Apartheid.
In 1999, Green was instrumental in starting the artist-in-residence program at the University of New Mexico's High Performance Computing Center, which led to the founding of the Art Technology Center (ATC). She was Grants Administrator and, later, Program Coordinator for both the ATC and the Arts of the Americas Institute. She returned to Boston in 2001, and completed her MS in Art Administration at Lesley University in 2003.
Green is also a curator, writer and designer. She has exhibited her paintings, prints, one-of-a-kind artist's books, and installations in Johannesburg, Massachusetts and New York. Visit her website.
Gilbert is consistently interested in exploring means of moving beyond the concert hall, engaging listeners in immersive media environments that aim to transform audience members into active participants. He is currently exploring the uses of streaming media feedback structures. Gilbert has received commissions from the Jerome Foundation, the Markle Foundation, Creative Capital, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been a resident at the Banff Centre for the Arts. He has performed widely in the United States and in Europe, and runs a micro-label, Open Ear, due to release several discs in 2002. He is also a founding member of the ensemble Dark Matter.