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Kate Pendry is an English actress and writer living in Norway. She has formal training from Mountview Theatre School and has been a professional actor and writer for 10 years. She has written and had produced three plays: Lilith - The First Vampire for Nordic Black Theatre, Monster Madonnas for Oslo Stage Company and Cabaret Pigalle for Ø.J. Prod. Member of British Equity and Norsk Skuespillerforbund and a teacher at Nordic Black Theatre School. She currently works on a mix of traditional theatre work and experimental work involving new media. Marius Watz is a programmer and graphic designer specialising in computer generated graphics, using software he has developed for 2D and 3D graphics, animation and realtime grahics. He was exhibition coordinator for the Electra '96 electronic art exhibition at Henie-Onstad Art Center in Oslo, and regularly gives lectures on interactive media and electronic art. He is working on a research project at the National College of Art and Design in Oslo, working with algorithmic generation of form. Since 1993 he has worked as freelance graphic designer and illustrator both in print and multimedia, and is currently working on a mixture of commercial and non-commercial projects. Along with Knut Mork and Ståle Stenslie, Kate Pendry and Marius Watz created the interactive installation sense:less, commissioned for Electra '96. sense:less used virtual reality techniques for graphics and interacton, as well as diskbased playback of 3D sound and a custom-made bodysuit for tactile stimuli. sense:less was awarded an honourable mention at Prix Ars Electronica 96 and was exibited at Dutch Electronic Art Festival 96 in Rotterdam September 1996. Helge Sten is a composer and self-taught sound technician. He has done sound-based performances since 1987, working since 1991 under the name deathprod. In 1992 he was accepted to the Trondheim Academy of Art, where he studied sound and the use of noise in music at the Department of Intermedia until taking his diploma in 1996. He was an active member of the band Motorpsycho from 1992, but is today only involved in their studio work, producing and composing. He has worked as a sound technician for several Norwegian artists and has released several CDs, singles and MCs as deathprod. He is currently collaborating with artists, dancers and musicians on various projects. |