A project of HERE
MADE HERE is a documentary series and website focusing on performing artists based in New York City. A collage of intimate interviews, performances and behind-the-scenes footage, MADE HERE mirrors the rich diversity of the artists and communities they serve. The website has more than doubled initial projections, with over 23,000 unique visitors from 77 countries.
The first season was launched in May 2010, and by the end of September, had released 15 short episodes featuring 40 artists and covering five major issues: Creative Real Estate, Day & Night Jobs, Family Balance, Activism and Technology. Season Two rolled out from March through July 2011 with 28 additional artists and three episodes each month on: Identity, Creative Practice, Money, Lifework, and Home. Season Three will be from April through June 2013 with 25 additional artists and three episodes each month on: Art & Commerce, Criticism, and Health. The website provides a platform for audiences to offer feedback on the episodes, artists to share and discover resources, and communities to engage on the issues. In addition, each issue is accompanied by a monthly live screening and panel event. MADE HERE is supported by a 2009 Rockefeller Cultural Innovation Fund award with renewed funding for Seasons Three and Four. Additional support was provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the New Generations Program administered by Theatre Communications Group.
HERE has been a premier arts organization in NYC and a leader in the field of new, hybrid performance work since 1993. Under the leadership of Founding Artistic Director Kristin Marting and Producing Director Kim Whitener, HERE has served over 12,000 emerging to mid-career artists developing work that does not fit a conventional programming agenda. Work presented at HERE has garnered 14 OBIE awards, including the 2009 Ross Wetzsteon Award, an OBIE grant for artistic achievement, five Drama Desk nominations, four NY Innovative Theatre Awards, an Edwin Booth Award and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. HERE proudly supports artists at all stages in their careers through full productions, artist residency programs, festivals and subsidized performance and rehearsal space. Work at HERE is curated based on the strength and uniqueness of the artist’s vision. HERE’s Artist Residency Program (HARP) provides development, commissions and full production for 15-18 artists over one-to-three years. HERE is located at 145 Sixth Avenue, one block below Spring Street. For more info, http://visit www.here.org.
Kristin Marting is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of HERE and a director of hybrid work based in NYC. At HERE, she cultivates artists and programs all events for two performance spaces for an annual audience of 30,000. Under her leadership, HERE has garnered 16 OBIE awards, 2 OBIE grants for artistic achievement, an Edwin Booth Award, five Drama Desk nominations, two Berrilla Kerr Awards, four NY Innovative Theatre Awards and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. She was recently named a nytheatre.com Person of the Year and honored with a BAX10 Award. She lectures at various universities and serves on grant panels for various agencies. She graduated from NYU with honors in 1988.
Kim Whitener joined HERE as Producing Director in February 2007. She works in partnership with Artistic Director Kristin Marting to co-curate and co-produce HERE’s performance programs and activities. HERE supports the work of mid-career artists working in hybrid forms through commissions, developmental activities, and fully produced works as part of the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP), and presents Visiting Artist works through its presenting programs. Ms. Whitener has also been an independent producer working with a diverse range of artists in the contemporary theater, dance-theater, and multi-media worlds, including The Builders Association, Big Dance Theater, Martha Clarke, among others. Previously, Ms. Whitener was Managing Director of The Wooster Group.
Tanya Selvaratnam is a producer, writer, theater artist, and activist. Since 2008, she has also been the Communications and Special Projects Officer for the Rubell Family Collection. Recent film productions include Mickalene Thomas’s HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, Catherine Gund’s WHAT’S ON YOUR PLATE?, Chiara Clemente’s OUR CITY DREAMS and the Webby Award-winning BEGINNINGS. As a theater artist, Tanya has performed around the world in shows by The Wooster Group, The Builders Association, Jay Scheib and many others; appeared in films and video installations by Carrie Mae Weems, John Malpede, Sharon Hayes, Andrea Geyer, David Michalek, and Jennifer Reeves; been a fellow at Yaddo and Blue Mountain Center; and a guest actor at New Dramatists, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Voice & Vision Theater, and the Institute on Arts and Civic Dialogue. As an activist, she has worked with the World Health Organization, Ms. Foundation, NGO Forum on Women, Third Wave Foundation, and Groundswell Community Mural Project. Her book, THE BIG LIE, is forthcoming from Prometheus Books in Winter 2014. about.me/tselvar
contact: tanya@here.org
Chiara Clemente is a film director who explores identity, cultural contrast, and the creative process. In 2000 she directed her first art documentary for RAI in Italy. Chiara continued to film and collaborate with artists, and in 2005, she started making her first feature documentary, Our City Dreams, following five women artists (Nancy Spero, Marina Abramovic, Kiki Smith, Ghada Amer and Swoon) who live and work in New York City. Critically-acclaimed, Our City Dreams premiered at New York City’s Film Forum in February 2009, screened in more than 30 cities worldwide, and was broadcast on the Sundance Channel. Since making her feature Chiara has directed for Saatchi and Saatchi, T Magazine of The New York Times, Levi’s, Apple, Wieden + Kennedy and Persol. Most recently she has created and directed two seasons of Beginnings, an original short film series for the Sundance Channel, which won a Webby Award in 2012. www.chiaraclemente.com
Russell Greene is a New York film editor of seven feature films as well as numerous commercials, short films and promotional videos. His most recent films include Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (Venice Film Festival and SXSW) and Ordinary Miracles: New York’s Photo League. In addition to editing, he also wrote and directed the short film Easy Street, winner of six awards for Best Short Film on the 2012 festival circuit. He served as First Assistant Editor on several additional films including the Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning The Betrayal and the Sundance Award-winning Patti Smith: Dream of Life. He is currently editing a feature doc on the legendary Coney Island restaurant Nathan’s Famous. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.
Heather Greene is a New York-based producer that works in Feature and Documentary Film, Television, and Live Events. She has been a part of numerous and varied projects such as the live shows and film projects of Fischerspooner and Vanessa Beecroft, Vice’s “Guide To Travel”, the television series "How's Your News?”, the Sundance web series "Beginnings", and documentary features “Of All The Things” and “What’s On Your Plate?” to name just a few. Heather lives with her husband and two sons in Brooklyn, NY.
Karina is a New York-based producer and filmmaker, whose projects include an original web series, an interactive online documentary series, promos, how-to videos, and event videography. She has produced, shot, and edited videos for Howcast.com, Downtown Community Television, 13 Playwrights Inc., EmcArts, art.party.theater.company, and is the Associate Producer of "Flag Football," a feature documentary about the journey of four teams in the National Gay Flag Football League to Gay Bowl X. Currently, Karina is the Online Cultural Producer at EmcArts, Inc. Prior to joining EmcArts, she was a producer for Season One of the documentary series "MADE HERE: Performing Artists on Work and Life" for HERE, where she also served as General Manager/Associate Producer from 2008 to 2011. Prior to HERE, Karina served as General Manager for 13 Playwrights, Inc., Management Associate for Liz McCann/Tony Awards Productions, and Producing Assistant for Carole Shorenstein Hays Productions. Karina has an MFA in Theater Management and Producing from Columbia University, where she wrote her thesis on the strategic use of online tools and technologies for arts organizations. She holds a BA from Harvard College.
SEASONS THREE AND FOUR ONLY
Camera: Omar Mullick
Assistant Camera: Jorge Arzac
Sound Mixer: Richard Levengood, Joshua Tucker, Coleman Wenner
Assistant Editor: Erin Taylor Kennedy
Trailer and Graphics: Alex Meillier and Tanya Ager Meillier
Website Manager: Trevor Martin
Research & Outreach Associate: Kelsey Ryan
Theme Song: Sxip Shirey
SEASON TWO ONLY
Assistant Producer: Erin Taylor Kennedy
Camera: Frank Stanley
Sound Mixer: David Pruger, Jarett Livingston
Assistant Editor: Erin Taylor Kennedy
Website Manager: Matthew de Leon
Research & Outreach Associate: Cassie Wagler
Theme Song: Reggie Watts
Additional Music: Moby
SEASON ONE ONLY
Camera: Miklos Buk, Theo Stanley
Sound Mixer: David Pruger, Michael Reilly, Christopher Reifeiss
Assistant Editor: Cat Tyc, Kelly Bray
Production Interns: Debby Brand, Brian Bauman
Theme Song: Reggie Watts
Additional Music: Moby
Art Direction & Design
Open
New York, NY
Design & Production
Rich Watts
Brooklyn, NY
SEASON THREE: Joey Arias, Arthur Aviles, Eisa Davis, Mohammed Fairouz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill T Jones, Cherry Jones, Mia Katigbak, Lisa Kron, Ethan Lipton, Carolina Penafiel, Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Sxip Shirey, Elizabeth Streb, Clyde Vanletin, Reggie Watts
SEASON TWO: Jen Abrams, Kahlil Almustafa, Thomas Bradshaw, John Collins, Brendan Coyle, Amanda Curtis, Dana Edell, Oskar Eustis, Miguel Gutierrez, Joan Jonas, Aaron Landsman, Elizabeth LeCompte, Young Jean Lee, Kate D. Levin, Sheila Lewandowski, Abby Marcus, Qui Nguyen, Brian Rogers, Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, Steven Sapp, Betty Shamieh, Black-Eyed Susan, Chandra Thomas, Basil Twist, Kate Valk, Reggie Watts, Natasha Williams, Caroline Woolard
SEASON ONE: Moe Angelos, Arthur Aviles, Jess Barbagallo, Anne Bogart, Wally Cardona, Hai-Ting Chinn, Ping Chong, Gabri Christa, Chinese Theatre Works, Toni Dove, Yehuda Duenyas, James Tigger! Ferguson, Kuang-Yu Fong, Ximena Garnica, Roselee Goldberg, Ain Gordon, David Gordon, Miranda Hardy, Mikéah Ernest Jennings, Melanie Joseph, Ben Kerrick, Mari Kimura, Peter Ksander, Taylor Mac, Kristin Marting, Jennifer Miller, Paul D. Miller, Shige Moriya, Julie Atlas Muz, Erin Orr, Vernon Reid, Laine Rettmer, Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Rokafella, Elizabeth Streb, Valda Setterfield, Xiaojun Song, Charlie Todd, Kate Valk, Marianne Weems, Jennifer Wright Cook, Ying Zhang
A.R.T./New York
Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
Brooklyn Arts Council
Brooklyn Arts Exchange
The Chocolate Factory
Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island
The Field
Harlem Arts Alliance
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
New York Theater Workshop
Joe's Pub
Queens Council on the Arts
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
Anne Bogart
Thomas Bradshaw
Una Chaudhuri
Boo Froebel
Elinor Fuchs
Roselee Goldberg
Frank Hentschker
Jay Scheib
Mac Wellman
MADE HERE needs your support so we can continue capturing the lives of performing artists. Every donation helps us expand the project to more issues, episodes, artists, contributors, and audiences.
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MADE HERE is supported by a 2009 Rockefeller Cultural Innovation Fund award.
For the final issue of Season One, MADE HERE addresses the various applications and impacts of technology in the performing arts. Some artists have figured out particularly innovative ways to use technology in their performances. Some have been able to replace their office or even rehearsal room or stage because of technology. And opinion is split about whether technology, both onstage and online, has been a good or bad thing when it comes to audience attention span.
The three episodes for this issue are: Onstage, Online, and Audience.
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Tell us a story about how technology has made your work easier, or harder. Show us a gadget that you like to use, either at home or in your creative work.
Submit a resourceTechnology has dramatically transformed the way we communicate, socialize, and participate. In the age of digital video, social media, and more, these artists are wrestling with the inescapable effect of technology on how to tell compelling stories about the human experience.
The Guardian Blog takes on the use of technology within performances and discusses the various projects investigating those uses.
Recording Staged Works for All the World to SeeNew York Times article about Ontheboards.tv and the digital recording of the performing arts.
The existing Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting has joined with NYC Media to create single entity that will also perform citywide digital coordination functions as the use of social media becomes more prevalent.
Dancing into a New DimensionWill 3D filming bring the performing arts into movie theaters and homes? This article looks at European companies filming opera, dance and theater.
Theatre: Wake Up to the Digital Age!The Guardian Blog looks at theatre and social media, advocating for more theaters to join the digital age. Be sure to read the comments as well.
Ground Control to TheatregoersA New Zealand production uses technology to provide the audience with an interactive experience where they are mission control during an American space flight.
All the World’s A Digital StageA look at UK theaters and the work they are doing with technology and digital innovation.
DPI is a laboratory assisting artists in developing new dialogues between technology and performance.
EyebeamEyebeam is an art and technology center located in Chelsea. They provide a fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital research and experimentation. They offer residencies and fellowships for artists and technologists working in a wide range of media.
Theatre Communication Group provides teleconferences to their members with audio transcripts available to the public. A number of the teleconferences have focused on using social media.
3LD Art and Technology CenterThe 3-Legged Dog Art and Technology Center is a community-oriented and artist-run production development studio used to create large-scale experimental artworks of all kinds.
Ontheboards.tvThe site offers high-quality videos of full-length performances from provocative artists filmed at On The Boards theater in Seattle.
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center: RensselaerThe New York Times called EMPAC a “technological pleasure dome fore the mind and senses…dedicated to the marriage of art and science as it has never been before.” Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC encourages creative exploration among arts and sciences.
The United States Institute for Theatre TechnologyUSITT connects performing arts design and technology communities to ensure a vibrant dialogue among practitioners, educators, and students.
HarvestworksHarevestworks is a digital media arts center that supports the creation and presentation of artworks achieved through the use of new and evolving technologies. They assist with commissions and residencies, production services, education and information programs, and the presentation and distribution of work.
The Presence Project CollaboratoryAn international research project that examines the notions of presence in performance and technology.
TurbulenceTurbulence has commissioned, exhibited and promoted artistic work using networking technologies. On the Networked Performance blog they explore the shifting paradigms in performative cultural practice.
Experimental Television CenterThis center located in the central Southern Tier of New York provides residencies and grants that support work in media arts.
Arts & Science Collaborations, Inc.One of the first art-sci-tech member organizations it serves as a network and resource tool for those working at the intersection of art, science and technology.
@ The Aesthetic Technologies LabBased out of Ohio University, the @Lab provides tools and resources to promote creative inquiry into the intersection of technology development and fine arts practice.
RhizomeAffiliated with the New Museum, Rhizome provides public programming and an interactive website dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology.
Electronic Arts IntermixEAI is a leading international resource for video and media art. Their extensive catalogue is available for research and study by appointment at their Chelsea based headquarters.
Information on how to check, track, calculate and analyze the impact of your social media plan.
Technology in the ArtsManaged by the Center for Arts Management and Technology at Carnegie Mellon, this website, blog, workshop and podcast series focuses on the intersection of technology and the arts.
This study from The Rockefeller Foundation and the Global Business Network looks at different scenarios for the future of technology and development and how it could challenge and change the world.
Watershed Innovation & ResearchBased in the UK, Watershed has explored numerous projects looking at the potential of culture and technology all of which have been documented on their website.
Audiences Thirst for ‘Digital Theatre’Recent UK research from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, looks at the audience’s response to seeing a live broadcast of a theater production.
UC Berkeley Art, Technology, and Culture ColloquiumAn annual forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about technology and culture. The site contains abstracts for all speakers since 1997.
In Media Res: Why Multimedia PerformanceFrom the Performing Arts Journal, a transcript of a 2007 conversation with Alex Timbers, Brooke O’Harra, and Eric Dyer about why they use media in their artistic work.
V2_ PublishingThe publishing arm of the Rotterdam art and media technology center V2_ has a diverse catalogue of books about art, new media and media theory.
Society for Arts and Technology [Metalab]Located in Montréal, the SAT[Metalab] is a research laboratory developing software and hardware that assists in the creation and diffusion of digital culture. Current projects include research on telepresence and immersion.
BEK: Bergen Center for Electronic ArtsLocated in Norwary, this center for arts and new technology has international collaborations and artistic and scientific research available on their website.
ARS ElectronicaLocated in Germany, Ars Electronica has been exploring the digital and new media art since 1979. Their website contains an extensive archive of digital media art from their founding.
Contemporary PerformanceAn online resource for artists, scholars and audiences interested in the hybrid performance works and artists that travel between the fields of Experimental Theatre & Dance, Video Art, Visual Art, Music Composition and Performance art without adhering to one specific field’s practice.
Dance-TechA social networking website connecting people interested in innovation, creative processes, collaborations and the impact of new media technology and interdisciplinary approaches on the performance of movement and life.
TroikaTronixKnown for their award-winning real-time media manipulation software TroikaTronix has created other live performance tools to download for use by artists, video designers, scenographers and VJs.
ITP at TischThe Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch is a graduate program dedicated to creativity and critical thinking applied to new technologies.
MFA in New Media Art and PerformanceThis program, located at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University, gives students the opportunity to engage with new media and the arts. Coursework is focused on the development of new works for the stage, screen, gallery, public space and the web.
Performance & Interactive Media ArtsBrooklyn College offers both an MFA and an Advanced Certificate in Performance & Interactive Media Arts. Both cutting-edge programs explore collaborative, experimental, and transdisciplinary artistic production. Be sure to also join their online discussion group for information on interactivity, performance and digital media around the world!
MA in Media Studies at The New SchoolThe New School offers an MA in media studies that has its students both creating and studying media. Their diverse program offers many areas of study allowing their students to pick an interdisciplinary program that suits them.
Made Here project is a fantastic way of creating a community and supporting inspiring infrastructure for NYC Artists, as well as educating other artists, students and academics outwith the city. Genius! This is a great resource I have emailed the info out to all my students. Fantastic!
I just wanted to say that I have been glued to the website for MADE HERE this past hour. It’s a truly inspiring documentary and fascinating to watch. This work creates an important legacy of what is happening right now and it is a gift to the community. Congratulations to you all.
I really enjoyed the videos, lovely work, witty and funny and I can’t wait to see more.
Congrats on Made Here! It’s really great and fantastically well filmed/produced. I can see that once all of these films are made it will make a more than compelling case for the importance of artists in this city…and why they should be better supported forever!
I love this. well made. important. thanks for adding to the conversation!
I saw the first episode today. It’s sooo good!! It’s really exciting to see such an intelligent and well conceived documentary series on NYC theater artists. And I love the theme song.
Great stuff!
Amazing website with the kind of support I need. Keep going guys!!
Thanks for providing a great platform to all artists! All artists face the same basic problems at some point in their career and this website offers valuable advice on balancing a family, finding a space and working in a crap-job in order to supplement your income. Thanks!
very cool….grazie!!!
Love it! Thank you for such these awesome conversations. After years in New York, I’m working on a specific set of projects in solitude in Chicago, where the pressure to make rent is a little less intense. I’m looking forward to coming back to the city soon, though! There’s nowhere like New York.
Check out this essay about the history of the plot of land on which the Ohio Theatre stands and also discusses the relationship between artists and real estate developers:
Re-examining the Soho Effect
From a freed slave to a theater company; how the poor and creative made 64-68 Wooster Street more valuable.
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Thank you!!
Baadaass!
oooooh! I do not even know how I got here, but this is GREAT! I am a theatre loving
Architect and this is site is built beautifully. THank you.
Thank GOD you’re taking on this task of generating dialogue about what it MEANS to be an artist and how to make it happen on the daily. This particular segment brings together some amazing voices of artists struggling (successfully) to remain relevant in the avant garde arts world while also engaging in community-building, political activism, race & class at the same time. As perfomer-turned-community organizer, I would love to see more in depth investigation into how artists define their activism, the communities they collaborate with, and the concrete effects they wish to have. I would also like to hear more from artist-activists working on the ground in marginalized communities. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! AND KEEP PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES!