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THE
PEOPLE BEHIND ALL THIS
Click on a name to learn more about each member.
STEVE
GAEDE | PAUL GIALLORENZO
DAVIS KRIEG |
SAM LEWIS | DAN SCHWARZLOSE
Inactive Directors / Founders
MICHAEL ARMSTRONG | STEFAN GRACE | MARK ROCHON
DAN SCHWARZLOSE
Dan Schwarzlose is a multimedia artist, musician, and educator.
Dan’s artistic interests include edible books, synesthesia,
culinary videography, and multi-sensory installations and performances.
A classically-trained trumpet player, he also explores relationships
between sight and sound with Wiretap Wednesday, an experimental
band that improvises to short films and videos. To Dan, multi-sensorial
art is uniquely rich and visceral, and perfectly matched to his
interdisciplinary approach as an artist.
As Media Artist for Moto Restaurant, Dan collaborates with world-renowned
chef Homaro Cantu to film, edit, and produce videos that showcase
Moto’s surreal cuisine; these videos have been presented and
distributed in countries around the world. Dan also conceives and
hosts multi-disciplinary artist dinner parties at Moto, including
a color-themed meal that fused food and music, and a multidisciplinary
reinterpretation of the seminal Futurist Cookbook (1932). With chef
Cantu and Moto’s pastry chef, Ben Roche, Dan created an edible
book of Salvador Dalí’s Diary of a Genius, which quotes
food references from Dalí’s diary and flavors pages
with tastes such as champagne, cheese, lobster, jasmine rice, and
coffee. Dan enjoys using edible books, poems, and cartoons as educational
tools with children who “don’t like to” read or write.
Even these children enjoy books when they get to write them, illustrate
them, choose flavors for each page, and eat them.
Since 1998, Dan has co-directed Elastic Revolution Productions (ERP)
and the Elastic Arts Foundation (EAF). He has also worked at the
Public Interest Law Initiative since 2002. Dan earned his B.A. in
English from Northwestern University, and an M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary
Arts & Media from Columbia College. He currently co-curates
the Elastic Vision Gallery with fellow artists Clover Morell and
Elizabeth Czekner.
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