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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 currently working in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Dan’s artistic interests include Cambodian traditional music preservation, 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-sensory art is uniquely rich and visceral, and perfectly matched to his interdisciplinary approach as an artist.
Since 2004,, Dan has collaborated with world-renowned chef Homaro Cantu (Moto Restaurant, Chicago www.motorestaurant.com) 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 has also conceived and hosted several 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 including 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. All children enjoy books if 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). Dan earned his B.A. in English from Northwestern University, and an M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts & Media from Columbia College. He currently works on several Cambodian arts preservation projects in Phnom Penh.
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