Tim Raphael (Performance Studies) for a performance adaptation of Michael Lesy's book "Wisconsin Death Trip," with graduate and undergraduate students from Performance Studies, Theatre, and CAS.

NU undergraduates (Speech, CAS, Medill) and Street Level Video (Chicago) for an HIV/AIDS video made by two different groups of students, each from a different perspective: urban, African-American/Latina, heterosexual teenage women; and gay Northwestern undergraduates.

Tim Breen (History) and Tom Willis (Music) for seed money for the commissioning, production, and documentation of the creation and performance of a new opera by African-American composer T.J. Anderson, based on research conducted by Tim Breen, on the institution of slavery in Revolutionary Massachusetts.

David Mickenberg (Block Museum), Jerry Goldman (Political Science), and Peter Hayes (History) for "The Last Expression: Art from the Archives of Auschwitz", a web site that will provide a multimedia, interactive environment to understand the role that the arts play in periods of severe cultural constraint.

Mary Zimmerman (Performance Studies), Eric Rosen (Performance Studies), Kyle Hall, About Face Theatre, Chicago) for an adaptation and performance of Proust’s "Remembrances of Things Past."

Marlena Novak (Art Theory and Practice), Michael (Art History), and Frances-Marie Uitti (cellist) for a collaborative venture in light-construction, two-bowed cello and prose poetry.

Annette Barbier (Radio/TV/Film), Sam Ball (Theatre), Peter Webster (Music Academic Studies and Composition), Dave Tolchinsky (Radio/TV/Film) and others for the creation of an interactive CDROM which will explore the various meanings of home.

Robin Lakes (Dance) and John Buccheri (Music Academic Studies and Composition) for a project exploring rhythm and time in music and dance.

Derek Goldman (Performance Studies) and Leon Forrest (African-American Studies) for an adaptation and staging of "Divine Days."

Larna MacHutchin, etal. (undergraduate students from Speech, CAS, and Medill) for a film production project about women's representation.

Judy Ledgerwood (Art Theory and Practice) for a student printmaking workshop in response to a poem by Reginald Gibbons (English, poet and editor of TriQuarterly magazine).

Larry Bogad (Performance Studies), working with the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, for a multi-media production of "Haymarket" about the Haymarket Square Confrontation of 1886-87.

Molly Briggs (Art Theory and Practice) and David Daskal (Law School) for "Habitat," a combined art exhibition and performance about the changing nature of human habitat.

Sarah Fraser (Art History) and William Parod (Academic Technologies) to help develop interactive, 3D models of 10^th century Chinese Buddhist cave temples, in collaboration with Fan Jinshi, Dunhuang Research Institute.

Peter Glazer (Performance Studies) for "Heart of Spain," a musical theater piece about the Spanish Civil War, created with Eric Brain Peltoniemi.

Paul Hertz (Information Technologies), with Joe Reitzer (Univ of Illinois) and Marcus Thiebaux (USC) for the creation of "Airplay," an interactive, virtual orchestra.

Gary Kendall (Music Theory and Composition), with Don Valerio Cohaila (Peruvian Shaman), for a 3D Sound Installation of Peruvian Shaman ceremonial songs.

Thomas Simpson (French and Italian) and Melissa Kievman (Theatre) for "Sintesi Teatrali," a bi-lingual performance of Italian Futurist Theatre with students from both CAS and Speech.

Amnon Wolman (Composition Music and Technology), Ursula Oppens (Music Performance), and Rita Dove (poet) for a chamber opera.

Yvonne Welbon (Radio/TV/Film) and Ruth Ellis (community activist) for web site based on the lives of African-American lesbians.

Jonathan Chen (Music Performance Studies) and Dov Scher (School of the Art Institute) for an installation with words and music.

Jean Dunning (Art Theory and Practice), Leslie Dick (Novelist), Hollis Clayson (Art History), and Tania Modleski (feminist and cultural theorist) for a collaborative art book about art and criticism.

Judy Ledgerwood (Art Theory and Practice) and Jason Pickelman (JNL Graphics) to use printing technology to stimulate painting.

Craig Quintero (Performance Studies) and Natsu Onoda (Performance Studies) for a theatrical adaptation of Nasume Soseki's "Ten Nights' Dreams."

CIRA's 1999-2000 Awards—First Cycle

Paul Berliner (Music) with faculty from Music Composition, Performance Studies, and Radio/TV/Film for A Library in Flames, a multimedia performance piece about the plight of musicians during Zimbabwe's war of liberation/civil war and in its aftermath.

Lauren McConnell (Theatre and Drama) with Eric Honour (Music), Ann Boyd (theater director), the Jewish Theatre Ensemble and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, for an adaptation and performance of stories by Serbian writer David Albahari.

Michael Pisaro, (Music), Carrie Boilo (percussionist) and Mauser (Cologne Artist) for Compression/Weiss a 16 day installation/ performance with music, reading and text.

Jennifer Walshe (Music) and Benjamin Meyer (Fadio/TV/Film) for the creation and performance of a piece for live musicians and projected images.

Elisabeth Zapol (American Studies) with Sandra Richards (African American Studies) for the composition and performance of a show based on the life of African American and feminist activist Eva Jefferson Paterson.

Ian Horswill (Computer Science and the Center for Art and Technology) with Annette Barbier (Radio/TV/Film and the Center for Art and Techology), David Mickenberg (Block Museum) and Gary Kendall (Music) for "Portal." Working with students, they will design, construct, and create the first piece of artwork for a computer controlled display system embedded in the doors of the new Block Museum.