Helen Thorington

Helen Thorington is Co-Director of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (aka Ether-Ore), and the founder and producer of New American Radio and Turbulence.

Thorington is an award winning writer, sound composer, and radio producer whose documentary, dramatic, and sound/music compositions have been aired nationally and internationally for the past twenty years. In September 2003, she performed with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at The Kitchen, New York. Thorington has also created compositions for film and installation that have been premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, the Whitney Biennial, and in the Whitney Museum of Americna Arts' annual performance series.

Thorington has produced three narrative works for the web including Solitaire, which combines game and storytelling; and she has played a principal artistic role in the cutting-edge net work Adrift most recently presented as a performance and installation at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. She is also a seasoned speaker on radio and net art. Visit her web site!
Jo-Anne Green
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Jo-Anne Green has been Co-Director of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. since 2002. NRPA is world renowned for Turbulence.org, Networked_Performance, Networked_Music_Review, Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art), Mixed Realities, New American Radio and Upgrade! Boston.

Green has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Emerson College, Boston; and the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

After graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand with a BFA Honors in Printmaking and Art History, she emigrated to the United States in 1983. While studying for her MFA at UMASS Dartmouth, she volunteered for a Fund for a Free South Africa (FreeSA) from 1985 to 1992, where she co-founded Cultural Resistance to educate the American public about Apartheid.

In 1999, Green was instrumental in starting the artist-in-residence program at the University of New Mexico's High Performance Computing Center, which led to the founding of the Art Technology Center (ATC). She was Grants Administrator and, later, Program Coordinator for both the ATC and the Arts of the Americas Institute. She returned to Boston in 2001, and completed her MS in Art Administration at Lesley University in 2003.

Green is also a curator, writer and designer. She has exhibited her paintings, prints, one-of-a-kind artist's books, and installations in Johannesburg, Massachusetts and New York. Visit her website.
Jesse Gilbert
Jesse Gilbert is NRPA’s System Administrator. He is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, computer programmer and software engineer. As a composer Gilbert has developed an extensive body of work centering around aspects of improvisation and cross-disciplinary collaboration, with a focus on networks and experimentation with new media. His work ranges widely from explorations of symbolic systems and abstract scores to large scale Internet-based works involving international ensembles to the construction of software-based algorithmic musical agents interacting on the network.

Gilbert is consistently interested in exploring means of moving beyond the concert hall, engaging listeners in immersive media environments that aim to transform audience members into active participants. He is currently exploring the uses of streaming media feedback structures. Gilbert has received commissions from the Jerome Foundation, the Markle Foundation, Creative Capital, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been a resident at the Banff Centre for the Arts. He has performed widely in the United States and in Europe, and runs a micro-label, Open Ear, due to release several discs in 2002. He is also a founding member of the ensemble Dark Matter.
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