Project::Description

echo::system is a response to our current global crisis caused by contemporary human inability to reflect upon our own impact on the natural world. echo::system is a project conceived as a series of five, large-scale, multi-media environments constructed for both live performance and interactive installation. Each environment corresponds to a natural habitat: #1Abyss, #2Desert, #3Forest, #4Prairie and #5Volcano. Collectively these are known as "ActionStations", each parallels a natural environment in our world and are developed with altered histories, timescales, and ecological protocol. In a tradition of speculative fiction, the project creates alternative environments to promote reflection, upon how and where we live - past, present and future.

The project, lead by Grisha Coleman and a collaborative team of artists, technologists and researchers works with experts in dance, archeology, computer science, environmental humanities, design, music, media, and architecture, creating live media performance spaces that explore socio-cultural and ecological aspects of our environment.

The development of this work has been made possible with generous support from:
The Jerome Foundation, Cynthia Gehirg
National Performance Network - Creation Fund
The Banff Center the Arts - New Media Institute, Sarah Diamond
New World Theater @ Amherst University, Talvin Wilks
On The Boards, Lane Chaplinski
Beall Center for Art and Technology @UCIrvine, Indi McCarthy
California Institute of the Arts
New York Foundation for the Arts
The Studio for Creative Inquiry - Carnegie Mellon University, Margaret Myers
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
MultiCultural Arts Initiative
The Heinz Endowments
Creative Capital Foundation
MultiArts Production Fund
Eyebeam Residency Program
Grisha Coleman is a member of the PennPat roster

ASU Art Museum and The School of Arts Media and Engineering.
Other ASU partners include:
Institute for Humanities Research (IHR)
Global Institute of Sustainability [GIOS]
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts (HIDA)
Local community partners and advisors include:
Desert Botanical Garden
and Southwest Environmental Consultants (SWCA)