Helen Thorington
{{Short description|American artist and writer (1928–2023)}}
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| name = Helen Thorington
| birth_name = Helen Louise Thorington
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|11|16}}
| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|04|13|1928|11|16}}
| death_place = Lincoln, Massachusetts, U.S.
| occupation = Radio artist, sound artist, net artist, writer, founder, producer, director
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Helen Louise Thorington (November 16, 1928 – April 13, 2023) was an American radio artist, composer, performer, net artist and writer.{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Alex |date=2023-06-09 |title=Helen Thorington, Who Brought Sonic Art to the Airwaves, Dies at 94 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/arts/helen-thorington-dead.html |access-date=2024-02-29 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} She was also the founder of New Radio and Performing Arts (1981), a nonprofit organization based in New York City; the founder and executive producer of New American Radio (1987–1998); and the founder and co-director of Turbulence.org (1996–2016).
Thorington began composing in 1974; her first works were aired on National Public Radio on such programs as Options, Voices in the Wind, and All Things Considered. In 1978, she began composing music for dance, collaborating with Bill T. Jones, Arnie Zane, and Lois Welk. She has performed nationally, including at Kennedy Center, Jacob's Pillow, Dance Theatre Workshop, and The Kitchen. Thorington began creating Internet art in the mid-1990s, co-producing several multimedia, hypertext narratives and networked performances that culminated in an installation of the seminal work, Adrift,Paul. Christiane, "Digital Art: Third Edition." Thames & Hudson World of Art, 2015, p.83 at The New Museum in 2001.
Early life and education
Helen Thorington (nickname "Teedy") was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Richard Wainwright Thorington and Katherine Louise (Moffat) Thorington, and sister of Richard W. Thorington Jr.Thorington. Katherine K., Thorington. Ellen M., Thorington. Caroline M., "Obituary: Richard Wainwright Thorington, Jr. (1937–2017)," Journal of Mammalogy, 99(3):741–749, 2018; DOI:10.1093/jmammal/gyy045 She was a graduate of The Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and Wellesley CollegeHelen Thorington, Chief Justice of the Superior Court, Wellesley College, "The Wellesley Legenda 1950" (1950). The Wellesley Legenda. Book 47, p. 26, 120 [http://repository.wellesley.edu/legenda/47] (1950). After graduating with a BA in Biblical History, and attending Union Theological Seminary, New York (1951), Thorington discovered her passion for English literature. She studied English Literature at the University of Minnesota (1956–1958); continued with Special Studies in the English Comic Novel taught by John Bayley (writer), New College, Oxford University, England (1959–1961); and completed coursework for a PhD in English literature at Rutgers University (1965–1967). She compiled the index for Growth and Culture: A Photographic Study of Balinese Childhood by Margaret Mead, and worked as a copy editor at G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Death
Thorington died of complications of Alzheimer's disease on April 13, 2023, at the age of 94.{{cite news|url=https://dtc-wsuv.org/wp/ell/2023/04/16/in-honor-of-helen-thorington/|title=In honor of Helen Thorington|date=April 16, 2023|work=Electronic Literature Lab}}{{cite web|title=Helen Thorington, Who Brought Sonic Art to the Airwaves, Dies at 94|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/arts/helen-thorington-dead.html|last=Williams|first=Alex|work=The New York Times|date=June 9, 2023|access-date=June 10, 2023}}
Career
=Writing=
Thorington wrote and published experimental fiction and art criticism.Thorington. Helen, "Net_Condition and Telemantic Manifesto." ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruh, Germany, 1999 [http://www.zakros.com/manifesto/transformation/transformation_thorington3.html]Thorington. Helen, "Loose Ends/Connections: Interactivity in Networked Space." Style: Style in the Media Age, Volume 33, Number 2, Summer 1999. "Discusses the loose ends and connections of a narrative in a networked space. Details on the book 'North Country' adapted on CD-ROM, the Web and radio; Images of the story; Comparison of the CD-ROM translation with the Internet adaptation; Reasons for the tendency to compare and disparage Web works; Approach of 'Solitaire.'" [http://turbulence.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Style-Journal.pdf] She published short stories and other fiction in the 1970s.{{Cite web |title=Helen Thorington |url=https://creative-capital.org/artists/helen-thorington/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=Creative Capital |language=en}} The Story, which aired on Public Radio in 1979, was published in Chelsea 36 (1977) and Chelsea 38 (1979). Written in 1977, The Author's Story (November 15) was published in Lost Areas by Oil Books, Sugar Run, Pennsylvania. The Longest Story: A Work in Progress for Adding Machine Tape (1975) was published in Sixth Assembling/A Collection of Otherwise Unpublishable Manuscripts, compiled by Henry Korn, Richard Kostelanetz and Mike Metz.Korn. Henry. Kostelanetz. Richard, Metz. Mike, Sixth Assembling/A Collection of Otherwise Unpublishable Manuscripts. Assembling Press, Brooklyn, 1975 [http://www.macba.cat/en/a10435] In February 2021 her essay “[https://direct.mit.edu/pajj/article/43/1%20(127)/30/96028/The-Making-of-American-Radio-Art The Making of American Radio Art]” was published in PAJ (journal) by MIT Press.
Rip on/off (Switzerland) published a collection of Thorington's texts, Il est si difficile de trouver le commencement, in 2017.Thorington. Helen, Il est si difficile de trouver le commencement, Rip on/off, Edité et traduit de l’anglais (américain) par Lionel Bize, Laura Daengeli, Christian Indermuhle, Christine Ritter et Thibault Walter, 2017 [http://www.riponoff.ch/helen-thorington/] Thorington co-authored with Jacki Apple the limited edition artist's book, The Tower in 2015; published in Contemporary Music Review;Thorington. Helen, "Breaking Out: The Trip Back." Routledge, Vol. 24, No. 6, December 2005, pp. 445 – 458Thorington. Helen, "The Networked_Performance Blog." Routledge, Vol. 25, No. 1/2, February/April 2006, pp. 193 – 197 and was commissioned by Tate Modern, London (2008) to write Radio, Art, Life: New Contexts.Thorington. Helen, Radio, Art, Life: New Contexts. Tate Modern, London, UK 2008.[http://www2.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/radio_art_text.shtm] Her essays have been published in several books, including First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game[http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/firstperson/lonliest Thorington. Helen, "On Solitaire"]Wardrip-Fruin. Noah Harrigan. Pat, "First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game." MIT Press, 2004 [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/first-person] and Unsitely Aesthetics - Uncertain Practices In Contemporary Art.{{Cite web |url=http://unsitelyaesthetics.com/the-book/ |title=Miranda. Maria, Errant Bodies Press, 2012 |access-date=2016-05-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315103021/http://unsitelyaesthetics.com/the-book/ |archive-date=2016-03-15 |url-status=dead }}
=Sound Art=
==Radio==
Thorington found her way to sound through her writing. After publishing Adventures at Frog Hollow[http://www.ebay.com/itm/1973-Adventures-at-Frog-Hollow-by-Helen-Thorington-Mimi-Martin-Ghosts-Haunted-/172172008512?hash=item2816405c40:g:PR0AAOSw9uFW9VH1 Helen. Thorington, Martin. Mimi, "Adventures at Frog Hollow." 1973] in 1973, she was invited to produce a musical version for Towanda Performing Arts,"An effort in cooperative theatre, Towanda Performing Arts is made up of Towanda Little Theatre, the Towanda' Musical Society, and the Towanda branch of the Association of University Women. "The Frog Hollow Ghost" is being sponsored by the Mansfield branch of the American Association of University Women." The Evening Times from Sayre, Pennsylvania, November 6, 1973, Page 9 [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/66818827/] Towanda, Pennsylvania. Having no musical experience, she learned how to use an EML 101 Synthesizer and began creating her own compositions, including [https://archive.org/details/helen_thorington/tryingtothink.mp3 Trying to Think] (1974) which influenced such artists as Laurie Anderson and Jacki Apple. Later, she began doing her own Field recordings − bats, oil pumps, trains, parrots, frogs − which she mixed with her synthetic sounds, her own and others' voices, and solo improvisations by musicians such as violinist Aurora Manuel ("Piece for Oil Pump and Violin"); cellist Deidre Murray ("Dracula's Wives"); and accordionist Guy Klucsevek ("North Country").
Thorington described her approach to sound this way: "My focus ... has been on radiophonic space. One of the things that distinguishes the electronic media is the ability to separate sound from its source, to remove environmental sound from its location, vocal sound from a person; to be able to cut, manipulate, and alter it in the creation of another kind of work. I liken this to the science of gene manipulation. We've reduced — or, I as a practicing radio artist, reduce — sound to sound data. I am not concerned that it's music, that it's an environment, that it's voice."Laskin. David, "Sound Advice to Save the Planet: Discussion with David Dunn, Bruce Odland, and Helen Thorington, EAR Magazine [http://new-radio.org/helen/about/soundadvice.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151105000613/http://new-radio.org/helen/about/soundadvice.html|date=2015-11-05}}
In 1979, independent public radio producer Larry Josephson invited Thorington to the Airlie Seminar on the Art of Radio"National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Four "Airlie Seminars" are held in which leaders, creators and advocates discuss and define the values of public radio." 1977-1983 [http://www.airlie.com/about/timeline] in Quantico, Virginia, where she premiered Dream Sequence. National Public Radio (US) purchased it, and it was among the first radio art works broadcast nationally (1977). Thorington was also commissioned by RAI (Italian radio), RNE (Spanish Radio) and ORF (Austrian radio). Her collaborators included Suzan-Lori Parks, Regine Beyer, Shelley Hirsch, Pamela Z, Agnieszka Waligorska and Sarah Montague.
Thorington spoke at international Radio art conferences and served as the Radio Editor for EAR Magazine from 1987 to 1989. She also curated the CD series [http://www.nseq.org/wp-content/files_mf/wn013_014revs70.pdf Radius] which was dedicated to presenting experimental works made for radio broadcast to a wider audience. Her documentaries, dramas, and sound compositions have been aired on radio, internationally, for the past thirty-five years.[http://www.josephinebosma.com/web/node/60 Bosma. Josephine, "Interview with Helen Thorington." April 1998] The New American Radio archive is now in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.
===Selected works===
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- Calling to Mind (2005)
- Liberty and Ellis-Fresh Perspectives (2000)
- Fleeting Encounters (1999)
- Parker's MUD Journal (1997)
- North Country (1996)
- Story Space (1995)
- The Hunt Is On: Reflections on the Human Genome Project (1994)
- Going Between (1993)
- In the Devil's Footsteps (1993)
- Dracula's Wives (1992)
- Loco-motive (1992)
- Recipe for a Lark (1992)
- Creative Tracks: Native American Artists in the '90s (1992)
- Partial Perceptions (1991—92)
- Terra dell'Immaginazione (1990)
- Aphids and Others (1990)
- In the Dark (1990)
- Congruent Appeal (1989)
- One to Win (1989)
- Straight Ahead (1989)
- Fiddling Around (1987)
- Hard City Rock: New York City in Sound (1987)
- Natural Classic (1987)
- Building a Universe, Part 2: Rifts, Absences and Omissions (1987)
- Parrot Talk (1986)
- Building a Universe, Part 1 (1985)
- The American Buffalo (1980)
- The Dream Sequence, Part 1 & 2 (1977)
- Trying to Think (1974)
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==Dance==
Thorington became a participant in the experimental dance scene when she met Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane through the American Dance Asylum (ADA), which they formed with Lois Welk in the late 1970s. After the ADA moved to Binghamton, New York, Thorington created the sound score for Welk's Matrix, which was performed in concert at the Robeson Center (Binghamton)Program Brochure, American Dance Asylum in Concert, October 26 & 27, 1978 and The Warren Street Performance Loft (New York City);Program Flyer, American Dance Asylum, June 5–7, 1981 and The Parking Ramp Dance, which was performed on Henry and Waters Streets' parking ramp, Binghamton.Current Arts, The Press, Binghamton, N.Y. Fri., Sept. 22, 1978, p.15 Her early scores for Jones and Zane included the trilogy Monkey Run Road, Blauvelt Mountain, and Valley Cottage.Dunning. Jennifer, "Dance: Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane's 'Valley Cottage'." The New York Times, April 05, 1981 Two of these works were revived for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's 20th anniversary performances Jowitt. Deborah, "Rendezvous With Nimble Ghosts." The Village Voice, September 16, 2003 [http://www.villagevoice.com/arts/rendezvous-with-nimble-ghosts-7141178] at Jacob's Pillow (MA) and The Kitchen (NY).Kisselgoff. Anna, "A Multilevel Partnership Is Celebrated", The New York Times, September 12, 2003 [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/12/movies/dance-review-a-multilevel-partnership-is-celebrated.html]Baumgartner. Henry, "Bill T. Jones Picks Up the Keys." The New York Theater Wire, 2003 [http://www.nytheatre-wire.com/hb11101t.htm] Thorington created the score for Jones' Echo (1979);Bill T. Jones & Musicians, The Kitchen, NY, March 8 & 10, 1979) Sisyphus (1980);World Premiere, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, September 30, October 1, 1980. The program also included Thorington, Jones and Zane performing Blauveld Mountain and Open Places, a "group work" at the Battery Park Landfill, New York City.Dunning. Jennifer, "Dance: Art on the Beach Offer Bill T. Jones." The New York Times, September 2, 1980 She also collaborated with choreographers Victoria Marks,Smith. Amanda, "High Marks: Victoria Marks at the Ethnic Folk Arts Center." Village Voice, November 1981 Susan Salanger, Peter Anastos, and Julie Wright.
==Live performance==
Thorington performed her compositions live at numerous venues in New York City, including Dance Theatre Workshop, Experimental Intermedia Foundation (EIF), and Roulette.Rockwell. John, "Music: Helen Thorington." The New York Times, April 29, 1984 [https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/29/arts/music-helen-thorington.html] In 1981, an evening was dedicated to three of her works – A Quiet Place, A Short History of Hats, and Good Morning, Good Evening, Where Are You? Conversation #1 – using tape recorder, and acoustic and electronic instruments.Program Brochure and Press Release for Tuesday Music, Dance Theatre Workshop, April 7, 1981. Performers included Dawn Varava, Steve Korell, and Lynn O'Neill. Helen Thorington: An Evening of Music, curated by Phil Niblock at the EIF in 1983, included [https://archive.org/details/helen_thorington/Oil+Pumps.mp3 Oil Pumps] "a new piece for violin and oil pump; and another for cello and rubbed glass."From the promotional flyer for Experimental Intermedia Foundation, May 19, 1983
In 1997, Thorington co-curated the performance series Performing Bodies and Smart MachinesFull text of "Performance on 42nd presents Many: a three-day festival in celebration of the first ten years of Performance on 42nd: June 11–12, 1997." [https://archive.org/stream/performanceon42n6228unse/performanceon42n6228unse_djvu.txt] at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris with Toni Dove and Jeanette Vuocolo.Jeanette Vuocolo was the Founder and Director of Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris (Performance at 42nd Street) [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19970427&id=Jt1GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pfgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1804,5767149&hl=en]
==Video==
Thorington composed sound scores for Barbara Hammer's Optic Nerve,{{Cite web|url=http://www.kow-berlin.info/artists/workgroups/barbara_hammer/6ac97d0b67c96ae44d0cc942f3bb5f9e|title = Kow-berlin.info}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2013/05/barbara-hammer-at-koch-oberhuber-wolff/bh-08/|title = Barbara Hammer at KOW, Berlin}} which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and the Whitney Biennial (1987), and Endangered,{{Cite web|url=http://barbarahammer.com/about/filmography/|title = Barbara Hammer Filmography}} which was shown at the 1989 Whitney Biennial.
==Awards and Commissions==
- Deep Wireless Commission (2004)
- Honourable Recognition, PRIX BOHEMIA RADIO FESTIVAL, Czechoslovakia (2003)
- Winner, AETHER FESTIVAL, KUNM-FM, Albuquerque, New Mexico (2003)
- New York Foundation on the Arts Creative Fellowship Award: Emerging Forms for Digital Art (2001)
- Creative Capital Grant for Adrift (2000)
- Creative Capital Grant for Adrift (1999)
- New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Music Commission (1998)
- Meet the Composer Commissioning Program Award (1997)
- Artist in Residence, Harvestworks, Studio Pass, New York City (1996)
- Meet the Composer Commissioning Program Award (1995)
- New York State Council on the Arts, Individual Artists Award, Media (1995)
- Paul Robeson Fund, Radio Grant (1995)
- Paul Robeson Fund, Radio Grant (1994)
- National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Media Arts Award (1993)
- New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Individual Artists Award, Music Commission (1992)
- Electronic Arts Grants Program of the Experimental Television Center (1992)
- First Prize, MACROPHON, the First International Festival of Radio Art, Poland (1991)
- National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Media Arts Award (1991)
- New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Individual Artists Award, Media (with Jerri Allyn) (1990)
- National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Media Arts Award (1990)
=Not-for-profit=
In July 1981, Thorington founded New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.{{Cite web |title=Wave Farm {{!}} Helen Thorington |url=https://wavefarm.org/ta/archive/artists/g011kb |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=wavefarm.org}} and, with Associate Director Regine Beyer, began soliciting funds from government and private foundations. They secured enough to produce a series of 6 half-hour programs in 1986; 13 works in 1987; and, in 1987, $156,000 from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for a 52-part series. The commissioned works were collectively broadcast as New American RadioMontague. Sarah, "Inebriate of Air: A Short History of Contemporary American Radio Drama." June 8, 1999: "But many more experimental works have found themselves shut out by a system more and more concerned with Arbitron ratings and audience accessibility. In response, a number of independently distributed projects, such as Helen Thorington's and Regine Beyer's New American Radio, evolved." [http://old.airmedia.org/PageInfo.php?PageID=190] (1987–1998), which went on to commission more than 300 works by national and international artists, including Terry Allen, Jacki Apple, Regine Beyer, Roberto Paci Dalò, Diamanda Galás, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Shelley Hirsch, Negativland, Pauline Oliveros, Suzan-Lori Parks, Jon Rose and Gregory Whitehead.{{Cite web |url=http://somewhere.org/NAR/catalog/catalog.htm |title=New American Radio Catalog |access-date=2016-05-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140626093649/http://www.somewhere.org/NAR/catalog/catalog.htm |archive-date=2014-06-26 |url-status=dead }} Thorington also served as executive producer for New American Radio, which was distributed worldwide.{{Cite web |title=Wave Farm {{!}} Helen Thorington |url=https://wavefarm.org/ta/archive/artists/g011kb |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=wavefarm.org}}
In 1996, Thorington cofounded Turbulence.org,Mirapaul. Matthew, "Digital Artists Draw Support From a New Foundation." The New York Times, January 01, 2000. an Internet Art commissioning program and website with co-director Jo-Anne Green. Turbulence commissioned and exhibited more than 369 net art and mixed reality works before it became an archive in 2016.{{Cite web |title=The Turbulence Showcase |url=https://the-next.eliterature.org/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=The NEXT |language=en-us}} Turbulence.org is permanently archived at MEIAC, the Electronic Literature Organization's The NEXT Museum, and the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. In 2018, Turbulence.org was exhibited at The New Art Fest in Lisbon[http://www.patrimoniocultural.gov.pt/pt/agenda/exhibitions/new-art-fest-2018-no-mnac-turbulence/ Information about the project at a patrimoniocultural.gov.pt, a website of the Government of Portugal] and Turbulence: Presentación del archivo digital at Extremadura and Iberoamericano Museum of Contemporary Art (MEIAC) Badajoz, Spain.
=Networked Art=
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Net Art: Thorington created several works for the Internet, among them Solitaire (with Marianne R. Petit and John Neilson), an interactive narrative experiment that invited users to co-author the piece; North Country, Parts 1 and 2,Morrisroe. Julia, "wag, wag, wag." in "Subverting the Market: Artwork on the Web." [https://www.academia.edu/725088/Subverting_the_Market_Artwork_on_the_Web] a hypertext, nonlinear narrative that can be experienced with or without audio accompaniment; and the multi-location, networked performance, Adrift, a cinematic journey across a harbor that included real-time webcam footage, text, 3D graphics, and soundscape. With collaborators Jesse Gilbert and Marek Walczak, Adrift was presented at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (1997); the tenth anniversary celebration of Kunstradio, Vienna; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art,Adrift was part of the Cin-O-Matic exhibition, curated by Michelle Thursz [http://archive.newmuseum.org/index.php/Detail/Occurrence/Show/occurrence_id/382] New York City in 2002, as well as multiple times online. Adrift was supported by a Creative Capital{{cite web |url=http://creative-capital.org/project_contexts/view/192/project:233 |title=Creative Capital |website=creative-capital.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620083758/http://creative-capital.org/project_contexts/view/192/project:233 |archive-date=2010-06-20}} grant.
Networked Performance: After participating in PORT: Navigating Digital Culture,artnetweb, "PORT: Navigating Digital Culture" MIT List Visual Arts Center." 1997 [http://www.artnetweb.com/port/] Thorington, with Jesse Gilbert, produced and performed in multiple networked, musical performances on the web beginning in 1998. Their collaborators included Harvestworks,"FEEDBACK was an Internet Performance Event in collaboration with New Radio and Performing Arts and the Pauline Oliveros Foundation. "Former Harvestworks Artists-In-Residence Shelley Hirsch and Jim Pugliese played live in our lab to a small audience in concert with audio streams from Mills College, played by Pauline Oliveros, Brenda Hutchinson and Maggie Payne. The improvisations were brought together with pre-taped work by Thorington and Scott Rosenberg at the Morton Street Studio in the West Village where they were mixed by Jesse Gilbert before being streamed to the Internet as a real audio stream." [http://www.harvestworks.org/1998-presentations/] the Pauline Oliveros Foundation, and Mills College. Thorington co-founded Networked_PerformanceWith Jo-Anne Green and Michelle Riel. Guest bloggers included Régine Debatty, Michelle Kasprzak, Luís Silva, and Nathaniel Stern [http://archive.turbulence.org/blog] (2004–2016) and Networked_Music_Review[http://archive.turbulence.org/networked_music_review/ With Jo-Anne Green. Guest blogger, Peter Traub] (2007–2016), two research blogs that chronicled network-enabled practice.[http://www.harvestworks.org/1999-presentations/ "Spaces”/The Online Performance Project," 1999] Thorington has lectured internationally, including at the conference Media in Transition 5: Creativity, Ownership and Collaboration in the Digital Age,"Programmable Media and Open Platforms for Creativity and Collaboration" with Michelle Riel [http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit5/subs/MiT5_abstracts.html#rz] Massachusetts Institute for Technology (2007); Digital Arts Weeks,{{Cite web|url=http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/web/DAW07/Front|title = Digital Art Weeks 2007}} Zurich (2007); and the conference Sounding Cultures,{{Cite web |url=http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/images/souding%20cultures%20small.jpg |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-05-10 |archive-date=2014-06-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140616090450/http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/images/souding%20cultures%20small.jpg |url-status=dead }} Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (2011).
=Other=
In 2001, Thorington created the sound for 9_11_01_scapes,A collaboration with Jo-Anne Green. Thorington also wrote the text for this piece [http://sympoietic.net/jo/scapes/index.html] which was included in Magnum Photos online audio/visual essay, "September 11"[http://todayspictures.slate.com/inmotion/essay_sept11/ Magnum in Motion, Magnum Photos, 2002] and The September 11 Digital Archive.[http://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/96087 The September 11 Digital Archive: Saving the Histories of September 11, 2001] The sound score was awarded Winner at the Aether Festival, KUNM-FM, Albuquerque, New Mexico (2003); and Honourable Recognition, Prix Bohemia Radio Festival, Czechoslovakia (2003). Thorington taught numerous courses and workshops, including at Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts; School of Visual Arts, New York University, New York; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Arts Technology Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
References
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External links
- [http://sympoietic.net/helen Personal website]
- [https://archive.org/details/helen_thorington The Internet Archive]
- [http://archive.turbulence.org/adrift/ Adrift (with Jesse Gilbert, Marek Walczak, Martin Wattenberg, and Hal Eager)]
- [http://archive.turbulence.org/Works/solitaire/ Solitaire (with Marianne R. Petit and John Neilson)]
- [http://archive.turbulence.org/Works/Thorington/nc/index.html North Country, Part 1 (with Eric Schefter)]
- [http://archive.turbulence.org/Works/Thorington/nc2/index.html North Country, Part 2]
- [http://somewhere.org New American Radio]
- [http://turbulence.org Turbulence.org]
- [https://www.discogs.com/artist/211885-Helen-Thorington Helen Thorington on Discography]
- [http://www.kunstradio.at/BIOS/thoringtonbio.html Helen Thorington on Kunstradio]
- [http://www.nseq.org/wp-content/files_mf/wn013_014revs.pdf Helen Thorington on Radius]
- [http://pacificaradioarchives.org/subject-tags/thorington-helen Pacifica Radio Archives]
- [https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/real-to-reel Other Minds]
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