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Aileen Adler

Multi-Arts; Performing Arts: Actor, Musician, Vocalist; Visual Arts: Film, Performance Art, Sculpture

Living in Austin for 25+ years (via Philadelphia), Aileen Adler has developed deep roots in the local performance and creative community. Being a multidisciplinarian has led her on many creative adventures and experiences. From music to metalwork, seeing creativity without limitations. Aileen Adler has been playing and performing the Theremin, the world’s first electronic instrument, for over 20 years. Invented in 1920 by Russian physicist Lev Sergeyevich Termen (or Leon Theremin), the Theremin produces many tones and dynamics, from the vocal effects of a singer to the sounds of a violin. Because the Theremin performer manipulates electromagnetic fields to create sound, never touching the instrument, performance is as fascinating for live audiences to watch as to hear. Trained as a violinist and as a vocalist, Adler strives to present the Theremin as a diverse and viable musical instrument, adapting its “other worldly” sound to many styles of music including classical, jazz, progressive rock, experimental, world music, and beyond. With her current band, Temple of Ape Collective, she spans limitless genres, with a touch of psychedelia. She has delighted audiences with her magical musical experimental voyages, from performing with the Austin Cinematic Symphony to performing at festivals and lecturing on the technology and history of the Theremin.

Heather Coffey

Multi-Arts; Performing Arts: Actor, Dancer, Musician, Storyteller; Visual Arts: Crafts, Film, Performance Art

Heather Coffey is the Producer of Tiny Black Hearts, an organization of Austin locals committed to spreading their own flavor of theater and performance art to the community.

Anne Heller

Media; Performing Arts: Actor, Dancer, Musician; Visual Arts: Film, New Media/Technology, Painting, Performance Art

Anne Heller is a musician (guitar, drums and theremin), dancer and aerialist, writer, videographer, filmmaker and painter. She aims to utilize all her skills (or as many as possible) in any project she tackles. Heller has been an artist her whole life, from the experimental rock/jazz bands and collectives she has participated in and created over the past 20 years, to the short horror and comedy films created for 48 hour film fests over the past 15 years, to her annual 3-day experimental music fest now in its 18th year, to the aerialist feats she performs daily in front of audiences. I have concentrated on improvisational skills as she feel it’s a more genuine method of communication, verbally, non-verbally and through sound. She plays guitar, drums and theremin in 5 separate bands. Heller is known for her unusual theremin style where she concentrates her sounds in the lower register using the theremin as a bass instrument instead of a melodic one (though she does that, too). Heller has always been interested in healing the planet and those upon it through her art, my music and actions as a whole. She wants to create an equilibrium with my art and music.

Michael Mendoza

Graphic Arts; Media; Multi-Arts; Performing Arts: Spoken Word, Storyteller; Visual Arts: Film, Mixed Media, Murals, New Media/Technology, Photography; Augmented Reality, Digital Installations

I work with curators to help share historical content through the new medium of location-based augmented reality. “Voces in AR” features WWII Mexican American Veteran content from the University of Texas’ Voces Oral History Project. Additionally, I’m working on a project featuring Comanche Chief Quanah Parker and building a relationship with the Quanah Parker family as I collect their historical content in digital form. I’ve been a featured speaker for social media groups, public groups and I regularly reported breaking news as a lead reporter at KUT, KVUE and KRGV-TV. The McCombs Business School has invited me to guest lecture multiple times on the use of geo-rich social media data for intelligence and real-time engagement efforts.

Karen Skloss

Visual Arts: Film

Karen Skloss is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has been shown on HBO, at NYC’s MOMA, in wide theatrical release, and in film festivals internationally. “Sunshine,” her first documentary feature as director, premiered at the SXSW film festival and was nationally broadcast on PBS’s Emmy Award winning series, Independent Lens. Skloss’ work as an editor includes the celebrated documentary, “Be Here to Love Me: The Story of Townes Van Zandt” (dir. Margaret Brown) as well as, “Taken by Storm” (dir. Roddy Bogawa), which outlines the storied career of Hipgnosis album artist Storm Thorgerson. She has edited several other documentary features as well as shows for Jerry Bruckheimer Television, A&E, Discovery, TLC and TNT. She is also the drummer for the band, Moving Panoramas. Karen began her career in film as an actress playing Odile in the feature film “Odile and Yvette at the Edge of the World,” which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1995. “The Honor Farm” is her first narrative feature and a loose follow up to her narrative short, “Smitten” which premiered at The Rotterdam International Film Festival and was distributed through Hart Sharp Video.

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