name: Mark Polishook

java.net id: polishoo

email: polishoo@cwu.edu

Mark Polishook is a composer, a new media artist, and an arts and educational technology specialist with interests in robotics, programming, digital audio, and improvised behavior, aka jazz. He currently is a co-Community Leader (with Bruce Boyes and Darrin Hanna) for the new Java Robotics community.

From September, 2003 to August, 2004, Mark Polishook was composer-in-residence in the computer science department at Aarhus University (Denmark). His Robots-in-Residence project, completed during that period, placed 3rd in the installation category in the 2004 31st Electro-acoustic Music Competition in Bourges, France. Robots-in-Residence has been seen in Denmark, Poland, and will be featured in the fall of 2005 in Pescara, Italy.

Mark Polishook has presented lectures and workshops on programming as an interface for composing (music) in England, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and in the the U.S., most recently through the medium of internet chat with students and faculty at Penn State University.

From 1997 through the spring of 2005, Mark Polishook directed the Music Composition program at Central Washington University (Ellensburg, Wa). A case study Mark Polishook wrote about a 2001/02 Handheld Composing project he directed at CWU using PDAs as composing assistants will appear in Mobile Learning - http://iet.open.ac.uk/pp/a.m.kukulska-hulme/aboutmobilebook.html - soon to be published (August, 2005) by Routledge Press, UK. The Handheld Composing project, literally and uniquely, went from the classroom to the Super Bowl. In the winter of 2004, Palm One produced a commercial - http://www.cwu.edu/~polishoo/media/palm/ - based on the Handheld Composing project.

As of summer, 2005, Mark will reside in the NJ/NYC area where he'll be pursuing adventure and opportunity in the realm of new media.

More:

http://robots.music.cwu.edu - Robots-in-Residence

http://www.cwu.edu/~polishoo

http://www.cwu.edu/~relation/pr-jan29-04.html - Handheld Composing Super Bowl commercial

Video:

http://robots.music.cwu.edu/media/Rob-in-Res.html - Robots-in-Residence video

http://www.cwu.edu/~polishoo/media/palm/ - Super Bowl Commercial (video only)

Audio (excerpts from Gaussian Noise):

http://www.cwu.edu/~polishoo/media/music/Gaussian_Noise/Gaussian_Noise_1.mp3

http://www.cwu.edu/~polishoo/media/music/Gaussian_Noise/Gaussian_Noise_2.mp3

http://www.cwu.edu/~polishoo/media/music/Gaussian_Noise/Gaussian_Noise_3.mp3

Collaborative skills: Excellent

This, that:

http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Computer-Music-Journal/reviews/27-4/polishook-kobe.html - a review of the Kobe dsp off summer school on robots and music