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and Audiences in the Information Age Stoppiello, a 2004 recipient of the Princess Grace Foundation’s Statue Award, lives in Portland, OR where she has been presenting works through her Salon du Garage a site-specific series for experimentation in close-up, informal, improvisational, participatory performance making. Mark Coniglio, the 2012 winner of the World Technology Award lives in Berlin, Germany where he continues to pioneer in the field of interactive live performance with the development of his critically acclaimed software Isadora®. From these two bases, and many places in between, Troika Ranch builds upon a ‘body of work’ that fosters many points of contact with the public - through collaborative, multi-media performances, installations and films; annual intensive workshops on live-media collaboration; and with publications and lectures on live-media performance. Still in-progress, Troika Ranch’s SWARM will be an immersive, multimedia installation/performance in which the movements of the audience — not as individuals, but as a community — allow them to collaboratively compose the sonic score, visual materials, theatrical lighting, and the actions of the performers themselves. The crux of SWARM is that only through coordination, conversation, and collective action can the audience — the “swarm” — reveal the fullest and most complete dramatic arc of the piece. Because audience action drives the artistic expression in SWARM, they are required participants during the development of the piece. In this way every rehearsal is in fact also a performance. Glynn Washington - Host & Executive Producer, Snap Judgment. Before creating the Snap Judgment radio show, Glynn worked as an educator, diplomat, community activist, actor, political strategist, fist-shaker, mountainhollerer, and foot stomper. Glynn composed music for the Kunst Stoff dance performances in San Francisco, rocked live spoken word poetry in Detroit, joined a band in Indonesia, wrote several screenplays, painted a daring series of self portraits, released a blues album, and thinks his stories are best served with cocktails. Snap Judgment is a themed, weekly NPR storytelling