The 2014 Birke Fine Arts Festival brochure

Dan Senn is an intermedia artist in the fluxus tradition working in music composition, kinetic sound sculpture, experimental and documentary film. In the 1980s and 90s he was a professor of music and art in the United States and Australia. Dan travels internationally as a lecturer, performer and installation artist and lives in Prague, Czech Republic, where he directs the Echofluxx festivals, and in Watertown, Wisconsin, the USA, with his partnercollaborator, Caroline Senn. His music is published

by Smith Publications of Baltimore. Dan founded Newsense-Intermedium of Tacoma, Washington, and cofounded Roulette Intermedium of New York City. He is currently artistic director of Efemera of Prague.

Alex Braidwood & Meredith Lynn Morrison

Meredith works with paint. Alex works with sound. When they collaborate, the resulting projects explore the relationships between the visible and the heard at the intersection of nature and the built environment.

Alex Braidwood is a media artist and design educator who maintains a practice centered around a process of play, experimentation and research through making. Alex’s current work explores the relationship between people and the noise in their environment. Currently, Alex is Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and a faculty member of the Human Computer Interaction Graduate Program at Iowa State University.

Meredith Lynn Morrison is an artist, designer and educator who earned her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Meredith’s practice is devoted to the study of how land is formed and the natural processes that shape it. Meredith also serves as Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Drake University.

Lindsey Goodman is known for her “generous warmth of tone and a fluid virtuosity” (Charleston Gazette), and for her “impressive artistry” (Tribune-Review), “agility, and emotion” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). Renowned for her “brilliant”, “bravura performances” (Tribune-Review), Ms. Goodman is in high demand as a soloist, chamber collaborator, orchestral musician, teacher, and clinician.

An avid performer of new music, “flutist Lindsey Goodman appears to know no fear in tackling the most demanding music” (Tribune-Review). A strong advocate for emerging composers and electroacoustic or multimedia works, Lindsey is an active commissioner of new pieces and has given over fifty world premieres, including seventeen solo and chamber compositions written especially for her. Goodman is principle flautist for the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and is in her twelfth season as solo flutist of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.