Lucia Ruedenberg-Wright Address: 188 2nd Ave, #9 New York, NY 10003 Telephone: 212-254-3551 Fax: 212-254-6175 Email: lucia@lrw.net Homepage: http://lrw.net/~lucia

Education

• M.A. in Dance Education, New York University, 2000
• Ph.D. in Performance Studies, New York University, 1994
• M.A., Gallatin Division, New York University, 1985
• B.A. Sarah Lawrence College, 1978

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Research and Teaching

Special Training

• Yad Vashem, Center for Holocaust Studies, summer 1988
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Yiddish language, 1987
• Languages: German, Yiddish, Hebrew, French

Academic Positions

• Adjunct Faculty in Media Ecology
  NYU School of Education, Dept of Culture and Communication: Impacts of Technology: Culture and Communication on the Internet, spring 1998
  URL: http://lrw.net/impacts

• Research Fellow
  Writing, Play and Performance in Computer-Mediated Communication, a study funded by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation. 1994-1996. I was co-investigator with principle Prf. Brenda Danet, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dept of Communications and Journalism and Dept of Sociology.
  URL: http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msdanet/overview.htm

• Adjunct Faculty
  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dept of Communications and Journalism. Taught Culture and Communication on the Internet, fall 1996

  Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Dept of Education. Taught Introduction to the Internet as a Learning Environment and Tool for Learning: Skills and Issues. As a class, we created the first website for the Department of Education, 1995-97.
  

• Postdoctoral Fellow
  Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Dept of Behavioral Sciences, Beersheva, Israel. I taught a class on Holocaust Memory: Rituals and Ceremonies. I also tutored fellow staff and students on Internet skills and resources, 1994-1995.

• Teaching Assistant
  New York University, Department of Performance Studies: Dance History. 1987-88.

• Graduate Research Assistant
  Arietta Slade, Sarah Lawrence College, Early Childhood Center. 1977.

Related Work Experience

• Administrative Assistant
  American Gathering for Jewish Holocaust Survivors, New York City. 1992-93.

• Oral History Interviewer
  A Living Memorial to the Holocaust: Museum of Jewish Heritage. New York City, Spring, 1990.

• Archive Consultant
  Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization/ American Gathering for Jewish Holocaust Survivors. New York City, 1989-1990.

• Administrative Research Assistant
  Dr. Yael Danieli, Director of the Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children, New York City. 1981-1988.

• Graduate Assistant
  New York University, Department of Performance Studies: Departmental Newsletter, Archives, Events Organizer, Research Assistant in Folklore. 1985-88.

• Editor
  Children's Express (a syndicated column by child reporters), New York City. 1987-1988.

• Administrative Assistant
  Dr. Anni Bergman, Clinical Psychologist, New York City. 1983-85.

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Technology

• Platforms: Mac, DOS, Windows, Unix
• Languages: HTML, CGI, Perl, Shell

• Web Design (http://lrw.net/author.html)
  • Hemispheric Institute: http://hemi.ps.tsoa.nyu.edu
  • Streams On Line: http://sol.tenpennyplayers.org
  • Brandt Wood-Power Design http://lrw.net/brandtwood/
  
  
• Technical Consultant
  http://lrw.net
  My husband Randy Wright and myself are Internet consultants that run a small web hosting business for which I perform webmaster and system administration duties, run mailing lists, support and train clients. 1997-present.

  The Hemispheric Institute, Dept of Performance Studies, NYU. As technical consultants, we designed and implemented a distance learning website for the Insititue, a consortium of artists, scholars, and institutions in the Americas dedicated to exploring the relationship between performance and politics. We also tutor and train staff to maintain the website at NYU, Brazil, and Peru.
  http://hemi.ps.tsoa.nyu.edu

  The Waterways Project/Ten Penny Players, a Community Based Organization that serves highschools in New York City. 1998-present. Created and maintain Streams OnLine, an online literacy tool.
  http://www.tenpennyplayers
  http://sol.tenpennyplayers.org

  Studio in a School
  Trained staff to maintain the website for an art program for the New York City school system. Fall 1998.
  http://studioinaschool.org
  
  Frederick Douglass Literacy Center in Brooklyn
  Taught highschool students with literacy deficiences to build websites. Spring 1998.
  http://www.readingcenter.org

  NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science,
  GIGS: Grants in Graduate Studies
  Webmaster and database architecture created in gopher and converted to a searchable web interface. 1994-1997.
  http://www.nyu.edu/gsas
  http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/fininfo/gigs.html

  Multiplan Inc., New York, HelpDesk and Sysadmin for internal LAN, Summer 1994.

  NYU, 3rd Ave North Computer Lab, Academic Computer Facility, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Computer consultatnt to students and faculty, 1993-1994.

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Performance

BIO

Special Training

• Authentic Movement, Zoe Avstreih, 1998-2000
• Ideokinesiology, Andre Bernard, 1999-2000
• Reiki levels I and II, 1999
• Chi Qong, Hiroko Ishimura, 1998
• Body Weather (movement training of Min Tanaka), Michelle Berne, 1983
• Jazz Piano, Liz Gorrill, 1976
• Ground and aerial training and First Jump Certificate, Lakewood Skydiving Center, 1983
• Fashion Institute of Technology, draping and pattern making, 1974
• Lester Polakov Studio of Stage Design, costumes, 1973

Original Work

• From the Ashes, a response to 9-11, to be performed monthly for one year. Developed with the support of Dixon Place and The Field.
  
  October 25, 2001, Dixon Place at C.U.A.N.D.O.
  November 7, Dixon Place Open House
  December 5, Dixon Place
  January 9, 2002 Dixon Place
  February 6, Dixon Place
  March 6, Dixon Place
  March 17, The Field
  April 3, Dixon Place
  May 1, Dixon Place
  June 5, Dixon Place
  July 3, Dixon Place
  July 20, Summer Festival in Huntington Heckscher Park
  August 7, Dixon Place
  September 4, Dixon Place
  October 2, Dixon Place

• Hot House: Fall 2000, an informal performance series dedicated to improvisation, November 12, 2000, P.S. 122 Performance Space.

• Pass Over, a 15 minute piece for seven dancers, choreographed by myself, with an original score by Chan Ji Kim.
  March 3 & 4, 2000, Frederick Loewe Theatre, NYU
  June 6, 2000, Sal Anthony's Movement Salon
  May 6, 2001, Construction Company

• Authentic Movement: A Source for Choreography, a workshop sponsored by Movement Research, co-taught with Zoe Avstreih, Spring 2000.

• "Waters of Separation", solo performance conceived and performed by myself for Holocaust Remembrance Day. Directed by Leeny Sack. Village Temple, New York, 1987.

• "A Modern Fairy Story", an autobiographical piece on being children of Holocaust Survivors, conceived and performed by myself with Amelia Ender. Directed by Carolyn Thomas and Herzl Jacoby. Performed at the International Conference for Children of Holocaust Survivors. CUNY, New York 1984.

Performances

• The Faust Project (performer). Directed by Ann Wilson, performed at Marymount Manhattan College, 1981

• Mermaids (performer). Directed by Deborah Fortson, Theater for the New City, 1978.

• Butler's Lives of the Saints (performer). Directed by Ann Wilson, performed at Wall St. Plaza, 1978

• The Maids (assistant director). A play by Jean Genet, directed by Hermann van Harten at Die Claque, a theatre in Zurich, Switzerland, 1972.

• "Grey Lady Cantata," "Mississippi," "Christmas Story" (performer/puppeteer). Bread and Puppet Theatre, conceived and directed by Peter Schuman. Performed in Switzerland and Germany: December 1972.

• Prologue (performer). Espace Cardin, Paris, created by Robert Wilson, 1971.

• Watermill (mover). The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds (directed by Robert Wilson), 1971

• "Deafman Glance" (performer/dancer). Conceived and directed by Robert Wilson at State University of Iowa. Performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, Nancy Festival, Rome, and Theatre de la Musique in Paris: 1970-71.

Costumes

• Construction:
  Costume Shops: Barbara Matera, Shakespeare Festival, Ray Diffen, 1973-1975.
  Sample maker: 7th Avenue (Halston and Anne Klein), 1978-80.
  Freelance dressmaker: independent designer Jenny Sharp and others, 1981-89.

• Design:
  Choreography for Solo & Group Dances (costumes). Dances by Kathy Appel performed at Washington Square Church, 1979.

  The Eternal Road (costume design). Choreographed by Fred Berk, performed by Livia Drapkin, 1974.

  Andorra (costume design). A play by Max Frisch, directed by Moshe Yassur for the Jewish Theatre Project at Henry Street Settlement, 1974.

  The Miracle of Saint Anthony (costume and prop design). A play by Maurice Maeterlinck, directed by James Howe at Chichi-Castenango, 1973.

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Publications

• "The Second and Third Generations Where do we go from here?" A 20-minute talk on the psychology of the second/third generations to a lay but scholarly academic audience. Association for Jewish Studies, 29th Annual Conference December 21-23, 1997, Boston MA Panel: The Second Generation and Holocaust Memory in America, Europe, and Israel. Chaired by Ephraim Sicher.

• 1998. "Hmmm...wheres all that smoke coming from? Writing, Play and Performance on Internet Relay Chat" (second author, co-authored with Brenda Danet and Yehudit Rosenbaum-Tamari). In Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet, edited by Sheizaf Rafaeli, Fay Sudweeks, and Margaret McLaughlin, AAAI/MIT Press.

• 1997. "Hmmm...wheres all that smoke coming from? Writing, Play and Performance on Internet Relay Chat" (second author, co-authored with Brenda Danet and Yehudit Rosenbaum-Tamari). In Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, (www.ascusc.org) Volume 2, Number 4: March, 1997, Network and Netplay, edited by Sheizaf Rafaeli, Fay Sudweeks, and Margaret McLaughlin, (http://www.usc.edu/dept/annenberg/vol2/issue4/danet.html).

• 1995. "Virtual Virtuosos: Play and Performance on the Computer Keyboard" (first author, co-authored with Brenda Danet and Yehudit Rosenbaum-Tamari). EJC: Electronic Journal of Communications 5(4): Special issue on Networked Virtual Realities (MOOs, MUDs, MUSEs, IRC, etc) and Communication. Available by email for members only: Comserve@cios.llc.rpi.edu. Message: Send Rueden V5N495. Viewable online at: http://lrw.net/~lucia/pubs/ejc.txt

• 1994. "Get GIGS: 'Grants in Graduate Studies' Goes Online." Academic Computing and Networking at NYU Vol.4, No.5.

• 1994. "Remember 6,000,000: Civic Commemoration of the Holocaust in New York City. Doctoral dissertation, New York University, UMI: 9502291. An electronic presentation of parts of the dissertation can be viewed online: "Forty Years of Rehearsal" (http://lrw.net/~lucia/pubs/wagro)

• 1994, 1996. "Jewish Resources in Computer Networking". Published in Shofar (Spring 1994), Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review (Spring 1995), and Global Jewish Networking Handbook (1994) edited by Dov Winer for the Dept of Information of The World Zionist Organization. Updated, online version is viewable at http://lrw.net/~lucia/jewish96.html

• 1993. "Beginner's Guide to Networking on the VAX/VMS". Available from Help-Net by sending the following command to Listserv@templevm.bitnet: get vms-mail guide. Available via anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.temple.edu/pub/info/help-net/vms-mail.guide. Also viewable at http://lrw.net/~lucia/pubs/vmsmail-guide.txt

• 1992. "Beginner's Guide to Networking on the VM\CMS". Available from Help-Net by sending the following command to Listserv@templevm.bitnet: get cms guide help-net. Available via anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.temple.edu/pub/info/help-net/cms.guide. Also viewable at http://lrw.net/~lucia/pubs/cms-guide.txt

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Honors and Grants

• Graduate Assistantship, Dept Performance Studies, NYU, 1985-1989
• Memorial Foundation, dissertation award
• InterUniversity Fellowship Program, research grant to study in Jerusalem for two years
• Lucius Littauer Foundation, grant to complete the dissertation
• Israel Science Foundation, grant to research computer mediated communications, 1994-1996

Professional Affiliations

• AJS: Association for Jewish Studies, http://brandeis.edu/ajs
• STSS: Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, http://www.istss.com
• ISOC-NY: Internet Society, New York Chapter, http://www.isoc-ny.org
• LXNY: New York's Free Computing Organization, http://www.lxny.org

  References available upon request.

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