PHOEBE LEGERE

Transdisciplinary Artist

Exhibitions and Live Art Performances

Paterson Art Museum: January 2007, Solo Show - "A Priori: Homage to Barney Newman"

Petit Versailles 2006 - Live Multi Media with Sneakers, Avant Jazz and World Multi Channel Installation

Location One: Sneakers of Samothrace, 2005, 2006

"Gadget Off 2006"  Performance for fellow inventors, Governor's Island: The Rap Shoes

2006 Digital Salon New York City: Chromatic Wave Cantata

Steim Electronic Music Foundation 2006:

 Steim Performance and Residency: The Sneakers of Samothrace as an Interactive Paintbrush

IRCAM: 2005 The Sneakers of Samothrace

Sloan Foundation Festival: 2005 Multi media, The Common Root of All Organisms

a work about the evolution of Prokaryotes, showing the parallels between Native American

Creation Myths and modern creation hypotheses.

Biofilm Department, University of Montana 2004: Dark Energy, An Astrophysics Oratorio with Multi Media

Installation,   Ciberart Festival Project Room, Bilbao, Spain2004

Thailand Digiart Festival, 2004

Briggs Robinson Gallery New York City 2003

Speculative Video Festival San Francisco 2003

Siggraph Lecture   New York City School of Visual Arts 2003

Really Big Festival Sound Installation 2003 Australia

University of South Florida 2002

Vision Festival 2000

Fringe Festival Hong Kong1997

Performance with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony of The Waterclown 2000

Opened for David Bowie on his Sound and Vision National Tour 1991

Roulette Intermedia Foundation Performances 1997 -2007

A's Gallery New York City 1990   - 1999

MUSIC FESTIVALS (Partial)

HOWL FESTIVAL 2002 -2005

RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL 2006

BREAD AND ROSES FESTIVAL 2006

LITTLE MISS BIG MOUTH PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL 2006

WAY THE F@#D! OFF BROADWAY FESTIVAL 2006

JVC Jazz Festival 1997, 1999

World Music Festival, Blackville, N.B. 2004 - 2005

Venice Biennial, Nomad Video Wall 1996

Chicago Cultural Center World Music Festival 2002

Big Top Chataqua Women's Music Festival 2003

FILM and VIDEO (Partial List)

Tibet, National Geographic Online- I joined a scientific expedition into a remote part of Tibet. I found many parallels between the music, iconography, and spiritual culture of Tibetans and the Penobscot Tribe of Maine. I am of Penobscot/Micmac descent.

Jewels of the Rainforest, Discovery Channel- I was Second Camera for this documentary about Gary Strobel who discovered Taxol and other wonder drugs.

Marquis De Slime, Canal Plus, Finac Award- I wrote and starred in this short film based on Chomsky's Manufacture of Consent.

My videos of critically endangered animals in biological hotspots have been viewed tens of thousands of times on YOUTUBE.

Chromatic Wave Cantata was selected for the 12th Annual Digital Salon.

Education :

Vassar                                    BA Art History

New England Conservatory   Piano Performance

NYU                                        Masters Program Music Composition

City College                           Masters of Jazz Program

School of Visual Arts             MFA Computer Art Program (Perry Hoberman advisor)

Private Study                         John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet

Private Study                         Video and   Painting:   Larry Rivers

2003 Artist in Residence Graduate School of Computer Art

School of Visual Arts New York City

2003 Artist in Residence Universtity of Texas at Austin

2004 Artist in Residence, Graduate Computer Department of Musical Inelligence -   University of Victoria, British Columbia

2005 - 2007 - Juilliard School, Music Composition, Music Technology

Awards and Prizes:

Pulitzer Prize in Music Nominee 2000

New York State Council of the Arts Grant 2000

Jerome Foundation Grant for Emerging Playrights 1993

Young Composers Grant 1989

Roulette Commission to write an experimental electronic/Native American   multimedia opera, "THE QUEEN of NEW ENGLAND"

Ragdale Fellow 2000 -2003