Aaron Taylor Kuffner Zemi17 Composer musician multi media artist Contact Email cicada zemi17 net Website http zemi17 net Phone 1 917 723 6340 Formal Education Syracuse University

							Aaron Taylor Kuffner, Zemi17
Composer, musician, multi-media artist

Contact:
Email: cicada@zemi17.net, Website: http://zemi17.net, Phone: +1 917.723.6340

Formal Education:
Syracuse University Visual and Performing Arts 1992 – 1995
San Francisco Art Institute New Genre Program 1996
Institut Seni Indonesia in Yogyakarta Karawitan Department 2004 – 2005

Musical Training:
Balinese Gamelan Selonding, private student of Wayan Sadera at Yayasan Polis Seni 2006
Balinese Trompong, private student of Cokardo Bagus Ubud Palace 2006
Javanese Gamelan Sekatan, private student of Bapak Suhardjo Yogyakarta Palace 2005
Balinese Khandang (drumming), private student of Bapak Wayan Senin 2004 - 2005
Koto Drumming and percussion techniques, apprentice of Kogomo Dsi 1997 - 2000
Alto Saxophone, private student of band leader Conrad Morgan 1984 - 1991


Noted Projects:
Theater Thikwa http//:thikwa.de
Theatre Thikwa is a Berlin based theater troupe, art school and theater training center. Thikwa is
an extremely unique project that trains a cast of physically and mentally challenged adults to
perform experimental theater works. I was selected through the Berlin Arts Council to produce an
original sound score for Fahr furukt nahct dia Directed by Eunice Maurice in 2004. The score
was produced by the actors’ actions using floor mics, wireless audio "bugs" and "D-beams" (infer-
red sensors).

The Ransom Corp http://ransomcorp.org
Multi Media experimental performance group based in Brooklyn, NY 1998 – 2002, Founded by
Geoffrey and Aaron Taylor Kuffner, Directed by Aaron Taylor Kuffner and Kathi von Koerber. The
Ransom Corp. creating abstract rituals by fusing dance, performance art, and aerial acrobatics
with video projections, installation art and inventive original interactive audio. The Ransom Corp.
created unique and intense site-specific gatherings. These gatherings were training grounds
meant to infuse and invigorate their fellow species by expanding visions for the future, through
imperative-detailed views of the present, with the wisdom of the past. Large-Scale Productions
included: The Fractle Seed, Schloss Brollin and Resonant Wave Festival Berlin 2002, Sky Plots,
La Mama ETC NYC 1999, Central European Tour 2000, Emergence, Smack Mellon Studios
Brooklyn 1999.

23 Windows
23 Windows was a 3,000 square foot loft space used as a community art studio and underground
performance venue in Bushwick Brooklyn 2001 – 2003. I was the co-founder and director of the
space. I organized resident artists, events and collaborative projects. 23 windows still exists as
Amoeba Technologies headquarters and shared studio space for 8 artists (Zemi17 included).

The Resonant Wave http://resonant-wave.net
This was a 2 week multi-media Festival of Experimental Art, Culture and Advancement held in
Berlin at Kultur Im Spannwerk Art House in 2002. I was co-organizer and international curator for
the event, which brought 68 artists of diverse mediums to Berlin to explore the concepts of waves
and serve as a nexus point for a community of international innovators. Attendants included:
Yumiko Yokomoshi, Ten Pen Chii Arts Labor, Baastian Maris, Arik Katsav, Thomas Friedlander,
and The Madagascar Institute.
Collaborations:
Amoeba Technology http://amoebatechnology.net
A Brooklyn collective of experimental audio, video and installation arts devoted to transcendence
and alteration of ordinary reality and consciousness through the manipulation of sound and light
waves. I have performed on digital sampler as well as acoustic instruments with them for live
performances throughout NYC and a tour to France in 2003.

Indonesian Groups
Sangar Saraswati (Center for Balinese Art, Cultural and Spiritual Practices)
I played in the gangsa kantil section for the Gong Kebyar ensemble for religious and secular
events Yogyakarta, 2005

Yayasan Polas Seni, (Organization for the preservation of pure Balinese Arts)
I played nyong nyong cinikan for the Gamelan Slonding group religious ceremonies and rituals
Pengosecan Bali 2006

Taliwangsa Musik Ethnis, (Pan-Enthnic Indonesian Music Group)
I throat sang and played flute with a multi ethnic Indonesian group at the Garuda 5 star Hotel,
SMKI High School for performing Arts, and Yogya National TV. Yogyakarta 2005

Mandala (World Ethnic Fusion Music with a focus on African and Indonesian Music)
I played a variety of Indonesian Instruments (gongs, flutes and drums) with electronics, live
sampling and looping during performances on a 10 show tour of Bali 2006

Compositions for Dance, Media, and Theater:
Rania Khalil http://raniakhalil.net
Between the Shadows is a collection of text-less physical theater vignettes inspired by Film Noir
and German Expressionism.
Ontological Theater in St. Marks Church April 2007
HERE Center for the Arts May 2007
Ciaro International Theater Festival September 2007.

Okty Budiati
Vagina Gedung Kesenian Societet Militer Taman Budaya Yogyakarta (2005)
Bianglal’ Sarang Damelan Jakarta on Explo Jazz Sriwedari Surakarta (2006)
Tong, Tsunami Relief in Bande Ache, Jakarta Expo Center (2005)

Erin Ellen Kelly
Wishing Well NY Butoh Festival Nov. 2007, Collective Unconscious Theater Feb. 2008
A Bird at the Cabaret, Logan Square Auditorium: Chicago, Illinois August 2006
The Myth of the Original That Comes While Sleeping Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin: Miami, Florida
March 2006

Kathi von Koerber www.kiahkeya.com
In x plod, Wax Dance Space 2001, BPM Studios, The New School, Resonant Wave Festival
Berlin 2002
Suspending Birth, Site-Specific warehouse, Bushwick Brooklyn 2001
Riddled with Holes, Timuna Theater Tel Aviv, Interzone festival Berlin 1999

Despina Sophia Stamos and Wen-Shuan Yang http://tmdas.j-3.org
Rodents 20 minute modern dance duet with video by Kathi von Koerber. 2001 -2002
PS122, Stoneham Mass, Chashama Theater, Galapagos Arts Space, Arts Exchange
Product X, Judson Memorial Church April 2008

Disney Nasa Borg http://www.tc43.com
Recent Exhibitions and Aquitions with Zemi17 Compositions:
DePaul University Art Collection acquired 2007
Private Collection of David Byrne acquired 2006
The Painterley Eye, SCOPE Miami MARCdePUECHREDON Gallery, Miami Dec 06
art LA, the New LA International Contemporary Art Fair, Spinello Gallery, LA Jan 07
LIVE, MARCdePUECHREDON at Supreme Trading, Brooklyn February 2007
Art Basil 2007
Scope NY, Spinello Gallery, Lincoln Square NYC February 2007
Random Access Poetics, Vertex Space, Brooklyn March 2007

Noted Performances:
New York 2007 – 2008
Chelsea Museum of Art
New Britain Museum of American Art
Grassland Gallery
Galapagos Art Space
The Issue Project Room
Theater Collective Unconscious
Brooklyn Lyceum Theater
Monkeytown
The QT hotel
The Danger, Resident
The Ontological Hysteric Theater at St Mark's Church
3rd Ward Art Facility
Here Art Center, Beyond the Shadows production May
St Cornelius Church on Governor’s Island, July
Judson Memorial Church, Horizon’s event October
The Bunker, November
Brooklyn Polytechnic University

Indonesia 2004 – 2006
Podok Damai Ubud Bali September 2006
Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival 2006
Gedung Mandala Denpasar Bali May 2006
Sika Gallery Ubud Bali June 2006
Rumah Budaya Tembi Yogyakarta December 2005 and May 2006
Gedung Kesnian Societet Militer Yogyakarta November 2005
Institut Seni Indonesia (Indonesian Art Institute) Yogyakarta October 2005
Taman Budaya Surakarta April 2005 Parkir Space Yogyakarta September 2004

Europe 1999 - 2003
The Alm Berlin December 2003
Club Badofar Paris November 2003 Theatre de l’empire September 2002, 2003
Resonant Wave Festival Kultur Im Spanwerk Berlin June 2002
S.M. Stubnitz "Solaris" Rothstock, Germany October 2000
The Hirsh in Nuernemberg, Germany October 2000
Interzone Festival Casino, Berlin Germany, August 2000
T-muna Theater Tel Aviv, Israel October 1999
Dynamed Dwasch Tel Aviv, Israel October 1999
The Roxy Prague, Czech Republic January 1999 and September 1999
Comix Club and Shabla Solar Eclipse Festival Varna, Bulgaria July 1999
Zurich Street Parade, and Neon Technic AG Zurich CH June 1999
Muzikal.Journey and Radio Free Bulgaria in Veliko Ternival, Bulgaria May 1999
Big Bang Club Sofia, Bulgaria May 1999
The Roxy and the Kunstwerk Vienna, Austria January 1999
New York City 2000 - 2002
Performance Spaces: Combustive Arts Center, BPM studios, 23 Windows Studio, Charas
Community Center, The Institute, Culture Project Theater, Judson Memorial Church, The Cave,
The Kitchen, La Mama and Chacharma Theater
Clubs: Lotus, Ohm, Open Air, Twilo, Knitting Factor, CBGBs, Lunitarium, 389 Studios, The Frying
Pan, Baby Jupitor, The Cooler, Tonic
Festivals: Dumbo Arts Festival October 2002, Queens Electronic Music Festival Flushing
Meadow Park July 2001, May Day Festival in Tompkins Square Park May 2001

Awards:
Artist Residency at the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots 2008
Research Grant from the Indonesian Foreign Ministry 2005 and 2006
Dharmasiswa Scholarship from The Indonesian Embassy in the USA 2004 - 2005
Project Grant from Berlin Arts Council through Theater Thikwa 2003 - 2004
Project Grant from the estate of Dorthea Taylor for production of The Fractle Seed 2003
Sponsorship from Kulture Im Spannwerk for the Resonant Wave Festival 2002
In Kind Sponsoship from I-D media Berlin for the Resonant Wave Festival 2002
Artist Residency at Schloss Brollin from the European Union Arts Council 2002
Project Grant DTW fresh tracks for work with Despina Stamos 2001
Project Grant from James F. Robison Foundation for work with Kathi von Koerber 2001
Operational Funding from the Estate of Dorthea Taylor 2000
Artist Residency at the Big Bang Art Center Bulgaria by The Soros Foundation 1999
Travel Sponsorship from Swiss Air 1999
Project Grant and In-Kind support from Psuedo.com for early Ransom Corp Productions 1998