Full Professor, School of Art, CVPA
Contact Information
Campus: Fairfax
Building: Art and Design Building
Room 2032
Mail Stop: 1C3
Personal Websites
Biography
Gail Scott Whiteis a new media scenographer and animator who collaboratively makes “Live Movies,” a hybrid art form that interactively synthesizes animation and cinematic art, and theatrical and musical elements with built environments and live performance. She has created new media scenography for dozens of productions including:White Witchat Symphony Space (NYC), B3W’sConfined, Dixon Place (NYC) and Irondale Center (Brooklyn NY); Ariel Dance Theatre’sFlush: The Gyre Project, Long Center for the Performing Arts (Austin TX); Maryland Opera Studio’s premiere ofShadowboxer(on the life of Joe Louis), Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts (College Park MD);The Heidi Chroniclesby Wendy Wasserstein, Arena Stage (Washington DC); andHamletat Temple Theatre in Sanford NC, and Actors Guild of Lexington (KY). Additional new media scenography includes Cyburbia Productions’Silence & Darkness, a live movie for the cell phone ageandTime Traveler Zero Zero — A Story of John Titor; Komar & Melamid’s operaNaked Revolution(composed by Dave Soldier);Marisolby José Rivera;Doctor Faustusby Christopher Marlowe;Mephistoby Klaus Mann/Ariane Mnouchkine; Moisés Kaufman and Tectonic Theater Project’s33 Variationsin Arena Stage’s workshop production at Georgetown University; and several productions for Encompass New Opera Theatre (NYC). Her installation work has been exhibited at the Alternative Museum and the A.I.R. Gallery in NYC. She is the co-editor ofLive Movies: A Field Guide to New Media for the Performing Arts. Her work, in the “Live Movies” field has been published inAmerican Theatremagazine (NYC), the international journalTheatreForum(published by UC-San Diego) andLive Designmagazine (NYC).Live Moviesis also cited in:Cyborg Theatre: Corporeal/Technological Intersections in Multimedia Performanceby Jennifer Parker-Starbuck (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), andEntangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performanceby Chris Salter, foreword by Peter Sellars (MIT Press, 2010). White’s work has been funded by an Artists Fellowship from the Virginia Commission on the Arts, Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology, and by a $125,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant for the “New Stage Technology Project.”
Gail Scott White is a Full Professor of New Media Art at Mason’s School of Art, and she has also taught art at Colgate University and Cornell University.
Degrees
- MFA, Tufts University
Specialist Areas:
- 2D Animation
- 3D Animation
- Live Movies
- New Media in the Creative Arts
- Thinking Through Animation