Mark + World Technology Awards 2012 = Gratitude

eric

congrats!!

CitizenJoe

Congratulations Mark; that's fantastic news!

JJHP3

Congratulations Mark. Well deserved!

John

smacforbes

Mark,

Congratulations, well deserved!
Susan

stj

Congratulations Mark, you so deserve it! And it's exciting that Isadora and its community is recognized this way
Stephan

fifou

Great News !
Congrats Mark. And thanks again for your hard work.
Well deserved indeed.
Philippe

particlep

congratulations mark. i"ve been able to do so much with isadora and when i get stuck this place always helps me to get going again. when i can i cross everything wishing for your name being read as the winner.

Armando

Congrats!!!!!

Armando

Mark, we've had this discussion personally before. But I don't separate your artistic work from isadora. Isadora is an artwork per se. Its genrousity, flexibility, it's welcoming attitude, it is a blessing for many Persons.

I've found a wonderful definition of what an artwork purpose is. Alain Robbe Grillet, french novelist, said that an artwork is not the defense of an idea or the desire to spread a purpose eve if it is a good one). It is simply the capacity it has to make a spectator ask him(her)self a question he didn't know he(she) had. Before. isadora make me do this all the time. So it is an artwork. it changed me. Forever. So, of course you continue to do music and dance projects, but Isadora is Inside this production and not outside. At least for me. Techne in greek means art after all.....

mark

Thank you Armando. Well said. I'll remember for the next time.

Armando

particlep

wishing u every success tonight mark.

Skulpture

CONGRATS!!!!!

particlep

has mark received the award!!!!?

particlep

i've been looking for news all day.

particlep

fantastic, i found the news. congratulations mark.

stoni

Congratulations Mark!

MatthewH

Congratulations! Well deserved recognition.

mark

Hello All,

Yes indeed, to my surprise and pleasure, I was awarded the World Technology Award 2012 in the category of the arts.

The award is given to the person the World Technology Network deems to be giving "the most innovative work of the greatest likely long-term significance." The award recognizes my contribution as a composer, media artist and long-time director of the performance group Troika Ranch, as the creator of Isadora, and for my contribution as a teacher who has shared his aesthetic vision and technical know-how through innumerable workshops across the globe.

The award itself is in the form of a glass cube with a laser etched brain in the center. So know I have two brains. Perhaps that will allow me to move a bit quicker when solving bugs in Isadora.

Thanks to all of you for the good wishes and support. It means a lot to me, and is very much appreciated.

Warmest Wishes,

Mark

Armando

Wow!!!!!!!! You beat Golan!!!!! Yes!!!!!!!! I knew it!!!!!! And I'm glad to be among the persons that knew of your value before you even thought of Isadora (immediately after meetin back in '99)! And to have been the frst to teach an isadora corse 0.7b for mac at the Universityç!!!!

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S my frend.

Armando

P.S. And by the way, even if i hate to quote myself, as you describe the award was a global recognition as a composer, director and programmer as a whole!