{"680916":{"#nid":"680916","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Corian Ellisor Selected as IPaT Artist-in-Residence","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECorian Ellisor, an Atlanta-based performance artist with a focus on dance theater, was selected as the Institute for People and Technology\u2019s (IPaT) 2025 artist-in-residence. Ellisor will engage with IPaT academics through a structured program to translate, highlight, incorporate, and interpret ongoing research through artistic endeavors utilizing the IPaT Craft Lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Craft Lab is a makerspace supported by IPaT which is designed to promote craft and algorithmic making. The equipment in the lab is particularly well-suited for wearable and flexible electronics systems and can help anyone interested in making soft objects. The lab includes equipment like sewing machines, industrial-grade CNC knitting and embroidery machines, fiber twisting, wire bending, soldering irons, and 3D printers making it unique among Georgia Tech labs to make soft and flexible materials embedded with technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEllisor has worked with arts communities locally and internationally including Georgia, Texas, Florida, Massachusetts, Washington DC, New York, Guatemala, Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany and The United Kingdom.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has been awarded the choreography award at the University of Houston, The Walthall Fellowship through Wonderroot, \u201cTop 20 people to watch in 2013\u0022 by Atlanta\u2019s Creative loafing, an Atlanta Beltline Grant in 2014, an artist in residency award with the Lucky Penny in 2015, and the \u201cBest Choreography Award\u201d at the Houston Fringe Festival in 2019 \u2013 a festival that highlights dance, theater and visual art.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEllisor welcomes the opportunity to engage with students in the classroom as mentor, guest lecturer with respect to choreography and body mechanics, or in leading a movement exercise. If you are faculty or a student interested in having Ellisor speak or collaborate, please contact clintzeagler@gatech.edu.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIPaT is very excited to be working with Corian Ellisor this year as our first artist-in-residence. We expect that in collaborating with Corian, Georgia Tech faculty, students and researchers will be able to augment and enhance his work with innovative interactive technological elements, said Clint Zeagler, IPaT\u2019s director of strategic partnerships and principal research scientist.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur work will be culminating in an artistic interactive performance in the fall of 2025. The goal of this engagement is to both share Georgia Tech\u2019s engineering and technological expertise with the local arts community and also learn from creatives and artists to build bridges back to campus through collaboration with the arts community with Corian Ellisor as our conduit.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECorian Ellisor, an Atlanta-based performance artist with a focus on dance theater, was selected as the Institute for People and Technology\u2019s (IPaT) 2025 artist-in-residence.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Corian Ellisor, an Atlanta-based performance artist with a focus on dance theater, was selected as the Institute for People and Technology\u2019s (IPaT) 2025 artist-in-residence. "}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-03-05 15:32:14","changed_gmt":"2025-03-05 17:58:58","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-03-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-03-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676461":{"id":"676461","type":"image","title":"Corian Ellisor ","body":null,"created":"1741188253","gmt_created":"2025-03-05 15:24:13","changed":"1741188302","gmt_changed":"2025-03-05 15:25:02","alt":"Corian Ellisor ","file":{"fid":"260254","name":"corian-copy.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/03\/05\/corian-copy.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/03\/05\/corian-copy.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1278301,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/03\/05\/corian-copy.png?itok=-NeyzLnV"}}},"media_ids":["676461"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}