Christopher Frank ReadBetween 1988 and 2005, Mr. Read has worked on collaborative productions at George Coates Performance Works of San Francisco. While at Performance Works he worked alongside critically acclaimed artists such as Eiko and Koma, Chanticleer, Marc Ream, Joel Slaton, Marc Cornblat, Spalding Gray, John Scarpa, David Ireland, Adam Savage, and others creating new works that explore the region where performance and technology merge. These productions include Crazy Wisdom (2001), 20/20 Blake (1997), Twisted Pairs (1997), Desert Music (1992), Invisible Site (1991), Architecture of Catastrophic Change (1990), Right Mind (1989). Theater Historian Theodore Shank portrays these works in his recent book Beyond the Boundaries. In 1999, Mr. Read, as a consultant for Fakespace Labs, expedited and delivered the virtual reality interface for the world's largest super computer, Blue Mountain, located in Los Alamos National Laboratory New Mexico. The project team consisted of Mr. Read, Mark Bolas, Ian E. McDowall, and Dan Corr. Mr. Read, under the direction of Dr. Satoshi Kurihara and Dr. Scott S. Fisher, built interactive displays using virtual reality tools for the Keio University Micro Archiving Project, which was presented at SIGGRAPH 2001. These displays allow a viewer to interact with digital archives of high-definition 3D models of insects. While attending UC Berkeley from 1996 to 1999, Mr. Read served as Production Manager at the Chevron Theater, International House at Berkeley. In this capacity Mr. Read provided direction for the Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures, visiting diplomats, and future and current Heads of State. Mr. Read continues to teach event production for large-scale events to new employees at the International House. In addition to Mr. Read's touring experience, which includes the 1991 North American Tour of Ballet Folklorico de Mexico de Amalia Hernandez, he traveled to Europe between 1993 and 1995 working as a lighting designer and scenic carpenter for Amsterdam's Paradiso and prestigious Stadsschouwburg.Mr. Read currently sits on San Francisco based dance company Capacitor's emerging technologies advisory committee and on the board of the Berkeley Arts Festival. Read holds a BA in Political Economy of Industrial Societies from University of California at Berkeley and an AA in Technical Theater, from Diablo Valley College, California. He is an active member of the World Affairs Council of Northern California, International Diplomacy Council of San Francisco and the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology.
