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	*	Greetings from The MIT Entrepreneurs Club	*
			     aka: The E-Club

			  Special Presentation

		             Seth Riskin '89
		     Development Topic:  Light Dance

			    Tuesday, 19 July
			      7pm in 2-105


Video plus conceptual and technical talk with the artist-inventor, followed
by group discussion of development and marketing of the art form, theater arts,
architectural interiors consulting and new technical products associated with
this unique work.

Seth Riskin is a researcher and artist at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual
Studies (CAVS).  As an artist, he has developed, since 1987, the Light Dance
art form and invented, at MIT and Carnegie Mellon University, its specific
lighting technologies and suits of optical materials.  In Light Dance, Seth
projects, reflects and diffracts light from his body, as he employs his 
physical ability as a gymnast to conduct light phenomena in a quiet, space-
defining light poetry. 

Seth has developed an "anthropology" of light that compliments his art, 
a study of the relationship of light and human being in various disciplines
and cultures.  Last year, under a Fulbright grant, he researched light in
Hindu culture, relating Hindu and Western concepts and practices of light. 

Seth studied painting and competed in gymnastics at Ohio State University.
In 1985 he was awarded the NCAA National Championship on the parallel bars
and in 1986 he received his BFA.  In 1989 Seth earned an MSVS (Master of
Science in Visual Studies) at MIT, where he devised the Light Dance art form.
He was appointed Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in 1991.  
In 1992 he was awarded a Fulbright grant to India and next fall he will teach
a course, based on his research, at Tufts University.

For further information call The E-Club at 253-2000 or send e-mail
to Richard Shyduroff <rdshydur@athena.mit.edu> ... reminder: The E-Club
still meets every Tuesday through the summer, but on its summer-schedule
this means we may be found at 7pm in room 2-105.