BergARTS is a few things...
At the base, it is about the worlds of art and technology coming together.
It is a theatre company interested in exploring ways that theatre, one of the oldest forms of human expression, can benefit from one of the newest: the internet. The theatre community has to find a way to integrate with technology, in the same way of other art forms have moved to a digital existence. This is not necessarily only in content, but in application and distribution.
It is a venue bringing artists and geeks together.
The contributors to BergARTS come from various background in the arts, and as such we feel that no art form exists in a vacuum. Although our primary focus is theatre, we also work, individually and collectively, in film, music, photography and literature.
It is a medium that I can have my artistic expression while still being a gearhead.
On this site you will see work that I have been a part of both under the BergARTS umbrella, and outside of it.
Michael F Bergmann
Creator of BergARTS and a projection designer for the theatre, but I also work in directing and developing new work, and video for the event industry. I also dabble in the mediums of photography, cinema, and other time-based arts.
Companies and people that I have enjoyed working with include: The Pepsi Bottling Group, Babble On Communications, Play Inc Theatre, LOFT Community Services, Steve Gove and Carole Wears and the Prague Fringe team, Hamilton Fringe, Ryerson Theatre School, Theatre Glendon
To download a current CV, see here.
You can contact me at: michael@bergarts.com
and follow me on Twitter @mfbergmann
and find me on Google+ here: michaelfbergmann.com
Main Contributors:
Sean Braune
Sean is currently working on his Phd at York University. He has been published in Studies in Canadian Literature and Journal of Modern Literature. He has presented papers at various conferences on topics ranging from Heideggerian phenomenology to Debordian psychogeography. Considering his interest in the avant-garde, he writes experimental literature and poetry and occasionally ventures into the medium of independent cinema.
