Kasumi is internationally celebrated
as one the the leading innovators of a new art form synthesizing film,
sound and video in live performance. She has won global acclaim for
her richly expressive and compelling compositions in venues worldwide:
from Lincoln Center with The New York Philharmonic to collaborations
with Grandmaster Flash and DJ Spooky. She performed and exhibited work
at Württembergischen Kunstverein Stuttgart and at the Chroma Festival
de Arte Audiovisual in Guadalajara, Mexico, and her newest work,
BREAKDOWN, premiered at Carnegie Hall in concert with the American
Composers Orchestra. She was recently awarded an EMPAC Dance Movies
Commission 2009- 2010, supported by The Jaffe Fund for Experimental
Media and Performing Arts, Experimental Media and Performing Arts
Center Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
