RIGHT BRAIN: Creative Background

Sarah was born and raised in New York where her father helped to found The Living Theater, Judson Poets Theater and Theater for the New City. She is what they call a, "Theater Brat." But, luckily, she doesn't act like one. Sarah has been a member of, produced, choreographed and/or performed with legendary arts organizations including: Dancing in the Streets, The Ridiculous Theatrical Company, Bread and Puppet Theater, Judson Poets Theater, and The Theater for the New City. She trained as a choreographer with Viola Farber, David Gordon, Elise Bernhardt and Elizabeth Streb.

Sarah has also trained as a producer in New York and London. In 1990, She founded her first production company after training at the Royal Court Theater in London. Tightrope Productions, a multidisciplinary circus (formed of dancers, actors, martial artists, actors and non-actors) performed off-off Broadway in 1992. Her creative experiences have defined her worldview.

In 1992 Sarah saw virtual reality for the first time; she was soon hooked by virtual reality's unique use of space, and promptly moved to San Francisco. This passion led her to be part of teams that helped to define the positioning of key platforms and technologies including the Java platform (J2EE, JDK 1.0), Web Content Coordination Tools, (ESPs)E-Commerce Service Providers, Java based middleware, back-end technologies for the "mega-site", and virtual reality technologies including VRML.

In 2002, Sarah decided to found BvNW group to bind her experiences of two creative, yet distinct practices: art and technology. Her passion, and desire, is to help find and support the next "Charlie Chaplin." Chaplin brought the technology of the "flickies" into the new area of cinema, and helped to bring context, perspective and humanity to the technology of film through great skill, and innovation. It is BvNW Group's goal to help both their arts and technology clients reach for such heights: to use technology as a tool to help tell our contemporary story, and market technology in a way that is human.

Ms. Kornfeld received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, and has had additional training at Columbia University, Burson-Marsteller University, Harvard Dance Program, and Aspen Music School

ADVISORY AND BOARD SEATS:

• AuxoGlobal, Board Member and Partner
• The Kitchen: National Art and Technology Network, New York, New York (Chair)
• CalArts: Center for Integrated Media, Los Angeles, California
• ZeroOne: Art and Technology Network, San Jose, California
• Vanguard Visions, Stockholm, Sweden.