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ALISA KOBZAR (*1989), composer, multimedia artist, teacher, graduated from Kyiv National Music Academy (Ukraine) in 2014 (department of composition, instrumentation and musical informational technologies, prof. A.Roschenko and A.Zahaykevych). Since 2018 lives in Graz (Austria) and studies Computer music in Graz University of Arts (with prof. G.Eckel) and works as SMA in IEM (KUG) in the project “Inter_agency”. She took part in different international composers' masterclasses on instrumental and electronic music, festivals, workshops. In 2016 she was the resident of SME (Studio of Electronic Music) Musical Academy in Krakow (Poland) (Gaude Polonia residence programme).Her music is performed in Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Russia, Ireland, Portugal, Italy. Her compositions include instrumental, chamber, symphonic, electronic (fixed and live), concrete music, mixed electroacoustic music, multidisciplinary projects, interactive projects with gesture sound control (using Leap-Motion, Myo, Kinect, Arduino-based custom controllers), Unity-based theatre-performance interactive compositions, sonification generative multimedia projects, interactive compositions with dancer’s movement control. The main vector of her creative work is interdisciplinarity towards connecting the different art-forms into undisassemblable multimedia, where none of the arts is illustrative. Co- founder of duo rotkäppchen. [Duo rotkäppchen (Alisa Kobzar(music, visuals)+Lisa McGuire(dance)) is an intermedial collaboration between dance, music and visual art, artistic result of which happens in real time and never repeats in the same way with the help of developed the language of nonverbal communication between the dancer and composer/visual artist while active co-following (active listening, active seeing) and immediate reactions.]