Anna Chupa is a visual artist teaching Digital Imaging and Multimedia in the Department of 
Art at Mississippi State University. Her multimedia installation Altar was included in The 
Bridge exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans during the SIGGRAPH 96 
international digital media conference. Work exhibited in the 1997 Los Angeles SIGGRAPH
Ongoings exhibition iscurrently traveling internationally and has been shown in Darmstadt,
Athens, and Ontario.Her digital collages have been shown at the Silicon Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA, andthe Digital Salon, in New York. Her paper on Generative Texture
Maps was presented at Animation and Generative Art '99 at Politechnico di Milano in Italy. 
At MSU she received a Research Initiation Grant for QTVR development for a multimedia 
project on African Vodun in New Orleans. Together with Anne Hanger and Kristin Woodward, 
Chupa also received a J.W. Criss award for an exhibition Saints Among Us, Women and 
Christianity which opened at MSU this September and traveled to galleries in Georgia, South 
Carolina and Alabama during the Fall Semester.

Mark Applebaum received his Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California, 
San Diego where he studied principally with Brian Ferneyhough. His solo, chamber, orchestral, 
choral, and electronic music has been performed throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, 
and Australia with notable premieres at the Darmstadt New Music courses. He has received 
commissions from Betty Freeman, the Jerome Foundation, the American Composers Forum, 
the Paul Dresher Ensemble, Zeitgeist, MANUFACTURE (Tokyo), and the Merce Cunningham 
Dance Company, among others. He was awarded the 1997 Stephen Albert Award administered 
by the American Music Center and a fellowship to the Villa Montalvo Artist Colony. Mousetrap 
Music, a CD of his sound-sculptures was released on the Innova label as was a CD of computer 
music, The Janus ReMixes: Exercises in Auto-Plundering. Applebaum is also active as a jazz 
pianist. With his jazz trio he recently performed in the first arts event in the state of 
Mississippi to be broadcast live on the world wide web. He has served as the Dayton-Hudson 
Visiting Artist at Carleton College; in 1997 he joined the faculty at Mississippi State 
University where he teaches composition and theory.

Aphoristic Fragment is a collaboration between composer Mark Applebaum and visual artist 
Anna Chupa. The sound sources of this one minute video are three of Applebaum's electro-
acoustic sound-sculptures: the mousetrap, the mini-mouse, and the duplex mausphon. The 
visual images that constitute Chupa's kaleidoscopic animation are electronic transformations 
of still photographs of the same three sound-sculptures, taken by Chupa. In this regard, the 
source of the sonic and visual materials are one and the same.