For the spring, summer and fall of 2009, ICAN is creating an interdisciplinary arts program of commissioned and existing artworks entitled, AGENCY: The Work of Artists, on behalf of The Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga as well as with partners at a variety of sites in California. Participating artists include: Axis Dance Company, Remy Charlip, Chitresh Das, GG, Joanna Haigood/ZACCHO Dance Theatre, Jan Henle, Louis Hock, Hirokazu Kosaka, Mingwei Lee, Ingram Marshall with Jim Bengston, Julia Meltzer & David Thorne, Constance Samaras, Allan Sekula, Adam Silverman & Nader Tehrani, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Wang Wei. ICAN organized LIGHT SENSITIVE: Heather Carson, Katherine Finkelpearl, Anthony McCall, Iain Slack, an exhibition for Santa Monica's Arena 1 Gallery, and produced programs of commissioned live music with projected images entitled, DISTRIBUTED MEMORY: Brent Green and Califone, Janie Geiser and Tom Recchion, Pat O'Neill and Carl Stone, Tony Discenza and Michael Zbyszynski, for the Getty Museum (that traveled to Montalvo and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in Spring, 2008). Who's on First/What's On Second?, a new public art program developed for downtown San José, resulted in eight temporary site-specific projects by J.D. Beltran, Bill Fontana, Helena Keefe, Chip Lord with Bruce Tomb, Hector Dio Mendoza,Jordan Gieger, and Jon Brumit,was inaugurated in 2008 and during ZERO1 Global Festival of Art on the Edge, and runs through 2009. The international touring exhibition, PAT O’NEILL: Views from Lookout Mountain; AFI’s The Arts and Streaming Media conference, performances and installations of new media art; as well as a program concept for Art Center College of Design’s power plant redevelopment project designed by Frank O. Gehry, were all organized and/or produced by ICAN.  The firm's clients include the American Film Institute; Cornerhouse; Freewaves; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Santa Monica Museum of Art; Center for Cultural Innovation; Creative Capital; KCET Public Television; the City of San José's Office of Cultural Affairs, Public Art; USC’s Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship Program; Seattle Public Library/Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs; the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of Los Angeles, Creative Capital, and the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. http://www.montalvoarts.org/agencyhttp://www.montalvoarts.orghttp://www.montalvoarts.orghttp://heathercarson.comhttp://www-tech.mit.edu/archives/VOL_108/TECH_V108_S0975_P007.pdfhttp://http://www.anthonymccall.com/http://nervousfilms.com/http://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/?id=10009http://www.freewaves.org/festival_2002/artists/geiser_j.htmhttp://profile.myspace.com/tomrecchionhttp://www.rosamundfelsen.com/bio.php?artist_id=28http://www.sukothai.comhttp://www.anthonydiscenza.com/http://www.piratelemur.com/http://www.getty.edu/museum/http://www.sanjoseculture.org/pub_arthttp://www.hainesgallery.com/Main_Pages/Artist_Pages/JBEL.work.htmlhttp://www.resoundings.org/http://www.helenakeeffe.com/http://arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/lord/http://www.brucetomb.com/http://www.sunsetscavenger.com/AIR/mendoza.htmhttp://www.ga-ga.org/http://www.jonbrumit.com/http://www.rosamundfelsen.com/articles.php?artist_id=28http://afi.comhttp://www.artcenter.edu/http://www.arcspace.com/gehry_new/http://www.afi.comhttp://www.cornerhouse.org/http://www.freewaves.org/http://www.moca.orghttp://www.smmoa.org/http://cciarts.org/http://www.creative-capital.org/http://www.kcet.orghttp://www.sanjoseculture.org/http://annenberg.usc.edu/CentersandPrograms/ProfessionalEducation/GettyArtsJourn.aspxhttp://annenberg.usc.edu/CentersandPrograms/ProfessionalEducation/GettyArtsJourn.aspxhttp://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=branch_central&branchID=1http://www.seattle.gov/Arts/http://www.mta.net/about_us/metroart/default.htmhttp://www.mta.net/about_us/metroart/default.htmhttp://www.creative-capital.org/http://www.creative-capital.org/shapeimage_4_link_0shapeimage_4_link_1shapeimage_4_link_2shapeimage_4_link_3shapeimage_4_link_4shapeimage_4_link_5shapeimage_4_link_6shapeimage_4_link_7shapeimage_4_link_8shapeimage_4_link_9shapeimage_4_link_10shapeimage_4_link_11shapeimage_4_link_12shapeimage_4_link_13shapeimage_4_link_14shapeimage_4_link_15shapeimage_4_link_16shapeimage_4_link_17shapeimage_4_link_18shapeimage_4_link_19shapeimage_4_link_20shapeimage_4_link_21shapeimage_4_link_22shapeimage_4_link_23shapeimage_4_link_24shapeimage_4_link_25shapeimage_4_link_26shapeimage_4_link_27shapeimage_4_link_28shapeimage_4_link_29shapeimage_4_link_30shapeimage_4_link_31shapeimage_4_link_32shapeimage_4_link_33shapeimage_4_link_34shapeimage_4_link_35shapeimage_4_link_36shapeimage_4_link_37shapeimage_4_link_38shapeimage_4_link_39shapeimage_4_link_40shapeimage_4_link_41shapeimage_4_link_42shapeimage_4_link_43shapeimage_4_link_44

Photographs (clockwise): Light/HANGAR (2006) by Heather Carson; Catalog for Pat O’Neill: Views from Lookout Mountain exhibition designed by Michael Worthington and published by SMMOA/Steidl; a page from the

DVD prototype of Making Things Up: The Education of the Imagination

by Remy Charlip designed by Dale Herigstad; Two Trees (1985) by

Katherine Finkelpearl, and Water Table (1972) by Anthony McCall.