CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
2000
MFA – School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Department of Art & Technology Studies
Chicago, IL
1997
BA – State University of New York at Geneseo
School of Performing Arts: Major in Theatre (Lighting, Sound)
Minors in Studio Art, English Composition
Geneseo, NY
Professional Experience
2003 – present
Assistant Professor, New Media
San Francisco State University
Department of Design & Industry
San Francisco, CA
2000 – 2004
President & Founder: Skeletonmoon, Inc.
New Media Design, Development & Consulting Firm
Chicago, IL
2000 – 2003
Lecturer: Animation , Digital Imaging, Virtual Reality
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Department of Art & Technology Studies
Chicago, IL
2002 – 2003
Instructor: Animation
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
1999 – 2001
Lecturer: Multimedia Development
Columbia College
Department of Academic Computing
Chicago, IL
1998 – 1999
Lecturer: Digital Imaging, Graphic Design
Harold Washington College
Department of Art & Design
Chicago, IL
1999 – 2002
Instructor: Multimedia Development
Mac University (Private Training Company)
Chicago, IL
Grants, Honors and Awards
2005
Nomination: 2006 Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship
New York City, NY
2004
Nomination: 2005 Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship
New York City, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art
Honorarium for Artport Exhibition
New York City, NY
Rhizome.org / Jerome Foundation
Commission for artwork: Misplaced Reliquary
New York City, NY
Turbulence.org / National Endowment for the Arts
Commission for artwork: Collective Geology of the Erased Space
New York City, NY
2003
Kala Art Institute
Artist-in-Residence Fellowship Award
Residency at Kala from January – August 2004
Berkeley, CA
2001
Columbia College Technology Fellowship
Technology Fellowship for Curriculum Development
Chicago, IL
Macromedia Site of the Day Award
For artwork: Invisible Maps
San Francisco, CA
1998
New York Foundation for the Arts
Special Opportunity Stipend
New York, NY
1996
Geneseo Foundation
Creative Research Summer Fellowship
Geneseo, NY
1995
Geneseo Foundation
Research Grant
Geneseo, NY
Screening & Exhibition Record
2006
Gallery 2, Washington State University
Pullman, WA
Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron
Akron, OH
2005
New Museum of Contemporary Art
New York City, NY
SFMOMA Artist's Gallery
San Francisco, CA
International Center for the Arts, San Francisco State Univ.
San Francisco, CA
3rd Annual Thailand Media Arts Festival
Bangkok, Thailand
Centro Cultural Telemar (Prog:Me Media Arts Festival)
Rio De Janiero , Brasil
Festival Internacional De Linguagem Electronica (FILE)
Sao Paulo, Brasil
2004
Whitney Museum of American Art (Artport)
New York, NY
Festival Internacional De Linguagem Electronica (FILE)
Sao Paulo, Brasil
Center for Interactive Media Studies
Oxford, OH
Kala Art Institute
Berkeley, CA
Fylkingen HZ Net Gallery
Stockholm, Sweden
2003
New Forms Festival
Vancouver, Canada
Museum of Contemporary Art (Version03 Festival)
Chicago, IL
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Dublin, Ireland
Chiang Mai New Media Art Festival
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Stuttgarter Filmwinter
Stuttgart, Germany
RRF Festival
Cologne, Germany
Istanbul 2003 Web Biennale
Istanbul, Turkey
2002
Villette Numerique
Paris, France
Artmedia 2002
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Rhizome.org
New York, NY
StrangeFruits.org
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Digital Interactive Artists' Network
New York, NY
Whalelane.org
New York, NY
MediaHexa Art Festival
Seoul, Korea
2001
roARaTorio Festival
Paris, France
Planet Art
Heneglo, Netherlands
Het Wilde Wetten
Roterrdam, Netherlands
Personal Vision Festival
Kobe, Japan
Cinema Texas Outdoor Film Series
Austin, TX
Fountainhead Lounge
Atlanta, GA
Newport Beach Film Festival
Newport Beach, CA
Multimedia Microcinema
Skopje, Macedonia
Zero Room
Monterrey, Mexico
Bellevue Art Museum
Bellevue, WA
MiniCine
Shreveport, LA
Washington Psychotronic Film Society
Washington, DC
Zeitgeist Gallery
Cambridge, MA
20th Crash Film Festival
Mexico City, Mexico
Video Balagan
Boston, MA
Cleveland Public Theatre
Cleveland, OH
Angelika Film Center
New York, NY
Flicks on 66 Festival
Albequerque, NM
Vancouver Film Festival
Victoria, Canada
Expression en Corto Film Festival
Guanajuato, Mexico
ANIMAC01
Barcelona, Spain
Horscircuit Recontres Festival
Paris / Berlin
2000
Inside Art Gallery
Chicago, IL
St. Balbach Art Production
Vienna, Austria
IndieKino
Seoul, Korea
Crash Audiovisual Festival
Mexico City, Mexico
OvarVideo
Ovar, Portugal
Wollongong Film Festival
Wollongong, Australia
Enter Multimediale Fesitval
Prague, Austria
Commencement Art Gallery
Tacoma, WA
Cineteca Nacional
Mexico City, Mexico
Chopo Festival
Chopo, Mexico
Chinsegut Film & Video Festival
Tampa, FL
Neues Kino
Basel, Switzerland
1999
Center on Contemporary Art
Seattle, WA
Ukrainian Museum of Modern Art
Chicago, IL
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Union Street Gallery
Chicago, IL
Independent Exposure
Seattle, WA
Zeitgeist Art & Coffee
Seattle, WA
Psychotronic Film Festival
Washington, DC
Daydream Theatre
Washington, DC
Bar Garsouille
Caen, France
ANIMAC99
Barcelona, Spain
L'Alternativa 99
Llieda, Spain
Estonian Film Festival
Tallinn, Estonia
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival
Bangkok, Thailand
Publication History
2007 Evolution of a GBA Artist, an essay, forthcoming publication in the book: Videogames and Art, Edited by Grethe Mitchell and Andy Clarke. ISBN:1841501425
2003 Where have all the video-game console artists gone? Published November 2003, Level-Up Conference Proceedings, Digital Games Research Association
2001 Director's Third Dimension: Fundamentals of 3D Programming in Director 8.5 Published October 2001, QUE Publishing, 914pgs, CD-ROM
Vector Math (is not the tool of satan) Published November 2001, director-online.com
Working with Random Vectors Published December 2001, director-online.com
2000 Introduction to EZIO (Alternative Input Devices) Published December 2000, director-online.com
Conference & Visiting Artist Lectures
2007 Visiting Speaker at Bradley University, Peoria, IL (upcoming) I have been invited to speak to the students of the Art department at Bradley University as part of their professional lecture series.
2006 Visiting Artist at Washington State University, Pullman I visited the Art department in March, 2006 for a week-long visit of student critique and public discussion.
2005 Visiting Artist at University of Kentucky, Lexington I visited the Art Department in November, 2005 for a five-day visit of student critique, public lecture and project development.
2004 Center for Interactive Media Studies, Miami University. Oxford, Ohio Gallery discussion of my art practice which coincided with exhibition of artwork at the 2004 Interactive Media Forum.
Visiting Artist: First Year Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Visiting Artist: Art & Technolology Graduate Seminar, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Fellowship Gallery Talk: Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
Visiting Artist: Conceptual Information Arts Department, San Francisco State University
2003 Digital Games Research Conference (Level-Up). Utrecht, Netherlands
Paper: Where have all the video-game console artists gone?
Presentation of artwork: Super Ichthyologiest Advance
New Forms Festival. Vancouver, Canada
Paper: Where have all the video-game console artists gone?
Presentation of artwork: Super Ichthyologist Advance
Power Up Festival. Bristol, England
Paper: Where have all the video-game console artists gone?
Version03 Festival. Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago, IL
Workshop: using the Gameboy Advance as a device for creative expression.
2002 Visiting Artist: Art Department, Northern Illinois University. Dekalb, IL
Macromedia Devcon. Orlando, FL
Presented Paper: Real Time 3D Programming.
Guest Lecturer: Harvard Extension School. Boston, MA
Guest Lecturer: Macromedia Headquarters. San Francisco, CA
Guest Lecturer: Boston Lingo Users Group. Boston, MA
2001 Guest Lecturer: Association for Multimedia Communications. Chicago, IL
1997 Association for Theater in Higher Education Conference, Chicago IL
Presented Paper: Interactivity vs. Reactivity
Bibliography
2006 Review: Shinn, Dorothy. "Modern Art for the Gameboy Crowd", Akron Beacon Journal, Jan 15 2006.
2005 Review, Image: Proyen, Mark Van. "ECO: Art About the Environment", Artweek, Nov. 2005.
2003 Review: "Ins Netz gegangen:Fischtanks", Stuttgarter Zeitung, stuttgarter-zeitung.de, Apr. 2003.
2002 Interview: Dredge, Stuart. "User Report Director 8.5" Cre@teOnline Magazine, Feb. 2003, 76-79.
Review: Ludivoco, Alessandro. "Invisible Maps, cartographie dell'inconscio", Neural Online, www.neural.it, Apr. 2002.
1999 Interview: Witter, D. "Animation's Edge", Fra Noi, Oct. 1999, 69, 106.
Technical Editing
2004 Flash out of the Box, by Robert Hoekman
2001 Special Edition Director MX, by Gary Rosenswieg
Professional Memberships
College Art Association (CAA)
New Media Caucus (NMC)
Video Distribution
Blackchair Productions / Microcinema Interational. San Francisco, CA
Offline Networks. Ithaca, NY
Collections
Art & Technology Studies Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Frank V. de Bellis Collection at the J. Paul Leonard Library
Kala Art Institute Permanent Collection, Berkeley, California
Last Modified: August 8, 2006