School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Master of Fine Arts, Art & Technology 1998 - 2000
State University of New York at Geneseo. Bachelor of Arts, Major: Theater, Minors: Studio Art, English Composition. 1993 - 1997

Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, Columbia College Chicago. Aug. 2008 - present
Assistant Professor of New Media, San Francisco State University. Aug. 2003 - May 2008
Adjunct Lecturer Art & Technology Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Jan. 2000 - May 2003
Instructor Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL. Aug. 2002 - May 2003
Lecturer Columbia College Chicago, Multimedia Program. Chicago, IL. Aug. 1999 - May 2001
Instructor Harold Washington College, Art Department. Chicago, IL. Aug. 1998- Dec. 1999
Instructor Mac University, Digital Media Training. Chicago, IL. Dec. 1998 - May 2001

2008 San Francisco State University Faculty Development Grant San Francisco, CA
2005 Nomination: 2006 Rockefeller Media Arts Grant New York, NY
2004 Nomination: 2005 Rockefeller Media Arts Grant New York, NY
2004 Whitney Museum of American Art, Honorarium New York, NY
2004 Rhizome.org / Jerome Foundation, Commission: Misplaced Reliquary New York, NY
2004 Turbulence / National Endowment for the Arts, Commission: Collective Geology of the Erased Space New York, NY
2001 Columbia College Chicago, Technology Fellowship Chicago, IL
1998 New York Foundation for the Arts, Special Opportunity Stipend New York, NY

1708 Gallery (solo) Richmond, VA
Jack Olsen Gallery, Northern Illinois University (solo) Dekalb, IL
"Artistic Mediums" at the Museum of New Art Detroit, MI

Gallery 2, Washington State University (solo) Pullman, WA
Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron Akron, OH
"DIY or DIE" at the IAO Gallery Oklahoma City, OK

New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, NY
SFMOMA Artist's Gallery San Francisco, CA
San Francisco State University, Fine Arts Gallery San Francisco, CA
Centro Cultural Telemar (Prog:Me Media Arts Festival) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Festival Internacional De Linguagem Electronica (FILE) Sao Paulo, Brazil
3rd Annual Thailand Media Arts Festival Bangkok, Thailand

Whitney Museum of American Art: Artport (solo) New York, NY
Festival Internacional De Linguagem Electronica (FILE) Sao Paulo, Brazil
Center for Interactive Media Studies Oxford, OH
Kala Art Institute Berkeley, CA
Fylkingen HZ Net Gallery Stockholm, Sweden

New Forms Festival Vancouver, Canada
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
The Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin, Ireland
Chiang Mai New Media Art Festival Chiang Mai, Thailand
Stuttgarter Filmwinter Stuttgarter, Germany
RRF Festival Cologne, Germany
Istanbul 2003 Web Biennale Istanbul, Turkey

Villette Numerique Paris, France
Artmedia 2002 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Rhizome New York, NY
Strange Fruits Amsterdam, Netherlands
Digital Interactive Artist's Network New York, NY
Whalelane New York, NY
MediaHexa Art Festival Seoul, Korea

roARaTorio Festival Paris, France
Planet Art Heneglo, Netherlands
Het Wilde Wetten Rotterdam, Netherlands
Personal Vision Festival Kobe, Japan
CinemaTexas 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 Theater Cleveland, OH
Angelika Film Center New York City, NY
26th Flicks on 66 Festival Albuquerque, NM
2nd Annual Vancouver Film Festival Victoria, BC, Canada
Expresion en Corto Film Festival Guanajuato, Mexico
ANIMAC01 Barcelona, Spain
Horscircuit Recontres Festival Paris/Berlin

Inside Art Gallery *catalogue Chicago IL
St. Balbach Art Production Vienna, Austria
IndieKino Seoul, Korea
Crash Audiovisual Festival Mexico City, Mexico
OvarVideo *catalog Ovar, Portugal
Wollongong Film Festival Wollongong, Australia
Enter Multimediale Festival Prague, Austria
Commencement Art Gallery Tacoma, Washington
Cineteca Nacional Mexico City, Mexico
Chopo Festival Chopo, Mexico
Chinsegut Film & Video Festival Tampa, Florida
Neues Kino Basel, Switzerland

Center on Contemporary Art Seattle, WA
Ukranian Museum of Modern Art *catalogue Chicago, IL
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL
Union Street Gallery Chicago, IL
Independent Exposure Seattle, WA
Zeitgeist Art and Coffee Seattle, WA
Psychotronic Film Festival Washington DC
DayDream Theatre Washington DC
Bar Garsouille Caen, France
ANIMAC99 Llieda, Spain
L'Alternativa'99 Barcelona, Spain
Estonian Film Festival Tallinn, Estonia
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival Bangkok, Thailand

2008 Randler, Ted. Paul Catanese at 1708 Gallery, URGE, Summer 2008. Vol 1, Issue 2, 28.
2006 Shinn, Dorothy. Modern Art for the Game Boy Crowd, Akron Beacon Journal, Sunday January 15, 2006. E4
2005 Proyen, Mark Van. ECO Exhibit, Artweek, Nov. 2005.
2003 Ins Netz gegangen:Fischtanks. Stuttgarter Zeitung, www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de, April 2003
2002 Ludovico, Alessandro. Invisible Maps, cartografie dell'inconscio. Neural Online, www.neural.it, Apr. 2002

2008 The Small Magnetism: Interrogating the Nature of Collection, essay, published in Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus ISSN: 1942017X in the Fall 2008 Imaging in the Digital issue. 2007 Evolution of a GBA Artist, essay, published within 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. ISBN: 0672322285.
2001 Vector Math (is not the tool of satan) Published November 2001, director-online.com
2001 Working with Random Vectors Published December 2001, director-online.com
2000 Introduction to EZIO (physical computing, alternative input devices) Published December 2000, director-online.com

2009 CAA Conference. Los Angeles, CA. I co-chaired a panel with Joan Truckenbrod entitled: The Tangiality of Digital Media.
2008 CAA Conference. Dallas, TX. I was the panel chair for a New Media Caucus affiliate panel held during the 2008 CAA Conference at the Dallas Contemporary Gallery entitled: art blogging==global.exhibit(local);.
2004 Center for Interactive Media Studies, Miami University. Oxford, OH. Gallery talk to coincide with exhibition of artwork at the 2004 Interactive Media Forum.
2003 Digital Games Research Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands. Paper: Where have all the video-game console artists gone?
2003 Version 3 Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL. Workshop: Using the Gameboy as an device for artistic expression
2002 Macromedia Devcon, Orlando, FL Presentation: Real Time 3D Programming
1997 Association for Theater in Higher Education Conference, Chicago, IL. Paper: Interactivity vs. Reactivity

2009 Central School Project Artist Community. Bisbee, AZ. Artist-in-Residence, June, 2009
2007 Prairie Center of the Arts. Peoria, IL. Artist-in-Residence, June – July 2007.
2003 Kala Art Institute. Berkeley, CA Fellowship Award Artist Residency, January – August 2004

2008 Northern Illinois University. Dekalb, IL
2007 Bradley University. Peoria, IL. I was invited to speak to the students of the Art department at Bradley University as part of the Visual Voices professional lecture series in March of 2007.
2006 Washington State University, Pullman. I was invited to visit the WSU art department in March, 2006 for a week-long visit of student critique, public discussion and project development.
Advanced Printmaking at San Francisco State University. I was invited to be the guest artist for Art Department Chair, Barbara Foster’s Advanced Printmaking class in which the eight students in the class focused on printing a limited edition of one of my images during the Spring 2006 semester.
2005 University of Kentucky, Lexington. I was invited to visit the UKY art department in November, 2005 for a week-long visit of student critique, public discussion and project development.
Guest Critic at Art Department, San Francisco State University. I was invited to participate as a guest critic to an interdisciplinary arts graduate seminar for Fall 2005 semester.
2004 First Year Program & Art & Technology Graduate Seminar, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, October 2004
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2002 Northern Illinois University, Dekalb IL
Harvard Extension School, Boston MA
Macromedia Headquarters, San Francisco CA
2001 Association for Multimedia Communications, Chicago, IL

2008 Visual Thinking by Colin Ware. ISBN 0123708966
2004 Flash out of the Box by Robert Hoekman. ISBN 0596006918
2003 Special Edition Using Macromedia Director MX by Gary Rosenzweig. ISBN 0789729032

2008 California Polytechnic State University, Art & Design Department Student Show

College Art Association (CAA) CAA Website
New Media Caucus (NMC) (President of the Caucus for 2009-2012 term) NMC Website

Blackchair Productions / Microcinema International. San Francisco, CA
Offline Networks. Ithaca, NY

Art & Technology Studies Deptartment, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Cradle Oak Press Archives at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
Frank V. de Bellis Collection at the J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco
Kala Art Institute Permanent Collection, Berkeley, California
Personal Collection of Christopher English
Prairie Center of the Arts Permanent Collection, Peoria, IL

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