Education
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M.F.A. |
1998
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Electronic Arts |
Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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B.F.A. |
1995
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Painting, Printmaking |
Wayne State
University, Detroit, MI |
Professional Experience
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2004– Present |
Immersive
Designer, The Elumenati, LLC, Asheville, NC –
http://elumenati.com/
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2001– |
Video Designer
& VJ (under the name DEKAM) –
http://node.net/
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1998– 2004 |
President, VIDVOX, LLC, Troy, NY – http://vidvox.com/ Founded & created the innovative live video softwares “VDMX” and “GRID”, now the most widely used of their kind on the Macintosh Platform
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1996– 2003 |
Adjunct Professor, Department of Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Drawing, Net.Art, Computer Art (total of five semesters)
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2000 |
Assistant Instructor, Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria Painting in collaboration Irina Nakhova
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1999 |
Adjunct Professor, Department of Media Arts, Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, NY Sound Design for Video and Film
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1997 |
Instructor, Department of Arts, State University of New York, HVCC, Troy, NY Computer Art (instructor of record) |
Awards/Grants
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2006 |
Officially Sponsored Artist, M-AUDIO, Pasadena, CA |
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2005 |
Nominated “Top Ten VJ’s in the World”, DJ Magazine, London, UK |
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2004 |
National Science Foundation Grant, Molecularium Immersive Dome, Department of Material Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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2003– 2004 |
New York State Council for the Arts Grant, Experimental TV Center Presentation Fund |
Exhibitions/Screenings/Performances
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2005 |
Mirror Story: An Electronic Opera, Duderstadt Center, University of Michigan (video design and performance) Collaborator: Alicyn Warren, composer, Professor of Media Art & Music, University of Michigan
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The Ruse of Medusa, North Carolina Stage Company, Asheville, NC (audio reactive video projection design) Collaborator: David Mcconville
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Test-Portal International Dynamic Now Art, NDSM-werf, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo performance) Curator: Patricia de Ruijter
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European Media Arts Festival (EMAF) - Osnabrück, Germany (live cinema performance) Collaborator: Pure, sound
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The Persistent but Irregular Plot, Club Transmediale, Berlin, Germany (immersive video installation) Collaborator: Pure, sound
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2004 |
Unsorted– Sonic Acts X, Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2 live cinema performances) Collaborators, Pure, sound, Jasch, sound
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WhatWall?, Duderstadt Center, University of Michigan (immersive video design & performance) Collaborator: Brian Sacawa, Associate Professor of Music, University of Arizona
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Pure/DeKam,
MUTEK 5th
Edition,
Ex-Centris, Montreal, Quebec
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Shady National Convention, Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY (televised vj performance) Collaborators: Artfag, LLC, VH1 Networks, Eminem
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Avantoscope, Avanto Festival, Helsinki, Finland (screening) Curator: Vesa Vehvilainen
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Synesthesiologists, New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY (screening) Curators: Benton Bainbridge and David Last
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Tomato, Volume, Brooklyn, NY, (immersive projection design) Collaborators: Tomato Design
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Economical Food Circus, Contemporary Arts Center, North Adams, MA, group exhibit, Curator: Nato Thompson, Mass MoCA
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Bucket Brigade, Firehouse City Arts Gallery, Burlington, VT, group exhibit, Curator: Bree Edwards
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2003 |
Reqoil, Displaced, Peaceoff, PURE DEKAM DVD, label release, edition of 1000, Mego.at/dOc records, Collaborator: Pure, sound
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Revision History, <ALT> Digital, American Museum of the Moving Image, New York, NY, (invitational exhibition), Curator: Carl Goodman
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DYAD, Society for Arts & Technology (SAT), Montreal, Quebec, (live cinema performance), Collaborator: Jasch, sound
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LiveVeviL, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland (live cinema performance) Collaborator: PHOTEK, sound
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Cinefeel Series, Audio Visual Lounge, London, UK (solo live cinema) Curators: AddictiveTV
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2020, AV Fest, Newcastle, UK, (solo live cinema) Curators: The Name Collective
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Pixelache Festival, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Finland (solo live cinema) Curator: Juha Huuskonen
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Pixelache Festival, Gershwin Hotel, New York, NY (solo live cinema) Curator: Juha Huuskonen
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Pixelache Festival, Society for Arts & Technology (SAT) Montreal, Quebec (solo performance) Curator: Juha Huuskonen
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2002 |
Sonarama, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain, (live cinema performance) Curator: Pedro Solar, Collaborator, Jasch, sound
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Motion Detector, Transcinema02 Festival, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (group screening) Curators: Naosim |
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Future Cinema, The Cinematic Imaginary After Film, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (software for installation Zuse2) Curators: Jeffery Shaw and Peter Weibel, Collaborator: Caspar Stracke, artist
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Motion Detector, Artist's Television Access (ATA), San Francisco, CA (group screening) Curator: Naosim
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Authentic Computer Error, 40 miles 40 Artists, Arts Center of the Capital Region , Troy, NY (invitational exhibition)
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American Museum of the Moving Image, New York, NY (ambient video performance) Collaborator: Benton Bainbridge
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Le Mois Multi Festival, Méduse Centre, Quebec City, Quebec (solo immersive performance)
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2001 |
ECHT!ZEIT Festival, Elektronisches Studio, Basel, Switzerland (commissioned composition & performance) Collaborators: Jasch, sound
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Viper21, International Festival for Film Video and New Media , Basel, Switzerland, (live cinema performance) Collaborator: Jasch, sound
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DYAD, dot nu series, V2_lab, Rotterdam, Netherlands (live cinema performance), Curator: Hans Beekman, Collaborator: Jasch, sound
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DYAD, dot nu series, Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands (live cinema performance) Curator: Hans Beekman, Collaborator: Jasch, sound
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DYAD, Podewil Summer Festival, Berlin, Germany (live cinema performance), Curator: Andreas Broekman, Director Transmediale, Collaborator: Jasch, sound
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DYAD, Rhiz, Vienna, Austria (live cinema performance) Curator: Peter Votava, Collaborator: Jasch, sound
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Delta
Heavy Tour,
Sasha & John Digweed, North American Tour, 35
cities (video design and live VJ performance)
Produced by Immortal Entertainment and Imaginary
Forces |
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The
Luggage Store Gallery, San
Francisco, CA (solo performance) Curator: Steev Hise,
detritus.net |
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2000 |
Idol, Williams College Museum of Art,
Williamstown, Massachusetts
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Pure DeKam, Public Netbase, Vienna, Austria (live cinema) Collaborator: Pure, sound
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Mesostics, Alte Saline Pernerinsel, Hallein, Austria (solo performance) Curator: Barbara Wally, Director, Summer Academy of Art Salzburg
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Ethel String
Quartet, The
Flea Theater, New York, NY (VJ
performance)
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1999 |
The Man Who Knew To Much, Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, NY (solo performance)
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Pentet.0+55, Medicine Show Theater, New York, NY (group multimedia performance) Collaborators: Holland Hopson (sax and processing), John Jannone (computer music), David Gibson (cello), Kurt Ralske (video)
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1998 |
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY (software, installation & performance)
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Output To
Print,
Arts Center
of the Capital Region, Troy, New
York
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1997 |
Alvin Lucier: 40 Rooms, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, (concert production & CDROM) Limited release of 1000, Funded by the New York State Council for the Arts
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Agents, The Kitchen Performance Space, New York City, NY (solo performance)
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Tale of the Middleman - UnNatural Thirst, Exquisite Corpse Gallery, Burlington, VT (interactive installation) Curators: Jager Di Paolo Kemp Design, Collaborators: Michael Oatman, John Jannone, installation artists
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1996 |
The Body Machines & Music, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (solo performance)
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Ethereal Corporeal - Performance for Surveillance, Standard Furniture Building, Troy, NY (public space performance)
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1995 |
Cyclops,
Bard College
School of Music, Annondale on the Hudson, NY,
and
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Cathedral of Time, Michigan Central Depot, Detroit, MI (large scale collaborative installation with 20+ artists) Curator: Irina Nakhova
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1994 |
Cycles, Spheres & Loops, The Space Gallery, Detroit, MI (solo exhibition mixed media) Curator: Jim Puntingham
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Bibliography
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2005 |
"Video Out", Documentary, 13 Bit Productions, ASIN: B000CC2GXA (interview)
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Paul Spinrad, "The VJ Book", Feral House, ISBN 1-932595-09-0, (software chapter)
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2004 |
Mia Makela aka SOLU, "VJ Culture: From Loop Industry To Real Time Scenarios", Repellent Magazine Vol2 |
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2003 |
"Dyad", SonarOnline, AdvancedMusic, Spain (interview) |
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“PikseliÄHKY, Cimatics festival di suono e imagine”, Neural.it (review) |
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Joe Cellini, "Video Spin", Apple.com (news feature)
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"Dyad", Kultur Digital, Arte-TV, Switzerland (review) |
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Michael Heap, "PixelAche Review", VJs.net, UK (review) |
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2002 |
VJTV, public access TV, San Francisco, CA (interview) |
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Jean Poole, “Audio Visual Sync-ing”, Octopod.org, Melbourne, AU (interview) |
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2001 |
Barbara Gibson, "Multimedia Macbeth: Three actors play 40 roles", Apple.com (news feature)
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Conferences
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2004 |
Node Based Video, AVIT International VJ Conference Brighton, UK (software presentation)
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2003 |
American VJ History, AVIT North American VJ Conference, Chicago, Heaven Gallery (panel discussion)
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2002 |
King of the Cowboys Deconstruction, Version>2 Festival - Museum Contemporary Art, Chicago (lecture)
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2001 |
The Velveteen Rabbit, Siggraph 2000, Los Angeles, California (software presentation/performance) Collaborator: Netochka Nezvanova
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2000 |
NATO.0+55, Interferences, Belfort, France (software presentation/performance) Curator: Anne LeForet, Collaborator: Netochka Nezvanova
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2000 |
Nato Summit, Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF) V2_Lab Rotterdam, Netherlands (invitational workshop & panel)
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Lectures/Workshops/Residencies
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2006 |
Artists’ Forum, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC (Artist Lecture) |
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2005 |
Symposium on the Future of Visualization, University of North Carolina at Asheville (Artist Lecture) |
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2004 |
Pure DeKam Session, Ecole des Beax-arts de Rennes, France (3 week residency) Collaborator: Pure, sound
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Video for Theatrical Production, Incidents Memorable, Paris, France (7 day workshop)
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Video for Theatrical Production, La Filature Scène Nationale, Mulhouse, France (7 day workshop) |