Education

 

M.F.A.

1998

 

Electronic Arts

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
http://arts.rpi.edu/

 

B.F.A.

1995

 

Painting, Printmaking

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
http://www.art.wayne.edu/

 

 

Professional Experience

 

2004–

Present

Immersive Designer, The Elumenati, LLC, Asheville, NC – http://elumenati.com/
Software, content and production for leading immersive firm, clients include nVidia, Hewlett Packard, Cirque du Soliel, NASA, University of Plymouth

 

2001–
Present

Video Designer & VJ (under the name DEKAM) – http://node.net/
Live video systems and content for professional productions. Have toured internationally with clients including Thomas Dolby, Eminem, Sasha & John Digweed, Photek, Deadbeat, MTVu, VH1, Joshua Harris, and numerous new media festivals

 

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

 

1996–

2003

Adjunct Professor, Department of Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Drawing, Net.Art, Computer Art  (total of five semesters)

 

2000

Assistant Instructor, Summer Academy of  Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria

Painting in collaboration Irina Nakhova

 

1999

Adjunct Professor, Department of Media Arts, Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, NY

Sound Design for Video and Film

 

1997

Instructor, Department of Arts, State University of New York, HVCC, Troy, NY

Computer Art (instructor of record)

 

 

Awards/Grants

        

2006

Officially Sponsored Artist, M-AUDIO, Pasadena, CA

2005

Nominated “Top Ten VJ’s in the World”, DJ Magazine, London, UK

2004

National Science Foundation Grant, Molecularium Immersive Dome, Department of Material Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

2003–

2004

New York State Council for the Arts Grant, Experimental TV Center Presentation Fund

 

 


Exhibitions/Screenings/Performances

 

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

 

 

The Ruse of Medusa, North Carolina Stage Company, Asheville, NC (audio reactive video projection design) Collaborator: David Mcconville

 

 

Test-Portal International Dynamic Now Art, NDSM-werf, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo performance) Curator: Patricia de Ruijter

 

 

European Media Arts Festival (EMAF) - Osnabrück, Germany (live cinema performance) Collaborator: Pure, sound

 

 

The Persistent but Irregular Plot, Club Transmediale, Berlin, Germany (immersive video installation) Collaborator: Pure, sound

 

2004

Unsorted– Sonic Acts X, Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2 live cinema performances) Collaborators, Pure, sound, Jasch, sound

 

 

WhatWall?, Duderstadt Center, University of Michigan (immersive video design & performance) Collaborator: Brian Sacawa, Associate Professor of Music, University of Arizona

 

 

Pure/DeKam, MUTEK 5th Edition, Ex-Centris, Montreal, Quebec
(live cinema performance) Collaborator: Pure, sound

 

 

Shady National Convention, Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY (televised vj performance) Collaborators: Artfag, LLC, VH1 Networks, Eminem

 

 

Avantoscope, Avanto Festival, Helsinki, Finland (screening) Curator: Vesa Vehvilainen

 

 

Synesthesiologists, New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY (screening) Curators: Benton Bainbridge and David Last

 

 

Tomato, Volume, Brooklyn, NY, (immersive projection design) Collaborators: Tomato Design

 

 

Economical Food Circus, Contemporary Arts Center, North Adams, MA, group exhibit, Curator: Nato Thompson, Mass MoCA

 

 

Bucket Brigade, Firehouse City Arts Gallery, Burlington, VT, group exhibit, Curator: Bree Edwards

 

2003

Reqoil, Displaced, Peaceoff, PURE DEKAM DVD, label release, edition of 1000,  Mego.at/dOc records, Collaborator: Pure, sound

 

 

Revision History, <ALT> Digital, American Museum of the Moving Image, New York, NY, (invitational exhibition), Curator: Carl Goodman

 

 

DYAD, Society for Arts & Technology (SAT), Montreal, Quebec, (live cinema performance), Collaborator: Jasch, sound

 

 

LiveVeviL, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland (live cinema performance) Collaborator: PHOTEK, sound

 

 

Cinefeel Series, Audio Visual Lounge, London, UK

(solo live cinema) Curators: AddictiveTV

 

 

2020, AV Fest, Newcastle, UK, (solo live cinema) Curators: The Name Collective

 

 

Pixelache Festival, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Finland (solo live cinema) Curator: Juha Huuskonen

 

 

Pixelache Festival, Gershwin Hotel, New York, NY (solo live cinema) Curator: Juha Huuskonen

 

 

Pixelache Festival, Society for Arts & Technology (SAT) Montreal, Quebec (solo performance) Curator: Juha Huuskonen

 

2002

Sonarama, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain, (live cinema performance) Curator: Pedro Solar, Collaborator, Jasch, sound

 

 

Motion Detector, Transcinema02 Festival, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (group screening) Curators: Naosim

 

Future Cinema, The Cinematic Imaginary After Film, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (software for installation Zuse2)  Curators: Jeffery Shaw and Peter Weibel, Collaborator: Caspar Stracke, artist

 

 

Motion Detector, Artist's Television Access (ATA), San Francisco, CA (group screening) Curator: Naosim

 

 

Authentic Computer Error, 40 miles 40 Artists, Arts Center of the Capital Region , Troy, NY (invitational exhibition)

 

 

American Museum of the Moving Image, New York, NY (ambient video performance) Collaborator: Benton Bainbridge

 

 

Le Mois Multi Festival, Méduse Centre, Quebec City, Quebec (solo immersive performance)

 

2001

ECHT!ZEIT Festival, Elektronisches Studio, Basel, Switzerland (commissioned composition & performance) Collaborators: Jasch, sound

 

 

Viper21, International Festival for Film Video and New Media , Basel, Switzerland, (live cinema performance) Collaborator: Jasch, sound

 

 

DYAD, dot nu series, V2_lab, Rotterdam, Netherlands (live cinema performance), Curator: Hans Beekman, Collaborator: Jasch, sound

 

 

DYAD, dot nu series, Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands (live cinema performance) Curator: Hans Beekman, Collaborator: Jasch, sound

 

 

DYAD, Podewil Summer Festival, Berlin, Germany (live cinema performance), Curator: Andreas Broekman, Director Transmediale, Collaborator: Jasch, sound

 

 

DYAD, Rhiz, Vienna, Austria (live cinema performance) Curator: Peter Votava, Collaborator: Jasch, sound

 

 

Delta Heavy Tour, Sasha & John Digweed, North American Tour, 35 cities (video design and live VJ performance) Produced by Immortal Entertainment and Imaginary Forces

 

The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo performance) Curator: Steev Hise, detritus.net

2000

Idol, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
(software for interactive installation) Curator: Ian Berry, Tang Museum of Art, Collaborator: Michael Oatman, Installation Artist

 

 

Pure DeKam, Public Netbase, Vienna, Austria (live cinema) Collaborator: Pure, sound

 

 

Mesostics, Alte Saline Pernerinsel, Hallein, Austria (solo performance) Curator: Barbara Wally, Director, Summer Academy of Art Salzburg

 

 

Ethel String Quartet, The Flea Theater, New York, NY (VJ performance)
Collaborator: Todd Reynolds, composer, violinist

 

1999

The Man Who Knew To Much, Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, NY (solo performance)

 

 

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)

 

1998

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY (software, installation & performance)

 

 

Output To Print, Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, New York
(group show) Curator: Paul Miyamoto

 

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

 

 

Agents, The Kitchen Performance Space, New York City, NY (solo performance)

 

 

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

 

1996

The Body Machines & Music, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (solo performance)

 

 

Ethereal Corporeal - Performance for Surveillance, Standard Furniture Building, Troy, NY (public space performance)

 

1995

Cyclops, Bard College School of Music, Annondale on the Hudson, NY, and
NYU Tisch School of Art, New York City, NY (solo performance)

 

 

Cathedral of Time, Michigan Central Depot, Detroit, MI  (large scale collaborative installation with 20+ artists) Curator: Irina Nakhova

 

1994

Cycles, Spheres & Loops, The Space Gallery, Detroit, MI (solo exhibition mixed media) Curator: Jim Puntingham

 

 

 

Bibliography

 

2005

"Video Out", Documentary, 13 Bit Productions, ASIN: B000CC2GXA (interview)

 

 

Paul Spinrad, "The VJ Book", Feral House, ISBN 1-932595-09-0, (software chapter)

 

2004

Mia Makela aka SOLU, "VJ Culture: From Loop Industry To Real Time Scenarios", Repellent Magazine Vol2

 

2003

"Dyad", SonarOnline, AdvancedMusic, Spain (interview)

 

“PikseliÄHKY, Cimatics festival di suono e imagine”, Neural.it (review)

 

Joe Cellini, "Video Spin", Apple.com (news feature)

 

 

"Dyad", Kultur Digital, Arte-TV, Switzerland (review)

 

Michael Heap, "PixelAche Review", VJs.net, UK (review)

2002

VJTV, public access TV, San Francisco, CA (interview)

 

Jean Poole, “Audio Visual Sync-ing”, Octopod.org, Melbourne, AU (interview)

2001

Barbara Gibson, "Multimedia Macbeth: Three actors play 40 roles", Apple.com (news feature)

 

 

 

 

Conferences

 

2004

Node Based Video, AVIT International VJ Conference Brighton, UK (software presentation)

 

2003

American VJ History, AVIT North American VJ Conference, Chicago, Heaven Gallery (panel discussion)

 

2002

King of the Cowboys Deconstruction, Version>2 Festival - Museum Contemporary Art, Chicago (lecture)

 

2001

The Velveteen Rabbit, Siggraph 2000, Los Angeles, California (software presentation/performance) Collaborator: Netochka Nezvanova

 

2000

NATO.0+55, Interferences, Belfort, France (software presentation/performance) Curator: Anne LeForet, Collaborator: Netochka Nezvanova

 

2000

Nato Summit, Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF) V2_Lab Rotterdam, Netherlands (invitational workshop & panel)

 

 

 

Lectures/Workshops/Residencies

 

2006

Artists’ Forum, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC (Artist Lecture)

2005

Symposium on the Future of Visualization, University of North Carolina at Asheville (Artist Lecture)

2004

Pure DeKam Session, Ecole des Beax-arts de Rennes, France (3 week residency) Collaborator: Pure, sound

 

 

Video for Theatrical Production, Incidents Memorable, Paris, France (7 day workshop)

 

 

Video for Theatrical Production, La Filature Scène Nationale, Mulhouse, France (7 day workshop)