BIO:
Born 1968 in Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
Lives and works in New York, NY.
Electronic Artist, Performer, Musician/Composer.
Instructor and Systems Administrator MFA Computer Art department, School of Visual Arts, New York.
Freelance digital media developer.
EDUCATION:
MFA 1999, School of Visual Arts, Computer Art, MFA Students Commencement Speaker, Thesis Advisor- David Byrne.
BFA 1995, University of Iowa, Major in Intermedia Art, Minor in Music.
Freelance Clients include:
Compaq, David Byrne, Paula Cooper Gallery, Fisher Price, GE, AgencyRx, Julia Scher, Luaka Bop Records, Christian Marclay, MTV, Nickelodeon, Sting, Xerox
ARTIST ACTIVITY:
"III" performance (with Julie Fotheringham) at Movement Research series at Judson Church, NY, March 2010
"2FACE" street performance (with Julie Fotheringham) at BETAspaces festival, Brooklyn, November 2009
"TRANSFERENCE" performance, discussion and workshop (with Julie Fotheringham) at NYEAF (New York Electronic Art Festival), Oct. 2009
"STRESS POSITIONS" performance (with Julie Fotheringham) presented as part of Roulette's "Mixology" series at Location One (NY), May 2009
"$20 UP FRONT" performance (with Julie Fotheringham) at DNA (NY), Mar. 2009
"HEEL" performance (with Julie Fotheringham) at Chen Dance Center (NY), Dec. 2008 and at BAX, Brooklyn, April, 2009
"ISLEPTWITHTHELIGHTON" solo performance at Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY, Nov. 2008
"1!2!3!4!" performance (with Julie Fotheringham) at Studio A.I.R., Brooklyn, Sept. 2008, Hatch series, NY, Oct. 2008, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY, Nov. 2008
"FUNCTION GENERATOR" & "COVER/UNCOVER" performance (with Julie Fotheringham) at Monkeytown, Brooklyn, June 2008.
"DO NOT DISCONNECT" performance (with Julie Fotheringham) at The Onyx Theater, Las Vegas, May 2008.
"HOW LONG IS NOW" performance (with Julie Fotheringham) at The Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, April 2008.
"OUD PLAYER" video art piece, presented at GIAF, Gyeongnam International Art Festival, Korea, 2007.
"UNDERMINED" performance, presented at ISEA Symposium 2006, Diapason gallery (NY), Digital Salon (NY), SFBOCA (San Francisco), Mushroom Arts Gallery (NY), 2006-present.
"BIRD-OF-PREY" performance, presented as part of Roulette's "Mixology" series at Location One (NY), June, 2004.
"E.S.B.S." (Electronic Sandwich Board Sign) Project shown at PixelAche festival (New York), Sept. 2003
"LOST AS HEAT" DVD-Video presented at PixelAche festival (Helsinki), May 2002, Transcinema Festival (San Francisco), Oct. 2002, Immedia Festival (Ann Arbor, Michigan), Jan. 2003.
Interviewed for "Mekkituote" program on YLE radio channel, Finland, May 2002.
"AUTOHARP" solo A/V performance project- Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon (France), NTT ICC (Tokyo), Tonic (NY),
Roulette (NY), DCTV (NY), Transmedia '99 Festival (San Francisco), Circulo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), 1999-2001.
"Women in Office Window and Soldiers"- part of group show "No Live Girls", San Francisco and Seattle, 2001-2002.
"COMPOSITE CELLS" project adapted for display at MTV Video Music Awards, Sept. 2000.
"COMPOSITE CELLS" solo A/V performance project, NTT ICC (Tokyo), Postmasters gallery, Ars Electronica Recombinant 9.9.99 concert (Linz), Transmedia '99 Festival (San Francisco), Circulo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), Knitting Factory, Baktun, Abstrakt Future Lounge, Baby Jupiter, Collective Unconscious, Roulette, Void (NY), 1999-2000.
Created a computer-based guestbook for Julia Scher's "Ameratherm" exhibition at Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY, 2000.
Profiled in article, STUDIO VOICE Multimedia Mix Magazine, June 2000 issue,Vol. 294, Tokyo.
Awarded ROULETTE Emerging Artist Commission with funds from the Jerome Foundation, '99.
Guest on GH Hovagimyan's "Collider" show on The Thing www.thing.net Sept. '99.
Live A/V performance with Christian Marclay at Knitting Factory, June '99.
Curated "Vivisection" group A/V show, Baktun and Collective Unconscious, March '99.
"BANDWI[D]TH" group video art show, Knitting Factory, Sept. '98.
"TECHNOSOPHIA" group musical performance and 3-CD set, The Cooler (NY) January '98, produced by The Swiss Institute (NY).
"BEZEM" solo audiovisual performance, Save the Robots (NY) June '97 and at SoundLab (NY) Apr. '97.
"PORT: Navigating Digital Cultures" group performance via Internet, organized by MIT and artnetweb, also included participants from France, UK, Australia and US, Mar. '97.
"HIVE 3" CD-ROM, The New York International Video & New Media Festival (NY), and The Osnabrªck European New Media Art Festival (Austria), Sept. '96.
"INDIAN RADIO DAYS" group performance, The National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian Institution (NY) May '96.
"THE REGRESSION OBSESSION" group video art show, Knitting Factory, Feb. '96.
"POINTS" group student performance, Gerrit Rietveld Academie of Art (Amsterdam) Nov. '94.
