Art Portfolio Resume contact information

Education

Alfred University, Alfred, NY. 2005-2007

  • Master of Fine Arts, Graduate Fellowship

Tufts University, Medford, MA. 1996-2001

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts, Concurrent education with School of the Museum of Fine Arts

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, (SMFA) Boston, MA. 1996-2001

  • Concentration in sound and video installation art

Experience

Assistant Professor of Media Art University of Louisiana at Lafayette – 2007- 2008

  • Art and the Computer VAIR 235
  • Media Workshop1 VAIR 335
  • Media Workshop2 VAIR 435

Media Director—Berwick Research Institute, 2000-2004

  • Co-founder of the Berwick Research Institute, a 501(c)(3) arts space
  • Curator and producer of exhibitions and events
  • Live sound engineer
  • Webmaster: designed, built, and maintained web site

Web Designer—Earth On Empty, JT Studios, 2002-2003

  • Webmaster: designed, built and maintained web site
  • Maintained public outreach and sales

Freelance Carpenter—1997-2004

  • Fabricated sound dampening systems
  • Designed and constructed sound studio furniture
  • Construction of mobile sound studios

Skills

Computer:

  • Macintosh, Microsoft and Linux platforms,
  • Microsoft Office, Page Maker

Graphic Design:

  • Adobe Creative Suite 3 Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Fireworks

Web Design:

  • HTML, XHTML, PHP, BBedit, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash

Video Production:

  • Analog/digital video production and post production
  • Non-linear software editing: Final Cut Pro Studo, FCP, Soundtrack Pro, Motion, Color, Compressor, DVD Studio, Premire and Media 100
  • Real time video generation + processing using MAX / JITTER, Quartz Composer and home made analog video synthesizers.

Animation:

  • After Effects, Flash, Frame Thief, Camera-less Film Animation, Alternative Processing

Audio Engineering:

  • Analog and digital recording technologies
  • Post-production editing: ProTools, Digital Performer 4.0, Logic, Peak, Audacity, Live and Reason
  • Live sound reinforcement

Audio Synthesis:

  • Design and construction of modular analog synthesizers as well as digital programming languages such as MAX MSP, Pure Data and Reaktor 4

Photography:

  • Fluent in analog and digital technologies.
  • Skilled in traditional darkroom and digital printing via Epson 9600, Giclee and Iris printers.
  • Well-versed in DSLR + 35mm, medium and large format cameras

Electronics:

  • Basic analog circuit design, construction and repair

Physical Computing:

  • Robotics and mechanical automation though micro-controllers, MIDI, serial and parallel port.
  • Sensor design and implementation with interactive software such as MAX

Carpentry

  • Knowledgeable of modern woodworking techniques and skilled in using traditional hand tools
  • Proficient in traditional timber framing by hand and traditional joinery techniques

Construction

  • Design, fabrication and destruction of various structures large and small
  • Experience in remodeling, plasterwork, painting, and finish carpentry
  • Basic metal working skills wielding, machining and turning
Exhibitions

“Southern Open” Acadiana Center for the Arts
            May 9th – July 26th 2008 
            www.acadianacenterforthearts.org

“Southern Tier Biennial” Olean Public Library Gallery, Olean, NY
            May 2007 Exhibition Award Recipient
            www.oleanlibrary.org

“Back To Front” Slought Foundation Philadelphia PA
            September 11 - November 06, 2004
            www.slought.org/content/11235/

"Different World" Vox Populi, Philladelphia PA
            June 4th- 27th 2004
            www.voxpopuligallery.org

Ballad of Wires and Hands” New Art Center Newton, Newton MA
            April-June 2003
            Boston Cyber Arts Festival 2003
            www.newartcenter.org

Boom Box” Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA
            February –March 2003 
            www.bcaboston.org

Collision 3” MIT Museum, Cambridge MA
            May 2002
            www.collision.org

Artbots” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
            May 25th 2002 (Winner Peoples Choice)
            www.artbots.org

Electroland” ONI Gallery, Boston MA
            November 30th 2001-January 13th
            www.onigallery.org

"Pressure" Gallery Green Street,  Jamaica Plain MA
             April 21st- May23rd 2001
            www.jameshull.com

"Quadraphonia" Berwick Research Institute, Roxbury MA
            April 28th- May 6th Boston Cyber Arts festival.
            www.bostoncyberarts.org

"Audio Visual"  Allston Skirt Gallery,  Allston MA
            November 5 -December 23  1999
            www.allstonskirt.com

"The Crackpot Theorists and Terminal Technology Show"
            MIT Media Lab-  Cambridge MA
            Boston Cyber Arts Festival 1999
            www.bostoncyberarts.org

 
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