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:
"DEAD SPOT" performance at Dixon Place [New York] Sept. 2011.
"DROP" performance at WestFest [New York] May 2011 & CPR (Center for Performance Research), [Brooklyn] May 2011.
"F!#*FACE" performance at BAX (Brooklyn Arts Exhange), [Brooklyn] Dec. 2010.
"COMPACT and INSIDE OUT" performance at The Rover, [New York] Oct. 2010.
"OVERSIGHT" video exhibited in Parallel Threads show, SVA, [New York] Oct. 2010.
"2FACE" 92nd St. Y, Fridays at Noon series, [New York] Oct. 2010.
"HEELē" performance at The Rover, [New York] May 2010.
"III" performance at Movement Research series at Judson Church, [New York] Mar. 2010.
"PLASTIC MEMBRANE" performance at SITE Fest, [Brooklyn] Mar. 2010.
"VOICE-OVER" performance at the Secret Theatre, [Queens] Feb. 2010.
"2FACE" street performance at BETAspaces festival, [Brooklyn] Nov. 2009.
"TRANSFERENCE" performance, discussion and workshop at New York Electronic Art Festival, [New York] Oct. 2009.
"STRESS POSITIONS" performance presented as part of Roulette's "Mixology" series at Location One, [New York] May 2009.
"ROBOCAM and LEASH" performed at DTW (Dance Theater Workshop), [New York] May 2009.
"$20 UP FRONT" performance at DNA, [New York] Mar. 2009.
"HEEL" performance at Chen Dance Center, [New York] Dec. 2008 and at BAX, [Brooklyn] April, 2009.
"ISLEPTWITHTHELIGHTON" solo performance at Monkeytown, [Brooklyn] Nov. 2008.
"1!2!3!4!" performance at Studio AIR, [Brooklyn] Sept. 2008, Hatch series, [New York] Oct. 2008, Monkeytown, [Brooklyn] Nov. 2008.
"FUNCTION GENERATOR and COVER/UNCOVER" performance at Monkeytown, [Brooklyn] June 2008.
"DO NOT DISCONNECT" performance at Onyx Theater, [Las Vegas] May 2008.
"HOW LONG IS NOW" performance at The Bushwick Starr, [Brooklyn] Apr. 2008.
"OUD PLAYER" video presented at GIAF Gyeongnam International Art Festival [Korea] 2007.
"UNDERMINED" solo performance, presented at New York Digital Salon, [New York] ISEA2006[San Jose], SFBOCA [San Francisco] August, 2006.
"BIRD-OF-PREY" solo performance, presented as part of Roulette's "Mixology" series at Location One [New York] June, 2004.
"E.S.B." (Electronic Sandwich Board) 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] Jan. 2003.
Interviewed for "Mekkituote" program on YLE radio channel, [Helsinki] May 2002.
"AUTOHARP" solo A/V performance project- Museum of Contemporary Art, [Lyon, France], NTT ICC [Tokyo], Tonic [New York], Roulette [New York], DCTV [New York], Transmedia '99 Festival [San Francisco] , Circulo de Bellas Artes [Madrid] 1999-2001, New York Digital Salon "Abstract Visual Music" [New York] 2000.
"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, [New York] Sept. 2000.
"COMPOSITE CELLS" solo A/V performance project, NTT ICC [Tokyo], Postmasters gallery [New York], Ars Electronica Recombinant 9.9.99 concert [Linz, Austria], Transmedia '99 Festival [San Francisco], Circulo de Bellas Artes [Madrid], Knitting Factory [New York], Baktun [New York], Baby Jupiter [New York], Collective Unconscious [New York], Roulette [New York], Void [New York], 1999-2000.
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.
Live A/V performance with Christian Marclay at Knitting Factory, [New York] June '99.
Curated "Vivisection" group A/V show, Baktun and Collective Unconscious, [New York] March '99.
"BANDWI[D]TH" group video art show, Knitting Factory, [New York] Sept. '98.
"TECHNOSOPHIA" group musical performance and 3-CD set, The Cooler (NY) January '98, produced by The Swiss Institute, [New York]
"BEZEM" solo audiovisual performance, Save the Robots [New York] June '97 and at SoundLab [New York] 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 [New York] and The Osnabruck European New Media Art Festival [Austria] Sept. '96.
"INDIAN RADIO DAYS" group performance, The National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian Institution [New York] May '96.
"THE REGRESSION OBSESSION" group video art show, Knitting Factory, [New York] Feb. '96.
"POINTS" group student performance, Gerrit Rietveld Academie of Art [Amsterdam] Nov. '94.
