EXHIBITION HISTORY: SOLO EXHIBITIONS Timeline, Contemporary Dance Theatre, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1999 Selections from Timeline, Do While Studio, Boston, MA 1998 Laboratory, Tangeman Fine Arts Gallery, University of Cincinnati, 1997 GROUP EXHIBITIONS Spacewalk, Moving Image Gallery, New York, NY 2001 Verbal 2: Call and Response, The Kitchen, New York, NY, 2000 Log-In/Locked Out, Berlin, Germany and New York, NY, 2000 The Boston CyberArts Festival, Mobius Gallery, Boston, MA 1999 Leaks, Drips, and Spills, The Actors' Studio, Boston, MA 1999 Arts Noel, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, 1998 Collage Jukebox, Bregenz, Austria, 1998 Tornado (solo performance) as part of the Full Nelson festival, Sand Point Air Force Base, Seattle, Washington, 1998 Timeline (solo performance), Cleveland Performance Art Festival (performance open), 1998 Collage TV, Bregenz, Austria, 1997 Stopover (solo performance), The Dance Hall (Cincinnati,Ohio), 1997 Sound Installations "Seance" and "Voice of the Mummy" presented as part of the Performance and Time Arts Series Halloween Event, 1997 Current Thoughts, Grailville, Loveland, Ohio 1997 Lovely and Fluffy, Semantics Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1997 Compulsive Women, YWCA Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1997 Art to Spare, Machine Shop Gallery Cincinnati, Ohio, 1996 Sculpture Student Show, 840 Gallery, 1996 Electronic Art Student Show, 840 Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1996 Toys in the Attic, York Street Gallery, Newport, Kentucky, 1996 But What About the Sound of Crumpling Paper ... (by John Cage), The Dance Hall, 1996 Wandjina, Performance and Time Arts Series, 1996 To William Castle, for His Gimmicks, Performance and Time Arts Series, 1995 Elastic Plastic, Beat Club, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1995 If This is Home... (solo performance), Wilson Auditorium, 1995 ACCOMPLISHMENTS Guest Panelist, "Webcams as Art," SXSW Conference, Austin, TX 2001 Chosen as one of three subjects of as-yet-untitled documentary film about female artists working with webcams, 2001 Guest Speaker, Pratt Manhattan, 2000 Guest Speaker, Brooklyn College, 1999 Selected Artist in Residence, Do While Studio, Boston, MA, 1998 Selected Artist in Residence, Department of Theatre, College of William and Mary, 1999 Constructed masks for The Skriker, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, 1998 Served on the board of and organized performance art events for the Performance and Time Arts Series, Cincinnati, 1997-98. Wrote art and theater reviews for Cincinnati arts weekly, Everybody's News, 1994- present. Designed and constructed stage set and masks for Anne Sexton's Transformations, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, 1997 Instigated and found funding for the restoration of Robert Wilson's sculpture Poles, in Loveland, Ohio, 1995-98; worked with Wilson in planning the restoration. (Still in progress.) Wrote and assisted in set design of full-length play, The Color Wheel, produced by Fahrenheit Theatre Company in Cincinnati, Ohio and Harrisonburg, Virginia, 1995, and at The College of William and Mary, 1999. Accepted to the Padua Hills Playwright's Festival in Los Angeles, CA, 1995. (Murray Mednick and Maria Irene Fornes, Directors.) Created and taught performance workshop for inpatients in University of Cincinnati Hospital's Eating Disorders Program, 1995. SELECTED REVIEWS "The Willingly Watched," New Art Examiner, May 2000 "Humanity Still Exists in Cyberart," Boston Globe, 1999 "The Plastic is in Your Head," University of Washington Daily, February 5, 1998 "Performance Art at Sand Point," The Stranger (Seattle, WA), January 22, 1998 "The Dance Hall Gets Haunted," Cincinnati Enquirer , October 29, 1997 "Movement, Poetry Unite at Ensemble," Cincinnati Post, September 23, 1997 "Grimm Reaper," City Beat, September 22-29, 1997 "Upstaged," Panorama, February 2, 1995 "No Prozac, Please," Cincinnati Enquirer, February 17, 1995 Review of The Color Wheel , Everybody's News, February 24, 1995 Review of The Color Wheel ,City Beat, February 24, 1995 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Interview with Jennifer Hall of Do While Studio, Massage Magazine Online, January 1998 Unmasking the Puppetmasters Everybody's News, January 7, 1996 Conception Vessels: The Birth of A Performance Series Everybody's News (Cincinnati, OH), June 16, 1995 An Opera for the In-Between Time Everybody's News, June 30, 1995 Andy Warhol at the Mall Everybody's News, July 14, 1995 Art in a Box (Interview with Laurie Anderson) Everybody's News, August 4, 1995 PROFESSIONAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE Adjunct Professor, BFA Program in Computer Arts. School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, June 2000-present Adjunct Professor, Electronic Design, School of Professional Studies, Pratt Manhattan, New York, NY. June 2000-present. Adjunct Professor, Lehman College, CUNY. New York, NY, fall 2000 Instructor, Macromedia Flash. Harvestworks, New York, NY, June 2000-present. Instructor, HTML. Film/Video Arts, New York, NY, August 2000-present. Instructor, Web Design. Prime Design (private corporate training), New York, NY, August 2000-present. College Lab Technician and Adjunct Professor, Electronic Design and Multimedia, City College of New York, June 1999-August 2000. Media Arts Coordinator, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, 1998- 1999. Foundations Faculty, Montserrat College of Art, 1998-present Instructor, Macromedia Director, Cambridge Community Television, 1998-1999. Instructor, Art in Our Schools Outreach Program, Cincinnati Public School System, 1998 Teaching Artist, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1998 Artist in Residence, Ohio Arts Council Artist in Education Residency Program, Columbus, Ohio and Solon, Ohio, 1997-98 Teaching Artist, Findlay Market Project, Artworks, Cincinnati, Ohio 1997 Instructor, Art for Kids, Art Academy of Cincinnati, 1998 EDUCATION M.F.A., Electronic Art. University of Cincinnati --1997 B.A.,Theatre. University of Arkansas -- 1993 TECHNICAL SKILLS Macintosh, IBM, SGI, HTML, Photoshop 6.0, Director 8.0, Flash 5.0, Illustrator 9.0, Quark Xpress 4.0, Bias Peak 2.0, Painter 6.0, Adobe Premiere 5.1, FinalCut Pro, Dreamweaver 3.0, Fireworks 4.0, Macintosh hardware and software troubleshooting and network administration. PERSONAL HISTORY In 1985, I was fourteen years old, and in the ninth grade at Prairie Grove Junior High in Prairie Grove, Arkansas. I was really into B.F. Skinner and operant conditioning, and I had a hamster, so one day I bought a plastic hamster exercise ball and a set of kiddie bowling pins and started teaching him to bowl. I inadvertently won the school science fair and had to go to state to compete against a kid who built his own robot. Because I had expressed an interest in science and medicine, my biology teacher suggested I spend the following summer volunteering at the local hospital, thirty minutes away. While there, I befriended the only other girl who wanted to work in the radiology lab, Shannon Chenault, who went to a different school. One day Shannon invited me over to her house after our shift to listen to music because I said I'd never heard of Prefab Sprout. When we got there, she put on the record "O Superman" by Laurie Anderson. I listened to it five times in a row, and my brain split open. I knew there was hope for weird radiology girls who had been forced to take music lessons all their lives. Shortly thereafter, I cut off all my hair. I decided my career goal was to become a mad scientist and I worked hard on achieving the Einstein look in my bedroom with dull scissors. Almost a decade later, I received a B.A. in theatre from the University of Arkansas. I followed that with a year as an intern at the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati. During that internship, I learned that I not only wanted to perform, I wanted to write the script and design the set, sound, and lights as well. This led me to art school - specifically, the College of Design Art, and Architecture,at the University of Cincinnati, from which I graduated in 1997 with a degree in electronic art. I figured it was as close to a major in mad science as I could get. That summer, I was accepted as Artist in Residence at Do While Studio in Boston, an electronic art studio founded by graduates of the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies. There I created a 7-station installation entitled Timeline, based on the Memory Theatre of Giulio Camillo. My interests in neurology and robotics as performance media merged at Do While. These interests began to take visual form in two pieces: a robot which enacted an important childhood memory (a piece which involved one ton of black marbles) and a performance which took place inside an MRI machine, the documentation of which consists of scans of my brain in the act of remembering. The robot was moved to Boston's Mobius Gallery for the 1999 Boston CyberArts Festival. Another station from Timeline, one which involved 60 scents from my memory custom-designed with the help of the Olfactory Research Foundation in New York, traveled to Cincinnati for my first solo exhibition, which was funded by an Individual Artist's Grant from the Ohio Arts Council. After a year in Boston, I moved to New York, where I have now lived for two years. My work in New York has changed greatly due to the fact that my studio space now consists of one small bedroom in my apartment in Brooklyn. In the fall of 1999, I began to explore webcams as portals for a constant, ongoing performance piece. In February 2000, I launched www.atomcam.com, performance art webcam. Atomcam has now been uploading at least four images every thirty seconds for over a year. My goal now is to continue pushing toward a continuous, streaming mobile audio and video broadcast, with cameras attached to my body at all times. Obviously, this technology is far from a reality at this time, but I am determined to be among those who bring it to pass. |