Selected exhibitions

2012
Mena Experimental, ATA, San Francisco.
Trauma, Desire, Otherness; City University of Hong Kong, SAR.
Berlin International Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany.
Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, SAR.

2010-11
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan.
Festival of (In)appropriation, Carsey-Wolf Center, Pollock Theater, UC Santa Barbara.
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria BC, Canada.
Panoptic: New Media, Camden Internat'l Film Festival, Maine.
Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney, Australia.
ATA Film|Video Festival, San Francisco, California.
Festival of (In)appropriation, Egyptian Theatre, Los Angeles, California.
Ars Cameralis, Katoce, Poland.
{SønikFest}Synthetic Zero, BronxSpace, New York.
Australian International Experimental Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia.
Videonale 13, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany.
The Silence of Politics, BAck doOR Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
Foreign Language Association of Northern California conference, UC Berkeley.
University Film & Video Association conference, Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont.

2008-09
University Film and Video Association Conference, University of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Les Rencontres Internationales, Berlin (on consultation): Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia (Invited guest artist: solo show).
Les Rencontres Internationales, Madrid, Spain (on consultation): Complejo El Aguila, the Auditorio del Ministerio de Cultura, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, the Instituto Cervantes and the Filmoteca Espanola.
Moving Baltic Sea Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Graduate Multimedia Forum, California State University, East Bay.

2007
Museo de Arte, Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia (Invited guest artist: solo show).
Les Rencontres Internationales, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (on consultation).
Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia (invited guest artist: solo show).
DO Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia (Invited guest artist: solo show).
OPEN Cinema International Film Festival of Short Films, St. Petersburg, Russia (Experimental film prize).

2002-04
21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, California (Invited guest artist: solo show).
Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento, California.
Addison Street Window Gallery, Berkeley, California.
Berkeley Community Media, Berkeley, California.

2000-01
Cinema Department, Humboldt State University, California (Invited guest artist).
Eastman Kodak Center, Rochester, New York.
InterMedia Arts Festival, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Motion Pictures Department, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

1999
Art in General, New York City.
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.
Artists Space, New York City.
Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts.
New College of California, San Francisco.
New York University, New York City.
North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Offline Distributions, Ithaca, New York.
Venue 9, San Francisco, California (Solo shows).
Video Space, Boston, Massachusetts.
Z-Space Gallery, San Francisco, California.

1998
Cinema Department, University of Denver, Colorado.
Other Cinema, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco.
PBS WYBE Channel 3, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco.
Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Education & Distinctions

Ph.D. University at Buffalo.
Diane Christian, Dissertation Chair.
J. Hillis Miller, Dissertation Outside Reader.

M.A. University at Buffalo. 
Distinction awarded for comprehensive oral exams.
                          
B.A. University of California at Berkeley.
Graduated Magna cum Laude.

American University in Cairo, Egypt.
Cambridge University, United Kingdom.

Professional Appointments

2007-Present
Associate Professor of Art
Art and Art History Department
Saint Mary's College, Moraga, California.
(Tenure granted, April 2010)
(Department Chair: 2008-Present)

2007
Lecturer in Electronic Art
Department of Art
California State University, East Bay
Hayward, California.

Lecturer in Multimedia
Multimedia Graduate Program
California State University, East Bay
Hayward, California.

2001-2007           
Full-time Faculty, Digital Video Arts
Multimedia Arts Program, Berkeley City College (Vista College), Berkeley, California.
Tenure granted Spring 2005:
Distinction awarded for outstanding teaching and professional service.

2003-2005 
Department Chair
Multimedia Arts Program, Berkeley City College (Vista College), Berkeley, California.

2001-2002
Mentor in Video Art
MFA Program, JFK University, Berkeley, California.

1997-2001
Adjunct Faculty, Humanities, English, Art & Multimedia
Berkeley City College (Vista College), Berkeley, California.

1998-1999                 
Artist in Residence
Venue 9, San Francisco, California.

1994-1996                 
Scholar in Residence, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Research Associate
Center for Cultural Studies, UC Santa Cruz.

1993-1995                 
Lecturer
California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, California.


Acquisitions

2012
LA Filmforum: Festival of (In)appropriation (DVD)
"Camp."

2011
ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art (Vol. 3: txt+img).
"Camp."

Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany.
"Camp."

2009
University of the Andes, Department of Fine Art, Bogota, Colombia.
Selected works in video.

2001               
Wright State University, Motion Pictures Department.
“Impulse of Objects.”

1999               
New York University, Bobst Library.
“Foreign Film.”

1998               
Art Institute of Chicago.
“Foreign Film.”

1998               
University of Denver.
“Is Essential.”

1997               
University of Denver.
“What You Thoughtlessly Discount.”

1996               
Universität von Göttingen, Germany.
“Word But Image: Literary Studies, Mystification, and the Image of the Word.”

Selected Publications

2010               
'Giri Chit Ginza,' review of film by Simon Tarr, published in Journal of Film and Video (Vol. 63, No. 3: Fall 2010).

2000               
'Camp Terezin,' review of film by Alexis Krasilovsky, published in Journal of Film and Video (CD-ROM Issue, Fall 2000).

1998               
‘The Eye in the Object: Identification and Surveillance in Samuel Beckett’s Screen Dramas,’ published in Journal of Film and Video, Spring.

1988               
‘Buster Keaton’s Cops or Robbers: Inside and Out,’ in On Film Theory: Indeterminacy in Film. Buffalo: Literature and Philosophy Papers IV.

Selected Presentations

2012
'Art and the Perverse Ethics of the Lapse.'
Hong Kong Society of Psychoanalysis symposium, City University of Hong Kong, March.

2011
'Art & Politics.'
Invited talk and screening delivered to smARTe, Arts Benicia, November.

Artist talk/Q&A.
Festival of (In)appropriation, UC Santa Barbara, November.

Interview impromptu (for Videonale).
Eiskellerberg.tv, Bonn, Germany, April.

2010
'The Poetics of the Foreign in Language.'
Paper delivered at annual conference of the Foreign Language Association of Northern California, University of California at Berkeley, November.

‘West: What I Know About Her,’ film by Kathryn Ramey.
Formal Respondent, paper presented following film screening at annual conference of the University Film and Video Association, Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont, August.

‘Fire in the Sky,’ new media installation by Stephanie Tripp.
Formal Respondent, paper presented at annual conference of the University Film and Video Association, Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont, August.

'Fraudulence: the Critical Ethics of Radical Filmmaking.'
Paper on film theory delivered at annual conference of the Cultural Studies Association, University of California at Berkeley, March.

2009
'The Experimentalist's Dilemma: Can Montage Break Bricks?'
Paper on film theory delivered at the annual conference of the University Film and Video Association. University of New Orleans, Louisiana, August.

“Giri Chit Ginza” by Simon Tarr, University of South Carolina.
Formal Respondent, paper presented following film screening at annual conference of the University Film and Video Association. University of New Orleans, Louisiana, August.

'Remaining Experimental: Decoding & Embracing the Politics of the Avant-Garde.'
Moderator for panel at the annual conference of the University Film and Video Association. University of New Orleans, Louisiana, August.

"Acorus Calamus."
Artist talk following film screening at the annual conference of the University Film and Video Association. University of New Orleans, Louisiana, August.

2008
‘The Gestural Impulse in the Medium.’
Public lecture delivered to Graduate Multimedia Forum, CSU-East Bay.

‘Peter Freund Media Art.’
Public exhibit and artist talk delivered at the University of the Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

‘Seven Bay Area Artists.’
Public presentation of curated show, delivered at the University of the Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

Workshop/Master Class in experimental media art production, conducted at the University of the Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

2007
'Digital Interference: the Indelicate Incompleteness of Media.'
Public lecture delivered at Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia.

'From Montage to Media Art.'
Exhibit and artist talk, University of Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia.

‘Peter Freund Media Art.’
Exhibit and artist talk. DO Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.

2003               
‘Video Bits & Pieces.’
21 Grand Gallery, invited guest artist exhibit & presentation, Oakland, December.

2002               
‘Contradictions Asserted & Sidestepped in the Press after 9/11.’
Teach-In/Speak-Out Lecture Series, Berkeley City College (Vista College), April.

2001               
‘The Cinema of the Press since 9/11.’
Teach-In/Speak-Out Lecture Series, Berkeley City College (Vista College), October.

2001               
'Cinema and Beyond: The Creative Process and New Media Technologies.'
Guest Artist workshops, Humboldt State University, March.      

2000               
‘Media Art, Performance, & New Technologies.’
Berkeley City College (Vista College) Professional Development Series.

1999               
‘Media & Critical Thought: Practices of Authority.’
Berkeley City College (Vista College) Professional Development Series.

1998               
‘In the Beginning and Foreign Film.’
Exhibit & presentation, North Carolina School for the Arts, Annual conference of University Film & Video Association, August.

1996               
‘Diacritical Thinking: Language and Performance in a Political Struggle.’
Symposium given at the Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, October.

1994               
‘The Place of Academic Place: Thinking as Performance.’
Lecture and performance, conference on 'Politics, Theory, and the Place of the Academy,' University of Southern California, Los Angeles, March.

1987               
‘The Semiotics of the Newsmagazine.’
Center for Cultural Studies, SUNY Buffalo, March.

1984               
‘Literature: Pronouncing Dead Systems of Discourse.’
Lecture and performance given at Annual Conference of American Society for Cybernetics, Philadelphia, November.

Service

ARTS & COMMUNITY

2010
Juror, Experimental Film Competition
University of Film and Video Association.

Juror, Creative Arts & Design Session   
California State University (CSU) Student Research Competition
California State University East Bay, Hayward, California, May.      

2008-09           
Director of Curriculum Development and Oversight
San Quentin Media Project.
                
Juror, Creative Arts & Design Session
California State University (CSU) Student Research Competition
California State University East Bay, Hayward, California, May.

Juror, Student Art Competition
Lamorinda High Schools Digital Arts Competition
Orinda, California, March.

2007-Present
Member, Hearst Art Gallery Curatorial Committee

2003-2007              
Founder, Festival Director
Independent Festival of Digital Arts, Berkeley, California.
Festival website link

2000 -2004                 
Faculty Advisor & Screening Coordinator
Film Club, Berkeley City College (Vista College), Berkeley, California.

1996-1998
Faculty Advisor & Director of Design & Prepress Production
Milvia Street Art & Literary Journal
Berkeley City College (Vista College), Berkeley, California.
Awards: First Place National Award, CCHA, 1996
Third Place Regional Award, CCHA, 1997

ACADEMIC

2008-Present
Chair, Art and Art History Department
Saint Mary's College of California.

2007                           
Chair, Search Committee
Hiring committee for Animation faculty position,
Berkeley City College (Vista College), Berkeley, California, April-June.

2003-2007              
Curriculum Committee
Berkeley City College (Vista College), Berkeley, California.

2005-2006              
Council for Instruction, Planning, & Development
Peralta Colleges, Oakland, California.

2004                           
Search Committee
Hiring committee for Humanities faculty position,
Berkeley City College (Vista College), Berkeley, California, June-July.

2003-2004                 
Advisory Board
Milvia Street Art & Literary Journal
Berkeley City College (Vista College), Berkeley, California.

1997-2001                 
Technology Advisory Committee
Berkeley City College (Vista College), Berkeley, California.

1996-1998                 
Staff Development Grants Committee
Berkeley City College (Vista College), Berkeley, California.

DIGITAL SKILLS

Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Soundtrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Compressor, Flash, Dreamweaver, Studio Artist, ImageReady, Media 100, iStopMotion.

Professional Affiliations

1996–Present            
Film Arts Foundation

1996–Present            
Bay Area Video Coalition

1997–Present            
University Film & Video Association

1997–Present            
Berkeley Community Media

1998–2000               
New Langton Arts

1991–1996                   
Modern Languages Association

1984-1986                   
American Society for Cybernetics

PRESS/announcements

1
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

2
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia.

3
Museo de Arte, Bogota, Colombia.

4
St. Petersburg Times, Russia.

5
City Beat, Cincinnati.

6
SF Weekly.

7
Afterimage.

            

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