Curriculum Vitae EDUCATION MFA University of California, Berkeley, 2001 BA’s Studio Art + Dramatic Art/Dance, University of California, Berkeley, 1995 + Harvard Summer Dance Center, Harvard University, 1993 CREATIVE + ACADEMIC AWARDS/HONORS 2007 Artist Award, Puffin Foundation, Ltd. Creative Research Grant, College of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico 2006 Professional Development Travel Award, College of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico Creative Capital Foundation Professional Development Retreat, Sante Fe Art Institute, NM Honorable Mention, Transmediale 06, Germany 2005 Scholarship, New Media Institute, The Banff Centre, Canada Travel Award, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts 2004 Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities, Faculty 2001-03 Affiliate Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts 2001 Eisner Prize in Art, University of California, Berkeley GSI Course Improvement Grant, University of California, Berkeley 1999 UC Regents Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley SOLO + TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2009 [upcoming] Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA 2007 SAM Gallery, Instituto Chileno Norteamericano, Santiago, Chile, Operación Deisy [2 person exhibition] 2004 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, Night Moves Project 2001 Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA, Sacrament, conversion, etc. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS + SCREENINGS 2008 Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA, A LAWRIMORE PROJECT BIENNIAL Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, We Interrupt Your Program 2007 Aqua Art Miami, Miami, Florida, with Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM, Loosely Joined: New Mexico Artists from the Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop  Charles B. Wang Center, SUNY Stony Brook, Karma of War The National Centre for Contemporary Art Moscow, Russia, VIDI_Festival ‘06 2006 Aqua Art Miami, Miami, Florida, with Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA La Sala Naranja, Valencia, Spain, Val 06 International Video Festival Pace University Digital Gallery, New York, NY, Satellite, Valencia La Sala Naraja [organizer], Don Benito, Spain, VIA-LAB 06 Laboratorio de arte en la via publica Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA, This is Gallery Clermont-Ferrand, France, Videoformes 2006 ::XXI° International Demonstration of Video Art and New Media Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany, Transmediale 06: Reality Addicts Exit Art, New York, New York, The Studio Visit 2005 Aqua Art Miami, Miami, Florida, with Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA Galerija Beograd, Belgrade, Serbia/Montenegro, Beograd Nekad I Sad Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, 30th Anniversary Auction 2004 Exit Art, New York, NY, Terrorvision Des Carrières, Montreal, Canada, Champ Libre :: Desert, 6th Biennal Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA, Politics Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA, Paradigms Lost Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA, Small Works 2003 Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, Art in Motion IV: Interference Patterns [catalog] Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Version>03 :: DigitalArtsConvergence WRO Center For Media Art, Wroclaw/Poland, 10th International Media Art Biennale::WRO 03 GLOBALICA [catalog] UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA, Digital Time Pieces San Francisco Art Institute/Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Space Available Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Germany, Backup-Festival: New Media in Film New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, Night Moves 2002 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, Digital Showcase Werkstätten und Kulturhaus, Vienna, Austria, [d]vision Festival For Digital Culture [cd-rom catalog] Art in General, New York, NY, 4th Annual Video Marathon Centro Multimedia/Centro National de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico, Tratado de Libre Video Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Appropriate 18th Annual Film Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA, Director's Choice Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA, Photographic Memory and Other Shots in the Dark Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA, Bay Area Currents 2002 City Slicker Farm, Oakland, CA, Deep Seeded Project 101, Paris, France, Independent Exposure: Microcinema International SPACE, New York, NY, Independent Exposure: Microcinema International Mad River Art Space, Billings, Montana, Independent Exposure: Microcinema International Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL, Independent Exposure: Microcinema International Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA, Independent Exposure: Microcinema International 111 Minna Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Independent Exposure: Microcinema International Biblioteca de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, Independent Exposure: Microcinema International Washington Psychotronic Film Society, Arlington, Virginia, Independent Exposure: Microcinema International Firestation #3 Gallery, Houston, TX, Independent Exposure: Microcinema International 2001 SXSW Film Festival and Conference, Austin, TX, Bardos University of California, Berkeley, University Dance Theater, Fractal  [3 channel video installation created for dance, sponsored by the Consortium for the Arts] Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Five Star [catalog] Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Theory or Faith Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Witness 2000 Pacific Film Archive / Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Sea Changes Manchester Metropolitan University, England, Blind Date 3 PAPERS + CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2008 Talk Sandwich, “a select group of artists, critics and curators who participate in a one-day online dialogue” for the Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice conference at U.C. Santa Cruz, May 15-17, 2008 2007 re:place 2007 :: Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology, Berlin, Germany, November 15-18, 2007 Mutamorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, November 8-10, 2007 The 21st Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts: CODE, Portland, ME, November 1-4, 2007 From Spiderman to Alba: Transgenics in a Post-nuclear World, co-authored with Phillip Thurtle 95th Annual College Art Association Conference, New York, NY, Panelist, “Can Geeks be Humanists?”, New Media Caucus, February 15, 2007 New Mexico Media Industries Conference III, Albuquerque, NM, Panelist, “Perspectives on Digital Media & Education”, February 2, 2007 2005 Biofeedback and the Arts: Listening as Experimental Practice, co-authored with Phillip Thurtle Refresh! First International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Banff New Media Institute, Canada, September 28 - October 3, 2005 The Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts: Emergent Systems, Cognitive Environments, Chicago, IL, November 10 – 13, 2005 CURATORIAL / JURIES 2006 University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL, 30th Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition, Juror 2004 University of Washington, Seattle, Design Machine Group, Juror Juror for three Master of Science Thesis Review projects in Architecture Design Computing. PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLIC ARTIST DISCUSSIONS 2008 Artist Lecture, University of New Mexico, NM Artist Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, Seeing & Cognition Artist Lecture, College of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico, NM, 3rd Annual Research Colloquium Artist Lecture: Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, We Interrupt Your Program 2007 Artist Lecture, University of New Mexico, NM Artist Lecture, College of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico, NM, 2nd Annual Research Colloquium 2006 Artist Discussion, Pace University Digital Gallery, New York, NY, Satellite, Valencia Artist Lecture, University of New Mexico, NM Artist Lecture, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL Artist Lecture, Mills College, Oakland, CA 2005 Artist Lecture, California State Summer School for the Arts, Cal Arts, Valencia, California 2004 Artist Lecture, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT [in conjunction with exhibition:"Gary Hill: Language Willing"] Artist Lecture, Design Machine Group, University of Washington, Seattle Artist Lecture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Research Exposed! Approaches to Inquiry 2003 Panelist, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Research Exposed! Approaches to Inquiry Artist Lecture, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Germany Artist Lecture, Advanced Electronic Arts, Mills College, Oakland, CA 2002 Artist Discussion, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA, Photographic Memory and Other Shots in the Dark Artist Discussion, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA, Bay Area Currents 2002 2001 Artist Discussion, SXSW Film Festival and Conference, Austin, TX, Bardos Artist Discussion, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Five Star 2000 Artist Discussion, Pacific Film Archive / Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Sea Changes EXHIBITION CATALOGS 2008 Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, We Interrupt Your Program 2007 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM, Loosely Joined: New Mexico Artists from the Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop 2003 Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, Art in Motion IV: Interference Patterns WRO Center For Media Art, Wroclaw/Poland, 10th International Media Art Biennale::WRO 03 GLOBALICA 2002 Werkstätten und Kulturhaus, Vienna, Austria, [d]vision Festival For Digital Culture 2001 Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Five Star

Claudia X Valdes Media Gallery Press Exhibitions Images

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

MFAUniversity of California, Berkeley, 2001

BA’sStudio Art + Dramatic Art/Dance, University of California, Berkeley, 1995

+Harvard Summer Dance Center, Harvard University, 1993

CREATIVE + ACADEMIC AWARDS/HONORS

2007Artist Award, Puffin Foundation, Ltd.
Creative Research Grant, College of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico

2006Professional Development Travel Award, College of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico

Creative Capital Foundation Professional Development Retreat, Sante Fe Art Institute, NM

Honorable Mention, Transmediale 06, Germany

2005Scholarship, New Media Institute, The Banff Centre, Canada

Travel Award, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts

2004Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities, Faculty

2001-03Affiliate Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts

2001Eisner Prize in Art, University of California, Berkeley

GSI Course Improvement Grant, University of California, Berkeley

1999UC Regents Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley

SOLO + TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2009[upcoming] Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA

2007SAM Gallery, Instituto Chileno Norteamericano, Santiago, Chile, Operación Deisy [2 person exhibition]

2004San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, Night Moves Project

2001Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA, Sacrament, conversion, etc.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS + SCREENINGS

2008Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA, A LAWRIMORE PROJECT BIENNIAL

Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, We Interrupt Your Program

2007Aqua Art Miami, Miami, Florida, with Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA

516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM, Loosely Joined: New Mexico Artists from the Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop
Charles B. Wang Center, SUNY Stony Brook, Karma of War

The National Centre for Contemporary Art Moscow, Russia, VIDI_Festival ‘06

2006Aqua Art Miami, Miami, Florida, with Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA

La Sala Naranja, Valencia, Spain, Val 06 International Video Festival

Pace University Digital Gallery, New York, NY, Satellite, Valencia

La Sala Naraja [organizer], Don Benito, Spain, VIA-LAB 06 Laboratorio de arte en la via publica

Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA, This is Gallery

Clermont-Ferrand, France, Videoformes 2006 ::XXI° International Demonstration of Video Art and New Media

Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany, Transmediale 06: Reality Addicts

Exit Art, New York, New York, The Studio Visit

2005Aqua Art Miami, Miami, Florida, with Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA

Galerija Beograd, Belgrade, Serbia/Montenegro, Beograd Nekad I Sad

Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, 30th Anniversary Auction

2004Exit Art, New York, NY, Terrorvision

Des Carrières, Montreal, Canada, Champ Libre :: Desert, 6th Biennal Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique

Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA, Politics

Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA, Paradigms Lost

Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA, Small Works

2003Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, Art in Motion IV: Interference Patterns[catalog]

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Version>03 :: DigitalArtsConvergence
WRO Center For Media Art, Wroclaw/Poland, 10th International Media Art Biennale::WRO 03 GLOBALICA [catalog]
UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA, Digital Time Pieces
San Francisco Art Institute/Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Space Available

Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Germany, Backup-Festival: New Media in Film

New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, Night Moves

2002Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, Digital Showcase

Werkstätten und Kulturhaus, Vienna, Austria, [d]vision Festival For Digital Culture[cd-rom catalog]

Art in General, New York, NY, 4th Annual Video Marathon

Centro Multimedia/Centro National de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico, Tratado de Libre Video

Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Appropriate

18th Annual Film Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA, Director's Choice

Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA, Photographic Memory and Other Shots in the Dark

Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA, Bay Area Currents 2002

City Slicker Farm, Oakland, CA, Deep Seeded

Project 101, Paris, France, Independent Exposure: Microcinema International

SPACE, New York, NY, Independent Exposure: Microcinema International

Mad River Art Space, Billings, Montana, Independent Exposure: Microcinema International

Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL, Independent Exposure: Microcinema International

Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA, Independent Exposure: Microcinema International

111 Minna Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Independent Exposure: Microcinema International

Biblioteca de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, Independent Exposure: Microcinema International

Washington Psychotronic Film Society, Arlington, Virginia, Independent Exposure: Microcinema International

Firestation #3 Gallery, Houston, TX, Independent Exposure: Microcinema International

2001SXSW Film Festival and Conference, Austin, TX, Bardos

University of California, Berkeley, University Dance Theater, Fractal
[3 channel video installation created for dance, sponsored by the Consortium for the Arts]

Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Five Star[catalog]

Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Theory or Faith

Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Witness

2000Pacific Film Archive / Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Sea Changes

Manchester Metropolitan University, England, Blind Date 3

PAPERS + CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2008Talk Sandwich, “a select group of artists, critics and curators who participate in a one-day online dialogue” for the Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice conference at U.C. Santa Cruz, May 15-17, 2008

2007re:place 2007 :: Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology, Berlin, Germany, November 15-18, 2007

Mutamorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, November 8-10, 2007

The 21st Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts: CODE, Portland, ME, November 1-4, 2007

From Spiderman to Alba: Transgenics in a Post-nuclear World, co-authored with Phillip Thurtle

95th Annual College Art Association Conference, New York, NY, Panelist, “Can Geeks be Humanists?”, New Media Caucus, February 15, 2007

New Mexico Media Industries Conference III, Albuquerque, NM, Panelist, “Perspectives on Digital Media & Education”, February 2, 2007

2005Biofeedback and the Arts: Listening as Experimental Practice, co-authored with Phillip Thurtle

Refresh! First International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Banff New Media Institute, Canada, September 28 - October 3, 2005

The Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts: Emergent Systems, Cognitive Environments, Chicago, IL, November 10 – 13, 2005

CURATORIAL / JURIES

2006University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL, 30th Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition, Juror

2004University of Washington, Seattle, Design Machine Group, Juror
Juror for three Master of Science Thesis Review projects in Architecture Design Computing.

PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLIC ARTIST DISCUSSIONS

2008Artist Lecture, University of New Mexico, NM

Artist Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, Seeing & Cognition
Artist Lecture, College of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico, NM, 3rd Annual Research Colloquium
Artist Lecture: Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, We Interrupt Your Program

2007Artist Lecture, University of New Mexico, NM
Artist Lecture, College of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico, NM, 2nd Annual Research Colloquium

2006Artist Discussion, Pace University Digital Gallery, New York, NY, Satellite, Valencia

Artist Lecture, University of New Mexico, NM

Artist Lecture, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Artist Lecture, Mills College, Oakland, CA

2005Artist Lecture, California State Summer School for the Arts, Cal Arts, Valencia, California

2004Artist Lecture, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT [in conjunction with exhibition:"Gary Hill: Language Willing"]

Artist Lecture, Design Machine Group, University of Washington, Seattle

Artist Lecture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Research Exposed! Approaches to Inquiry

2003Panelist, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Research Exposed! Approaches to Inquiry

Artist Lecture, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Germany

Artist Lecture, Advanced Electronic Arts, Mills College, Oakland, CA

2002Artist Discussion, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA, Photographic Memory and Other Shots in the Dark

Artist Discussion, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA, Bay Area Currents 2002

2001Artist Discussion, SXSW Film Festival and Conference, Austin, TX, Bardos

Artist Discussion, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Five Star

2000Artist Discussion, Pacific Film Archive / Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Sea Changes

EXHIBITION CATALOGS

2008Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, We Interrupt Your Program

2007516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM, Loosely Joined: New Mexico Artists from the Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop

2003Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, Art in Motion IV: Interference Patterns

WRO Center For Media Art, Wroclaw/Poland, 10th International Media Art Biennale::WRO 03 GLOBALICA

2002Werkstätten und Kulturhaus, Vienna, Austria, [d]vision Festival For Digital Culture

2001Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Five Star