Degree

Institution

Date Degree Granted

Ph.D.

University of California at Berkeley

Music Composition; Dissertation title: Composing Instruments: Inventing and Performing with Generative Computer-based Instruments; Advisor: David Wessel

2005

M.A.

University of California at Berkeley

Music Composition

2001

B.A.

Swarthmore College

Physics and Music, Pre-med

1997

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

Associate Professor, School of Art, Sculpture, Installation, Site specific

2012-

IRL Labs LLC, Pittsburgh

Co-founder, Technical and Creative Director

Educational Technologies Company focused on accessible digital authoring tools for youth (see SocialVR and Dranimate)

2016-

Gutwise LLC, Pittsburgh

Co-founder

Mind-gut connection insights based on audio analysis of bowel sounds

2017-

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Experimental and Media Arts

2007-2011

Spark Festival for Electronic Music and Art

Artistic Director (2010), Artistic Co-Director (2008-9)

2008-2010

2017

The Posada Adventure, participatory projection performance commissioned by and performed at the 2017 Vértice Festival.  
UNAM. Mexico City, Mexico (Nov. 2017)

Animated Resistance, new project performance commissioned by and performed at Swarthmore College. Swarthmore, PA, USA (April, 2017)

2016

Statuevision NYC, new public participatory projection performance for the 2016 Kickstarter Summer Festival.

Kickstarter Inc. (commissioner), Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, NY, USA (Jul 30, 2016)

Dranimate, featured during the Vice President of Research Rita Sallam’s keynote presentation at the 2016 Gartner Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit.  Two new Dranimate animations were commissioned for the summit, in addition to an existing documentation video.  
Gartner Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit 2016  in Sydney (Feburary), London (March), Dallas (March), Sao Paolo (June), Mumbai (June), Tokyo (July) and Munich (October).

2015

The Gutless Warrior, public projection performance co-authored with Jenny Schmid

Curated by the Northern Spark Festival

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, USA (Jun 13, 2015)

Dancing with Ruby, commissioned by Creative Capital in honor of founding director Ruby Lerner’s upcoming retirement.

Manny Cantor Center, NYC, USA (Oct 17, 2015)

Dranimate, exhibited at the Future of Storytelling conference’s Story Arcade

Snug Harbor, Staten Island NY, USA (Oct 5-6, 2015)

2014

The Gutless Warrior, public projection performance co-authored with Jenny Schmid

Commissioned by Carnegie Mellon University’s DRAW 2014 symposium

Artist Image Resource, Pittsburgh PA, USA (Mar 1, 2014)

The Gutless Warrior, public projection performance co-authored with Jenny Schmid

Presented at the Lawrence Free Festival

Main Street, Lawrence KS, USA (Jun 27-28, 2014)

Statuevision, public projection performance

Commissioned by 5x5 Near Futures, a contemporary art biennial
Curated by Stephanie Sherman
Dupont Circle, Washington DC, USA (Oct 17, 2014)

telepuppet.tv, public projection performance a co-authored with Nima Dehghani Commissioned by Connecting Cities, a European Commission project

MediaLab Prado, Madrid, Spain (Sep 27, 2014)

iMal, Brussels, Belgium (October 7, 2014)

FACT, Liverpool, UK (October 2, 2014)

2013

Human Use of Human Being, robotic installation co-authored with Robin Meier Commissioned by Maison des arts de Créteil (MAC) 

Festival VIA, Maubeuge, France (Mar 14 -24, 2013)
Festival EXIT, Maison des arts de Crétei, France (Apr 4-14, 2013)
Festival Le Printemps at Saint-Sauveur, la Gare Saint-Sauveur, Lille, France (May 3-Aug 11, 2013)

Truce, live mosquito and computer installation co-authored with Robin Meier

Exhibited at Sonica curated by Cathie Boyd, Patrick Dickie and Graham McKenzie

Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland (Oct 31 October – Nov 3, 2013)

2012

Time Machine, a permanent living video archive for a living museum

Commissioned by the Harpo Foundation

Elsewhere, Greensboro NC, USA (Aug 17, 2012)

Animal Warmth (64), light and sound installation

Curated by Ann Albano

Sculpture Center, Cleveland OH, USA (Nov 9 - Dec 21, 2012)

If The Lion Could Speak, augmented bee-hive installation co-authored with Robin Meier; Commissioned by Loire Atlantique, curated by Virginie Bourget

Exhibited as part of Une Mouche dans la Tête 

Domain de la Garenne Lemot, Clisson, France (May 10-Oct 14, 2012)

Department of Smoke and Mirrors, video sculpture co-authored with Jenny Schmid, Commissioned by Davis Museum, curated by Lisa Fischman
Davis Museum, Wellesley MA, USA (Feb 15 - Jun 3, 2012)

A Tentative Call to the Other, sound installation co-authored with Robin Meier Exhibited Curated by Ish Sherawat’s

Sound Reason Festival, New Delhi, India (Nov 7-13, 2012)

Smoke and Hot Air, kinetic installation co-authored with Robin Mandel

Exhibited as part of Musrara Mix 12, curated by Saron Paz and Sharon Horodi

Musrara School, Jerusalem, Israel (May 30-Jun 5, 2012)

Smoke and Hot Air, Before I Die and Animal Warmth (#28, The Time is Now) 

Exhibited in  “Narrative,  Mechanism,  and the Digital Thread” curated by Erika Leppman

Schneider Museum of Art, Ashlan OR, USA (Mar 16 - Apr 28, 2012)

Dream Interpretations, participatory architectural projection performance

Center for Visual Art at Southern Oregon University in Ashland OR, USA (Mar 15, 2012)

2011

Le Musée Itinerant, a live projection performance co-authored with David Bithell 

Commissioned by  Lyndel King

Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis MN, USA (Jun 6, 2011)

Women’s Desert Liberation Front co-authored with Jenny Schmid,

Exhibited at New Media Arts 2011, juried by DJ Spooky 

2011 Washington Project, Washington DC, USA (Feb 17, 2011)

Exhibited at Philagrafika

The Graphic Unconscious Print Center in Philadelphia, USA (Feb, 2011)

plis/replis, commissioned large scale installation in collaboration with Robin Meier Exhibited as part of  "Expérience Pommery #9: La Fabrique Sonore" curated by Claire Staebler and Charles Carcopino

Domaine Pommery, Reims, France (Sep 23, 2011-Aug 20, 2012)

The Tragedy of the Commons augmented leaf-cutter ant colony installation co-authored Robin Meier, curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler

Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (Jul 7-Sep, 2011)

The Battle of Everyouth, public projection performance co-authored with Jenny Schmid, in collaboration with students from Washburn High School

Commissioned by The Joyce Foundation and Northern Spark 

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis MN, USA (Jun 4, 2011)

THE MOURNERS: Music from the Courts of the Burgundian Dukes, Live projection performance accompanying the Rose Ensemble

Basilica of Saint Mary, Minneapolis MN, USA (Feb 18-19, 2011)

Seaworthy, public projection performance

Commissioned by the UMN Institute for Advanced Studies

Northrop Hall Facade, Minneapolis MN, USA (Mar 9, 2011)

2010

Animal Warmth #12, augmented natural history diorama exhibition

Commissioned by the Bell Museum of Natural History

Bell Museum of Natural History, Minneapolis MN, USA (Dec 9, 2010)

Truce, live mosquito and computer installation co-authored with Robin Meier

Exhibited at Dynasty curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler  

Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (Jun 10-Sep 5, 2010)

Serenity and Serendipity, sound-installation co-authored with Robin Meier

Curated by Jose Manuel Lopez Lopez

Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid, Spain (Jun, 2010)

Smoke and Hot Air, kinetic-installation co-authored with Robin Mandel

Exhibition at FeedForward/Angel of History curated by Steve Dietz and Christian Paul

Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijon, Spain (Oct 10, 2009-Apr. 5, 2010)

Mini-disasters at the Grand Fork, live projection installation

University of North Dakota, Grand Forks ND, USA (Apr 2010)

A Tentative Call to the Other, sound installation co-authored with Robin Meier

Exhibited at Dynasty curated by curated by Fabrice Hergott and Angeline Scherf

Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France (Jun 10-Sep 5, 2010)

Paraguay, live-cinema performance co-authored with David Bithell

Commissioned by the Ammerman Center for Art and Technology

Connecticut College, New London, USA (Feb 9, 2010)

Exquisite Corpse/Lavish Martyr public projection performance

Commissioned by ZERO 1 New Media Biennial curated by Steve Dietz

San Jose, USA (Sep 16-19, 2010)

2009

Truce, live mosquito and computer installation co-authored with Robin Meier

Exhibited at  SIGGRAPH in Yokohama, Japan (Dec 17-19, 2009)

Exhibited at  Spark Festival in Minneapolis MN, USA (Feb 18-20, 2009)

2008

What Paint Doesn't, public projection performance

For Air, For Water, public projection performance co-authored with Da Wei Xu

Wall Whisperer, public projection performance

Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China (Sep 2008)

Animal Warmth (#28, The Time is Now), generative light installation

Exhibited at Almost Cinema curated by Eva De Groote

Vooruit, Gent, Belgium (Oct 3-16, 2008)

Table Setting co-authored with David Bithell

Exhibited at Almost Cinema curated by Eva De Groote

Vooruit, Gent, Belgium (Oct 14, 2008)

Smoke and Hot Air, kinetic-installation co-authored with Robin Mandel

Exhibited at Almost Cinema curated by Eva De Groote

Vooruit, Gent, Belgium (Oct 3-16, 2008)

Eyes and Ears and the Truth Itself (No People Allowed), public projection performance co-authored with Jenny Schmid

Exhibited at GM8: Pay Attention curated by Christopher Pole and Patricia McMeans

Soap Factory, Minneapolis MN, USA (Sep 13-Oct 26, 2008)

2006

What You Say, How You Say It, interactive sound installation

Exhibited at Listen curated by Pamela Winfrey

Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA (Oct 21, 2006 - 2008)

Net Derive in collaboration with Atau Tanaka and Petra Gemeinboeck

Exhibited at at Maison Rouge, Paris, France (Oct 2006)

2005

Takemitsu: My Way of Life, live electronics accompaniment to opera

In collaboration with Kent Nagano, Peter Musbach and the Berlin Opera Company Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, France (Oct 2005)

Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan (Nov 2005)

Preset 153, live audio-visual installation co-authored with Lorenzo Bianchi

Exhibited at Cité Université, Paris, France (Mar 10, 2005)

An[tic], live video installation

Exhibited at the International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA)

Cité Université, Paris, France (Dec 2005)

Frelia, interactive sound sculpture co-authored with Robin Mandel

Commissioned by the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)

Exhibited at Pixilerations at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA (Nov 9-11 2005)

Exhibited at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (Sep 5-9, 2005)

iPerg: Epidemic Menace, interactive sound design for pervasive game
Created in collaboration with Sony CLS and Fraunhofer Institute

Exhibited Fraunhofer Institute, Munich, Germany (June 2005)

2004

Vaishnava Janeto, permanent interactive sound installation

Produced by Ranjit Makkuni and Sacred World Research Labs

Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum, New Delhi, India (May 2004-present)

2017

Tiny Fellowship:  In collaboration with co-PI Aparna Wilder, grant and fellowship to investigate the use of the SocialVR Virtual Reality storytelling platform for increased family engagement for middle- and elementry-school students

Heinz Endowment: In collaboration with co-PI Aparna Wilder, grant to investigate the integration of the SocialVR Virtual Reality storytelling platform into Holy Family Academy’s workforce internship program ($60,000)

New INC: Invited participation in the New Museum’s New INC incubator to pursue the development of an ed-tech startup around immersive storytelling and youth voice

NSF EAGER: Maker Principal Investigator for grant to study “Enhancing Learning through Making by way of personalized content for animation and fabrication”. $240,568.

UPMC Enterprise Co-Principal Investigator with George Loewenstein for grant to develop “A Device to investigate bowel activity using sound analysis”. $465,931.

2016

CMU Technology Transfer Office Gap Filling Fund grant for “SocialVR,” an accessible authoring and social experience tool for Virtual Reality storytelling.  $25,000

Grable Foundation Principal Investigator for grant ( for development of an integration plan for SocialVR (accessible authoring tool for Virtual Reality Storytelling). Project consists of development of examples and curricula for embedding SocialVR into Pittsburgh-area experiential learning settings including after-school programs and community engagement organizations. $10,000.

Sprout Grant to support travel to London for presentation of SocialVR at the annual Mozilla Open Internet Festival, MozFest 2016.  $1,500.

Machine Learning for Artists and Designers, support from Carnegie Mellon’s Schools of Art and Architecture, the Human Computer Interaction institute, the Carnegie Institute for Technology, the School of Computer Science and the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry (SFCI) to support a series of three hands-on workshops by leading developers of machine learning tools for creative applications.  Workshops held at SFCI, and will culminate in the publication of a Manual for Creative Machine Learning. $4,400.

CMU Technology Transfer Office Gap Filling Fund grant for “Dranimate,” an interactive software system for rapid and intuitive rigging and control of animations based on drawings.  $25,000

NSF I-Corps Support for development of “Dranimate,” including membership to National Innovation Network, access to the Project Olympus incubator program, mentorship and $2,500.

2015

Berkman Faculty Development Grant Principal investigator for, “Shahnameh Remix,” a multimedia robotic and live animation opera.  $8,000.

Studio for Creative Inquiry FRFAF Grant Principal investigator for “Shahnameh Remix,” a multimedia robotic and live animation opera.  $6,000.

SPROUT Hive Grant, Principal investigator for the “Blue Slide Laboratory,” a research project aimed at developing playful situated learning scenarios in urban playgrounds, using augmented reality mobile apps. $15,000.

2014

5 x 5 Near Futures, Principal investigator for a commission of a new work; public projection project for the statues surrounding Dupont Circle in Washington DC. The 5 x 5 project is the largest temporary public art project in the District of Columbia. $15,000.

National Endowment for the Arts, Co-investigator with Jenny Schmid for commissioned adaptation of the Gutless Warrior for large scale outdoor projection as a part of Lawrence Art Center’s Free State Festival. $5,000.

Connecting Cities Co-investigator with Nima Dehghani for commission for a new project entitled telepuppet.tv; a European funded project that will toured in Liverpool (FACT), Brussels (iMal, Nuite Blanche), and Madrid (MediaLab PradO) in September and October of 2014.  Connecting Cities is a European and Worldwide expanding network building up connected infrastructures of media facades. $8,000.

Carnegie Mellon University Integrative Design, Arts, and Technology (IDeATe) Co-investigator with Lawrence Shea for seed grant for the development of a public performance and a course within Expanded Theater. $50,000.

2013

Creative Capital Principal investigator for project entitled “The Center for Urban Intervention Research”; project includes publication of “A Manual for Urban Projection” and the establishment of the Center for Urban Intervention Research (CUIR) at Carnegie Mellon University. The 46 funded projects in 2013 were selected from a pool of more than 2,700 applicants. $50,000.

Carnegie Mellon University Co-investigator with Golan Levin for College of Fine Art grant for $5,000, Robotics Institute grant for $2,000, School of Art grant for $1,000 for execution of a workshop on OpenFrameworks and the Raspberry Pi embedded computing platform for the arts.  $8,000.

Carnegie Mellon University Co-investigator with Garth Zeglin for College of Fine Art grant for $2,000 and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering grant for $2,000 for development of innovative teaching platforms for creative robotics.  $4,000.

2012

Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art at the Frontier (FRFAF) Co-investigator with Joshua Bard for “Machine Robot Collaboration.” $6,500. 

Berkmann Faculty Development Grant Principal investigator for, “A Manual for Mobile Projection,” a text for bringing urban projection to the masses.  $5,000.

2011

Harpo Foundation Principal investigator for commission for a new work in collaboration with Elsewhere; design and implementation of real-time technologies and applied media for in-process storytelling and archiving that enabled virtual communication between on-site artists and participants. $7,000.

2010

 Joyce Award Co-investigator with Jenny Schmid for, for collaborative project with Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2010-2011, “Battle of Everyouth: Public Project Performance,” $50,000, with total project costs of $120,000.

Minnesota Futures Program Principal investigator for grant supporting  a two-year project titled “Mobile Media for Everyday People: Bridging the Digital Physical Divide.” $250,000.

University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Research Fellowship Principal investigator for dedicated to public projection performance. Semester sabbatical.

National Endowment for the Humanities Co-investigator with PI Nabil Matar, Bill Beeman and Jeanne Kilde for grant supporting Bridging Cultures, an interdisciplinary conference on Islam and the Humanities, total project budget $130,000.

Minnesota State Art Board Festival Grant Co-investigator with Steve Dietz for supporting the 2011 Northern Spark Festival,” a city-wide dusk-to-dawn art festival, total project budget $136,000.

University of Minnesota Grant-in-Aid Principal investigator for supporting “Public Engagement Through Immersive Street Performance” research. $36,000.

Imagine Fund Annual Arts & Humanities Faculty Award Principal investigator for for the “Liminal Surface: Interactive Table-top Musical Theater.” $3,000.

Principal investigator for University of Minnesota Imagine Fund Special Events Grant supporting “Talae New Music Ensemble at the 2010 Spark Festival.” $5,000.

2009

University of Minnesota Imagine Fund Annual Arts & Humanities Faculty Award Principal investigator for supporting “Liminal Surface: Interactive Table-top Musical Theater.” $3,000.

CANDO Minneapolis Grant Co-investigator with Peter Haakon Thompson and Mike Hoyt for supporting community engagement with public projection events throughout South Minneapolis. $6,000.

Mellon New Directions Fellowship University of Minnesota Nominee

2008

University of Minnesota Office of International Programs Institutional Partnership Grant, Principal investigator for grant supporting a two-year project titled “Cellular Phone Culture, Mobile Media and the Power of Location-Based Interactive Applications,” in partnership with Kitchen Budapest. $25,000,

University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Studies Collaborative Research Grant Co-investigator with Jenny Schmid for supporting  “Drawing, Animation, Projection and Kinetics.” $18,000. 

University of Minnesota Alexander Dubcek Fund Co-Investigator with Jenny Schmid for, supporting travel to Prague for a series of lectures and studio visits with local artists. $3,000.

University of Minnesota Office of Information Technologies Small Grant, Principal investigator for “Support for Minneapolis Art on Wheels at 2009 ZERO 1 Festival,” $5,000.

University of Minnesota Office of Information Technologies  Instructional Equipment Grant, Principal investigator for supporting “Creative exposition and social engagement through mobile visualizations and sonification.” $35,000

University of Minnesota Center for Urban and Regional Affairs Principal-Investigator for research grant supporting Graduate Research Assistantship support for Minneapolis Art on Wheels. $8,216.

McKnight Summer Research Fellowship Principal-Investigator for grant providing  summer salary support to investigate outdoor mobile projection. $12,000.

Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship, University of Minnesota Nominee.

2018

Princeton University, invited panelist at the Living at the Intersection Symposium (Princeton NJ, USA)

York University, invited speaker at the Symposium on Intermedial Storytelling and Performance (Toronto, Canada)

2017

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, invited lecture and workshop at the school of Art and Design (Mexico City, Mexico)

Queen Mary University of London, invited speaker for the Media Art and Technology program’s colloquiem series (London, UK)

Google SPAN, invited speaker at the annual design-focused conference (Pittsburgh, PA)

Media Architecture Summit 2016, presentation of work on a panel on smart media facades and urban intervention (Toronto, Canada)

2016

Stanford University, invited performance at March-Mattness, at Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (Palo Alto CA, USA)

CalArts, invited lecture on research and teaching at CMU, for the “Media Tech Forum” organized by Professor Ajay Kapur (Valencia CA, USA)

University of California Santa Barbara, invited lecture on “Lessons from Creative Collaborations in the Kingdom of Engineers and Economists” for Media Art and Technology (MAT) seminar series (Santa Barbara CA, USA)

University of California San Diego, invited lecture and workshop “Urban Projection Practices”  at the Design Lab (San Diego CA, USA)

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, visiting artist lecture for class taught by Professor Maria Gaspar (Chicago IL, USA)

Media Architecture Summit 2016, presentation of work on a panel on smart media facades and urban intervention (Toronto, Canada)

University of Colorado, Boulder, visiting artist lecture at the ATLAS Institute, invited by Professor Michelle Ellsworth (Boulder CO, USA)

University of Colorado, Boulder, visiting artist lecture in class taught by Professor Paul Miller--aka DJ Spooky (Boulder CO, USA)

University of Pittsburgh, participation in Panel with composer/theorist and McArthur fellow George Lewis (Pittsburgh PA, USA)

Northern Illinois University, Visiting Artist Lecture and Workshop on “Urban Projection” (Rockford IL, USA)

2015

New York University, lecture on creative works invited by Professor Natalie Jeremijenko (New York, USA)

2014

Aalborg University Copenhagen, Lecture on interactive and musical works (Copenhagen, Denmark)

2013

American Musicological Society, Lecture on musical works at the annual meeting (Pittsburgh, USA)

Glasgow Center for Contemporary Art, Lecture at the on “Truce,” exhibited at the 2013 Sonica Festival of Sound for the Visually Minded (Glasgow, Scotland)

2012

University of Maine, invited lecture, studio visits and master class (Portland ME, USA)

American Society of Landscape Architects, invited lecture on urban projection practices, organized by Jeff Schnabel, Architect and professor (Phoenix AZ, USA))

Southern Oregon University, Department of Art, lecture, studio visits and Performance as a part of the Visiting Artist (Ashland OR, USA)

2011

University of California Berkeley, invited lecture at Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) on creative works (Berkeley CA, USA)

Anderson Ranch, Workshop on Animated Miniature Worlds (Snowmass CA, USA)

 EYEO Festival, lecture on urban projection practices (Minneapolis MN, USA)

Portland State University Department of Architecture, lecture on urban projection at international symposium on Urban Light Strategies (Portland OR, USA)

University of Minnesota, Lecture on Iranian Contemporary art as a part of National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored conference titled Shared Spaces:Islam and the West in the Arts and Sciences (Minneapolis MN, USA)

2010

University of North Dakota, Lecture on Mobile Projection at Department of Art (Grand Forks ND, USA)

Carleton College, Lecture on mobile projection at Media Studies (Northfield MN, USA)

Amermman Center for Art and Technology at Connecticut College, Lecture on my Liminal Surface project (New London MA, USA)

Vooruit Art Center Physical Computing Workshop and Artist Lecture within “Almost Cinema” (Gent, Belgium)

2009

Townhouse Gallery, lecture on Minneapolis Art on Wheels and urban projection (Cairo, Egypt)

Intermedia Arts, lecture on Mobile Projection Practices at “Give & Take” event (Minneapolis MN, USA)

Laboral Center for Contemporary Art, Panelist on Art and Democracy (Gijon, Spain)

Anderson Ranch workshop on “Digital to Physical” co-taught with Robin Mandel(Snowmass CA, USA)

2008

New York University , Department of Photography, Lecture on creative works (New York NY, USA)

The School of Fine Arts in Prague, lecture on creative work (Prague, Czech Republic)

Colby College, Department of Art, Lecture on Interactive Sculpture (Waterville ME, USA)

Carleton College, Media Studies, Lecture on Mobile Projection (Northfield MN, USA)

2016

National Endowment for the Arts Media Arts Advisory Panel for Art Works, invited panel member for the category of creation and education based activities

Baltimore Light City Jury, invited jury panel member for commissioned works

Paper review panel for ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference

Associate Chair ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2017

Headlands Center for the Arts, invited Nominator

Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) , invited Juror

2015

Music Review panel for 2015 New Instruments for Musical Expression Conference

2011

MN State Art Board Review Committee

2010

Minnesota State Art Board, Artist Initiative Panelist

Musical Research Residency Program, Review Committee

Institut de Recerche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (Paris, France)

2009

Art Shanty Review Committee, 2009

Musical Research Residency Program, Review Committee

Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (Paris, France)

2017

“Machine Learning for Artists, 3 of 3” two day immersive workshops by Parag Mital (CalArts, Kadenze)) applied machine learning for artists and musicians.  Organized by Ali Momeni, in collaboration with the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.  $2,500

2016

“Machine Learning for Artists, 2 of 3” two day immersive workshops by Professor Rebecca Fiebrink (Goldsmith University) applied machine learning for artists and musicians.  Organized by Ali Momeni, in collaboration with the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.  $2,500

“Machine Learning for Artists, 1 of 3” one-day immersive workshops by Professor Doctor Nick Gillian (Google) on applied machine learning for artists and musicians.  Organized by Ali Momeni, in collaboration with the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.  $1,000.

“All Around Us,” an exhibition of art works created in admiration of living and preserved insects and their superpowers; Curated by Ali Momeni in collaboration with Murray Horne and Wood Street Galleries. $25,000.

2015

H3O // v003, collaboration with DRIFT PGH, outdoor large-scale projection exhibition held under the Veterans Bridge in Pittsburgh, PA for 300-400 audience members. Continued the expansion in scale and range of works, including more interactive and installation works, and significantly more ambitious live sound design. Exhibition included several installations, multi-media performances and video works. $2,500.

H3O // v002, collaboration with DRIFT PGH, outdoor large-scale projection exhibition held under the Veterans Bridge in Pittsburgh, PA for 200-300 audience members. Overhauled the Drift’s outdoor projection event to a larger scale with enhanced media technologies; engaged  participation from Urban Intervention class students. Exhibition included several installations, multi-media performances and video works. $2,000.

2013

Creative Coding with OpenFrameworks and RaspberryPi workshop, co-directed with Golan Levin at the Studio for Creative Inquiry in October of 2013; 50-person weekend-long workshop and hackaton on advanced media applications with small affordable embedded computers.  $5,000.

2011

“MAW Night Light Challenge,” Program Director, working with the 2011 Northern Spark festival to curate an open call for 4-5 new projects focused on the theme of light and public spaces.  Part of Northern Spark 2011

2010

Minneapolis Art on Wheels Artist in Residence Program, Artistic Director, international residency for eight artists producing mobile projection work in Minneapolis. The following residents were hosted:

Mateusz Herczka and Pär Frid (Stockholm, Sweden)

Bart Buch and Kyle Loven (Minneapolis, MN and Seattle, WA)

Shanai Matteson and Colin Kloecker (Minneapolis, MN)

Jared Nielsen (Los Angeles, CA)

Aaron Marx (Minneapolis, MN)

Pinar Yoldas  (Durham, NC)

Chris Coleman (Denver, CO)

Jeff Crause (New York, NY)

Karolina Sobecka (New York, NY)

Frames of Violence Symposium, organizer for “Visual Media and Violence” panel, held at Wilson Library (UMN), Winter 2010.  Academic symposium including lectures and performances by 20 national and international artists and scholars .

Spark Festival for Electronic Music and Art, Artistic Director, annual international festival at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN).  $75,000 (2010), $35,000 (2009), $25,000 (2008).

Spark 2010 Featured Artists, September-October 2010:

Fred Frith (Oakland, CA), guitarist, composer, and improviser

Furt (London, England), electronic duo

Klaxon Gueule (Montreal, Canada), composer and performer duo

Talea Ensemble (New York, NY), contemporary music ensemble

The Friction Brothers (Chicago, IL), experimental music trio

Patrick Flanagan - Jazari (Minneapolis, MN), robotic ensemble performer

Paul Birken (Duluth, MN), hacker, composer, performer and sound artist

Moe Espinoza--Drumcell--(Los Angeles, CA), beat maker

Mikkel Meyer (Copehagen, Denmark), electronic musician

Vidal and Vangelis Vargas--Acid Circus--(Los Angeles, CA), electro duo

Vultures (London, England), noise artists

Arlene Birt (Minneapolis, MN), new media artist

Kyle Phillips (Minneapolis, MN), new media artist

Tyler Stefanich (Minneapolis, MN), new media artist

Tectonic Industries (Minneapolis, MN), new media artist team

Spark 2009 Featured Artists, February 2009:

Wafaa Bilal (New York, NY), media artist

Kanta Horio (Tokyo, Japan), electronic artist and musician

Ray Lee (London, UK), sound artist

UMFELD (Amsterdam, Netherlands), audiovisual duo

Beijing Film Academy (Beijing, China), student artists

The Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music [STEIM]: Robert van Heumen,Joel Ryan, and Taku Mizuta Lippit [DJ Sniff] (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

David Wessel (Berkley, CA), laptop music pioneer

POLE (Berlin, Germany), Dub/IDM Godfather

Douglas Ewart (Minneapolis, MN), improvising musician

Guerino Mazzola (Minneapolis, MN), free jazz pianist

Spark 2008 Featured Artists, February 2009:

Richard Devine (Los Angeles, CA), electronic musician

Paul DeMarinis (Palo Alto, CA), media artist

Iancu Dumitrescu (Bucuresti, Romania), contemporary composer and performer

Simon Reynolds (New York, NY), musicologist

Graffiti Research Lab (New York, NY), urban intervention collective

Mobile Music Symposium, Co-chair with Sumanth Gopinath, held at Regis Art Center (UMN), Spring 2009.  Academic Symposium with 15 national and international scholars contributing to the Oxford Mobile Music Handbook. Part of Minnesota Futures Grant.