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Screenings and Exhibitions

2023

  • ELO(KUVA)KUU 2023, curated by Galleria KYY, S Creatives Festival, Savonlinna, Finland
  • Virtual International Toy Theater Festival, Great Small Works, online, Brooklyn, NY
  • Festival del Cinema di Cefalù, Cefalù Sea Palace, Cefalù, Palermo, Italy
  • Vacations in the Subconscious, New Museum of Networked Art and Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
  • Magmart International Video Art Festival, Naples, Italy

2022

  • BINNAR 2022, Casa Museu Soledade Malvar, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal
  • Turmoil and Error, New Museum of Networked Art and Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
  • VideoBabel Platform, online, Cusco, Peru
  • Peace Letters to Ukraine 3, New Museum of Networked Art, online
  • Peace Letters to Ukraine 7, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

2021

  • Night Visions, curated by Wavelength Art, Museum of Contemporary Arts Long Island and Patchogue Arts Council, Patchogue, NY
  • Pandemic Projections, curated by Wavelength Art, Gardenship, Kearny, NJ
  • Café Concret #38, Café Concret, online, Montreal, Canada
  • Magmart International Video Art Festival, Naples, Italy
  • ALPHABET-Cinema, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles
  • 7th Annual Super 9 International Mobile Film Fest, online, Portugal

2020

  • Darkroom Online NewMediafest 2020, Torrance Art Museum, Maiden LA, Los Angeles, CA
  • Athens Digital Arts Festival online, The WOW Art Film and Video Festival, Athens, Greece
  • WOW Jubilee 2020 VII Berlin, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Stützpunkt Teufelsberg, Berlin, Germany
  • WOW Jubilee 2020 VII Los Angeles, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  • Detour, Emery Community Arts Center, University of Maine at Farmington, Farmington, ME
  • Grounded Film Festival, Marbella International Film Festival, Cines Teatro Goya, Marbella, Spain
  • Corona! Shut down?, NewMediafest 2020, online, Cologne, Germany
  • Isolating Together: Virtual Toy Theater Festival Day 2
    • Great Small Works, Brooklyn, NY
    • Great Small Works, PhillyCAM, Philadelphia, PA
  • Isolating Together: Virtual Toy Theater Festival Day 6
    • Great Small Works, Brooklyn, NY
    • Great Small Works, PhillyCAM, Philadelphia, PA
  • NewMediaFest 2020, The Retrospective 2000-2020 in partnership with the 3rd Addis Video Art Festival, The Urban Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • Delete TV, Music Magazine, Okto 8 television broadcast, Austria

2019

  • Interference Effect: 6 Perspectives, Mizuma, Kips and Wada Art, New York, NY
  • Cinema at Citygarden, Citygarden, St. Louis, MO
  • Cefalù Film Festival, l’Arena Dafne di Cefalù, Cefalù, Italy
  • Kinolikbez Festival of Independent Cinema, St. Petersburg, Russia

2018

  • W:OW 16, Art Film & Video Festival, Video Art Festival Turku, Kino Diana, Turku, Finland
  • W:OW 14, Art Film & Video Festival,
    • National University Kharkiv, Ukraine
    • Municipal Gallery Kharkiv, Kharkiv, Ukraine
    • University of Art, Kiev, Ukraine
    • Say by Body Art Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
  • Small Axe Radical Short Films 2018 at Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival, The Vintage Mobile Cinema at Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, Tolpuddle, UK
  • A Rebel Minded Festival, Brooklyn, NY
  • Cefalù Film Festival, l’Arena Dafne di Cefalù, Cefalù, Italy
  • Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Elche, Hort del Xocolater, Elche, Spain
  • San Mauro Film Festival, San Mauro Torinese, Turin, Italy

2017

  • Seen from the Anthropocene, Chashama, New York, NY
  • Backup 18.Kurzfilmfestival, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Germany
  • Small Axe Radical Short Films 2017 at Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival, The Vintage Mobile Cinema at Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, Tolpuddle, UK
  • Vagrant Film Festival, National Historical Museum of the Republic of Belarus, vulica Karla Marksa, Minsk, Belarus
  • African Smartphone Film Festival, Freedom Park, Lagos, Nigeria
  • Zoom International Film Festival, Jelenia Góra, Poland
  • Mister Vorky, Kulturni Centar Ruma, Ruma, Serbia
  • Election Ramifications Through the Lens of Art, Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago, IL
  • BCM Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival, Berkeley, CA
  • 21st International Ecological TV Festival “To Save and Preserve”, Khanty-Mansiysk Cinema and Video Center, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
  • SmartFilm, Minsk, Belarus

2016

  • 9th Annual Governors Island Art Fair, New York Harbor, NY
  • AVI Videoart Festival, multiple public locations, Jerusalem, Israel
  • Impending Future, Lycoming College Art Gallery, Williamsport, PA
  • Festival Internacional de Cine con Medios Alternativos, Fundación del Centro Cultural del México Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
  • BINNAR 2016, Casa Museu Soledade Malvar, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal
  • Festival Miden Screening Curated by Margarita Stavraki, Kalamata, Greece
  • Savonlinnan International Nature Film Festival, Savonlinna
  • Finland
  • Golden Sun Short Film Festival, Zebbug, Malta
  • Mediawave Film Festival, Fort Monostor, Komárom, Hungary
  • Novella Showcase, Michigan
  • Ozark Shorts Film Festival, Missouri

2015

  • User Experience, solo exhibition/installation, Blackburn College, Carlinville, IL
  • Print Screen Festival, Mediateque Holon, Holon, Israel
  • One Minute Film and Video Festival, Stadtmuseum Schlössli, Aarau, Switzerland
  • Salonvideo, MAGMA Art Space, Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania
  • Smartfone Flick Fest, Sydney, Australia
  • Mobgraphia Mobile Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Kinolit, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Cinema at Citygarden, Citygarden, St. Louis, MO
  • Reouverture, Vidéodrome2, Marseille, France
  • London Shows International Film Festival, London, UK
  • Blackbird International Film Festival, New York, NY
  • Russian International Film Festival, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
  • Super 9 Mobile Film Fest
    • Online, Portugal
    • Cinemax RTP, Portugal
  • DeleteTV
    • Okto, television broadcast, Austria
    • LA36, television broadcast, Los Angeles, CA
  • Voices from the Waters 2015, Reading, UK

2014

  • Images Contre Nature Festival International de Video Expérimentale 2014, Théâtre des Chartreux, Marseille, France
  • FAÇADE VIDEO FESTIVAL 2014, Art Today Association – Center for Contemporary Art, The Ancient Bath, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
  • 9th International Streaming Festival for Audio Visual Art, [.Box] Video Project Space, Milan, Italy
  • 6th Screengrab International Media Arts Award, James Cook University’s School of Creative Arts and Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
  • Super 9 Mobile Film Fest, Portugal
  • KLIKfest Opatija 2014, Opatija, Croatia
  • Cinephone International Smartphone Shortfilm Festival, Barcelona, Spain
  • Sixty Second Film Festival, Seattle, WA
  • Novella Showcase, Battle Creek, MI
  • Voices from the Waters 2014, Bangalore, India
  • New Media Caucus Video Programme 10
    • Llewellyn Gallery, Alfred State College, Alfred, NY
    • Sleeth Gallery, West Virginia Wesleyan College
    • Brick City Gallery, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO
    • Chicago Cultural Center, CAA Conference, Chicago, IL

2013

  • 8th International Streaming Festival for Audio Visual Art
    • Het Nutshuis, The Hague, Netherlands
    • Boonika, Zagreb, Croatia
  • Fear, Project Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • 1st Annual Experimental Video Festival, Launch Pad Cooperative, Toledo, OH
  • Salón de Arte Digital, PDVSA La Estancia, Maracaibo, Venezuela
  • 20/92, Icebox Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA
  • Images Contre Nature Festival International de Video Expérimentale 2013, Théâtre des Chartreux, Marseille, France
  • Sideshow, Heiska, Hämeenkyrö, Finland
  • 10th International Toy Theater Festival and Temporary Toy Theater Museum, Great Small Works, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY
  • |fon’ seks|: Digital Devices and the Transformation of Intimacy, University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery, Springfield, IL

2012

  • FILE Festival 2012, Art Gallery of SESI at FIESP – Ruth Cardoso Cultural Center, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Outcasting: Fourth Wall Festival, Cardiff, Wales
  • The MART Gallery, online, Dublin, Ireland
  • MIA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
  • Intercept 2:7, Multiplexer, Las Vegas, NV
  • Utopian Abortions, part of Big Muddy Film Festival 34, Carbondale, IL
  • Last Friday Shorts, TAP, Southend on Sea, England
  • Silent Surveillance, Serial Box Projects, Columbia, MO
  • Strange Glue – Collage at 100, Thompson Gallery, Weston, MA
  • Ground Teeth, Offwhite Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • Magmart, Naples, Italy
  • FOTOACTIVISMO, Cuenca, Spain

2011

  • 24 Frames 24 Hours, online and Wellington, New Zealand
  • One Minute Film Festival, Le Cinéma l’Univers, Lille, France
  • I AM NOT A POET, VerySmallKitchen and TotalKunst galleries in Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Stylectrical, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
  • Billboard Art Project, Chicago, IL
  • Autodesk Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Online (Dis)Connect, Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN

2010

  • Zeros + Ones: The Digital Era, Climate Gallery, Long Island City, NY
  • 9th International Toy Theater Festival and Temporary Toy Theater Museum, Great Small Works, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY
  • iPhone Wherefore Art Thou, Windsor Art Center, Windsor CT
  • Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
  • Džepni Fest, Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Bibliography

  • SERDE 2019 Catalog, SERDE Interdisciplinary Art Group, Aizpute, Latvia
  • Interview Collection, New Museum of Networked Art, Wilfried Agricola; editor/curator
  • Post-Modern Slapstick on Governor’s Island, A.W. Strouse, OneRooph
  • Your Guide to the 2016 Governors Island Art Fair, Mindy Bond, The Culture Files
  • Governors Island Art Fair expands to Castle Williams, artdaily
  • An Eclectic Lineup at This Year’s Governors Island Art Fair, Allison Meier, Hyperallergic
  • Historic Buildings On Governors Island Now Filled With Art, Scott Lynch, Gothamist
  • Stigmart 10 VideoBiennale
  • PAGE Magazine, Germany
  • New Media Caucus Showcase Review, Curatorial Collective
  • Media-N Journal
  • Arteles Catalog
  • Mobile Digital Art: Using the iPad and iPhone as Creative Tools, David Scott Leibowitz, Focal Press
  • The Nimble 003: In Pairs, Benjamin Rabe, ed., available through iTunes Store
  • Boyfriends The Rumpus (10-part series)
  • Silo, Used Furniture Review-June 2011
  • Bus, Stop Used Furniture Review March 2011
  • Weekend Update: Finger Painters, Cellphone Photographers and Mobile Musicians Converge on New York City, WNYC
  • Boyfriends, The Outlet (Electric Literature) 
  • Said Object 
  • Beautiful Decay 
  • Digit-al Art Gallery, The Washington Post
  • iPhone Art: Incredible Drawings Made On iPhones, The Huffington Post

Lectures

  • Landpark Assisië, visiting artist presentation, Biezenmortel, Netherlands
  • SERDE, visiting artist presentation, Aizpute, Latvia
  • Art21 Educators Mentors Program, visiting artist presentation, online
  • InDialogue, New Art Exchange, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
  • Nordic Summer University Study Circle 7 Winter Symposium, Latvian Academy of Culture in Riga, Latvia
  • New Media Caucus Showcase, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
  • Artland, Blackburn College, Carlinville, IL
  • Central Magnet School, Murfreesboro, TN
  • Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany (lecture and workshop accompanying the exhibition Stylectrical)
  • Millikin University Art Department, Decatur, IL
  • University of Northern Iowa Art Department, Cedar Falls, IA

Collections

  • Video Library P’Silo, Videodrome 2, Marseille, France
  • Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Curation/Artistic Direction

  • MobileArtCon 2011, organization & direction, New York University, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), New York, NY
  • 16 Tons, documentary film on the history of coal mining and capitalism, photography consultant to director Ümit Kivanç, Istanbul, Turkey
  • MobileArtCon 2010, organization & direction, New York University, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), New York, NY

Residencies/Programs

  • Pedvāles mākslas parks, Sabile, Latvia
  • Root, Biezenmortel, The Netherlands
  • SERDE, Aizpute, Latvia
  • Art21 Educators Program, New York, NY
  • Arteles Creative Center, Haukijarvi, Finland
  • Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

Education

  • University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, MFA
  • University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, BFA
  • University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, BA
  • University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, BFA
  • Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, D.C.

Professional Experience

  • Art Department Chair, Blackburn College, Carlinville, IL