Curriculum Vitae
PDF version


PERSONAL

Born           1964, East Orange, NJ

EDUCATION

1985           Certificate, Southampton University, Southampton.U.K., Critical Studies Program

1986           Bachelor of Arts, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ,

                 magna cum laude, Highest Honors in English

1996           Master of Fine Arts, Electronic Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

 

COMPUTER/FILM/VIDEOGRAPHY - Director or Primary Creator

 

1988           "JESSE JACKSON in 1988," video short, (2:50, 1988)

 

1989           "SI, PODEMOS!" (YES, WE CAN!)," Coordinating Producer/Director/editor w/

                           Brigadas Companeras Video Collective, documentary video,

Spanish w/English subtitles (34:00, 1989)

 

1992           "WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A YAM AND A SWEET POTATO?"

                           Director/Co-Creator w/ J. Evan Dunlap, experimental video short (5:00)

 

1994           "LONGMAN," Producer/Director/Composer, computer animation (3:17)

                 "NAMESCROLL," Producer/Director, video short, (4:20)

                 "SICK AND TIRED of being SICK AND TIRED," Producer/Animator,

         computer animated Series Open for DEEP DISH TV Healthcare

Series (00:60, 1994)

                 "ART=LIFE," interactive autobiography

 

1995            "Flash 1-25..." computer graphics

"WOMEN I LOVE," Artist/Programmer, infinitely expandable artwork

for floppy disk

"El NAFTAZTECA: Cyber-Aztec TV for 2000 A.D. ," (57:30)

Director/Editor, live interactive satellite broadcast (w/ writer/performer

Guillermo G—mez-Pe–a) Internet simulcast (November 22, 1994)

edited for broadcast (August 1995), Spanish/English/Spanglish/Other

 

1997            "MAUVE DESERT: A CD-ROM Translation," Writer/Producer/Director,

                           Programmer, Designer, CD-ROM translation of a novel by

                           Nicole Brossard, Version 1.0, published Spring 1997, English/French/Spanish

 

1999           "SKALALATATIONS" Producer/Director, digital video short (6:00)        

                 "INVISIBLE INTERLUDES I: Santaman's Harvest" Producer/Writer/Director/

                           Graphic Designer/Programmer, Live Desktop Theater Production

                 "w-i-b" Producer/Director/Graphic Design, live Desktop Theater production

                           (performed w/Lisa Brenneis & others), September 15, 16

 

2004           "The Four Freedoms," producer/director/editor, digital video short (6:00)

 

in progress   SPEC-FLIC: Distributed Speculative Cinema,

                           development site at http://jupiter.ucsd.edu/~specflic

 

COMPUTER/FILM/VIDEOGRAPHY - Collaborative or Collective

 

1985-1989    "PAPER TIGER TELEVISION," member of production collective, selected

productions contributed to: "BORN TO BE SOLD: MARTHA ROSLER

READS THE STRANGE CASE OF BABY S/M," ÔTHULANI DAVIS ASKS

WHY HOWARD BEACHÕ" "JOAN DOES DYNASTY," among others (28:00)

 

1986           "THAT'S WOMAN'S WORK!!!: TV BY AND ABOUT WOMEN"       

                                   Co-producer w/Martha Wallner, for DEEP DISH TV (58:00)

 

1992           "WELCOME TO THE TROJAN FAMILY: USC and The Rhetoric of Diversity"

Coordinating Director w/class 511B USC, documentary video, (28:00)

 

1996           DEPOP, Co-Creator with Vince Golveo, "This Issue Will Self-Destruct" Vol. 1,

                           No.1 webzine - http://home.earthlink.net/~depop/

 

1997           "waitingforgodot.com" (with Lisa Brenneis)

live Desktop Theater performance and adaptation of Samuel Beckett's classic

                 "Desert Tanka," daily poetry posting on WWW, throughout December

         http://home.earthlink.net /~depop/indexdt.html

 

1997-present "Past, Present, Future" collaboration with Lisa Brenneis,

                           web-based multi-user learning environment

 

1998           "STUFF," Producer, performance for Television by Nao Bustamante and Coco Fusco,

                           Directors: Joseph Chun, Alec James and Hunter Rodriguez, Studio Video

                           V1S174 class, Spring (46:00, 1998), Spanish & English

 

2000           "In The World of Park" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer, adaptation

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis), January 18

                 "Stumping for Votes" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis), February 2

                 "Spectacled Society" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer, adaptation

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis), March 6

                 "Mom & Larky," Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis), April 14

                 "Fattie Pattie" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis), May 3

                 "Heritage Pageant" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis), May 23

                 "First Night" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis, others), June 1

                 "Nancy's Dream" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis, others), June 4

                 "Lindsay's Flying Dream" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis, others), June 8

                 "Die 4 Dixie" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis, others), June 11

                 "Kitten Dream" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis, others), June 15

                 "River of Salsa" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis, others), June 18

                 "Thigh Dream" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis, others), June 22

                 "Mike's Dream" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis, others), June 25

                 "Shamen" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis, others), July 07    

                 "Suicidal Downfall Dreams" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis, others), July 13    

                 "LaBone's Dream" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis, others), July 13    

                 "Connie's Dream" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis, others), Sept. 02   

                 "Death Dance" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis, others), Sept 07    

                 "Windy Dream" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis, others), Sept 07    

                 "Bookmark Dream" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis, others), Sept 09    

                 "Computer Club" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis, others), Sept 09    

                 "Jack's Dream" Producer/Co-Director/Graphic Designer/Performer,

                           live Desktop Theater production (w/Lisa Brenneis, others), Sept 10

 

                "Chicana IsÉ" co-Director, live Desktop Theater production (with REACH LA),

                          Nov. 30       

 

                "The City of the Just & the City of the Unjust" co-Director, live Desktop Theater

                          production (w/Lisa Brenneis and others), August 17

 

2002          ACTIVECAMPUS "Explorientation," co-Director, live community wireless event,

                          September 24-27 (w/ Bill Griswold and ActiveCampus research team)

 

in progress  "Company Town," critical video essay on for-profit communities

                          (w/Lisa Brenneis)   

 

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE/ VOICEOVER NARRATION

 

1988-89       "Snakes & Ladders," Percussion, Vocals, Keyboards, performances at

                           The Garage, The Knitting Factory, other venues, New York, NY

 

1998           "Music & Spoken Word by Elia Arce," Percussion. Washington Performing

                          Arts Society, Washington, DC, April 17-18

                 "Dig Your Own Cactus," CD, Percussion. Recorded at Rancho de la Luna,

                           Joshua Tree, CA

 

2001           "Biospheria: An Environmental Opera," voiceover, part of Adelaide,

                           Produced by the Overdevelopment and Opera Company,

                          Directed by Stephen Ausbury, recorded by Anthony Burr, March

 

                 "NomadHouse," live performance, Background Vocals, Water Canyon,Yucca Valley,

                           February 23

                 "An evening with Teddy Quinn," Background Vocals, Crossroads CafŽ, Joshua Tree, CA

                           July 13

2003           "Rancho de la Luna 10th Anniversary weekend," live performance, Beatnik Cafe,

                           Joshua Tree, CA, May 23

2004           CHUCKWALLA FEST, live performance, Background vocals,

                           Institute of Mental Physics, June 2

                

SOLO SCREENINGS/EXHIBITIONS

1995           Toronto International Film Festival (Festival of Festivals), Toronto, CANADA

                 Governor's Conference on the Arts VII ÔThe Role of the Artist in the Digital Age"

                 Los Angeles, CA, February 21-22

                 InterActive Screen, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB, CANADA. July 21

                 Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA, July 29

                 2nd Annual Digital Storytelling Festival, Crested Butte, CO

                 Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA, October 30-November 3

                 IMAGE et NATION, Montreal, QC, CANADA, November 22

                 American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA, January 9

San Francisco Digital Media Center, San Francisco, CA, January 23

                  University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, March 18

                 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY April 22

                 "Women Direct" Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, April 23

                 OUTFEST Ô97, Directors' Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA, July 19

                 3rd Annual Digital Storytelling Festival, Crested Butte, CO. September 18-21

                 Georgetown University, Lauinger Library, Washington, DC, October 30

                

1998           University of CA. Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, April 19

 

1999           Centro Nacional de Las Artes, Mexico, D.F., May 11

                 Digital Arts and Culture '99, Atlanta, GA, October 30

                 FutureScreen '99: AvAtArs/Phantom Agents, presented by dLux Media Arts

                 Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, AUS, Nov. 6

Baxter Hall Auditorium, Scripps College, Los Angeles, CA, Nov.17

 

2000            Emotional Computing, New Media Institute, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff,

Alberta, CANADA, May 12

                  Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), UCSD, La Jolla, CA, May 15

                  Arts Symposium, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 13

29 Palms Artist Open Studios, Twentynine Palms, CA, November 10-11

 

2002            "SPAM SLAMM," Borderhack 3.0, Las playas de Tijuana, Mexico, August 17

                  Morongo Basin Desert Arts Festival, Open Studios Featured Artist, Oct.25,26

                 

SELECTED GROUP SCREENINGS /EXHIBITIONS

   note: National/ International Paper Tiger/Deep Dish screenings not listed

 

1992           "Diversity University," sponsored by the Coalition for Diversity, USC,

                           Los Angeles, CA

"Cryptovestiphilia," Gallery D-301, California Institute of the Arts,

        Valencia, CA

"Those Fluttering Objects of Desire," EXIT ART, New York, NY, May

"Lesbian Shorts Night" FACETS Multimedia, Chicago, IL, June

"Reel Affirmations 2" Center for Non-Profit Management,

        Washington, DC Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh. PA

Austin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Austin, TX

LOOKOUT Festival, Downtown Community TV, NY, NY

                 "New Queer Cinema," Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), London IMAGE/NATION,

Montreal, QC, CANADA

Hong Kong International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Hong Kong

Sixth MIX: New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival, New York, NY

10th Annual Los Angeles International Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival, Los Angeles, CA

 

1993           Sixteenth San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, San Francisco, CA

                  Video Viewpoints, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

12th Annual Women in The Director's Chair International Film & Video Festival, Chicago, IL

"Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, in "Those Fluttering Objects of Desire"

        installation, Shu Lea Cheang

Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, Philadelphia, PA

MFA shows, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

 

1994           "CYBERQUEER" group multi-media installation at the MIX Festival,

                           Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY

ÔWomen Re-thinking Space" group show at the Shelnutt Gallery,

Student Union. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

THE 90's TV series, Winter

 

1995           "A ROM of One's Own" panel, The New Festival, New York, NY, June

Border Film Festival, Mesilla, NM, September

Festival of the Americas, Charlottesville, VA, November

                  Austin Cinefest, Austin, TX

"Live Nude (Artists)" Benefit Event, L.A. Freewaves, Los Angeles, CA, April

Whitney Museum of American Art, "Lesbian Genders" curated by Chris Straayer.

April 17-May 26, 1996

A.T.A. Gallery, San Francisco, CA, May 20

MoCA/TC "L.A. Freewaves" Los Angeles, CA, August 9-11

mediawork 8, Art Center College of Design. Pasadena, CA, September 28

Cruzando Fronteras Film Festival, Washington, DC, October 10

Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, October 15

"MediaShock" MIX Festival, New York, NY, November

 

1997            ÔTechno-Grrrls: Interactive CD-ROMs by Women," curated by Steve Seid,

                           Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA, March

Free Speech TV, TV Broadcast, Boulder, CA, March 5

Int'l Multimedia Art Showcase, GOETHE-INSTITUT, Washington, D.C., May 29-31

"Science Friccion," Barcelona, SPAIN, May 29

El Centro Su Teatro, Denver, CO, June 12

Festival International Nouveau Cinema Nouveaux Medias, Montreal,QC, June 8

"Hollywood Premiere," Hollywood Premiere Motel, LA, CA, September 11,1997

"Zonen der Ver-Storung/ Zones of Disturbance," curated by Silvia Eiblmayr,

         Steirischer Herbst 97, Graz, AUSTRIA, Sept/October

ÔBeyond Playing Games: Digital Dreamlands and other Real Places"

Mill Valley Video/New Media Festival, Mill Valley, CA, October 4 - 5

"Exploration in Memory and Modernity," 43rd Annual Robert Flaherty Seminar,

         Digital Salon. Ithaca, NY, October 4 - 5

 

1998            "Out Inside," Sesnon Gallery, University of CA, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA,

                           January 14- February 21

ÔThe Alumni Show," iEAR Gallery, Troy, NY, March 16-April 17

                  "LoveBytes" Digital Arts Festival, Sheffield, UK. April 23-25

European Media Arts Festival, Electronic Lounge, Osnabruck, GERMANY, May 6-10

VIPER Ô98, Multimedia-Festival, Panorama Lounge, Luzerne, SWITZERLAND,

                           May 19-24

"Not On Any Map," Betty Rymer Gallery and The Film Center,

          The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Feb.19-April 7

 

1999           "Out Like a Lion" Feminist Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA, March 15

                 18th Annual Women in the Director's Chair, Chicago, IL, March 19-28

                 "Current Trends in Video Art," University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM,

                           June 15

                 Cinemedia, East Melbourne, AUSTRALIA, July 5

                  "Contact Zones: The Art of the CD-ROM" touring exhibition

                           Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, March 9-April 16

                           Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, May 7-21

                           Centro de la Imagen, Mexico, D.F., MEXICO, June 24-July 31  

                           The Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA, Oct.22-Nov.1

        Siglo XXIX: Video Contemporaneo Mexicano, Museo de la Imagen y el Sonido de Sao

                  Paulo, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL, September 3

        Muu Media Festival, KIASMA: Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FINLAND,

                  September 10- 18

                 Interstanding 3, Center for Contemporary Arts, Tallin, ESTONIA, Nov. 5-6

                 Canadian Currents, Goethe Institute, Toronto, CANADA, Nov. 13-15

 

2000           "Assemblage: The Women's Hypertext Gallery" collection of new media arts work

                           http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/traced/guertin/assemblage.htm

                 Taos Talking Pictures Film & Video Festival, Taos, New Mexico, April 14

                 UrbanFutures 2000, Gertrude Posel Gallery, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA, July 1-30

                 Brussels 2000, Centre/Centrum Bruxelles/Brussel 2000, BELGIUM, September -

                           December

                 "SHIFT-CNTRL: Computer Games & Art" Inaugural Exhibition of Beall Center for Art &

                           Technology, Irvine, CA, October 16 - December 5

                 "REACH OUT: A Multimedia Extravaganza," REACH LA, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 30

 

2002           "Interactive Arts Festival," Kwan Fong Gallery of Art & Culture, California Lutheran

                           University, Thousand oaks, CA, April 7-14

                 "Object/Concept," University art Gallery, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, April 5-June 16

                 "Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California 1950-2000"

                           San Jose Museum of Art, June 1 – October 13

 

2004           Powering Up/Powering Down, UCSD, Herbert Marcuse Gallery, Jan 30-Feb 1

                 Digital Salon, The ART Mission, Binghamton, NYMay 28-June 12

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

1990-92       INSTRUCTOR, Art School, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

1991           LECTURER, School of Cinema Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

1991-93       LECTURER, Dept. of Studio Art, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA

1994-95       ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Summer Arts Enhancement Program, Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, NY

1996           LECTURER, Dept. of Studio Art, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA

                 LECTURER, New Media Program, School of Theater/Film/TV

University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

1996-97       FACULTY, Certificate Program in Graphic Design and Visual Communication,

                           University of California, Irvine, University Extension, Irvine, CA

1997-2001     ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Computer & Media Arts, Visual Arts Dept.,

                           University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

2001-present  ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Computer & Media Arts, Visual Arts Dept.,

                           University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

1986-88        Distribution Coordinator, Paper Tiger Television. NY, NY,

1987-88        Associate Producer, "What Does She Want? "Video Library Series of Independent

                           Video and Film by Women, for Video Data Bank

1988            Production Manager, "Color Schemes," video by Shu Lea Cheang

Associate Producer/Researcher/Cameraperson, "I Want Your Full Cooperation,"

         video by Kathy High

1989-91        Video Coordinator, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA

1990-91        Coordinator, SKID ROW ARTIST FUND, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE),

                           Los Angeles, CA

1991            Associate Director, Ninth Annual Los Angeles International Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival,

                           Los Angeles, CA

1992-93        Researcher, ÔThe Theater of Refusal," Exhibition at University of California, Irvine Art Gallery,

                           Irvine, CA

1994-95        Associate Producer, "Witness to the Future," single channel videotape and CD-ROM by

                           Branda Miller (Voyager Co. 1996)

1995            Production Assistant, ÔOur Secret Century," CD-ROM series authored by

                           Rick Prelinger (Voyager Co., published 1996)

1996            Freelance Digital Sound Editor, MacGraw-Hill Interactive, Interactive Arts

Los Angeles, CA

1997            Artistic and Technical Consultant, Turrialba Productions, Los Angeles, CA

                 Associate Engineer, Disney Online, N.Hollywood, CA

2000           Artistic and Technical Consultant, "SuperSchmoozio," Jack Waters, New York, NY

2000-present Artistic and Technical Consultant, "The DAWN Project" Carroll Parrott Blue, San Diego, CA

                 Live Camera, Set Design, "Democracy Now in Exile," Manhattan Neighborhood

                           Network, CUNY-TV, September 17-25

 

SELECTED ARTICLES & REVIEWS

   note: National/ International Paper Tiger/Deep Dish reviews not listed

 

1992            Rich, B. Ruby, "Any sin but this," S.F.Weekly pp.21-23, June 17

Marks, Laura U., "Short Cuts," Village Voice p.70, September 15

                 "U.S. Film Project Based on Nicole Brossard Novel," The Globe and Mail. p. CS,

                           November 7

Putman, Wendy, "Another Night Out at Video In: Bifocal Sex," Angles. p.23, November

Gabriel, Gomez, "What a Little Glue Can Do," Afterimage.

Volume 20, No.4, pp. 6-7, November

 

1993            Marks, Laura U., "SEXUAL HYBRIDS: From Oriental Exotic to
Postcolonial Grotesque,"

                           Parachute No. 70, pp. 22-26

Juhasz, Alexandra, "Our Auto-Bodies, Ourselves: Representing Women in Feminist Video,"

         Afterimage. Volume 21, No.7, pp. 10-14

Rich, B. Ruby, "When Difference is (more than) Skin Deep,"

QUEER LOOKS Routledge, 1993, pp. 318-338