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