Curriculum Vitae

Summary

Artist focused on social practice, sculpture, performance and new media work since 1996. University-level educator and museum curator. Marketing manager and software engineer with deep technical skills, bringing 25 years of creative work, systems and software experience, proven leadership, and dynamic and holistic problem-solving skills.

Education

M.F.A., Digital Art and New Media, University of California, Santa Cruz, in the Playable Media workgroups, 2015
B.A., Computer and Information Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz. with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. 1992
Multiple-Subject Education Certification coursework, University of California, Santa Cruz, focused on science education. 1992 to 1993

Employment

Lecturer, School of Computing & Design, Cal State Monterey Bay, 2017 to present
Lecturer, Arts Division, University of California Santa Cruz, 2015 to present
Lecturer, Department of Art & Art History, San Jose State University, 2017 to 2018
Summer Curator and Exhibition Catalyst, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, 2015 to 2016.
Senior Instructor, Hackbright Academy, San Francisco, 2015 to 2017
Teaching Assistant, Arts Division, University of California Santa Cruz, 2013 to 2015
Arts Researcher for Arts Dean David Yager, University of California Santa Cruz, 2014
Systems Architect and Engineer for Grateful Dead Archive Online, University of California Santa Cruz, 2010 to 2013
System Architect, Administrator, and Developer, University Library, University of California Santa Cruz, 2006 to 2013
Technology Director, Mapleton Communications, Monterey, CA, 2002 to 2004
Web Marketing Manager, Interwoven, Sunnyvale, CA. 1999 to 2001

Solo Exhibitions

Portland Museum, Louisville, KY with Secret History of American River People, 2019
East Bay Mini Maker Faire, Oakland, CA with Secret History, 2018
White Box, New York, NY, with Secret History, 2018
Waterfront Museum, Brooklyn, NY, with Secret History, 2018
World Awareness Children’s Museum, Fort Edward, NY, with Secret History, 2018
Town of Waterford, Waterford, NY, with Secret History, 2018
Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston, NY, with Secret History, 2018
Haverstraw River Arts Fund, Haverstraw, NY, with Secret History, 2018
Ebb & Flow, Santa Cruz, CA, with Secret History, 2017, 2018
Sacramento History Museum, Sacramento, CA, with Secret History, 2017
River Discovery Center, Paducah, KY, with Secret History, 2016
Kennedy Douglass Center for the Arts, Florence, AL, with Secret History, 2016
Ditto Landing, Huntsville, AL, with Secret History, 2016
Knoxville Museum of Art & Volunteer Landing, with Secret History, 2016
National Mississippi River Museum, Dubuque, Iowa, with Secret History, 2015
River City Revue, St. Paul Yacht Club, St Paul, MN, with Secret History, 2015
9 Nights of Music, Minneapolis History Center, St. Paul, with Secret History, 2015
Spastic Robots & Frankenthings, San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation. Facilitator, 2014
Recent Works, What Is Art? Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. 1999

Group Exhibitions

LAST Festival, San Jose, with FOMOphobia, 2017
In Conversation with UCSC Studio Art Faculty, R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA, with Secret History, 2016
Radical Craft Night, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, with Secret History, 2015
San Francisco International Art Festival, with Co-related Space, 2015
DANM MFA Exhibition, UC Santa Cruz, with Secret History, 2015
Radical Craft Night, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, with Secret History, 2014
FIGMENT Art Festival, Oakland, with Secret History, 2014
LAST Festival, San Francisco, with Co-related Space, 2014
GLOW: Festival of Fire, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, with Co-related Space, 2014
Ann and Mark’s Art Party, Santa Clara Fairgrounds, San Jose, with Co-related Space, 2014
Digital Arts and New Media Spring Open Studios, UC Santa Cruz, with Secret History, 2013
LAST Festival, Zer01 Gallery, San Jose, with Co-related Space, 2014
The Cradle Project, Alter Space, San Francisco, 2014
Para-Sites 2014 Distributed Exhibition Project, downtown Santa Cruz, Bloomington, Indiana, France, New Zealand. With Santa Cruz Secret Exchange, 2014
The Cradle Project, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 2014
Magic Night, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 2014
Radical Craft Night, Santa Cruz MAH. Performance, 2013
Digital Arts and New Media Fall Open Studios, UC Santa Cruz, with FOMOphobia, 2013
Gamelan Anak Swarasanti, performed regionally, 2008 to 2013
Fun-A-Day 2013 Show, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 2013
Kecak Monkey Chant, Santa Cruz MAH. Organizer and performer, 2012
McHenry Library Inaugural Staff Exhibit, UC Santa Cruz, 2012
Streetside Letter Writing, downtown Santa Cruz. Performance, 2008, 2009, 2011
We Are All Animals MMXI, Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz, 2011
SubRosa Staff Art Show, Santa Cruz, CA, 2011
We Are All Animals, Bricks and Mortar Media, San Francisco, 2011
An Evening of Extraordinary Proportions, Santa Cruz. Organizer and Performer, 2010
The Dark Night of DIY Ragdolls and Monsters, SubRosa, Santa Cruz, CA, 2009
Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra, performed regionally. Organizer and musician, 2005 to 2009
Free Coffee Bar, downtown Santa Cruz. Performance, 2007-2008
The SDS Comic Show, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2007
Ars Felix Externus, Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA, 2002
Million Clown March, Santa Cruz. Organizer, 2002
Members Only, Santa Cruz Art League, 2002
Mixed Signals, Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA, 2002
Santa Cruz Art League, 2001
Spy Soiree, Santa Cruz. Performance, 2001
What the Hell’s Going on Downtown Day, downtown Santa Cruz. Performance. 1999
Exemplary Contemporary, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. 1997

University-level Teaching

Multimedia Programming, CSUMB, 2018-19
Web Tools, CSUMB, 2018
Intro to Web Design. Lecturer, CSUMB, 2017-19
Intro to Digital Video Art. Lecturer, SJSU, 2017-19
Computing for Digital Artists. Lecturer, CSUMB, 2017-19
Computer Programming for the Arts. Lecturer, UCSC, 2016-19
Introduction to Programming, Senior Instructor, Hackbright Academy, San Francisco, 2016-17
Computer Programming for the Arts, Teaching Assistant & Lab Instructor, 2015
2D Foundation, Teaching Assistant & Studio Instructor, UCSC, 2015
3D Foundation, Teaching Assistant & Studio Instructor, UCSC, 2014
Concepts and Practice in Sculpture and Public Art. Teaching Assistant & Studio Instructor, UCSC, 2013

Published

“River People: A Shantyboat on the Sacramento River”. Small Boats Monthly, 2018
“Knowing the Mississippi.” Open Rivers: Rethinking the Mississippi, no. 1, University of Minnesota, 2015
“Revisiting the Technical Achievements of Listening Post Ten Years On”. NMEDIAC, 2014
Bear Creek, Interactive Fiction. Author, 2012
Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History. New York: Hill and Wang, 2008
“Times Square by Howard Zinn”. Baltimore, MD: Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, 2008
“Confessions of a WebTeam Manager”. Sunnyvale: Interwoven, 2001
“Trainspotting”. Bloomington, IN: BC Magazine, 1997
“How To Sneak Around”. Bloomington: BC Mag, 1997
“Rail Rogues”. San Jose, CA: Metro Publishing, 1996
“Urban Urges”. San Jose, CA: Metro Publishing, 1995
“The Secret Life of Trains”. San Francisco: Might Magazine, 1994
Using Unix System V Release 3. Berkeley: Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1990
Using SCO Unix. Berkeley: Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1990

Honors and Awards

Puffin Foundation West, 2019
Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant, 2018
Arts Council of Santa Cruz County, Create Grant for Secret History, 2017
Puffin Foundation Grant, 2017
Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship, short-listed, 2015
UCSC Art Dean’s Excellence Award for Secret History, 2015
Florence French Scholarship for Secret History of American River People, 2015
University of California Institute for Research in the Arts Graduate Grant for Secret History, 2014
Arts Council of Santa Cruz County Create Grant for Co-related Space, 2014
Florence French Scholarship for Co-related Space, 2014

Invited Addresses

Beacon Sloop Club, Beacon, NY, 2019
Portland Museum, Louisville, 2019
East Bay Mini Maker Faire, Oakland, 2018
WhiteBox Artists Panel, New York, NY, 2018
Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston, NY, 2018
Design Tech High School, Burlingame, CA. Artist talk about Secret History, 2017
River Discovery Center, Paducah, KY. Artist talk about Secret History, 2016
Kennedy Douglass Center for the Arts, Florence, AL. Artist talk about Secret History, 2016
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN. Artist talk about Secret History, 2016
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous, University California Santa Cruz. Talk about Secret History, 2016
River City Revue St. Paul Yacht Club, St. Paul, Minnesota. Artist talk about Secret History, 2015
11th Annual Graduate Research Symposium, University California Santa Cruz. Talk about Secret History, 2014
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous, University California Davis. Talk about Secret History, 2015
Friday Forum for Graduate Research, University California Santa Cruz. Talk about Secret History, 2015
10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium, University California Santa Cruz. Talk about Secret History, 2014
PetchaKucha 20×20, Santa Cruz MAH. Performance, 2013
Creating the Grateful Dead Archive Online, University California Santa Cruz, 2012
SDS Comic Artists Panel, Brown University, Providence, RI. Panelist with Harvey Pekar, 2007

Non-Profit

Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. Creative Community Committee member, 2014 to 2019
The Santa Cruz Hub for Sustainable Living. Board, 2008 to 2013
Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County. Grant Reviewer, 2008, 2012, 2017
Revolutionary Garden Society. Founder, Board, 2004 to 2017
Central Coast Public Radio KUSP, Santa Cruz. Board, Programmer, 2001 to 2005

Community Organizing

Union of Benevolent Electrical Workers. Founder and Collective Member, 2010 to present
Police Obsolescence Workgroup. Organizer, 2011
Blue Light Safety Project. Organizer, 2011
Santa Cruz Community Safety Workgroup. Organizer, 2011
Demystifying Anarchy. Organizer, 2010
Organizer and Publisher, 2009 to 2010
Anarchist Convergence. Organizer, 2009
Free Skool Conference. Organizer, 2009
Free Skool for Kids. Facilitator, 2009
SubRosa Community Space. Co-founder, Collective Member and Staffer, 2008 to 2013
Comic Artists’ Collective. Organizer, 2008
Last Night DIY Parade. Organizer, 2006 to 2008
Brazen Square Dance. Organizer, 2006 to 2007
Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra. Organizer and Musician, 2005 to 2009
Free Radio Santa Cruz. Collective Member and Programmer, 2005 to 2008
Free Skool Santa Cruz. Co-founder and Teacher, 2005 to 2012
Free Carpentry. Founder and carpenter, 2004 to 2005
Adventure Club. Organizer, 2003 to 2008
Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In. Organizer, 2002 to 2011
What Is Art? Santa Cruz. Collective Member and Performer. 1998 to 2000

Community Education

Hacktivate! 115: Geek Love From Luddite Technologists -or- Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley, 2014
Hacktivate! 112: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tech, 2014
Hacktivate! 111: Authoritarian Use of Technology Against Civilians, 2014
Hacktivism 106: Fundamentals of Programming, 2013
Reskilling Expo: Quilting Workshop, 2012
Hacktivism 105: Frankenthings. Teacher and 2012
Hacktivism 104: Linux Fundamentals, 2012
Hacktivism 103: Intermediate Linux Fundamentals, 2011
Soapbox 202: Anarchist Public Speaking, 2011
Hacktivism 102: A brief overview of codes and cryptography, 2011
Games as a Strategy for Living (and Liberation), 2011 to 2012
Hacktivism 102: Advanced Free & Easy Websites, 2010
Ambitious Plans/Radical Strategy, 2010
Free Stuff/Scavenger Hunt, 2010
Hacktivism 101: Internet Sleuthing, 2010
Caliban and the Witch, 2010 to 2010
Hacktivism 101: Using Linux, 2010
Comic Workshop, 2010 to 2012
Kecak: Indonesian Monkey Chant, 2010
Drawing People for Illustrated Stories, 2010 to 2010
Writing Down the Bones, 2009 to 2010
Lao-Tzu and Zhuang-Tze: An Anarchist Study Group, 2009 to 2009
Dark Night of DIY Rag Dolls and Monsters, 2009
Home Ownership for Punx, 2009 to 2010
Intel and Counter-Intel for Activists, 2009
Sewing for Boys, 2009
Tao and Zen: Alan Watts Listening Group, 2009 to 2010
Soapbox 101: Anarchist Public Speaking Series, 2008 to 2008
Revenge of the Grandmas: Quilting as Communal and Personal Liberation, 2008 to 2011
Felton Railroad History Campout, 2008 to 2011
Fun With Scrap Metal, 2008
The Way: Tao Te Ching Reading Group, 2007 to 2007
Free Skool Post-Apocalyptic Survival Weekend, 2007
Debris Shelter Campout, 2006 to 2008
Trash Orchestra Practice, 2006 to 2006
History of the Future, 2006 to 2009
Practical Security Culture, 2006
Know Your Rights & Resist the Police State, 2006 to 2010
Assertive Non-Violence and Direct Action Techniques, 2006
Running a Free Skool, 2005 to 2012
Free Carpentry: Treehouse Workshop, 2005 and 2006
Collage Workshop & Party. 1999 to 2007