Curriculum Vitae

Summary

Professional artist focused on new media, social practice, sculpture, and performance. University educator since 2015, active faculty member, student mentor, and course designer. Web developer and 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

University of California Santa Cruz, Art Department & Computational Media, Lecturer, 2015 to present
Cal State Monterey Bay, School of Computing & Design, Lecturer, 2016 to 2022
San Jose State University, Department of Art & Art History, Lecturer, 2017 to 2018
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Summer Curator and Exhibition Catalyst, 2015 to 2016.
Hackbright Academy, San Francisco, Senior Instructor, 2015 to 2017
University of California Santa Cruz, Arts Division, Teaching Assistant, 2013 to 2015
University of California Santa Cruz, Arts Researcher for Arts Dean David Yager, 2014
University of California Santa Cruz, Systems Architect and Engineer for Grateful Dead Archive Online, 2010 to 2013

Exhibitions

Burning Man Arts Festival, Black Rock City, NV. 2019-2023
We’re Still Here, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. 2019
Portland Museum, Louisville, KY. 2019
New Richmond Historical Society, New Richmond, OH. 2019
First Friday, Marietta, OH. 2019
Ebb & Flow, Santa Cruz, CA. 2017-19
East Bay Mini Maker Faire, Oakland, CA. 2018-19
World Awareness Children’s Museum, Fort Edward, NY. 2018
White Box Gallery, New York, NY. 2018
Waterfront Museum, Brooklyn, NY. 2018
Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston, NY. 2018
Haverstraw River Arts Fund, Haverstraw, NY. 2018
Sacramento History Museum, Sacramento, CA. 2017
LAST Festival, San Jose. April 2017. 2017
River Discovery Center, Paducah, KY. 2016
Knoxville Museum of Art / Volunteer Landing, Knoxville, KY. 2016
Kennedy Douglass Center for the Arts, Florence, AL. 2016
In Conversation with UCSC Studio Art Faculty, R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. 2016
Ditto Landing, Huntsville, AL. 2016
San Francisco International Art Festival, San Francisco, CA. 2015
River City Revue, St. Paul Yacht Club, St Paul, MN. 2015
Radical Craft Night, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. 2013-15
National Mississippi River Museum, Dubuque, Iowa. 2015
DANM MFA Exhibition, UC Santa Cruz. 2015
9 Nights of Music, Minneapolis History Center, St. Paul. 2015
The Cradle Project, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. 2014
The Cradle Project, Alter Space, San Francisco. 2014
Spastic Robots & Frankenthings, San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation. Facilitator. 2014
Para-Sites Distributed Exhibition Project, downtown Santa Cruz, Bloomington, Indiana, France, New Zealand. 2014
Magic Night, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. 2014
LAST Festival, Zer01 Gallery, San Jose. 2014
LAST Festival, San Francisco. 2014
GLOW: Festival of Fire, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. 2014
FIGMENT Art Festival, Oakland, CA. 2014
Ann and Mark’s Art Party, Santa Clara Fairgrounds, San Jose. 2014
Digital Arts and New Media Open Studios, UC Santa Cruz. 2013
Recent Works, What Is Art? Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. 1999

University-level Teaching

CMPM179 Game Design Practicum/Experimental Gameplay, UCSC, 2023
CMPM170-2 Game Design Studio I-III, UCSC. 2022-23
CMPM169 Creative Coding, UCSC. 2023-24
ART10F 4D Foundations, UCSC. 2022-23
ART101 Computer Programming for the Arts. Lecturer, UCSC. 2015-24
CST251 Web Tools, Lecturer, CSUMB, 2018-22
CST252 Web Scripting, Lecturer, CSUMB, 2019-22
CST351 Intro to Web Design. Lecturer, CSUMB, 2017-22
CST236 Computing for Digital Artists. Lecturer, CSUMB, 2017-22
CST226 Digital Photography, 2020-2021
CST205 Multimedia Programming Python, Lecturer, CSUMB, 2018-20
ART75 Intro to Digital Video Art. Lecturer, SJSU, 2017-18
Introduction to Programming, Senior Instructor, Hackbright Academy, San Francisco, 2016-17
ART101 Computer Programming for the Arts, Teaching Assistant & Lab Instructor, 2015
ART10D 2D Foundation, Teaching Assistant & Studio Instructor, UCSC, 2015
ART10E 3D Foundation, Teaching Assistant & Studio Instructor, UCSC, 2014
ART20H Concepts and Practice in Sculpture and Public Art. Teaching Assistant & Studio Instructor, UCSC, 2013

Games and Interactive Media

WesBot, personality transfer experiment & teaching assistant. Designer/Developer. 2023
Bear Creek, interactive fiction. Author. 2014, 2023
Spotify Vinyl, full-album atmospheric web player. Designer/Developer. 2023
Black Rock Station, multi-media installation. Designer/Developer. 2019-2023
Grouper, student project group creator. Developer. 2019-2023
Wordle-helper, a full grid wordle-word-aware web app. Designer/Developer. 2023
Unavoidable Disaster, user-contributed interactive web zine. Creator and Editor. 2020-2022
Decision Maker, interactive web tool. Designer/Developer. 1986, 2013, 2020
We Are Still Here, new media exploring elder isolation. Designer/Developer. 2018
Wheel of Chaos, web game. Designer/Developer. 2019
Megalophone, light-enabled mbira installation. Co-artist and Developer. 2018
Ro-cham-bo, an extensible version of Rock, Paper, Scissors. Designer/Developer. 2017
Textalert, activist text notification system. Developer. 2017
Secret History, web documentary for A Secret History of American River People. Designer/Developer. 2017
Co-Related Space, interactive laser/sound installation. Co-artist. 2015
FOMOphobia, Anxiety-inducing tech art installation. Designer/Developer. 2014
Mimic, knowledge acquisition experiment and chatterbot. Developer. 2006
Dumpster Diver, early social web game. Designer/Developer. 1997
Land of Lost Socks, early social web game. Designer/Developer. 1996
Blackmail, early social web game. Designer/Developer. 1996
Message in a Bottle, early social web game. Designer/Developer. 1995

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

Burning Man Arts Honoraria, 2020-2022
FCA Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund, 2020
Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship, short-listed 2019, short-listed 2015,
Ohio Humanities Quarterly Grant, 2019
UC Placemaking – Open Classroom Mini Grant, 2019
Arts Council of Santa Cruz County, Create Grant, 2019, 2017, 2015
Puffin Foundation Grant, 2019, 2017
Puffin Foundation West Grant, 2019
Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant, 2018
Haven Foundation Emergency Grant, 2018
Arts Council of Santa Cruz County, Support Grant, 2014
UCSC Art Dean’s Excellence Award, 2015
Florence French Scholarship, 2014, 2015
University of California Institute for Research in the Arts Graduate Grant, 2014

Invited Addresses

Morven Museum and Garden, Princeton, NJ, 2021
Practice-Based Research Group: Sites, UCSC, Santa Cruz, 2021
Visual Culture, Arts, and Media at Haverford College, 2020
Kindling, Burning Man Project, Reno, NV, 2020
Tannery Talks Panel Moderator, Santa Cruz. 2020
Endless Summer Paddle Company, Louisville, KY. 2019
Grave Creek Mound Complex, Moundsville, WV, 2019
Beacon Sloop Club, Beacon, NY, 2019
Portland Museum, Louisville, 2019
East Bay Mini Maker Faire, Oakland, CA, 2020, 2019, 2018
WhiteBox Artists Panel, New York, NY. 2018
Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston, NY. 2018
Design Tech High School, Burlingame, CA. 2017
River Discovery Center, Paducah, KY. 2016
Kennedy Douglass Center for the Arts, Florence, AL. 2016
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN. 2016
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous, University California Santa Cruz. 2016
River City Revue St. Paul Yacht Club, St. Paul, Minnesota. 2015
11th Annual Graduate Research Symposium, University California Santa Cruz. 2014
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous, University California Davis. 2015
Friday Forum for Graduate Research, University California Santa Cruz. 2015
10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium, University California Santa Cruz. 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
Freakshow. 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