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SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2020
  • Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, CA, Disintegrating Fortune (TBA)
2018
  • Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science + Technology, Santa Barbara, CA, A Living Model Of Hyperbolic Space
  • Denise Montell Laboratory, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, Lens No. 2 (Permanent Installation)
  • Denise Montell Laboratory, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, Three Feet Above Earth (Commission)
2017
  • Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA, Curator: Natalia Mount, The Beginning Was The End | New Work (Commission)
  • Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, CA, Neurodivergent Media
2016
  • North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, Curator: Laurel Reuter, The Glass System
  • Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Matt Fisher, Resonant Luminance (w/Kadet Kuhne)
2014
  • Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, CA, Treasures of Big House (w/Scott Stark)
  • Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Craig Baldwin, Mutable Commute (w/Scott Stark)
2013
  • Institute for Computational Mathematics + Engineering, Curator: Margot Gerritson, PhD, Stanford University, Palo, Alto, CA, Strange Loops
  • Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Craig Baldwin, Signal Mountain (w/Jim Haynes)
2010
  • Cemeti Institute for Art + Society, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, The Beginning Was The End (Fulbright Research)
2007
  • Steven D. Paine Gallery, Boston, MA, Anamnesis
2006
  • Axiom Gallery for New + Experimental Media, Cambridge, MA, Curator: Heidi Kayser, A Means of Illumination
1997
  • Arrowspace, Olympia, WA, Last Chance Ranch (w/Kevin Woida)
1996
  • Olympia Film Festival, (locations citywide), Olympia, WA, (Juried) Let Yourself Go…

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (select)

2024
  • Wendler Gallery, Cushing Memorial Archives, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX — Curator: Meredith Tromble, Alice in the Archives: The Changing Shape of Knowledge
  • Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor Michigan, Stitching the Future with Clues
    — Curator: Kornelia Boczkowska
  • Museum of Sensory and Movement Experiences, Santa Barbara, CA, Curator: John Hood, multiple works
  • Getty | Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x LA, Beall Center for Art + Technology, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
    — Curator: David Familian, Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Predictability
2023
  • The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Sam Sharkland, Stitching the Future with Clues (Live)
2022
  • Berkeley Art Museum | Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, Curators: Kathy Geritz, Jeffrey Skoller, Alternative Visions: The Films that Sang and Cried
  • Mind & Life Institute, Summer Research Institute: Othering Becoming, and Belonging, virtual, Curator: Dr. Clifford Saron, Stitching the Future with Clues
  • Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC, Stitching the Future With Clues
  • Ford Foundation Gallery, NY, NY, Curators: Ann Fox, Jessica Cooley
  • — Indisposable: Tactics for Care and Mourning
2021
  • Ford Foundation Gallery, NY, NY, Curators: Ann Fox, Jessica Cooley
  • — Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA, Stitching the Future With Clues (Commission)
2020
  • The Glass Factory, Boda Glasbruk, Sweden, Curator: Ed Kirshner, Upplyst Glas | Enlightened Glass (TBA)
  • SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Curators: Vanessa Chang, Lindsey Dolitch-Felt, Recoding CripTech
  • Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL, Denial (w/Kit Young)
  • San Francisco Queer Nightlife Fund, Twitch Broadcast, Quaran-Tea (w/Kit Young, Scott Moore)
2019
  • Art Ark, San Jose, CA, Curator: Keith Evans, Ambient Dew Point
  • MilkBar Multimedia Salon #47, Richmond, CA, Curator: Ian Winters, Autopoiesis
2018-19
  • Emerge / Evolve 2018, Bullseye Glass Company, Juried Exhibition, Traveled
    • — Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
    • — Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
    • — Bullseye Glass Company Gallery, Emeryville, CA
    • — Bullseye Projects, Portland, OR
2018
  • Technicolor Grey Zone, Live-scored film including Autopoiesis (w/Thollem McDonas), Traveled
    • — The Ice Box, Philadelphia, PA
    • — Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
    • — Erie Art Museum, Eerie, PA
  • Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, Interstellar Sanctuary
  • Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Justin Hoover, The Channel of Democracy: Womanhood, Power and Freedom in Video Art
  • Pence Gallery, Davis, CA, (Juried), The Consilience of Art and Science
  • Museum of Human Achievement, Experimental Response Cinema, Austin, TX, TR*MP TH*S!
  • Gray Area Art + Technology, UNSEEN, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Matt Fisher, Tactus Tempus
2017
  • MilkBar Multimedia Salon #43, Richmond, CA, Hypercubes
  • The Uptown, Oakland, CA, West Coast Women’s Darkwave Festival (w/Voodoo Dolly)
  • Land And Sea, Oakland, CA, Balsams Release (w/Chuck Johnson)
  • Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, CA, FIRED! 100 Days Action
2016
  • Peephole Cinema, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Victoria Scott, Surface Tension
2015
  • CROSSROADS Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Steve Polta, Resonant Luminance (w/Kadet Kuhne)
  • Root Division, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Hanna Regev, Living With Endangered Languages
  • Exploded View, Tuscon, AZ, Deseo Desarollo (w/Steev Hise)
2014
  • Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, Scott Stark: More Than One Way To Find Out (w/Scott Stark)
  • New Media Art + Sound Summit, Austin, TX, Treasures of Big House (w/Scott Stark)
  • Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI, Nocturnal Symmetries (w/Scott Stark)
  • Nightingale Cinema, Chicago, IL, Nocturnal Symmetries (w/Scott Stark)
  • CROSSROADS Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Steve Polta, Nocturnal Symmetries (w/Scott Stark)
2013
  • Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, Curator: John Jota Leaños, Translocura
  • Cemeti Institute for Art + Society, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Curator: Mella Jaarsma, One Night Stand
  • Mana Contemporary, ACRE TV, Chicago, IL, Curator: Kera MacKenzie, Test Patterns
  • SOMArts, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Justin Hoover, Electronic Pacific
  • Glitch Gallery, Boston, MA, Curator: Zebbler Berdofsky, Light + Sculpture: Elemental Affair
  • SOMArts, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Justin Hoover, Night Light
2012
  • Zero1 Biennial, Zero1 Arts + Technology Network, San Jose, CA, Curator: Lily Alexander, (e)MERGE
  • Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA, Curator: Kevin Chen, Keeping Time
  • Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA, Convergence | Divergence
2011
  • SFMOMA, Activating The Medium Festival XIV, San Francisco, CA, Signal Mountain (w/Jim Haynes)
  • cellsbutton#05: Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Experiment Series
2010
  • Storyline Transports: Shadow + Light Festival (Multiple locations), Chicago, IL, Experiment Series
  • cellsbutton#04: Yogyakarta Int’l Media Art Festival, Yogya, Indonesia, Curator: Venzha Christ, Hypercubes
2009
  • Pusat Kegiatan Belajar Masyarakat, Sukoharjo, Indonesia, Bulan Sura Festifal Lampion
  • Boston CyberArts FestivaI | Dead/Live Video Fest, Boston, MA, Curator: Zebbler Berdofsky, Palidrome
2008
  • Urban Screens Conference, Melbourne, Australia, Upgrade! International, Our Friends Are Electric
    Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA, Curators: George Fifield, Phaedra Shanbaum, Inside The Box
2007
  • Boston Convention Center, Boston, MA, Curator: George Fifield, Summer Solstice Celebration
    Studio Soto, Boston, MA, Upgrade! Boston

FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES + AWARDS select

2021
  • Leonardo/ISAST | CripTech Incubator Fellowship, California, USA (Finalist)
  • Tower Residency, Cotati, CA
2017 + 19
  • Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington, D.C. (Nominee)
2014 + 19
  • Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA
2018
  • Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science + Technology Artist Residency, Santa Barbara, CA
  • Crossover Award, Bullseye Glass Company, USA
2017
  • Pro Arts Gallery + Commons, Artist Residency, Oakland, CA
  • Bullseye Glass Company Artist Residency, Emeryville, CA
  • Piano Farm Residency, Bloomfield, CA
2016
  • Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Resident Researcher, Cambridge, MA
  • Eureka Fellowship, The Fleischhaker Foundation, San Francisco, CA (Nominee)
2015 + 16
  • Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington, D.C. (Finalist)
2015
  • North Dakota Museum of Art, Artist-In-Residence, Grand Forks, ND
2014
  • San Francisco Artist Award, San Francisco, CA (Nominee)
2013
  • San Francisco Arts Commission Grant, San Francisco, CA (supporting The Beginning Was The End)
  • The David Bermant Foundation Grant, Santa Barbara, CA
  • Pro Arts Gallery + Commons, Oakland, CA, 2 x 2 Solos (Nominee)
  • The Present Group, The Present Prize, San Francisco, CA (Finalist)
2012
  • Society for Excellence in Contemporary Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (Nominee)
  • Zero1 Biennial Grant (Supported by The James Irvine Foundation), San Jose, CA
  • Kala Art Institute Artist Residency, Berkeley, CA
2008 + 11
  • Experimental Television Center Artist Residency, Owego, NY
2010
  • Cemeti Institute for Art + Society Artist Residency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2009
  • Fulbright Scholar, U.S. Dept. of State (Java, Indonesia, Strange Loops: Hybrid Reality in Javanese Culture)
2008
  • Darmasiswa Indonesian Scholarship, Indonesian Government
  • Sanggar Perbakayun, Resident Researcher, Java, Indonesia

PANELS, CONFERENCES + LECTURES select

2022
  • RIXC Art Science Festival, virtual | hybrid: Riga, Latvia and Liepaja, Karlsruhe, Oslo, Splintered Realities 2022 (screening: Stitching the Future with Clues)
  • The Mind and Life Institute, virtual, Summer Research Institute: Othering, Belonging, and Becoming
  • — (plenary faculty, screening: Stitching the Future with Clues)
2020
  • College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL (Paper: The Conversation: Feedback Structures, Ways of Knowing, and Neurodivergence)
  • SOMArts Gallery, Recoding Crip Tech, San Francisco, CA (Workshop: Neurodivergent Media)
2019
  • Mickiewicz University, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Cntr, After Agency Conference, Poland (Paper: The Conversation: Feedback Structures, Ways of Knowing, and Neurodivergence)
  • The Centre for New Media Culture, UN/GREEN: Naturally Artificial Intelligences Conference, Riga, Latvia (Paper: The Conversation: Feedback Structures, Ways of Knowing, and Neurodivergence)
  • FEMeeting, Women in Art, Science and Technology Conference, Lisbon, Portugal (Unable to attend)
  • UC Los Angeles, NanoSystems Institute, Art-Based Research Symposium, Los Angeles, CA (Participant)
  • INSEEC University, San Francisco, CA (Artist Lecture: Ways of Knowing in Art + Science)
2018
  • UC Berkeley, Dept. of Art Practice, Berkeley, CA (Artist Talk in Nicky Tavares’ Course: The Architecture of Time)
  • Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science + Technology, Santa Barbara, CA (Artist Lecture: A Living Model of Hyperbolic Space)
2017
  • Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA (Artist Lecture: Scale + Symmetry)
  • Bullseye Glass Co., Emeryville, CA (Artist Talk)
2016
  • University of North Dakota Writers Conference, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, The Art of Science (Keynote Lecture: Strange Loops: Hybrid Reality in Javanese Culture)
    • — Other Worlds (Panelist) with Brian Greene, Katharine Coles, PhD
    • — The Two Cultures (Panelist) with Brian Greene, Kim Stanley Robinson, Dr. Frank Huyler, MD
  • School of Art + Design, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND (Artist Talk | Graduate Critiques)
  • Mobius | Boston CyberArts, Reports From Afield Lecture Series, Boston, MA (Artist Lecture)
  • San Francisco Art Institute, SF, CA (Artist Talk in Meredith Tromble’s Course: History of Art + Technology)
2015
  • Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, Cosmology in Art and Science: Imagining The Universe, Curated by Pierro Scarrufi (Artist Lecture: Traditional Knowledge in the Modern World), with Roger Malina, Katharine Hawthorne, Chris McKay
2014
  • Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ (Poster Session)
  • Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness Conference, Portland, OR, (Artist Lecture)
  • Cultural Studies Association Conference, Columbia College, Chicago, IL (Artist Lecture: Strange Loops)
2013
  • LASER SciArt Talks, University of San Francisco, CA, Curator: Pierro Scarrufi (Artist Lecture: Strange Loops)
  • Columbia College, Cultural Studies Association Conference, Chicago, IL (Artist Lecture)
2012
  • UC Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies, Santa Barbara, CA (Artist Talk in Jatila Vanderveen’s Course: Symmetry + Aesthetics in Contemporary Physics)
2011
  • Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival, Video Vortex Conference | Institute of Network Cultures Yogyakarta, Indonesia (Curated by Veronika Kusumaryai, David Teh) (Artist Talk, Panel Discussion)
2010 + 11
  • Yogyakarta Intl Media Art Festival, cellsFEMALE: Women In New Media, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Curator: Irine Agrivine (Artist Talk)
2010
  • Cemeti Institute for Art + Society, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (Artist Talk: The Beginning Was The End)
  • Institut Seni Indonesia, Surakarta, Indonesia (Artist Talk)
  • North Carolina School of Science + Mathematics, Durham, NC (Artist Talk)
  • Boston Jung Institute, Newton, MA (Artist Lecture: Anamnesis)
2003
  • Louise Bourgeois’ Sunday Salon, New York, NY (Artist Presentation)

RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2022 - 23
  • Project Manager, Domestic Light, Ian Winters | 37 North, Inc. (remote)
2013 - pres.

Educator | Researcher, Neurodivergent Media, San Francisco Bay Area, CA

2014 - 17

Vice President, Board of Directors, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA

2016

Juror, Djerassi Artist Residency Program, Woodside, CA
Cultural Incubator, Fall Cohort, Gray Area Art + Technology, San Francisco, CA

2014

Founding Member | Producer: Optic Flare, San Francisco, CA
Curator, World Water Day Symposium, Water Wheel, Streaming Worldwide

2013

Nominator, Djerassi | Leonardo ISAST, Scientific Delirium Madness Residency (Inaugural), Woodside, CA

2011

Studio Manager | Artist Assistant, Snibbe Interactive | Scott Snibbe Studio, SF, CA

2009 - 10

Field Researcher | Developer, Java, Indonesia, for UC Santa Barbara Professor Lisa Jevbratt’s Project Zoomorph (Supported by Creative Capital)

2009

Creator | Producer, Pusat Kegiatan Belajar Masyarakat, Bulan Sura Festifal Lampion, Java, Indonesia

2007-09

Preparator, Santa Barbara Arts Commission, Santa Barbara, CA
Preparator, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

2007

Technical Assistant, LACE, Resonant Forms Festival, Laetita Sonami + Sue-C, Los Angeles, CA
Curator: Mark Hosler | Negativland, Exhibitions Dept., Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

1993-98

Special Projects Coordinator, Projectionist, Historian, Media Arts Intern, Olympia Film Society +
Olympia Film Ranch, Olympia, WA

1997

Founding Member, VERA Women Artists Collective, Olympia, WA

EDUCATION

2023 - 27

Ph.D., Electronic Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

2007

MFA, Interrelated Media, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

1996

BA, Visual Arts, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

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