Exhibitions and Live Art Performances
Paterson Art Museum: January 2007, Solo Show - "A Priori: Homage to Barney Newman"
Petit Versailles 2006 - Live Multi Media with Sneakers, Avant Jazz and World Multi Channel Installation
Location One: Sneakers of Samothrace, 2005, 2006
"Gadget Off 2006" Performance for fellow inventors, Governor's Island: The Rap Shoes
2006 Digital Salon New York City: Chromatic Wave Cantata
Steim Electronic Music Foundation 2006:
Steim Performance and Residency: The Sneakers of Samothrace as an Interactive Paintbrush
IRCAM: 2005 The Sneakers of Samothrace
Sloan Foundation Festival: 2005 Multi media, The Common Root of All Organisms
a work about the evolution of Prokaryotes, showing the parallels between Native American
Creation Myths and modern creation hypotheses.
Biofilm Department, University of Montana 2004: Dark Energy, An Astrophysics Oratorio with Multi Media
Installation, Ciberart Festival Project Room, Bilbao, Spain2004
Thailand Digiart Festival, 2004
Briggs Robinson Gallery New York City 2003
Speculative Video Festival San Francisco 2003
Siggraph Lecture New York City School of Visual Arts 2003
Really Big Festival Sound Installation 2003 Australia
University of South Florida 2002
Vision Festival 2000
Fringe Festival Hong Kong1997
Performance with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony of The Waterclown 2000
Opened for David Bowie on his Sound and Vision National Tour 1991
Roulette Intermedia Foundation Performances 1997 -2007
A's Gallery New York City 1990 - 1999
MUSIC FESTIVALS (Partial)
HOWL FESTIVAL 2002 -2005
RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL 2006
BREAD AND ROSES FESTIVAL 2006
LITTLE MISS BIG MOUTH PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL 2006
WAY THE F@#D! OFF BROADWAY FESTIVAL 2006
JVC Jazz Festival 1997, 1999
World Music Festival, Blackville, N.B. 2004 - 2005
Venice Biennial, Nomad Video Wall 1996
Chicago Cultural Center World Music Festival 2002
Big Top Chataqua Women's Music Festival 2003
FILM and VIDEO (Partial List)
Tibet, National Geographic Online- I joined a scientific expedition into a remote part of Tibet. I found many parallels between the music, iconography, and spiritual culture of Tibetans and the Penobscot Tribe of Maine. I am of Penobscot/Micmac descent.
Jewels of the Rainforest, Discovery Channel- I was Second Camera for this documentary about Gary Strobel who discovered Taxol and other wonder drugs.
Marquis De Slime, Canal Plus, Finac Award- I wrote and starred in this short film based on Chomsky's Manufacture of Consent.
My videos of critically endangered animals in biological hotspots have been viewed tens of thousands of times on YOUTUBE.
Chromatic Wave Cantata was selected for the 12th Annual Digital Salon.
Education :
Vassar BA Art History
New England Conservatory Piano Performance
NYU Masters Program Music Composition
City College Masters of Jazz Program
School of Visual Arts MFA Computer Art Program (Perry Hoberman advisor)
Private Study John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet
Private Study Video and Painting: Larry Rivers
2003 Artist in Residence Graduate School of Computer Art
School of Visual Arts New York City
2003 Artist in Residence Universtity of Texas at Austin
2004 Artist in Residence, Graduate Computer Department of Musical Inelligence - University of Victoria, British Columbia
2005 - 2007 - Juilliard School, Music Composition, Music Technology
Awards and Prizes:
Pulitzer Prize in Music Nominee 2000
New York State Council of the Arts Grant 2000
Jerome Foundation Grant for Emerging Playrights 1993
Young Composers Grant 1989
Roulette Commission to write an experimental electronic/Native American multimedia opera, "THE QUEEN of NEW ENGLAND"
Ragdale Fellow 2000 -2003