Residencies

  • 2018 Artist in Residence, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley CA.

Exhibitions

  • 2019 Artists’ Annual, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley CA.

Computer Animation

Menagerie 1993

  • A virtual reality experience depicting herds of running animals, flocks of birds, and swarms of insects. The creatures respond to the viewer, and emerge from and exit into portals which materialize before the viewer in the virtual space. Collaboration with Michael Girard.

  • Galeries Contemporaines, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1993

  • Tomorrow's Realities Gallery, SIGGRAPH 93

Brouhaha 1992

  • A film depicting a field of plant like structures caressing and hitting each other while being blown by the wind. Collaboration with Michael Girard.

  • Art Futura 92, Memory Palace, Barcelona, Spain

Eurhythmy 1989

  • A film depicting masked people and animals running and dancing in a temple courtyard, surrounded by flocks of birds. Collaboration with Michael Girard.

  • Second Place in Computer Animation, Ars Electronica International Festival, 1989, Linz, Austria

  • First Place, 3SAT Computer Animation Competition, (voted by 3SAT cable television audience in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, selected from 1990 Ars Electronica finalists), 1989, Linz, Austria

  • First Place in 3D Animation, Imagina International Computer animation Competition 1990, Monte Carlo, Monaco

  • European Grand Prize, Imagina International Computer Animation Competition 1990, Monte Carlo, Monaco

  • Grand Prize in Computer Animation, Geneva International Conference on Computer Animation 1990, Geneva Switzerland

  • First Place, Silicon Graphics Inc. Award for Computer Graphics Research and Development, Geneva International Conference on Computer Animation 1990, Geneva, Switzerland

  • Honorable Mention, Treviso International Animation and New Images Festival 1990, Treviso, Italy

  • Grand Prix Award, Paris Cite Festival 1990, Paris, France

  • Grand Prix Award, Images du Futuur 90, Art Category, Montreal, Canada

  • People's Choice Award Art Category, Images du Futuur 90, Montreal, Canada

The Blue Chair 1986

  • A film depicting flying objects adhering onto rolling rocks. Collaboration with Anne Seidman.

  • Siggraph Animation Screening Room, Dallas Texas 1986

  • Venice Biennale, Science and Art Exhibition, Venice Italy 1986

  • "The Second Emerging Expression Biennial: The Artist and the Computer", The Bronx Museum, new York 1988

  • "Best of Festival Art" award, Columbus International Film and Video Festival, Columbus Ohio, 1986

Motion Studies 1985

  • A study for the film Eurhythmy. Collaboration with Michael Girard.

  • Siggraph Film and Video Show, San Francisco, California 1985

  • Venice Biennale, Science and Art Exhibition, Venice Italy 1986

The Hidden Agenda 1984

  • A film depicting objects flying over a desert terrain, and gradually joining into a single entity. Collaboration with Michael Girard.

  • Runner Up in Experimental Category, American Film Institute 1984

  • "Best Student Film" nominee, Video Culture Canada, Toronto, Canada, 1985

  • Siggraph Film and Video Show, Minneapolis, Minnesota 1984

  • Venice Biennale, Science and Art Exhibition, Venice Italy 1986

  • "The First Emerging Expression Biennial: The Artist and the Computer,", The Bronx Museum, 1986

  • "Clip and Chip Gallery" art/video/computer animation show for Berlin TV, 1987

  • "Computer Generated Graphics and Animation," an international touring exhibit organized by the Computer Graphics Research Group, Ohio State University 1985

Professional Experience

  • 2014 – present: digital artist

  • 2004-2014: software architect at Autodesk, Inc. Developed Populate, a crowd animation plugin for 3d Studio Max

  • 1991-2004: artist and software engineer at Unreal Pictures, Inc. Produced computer animation and virtual reality pieces, and developed the Biped plugin for 3d Studio Max, sold by Autodesk, Inc.

  • 1991: Juror, Imagina Computer Animation Festival, Monte Carlo

  • 1991: Juror, Siggraph Film and Video Show, Los Angeles

  • 1989-1991: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Graphics and Animation, Minerva Academy of Art, Groningen Polytechnic University (RHG), Groningen, The Netherlands

  • 1985-1989: Graduate Research Associate, Advanced Center for Computing in the Arts and Design, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Education

  • 1989: M.A. Art Education/Computer Graphics and Animation, Advanced Center for Computing in the Arts and Design, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

  • 1982: B.Sc. Computer and Information Science, University of California at Santa Cruz

  • 1980: B.A. Fine Arts, University of California at Santa Cruz