Curriculum Vitae

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2004 University of Washington - Assistant Professor, Seattle, WA.
Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Instructor, Chicago, IL.
Advanced Topics: Computer Lighting and Rendering
3D Animation I (two sections)

Oakton Community College - Instructor, Riverside, IL.
3D Advanced Animation and Multimedia

2003 School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Instructor, Chicago, IL.
Advanced Topics: Computer Lighting and Rendering
Advanced 3D Animation I
Advanced Topics: 3D Rendering and Compositing

2002 School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Teaching Assistant, Chicago, IL.
Advanced 3D Animation I
Introduction to Holography
Digital Photography I

Teacher’s Institute on Contemporary Art - Web Design online site

1998 Pixar Animation Studios - Trainer, Point Richmond, CA.
Layout Department UNIX Intensive

DEGREES

2002-2003 MFA - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Art and Technology - Computer Graphics, Video, Kinetics, and Light.

1992-1996 BA - University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Art - concentration in Photography, Printmaking, and Computer Animation.
Golden Key International Honor Society. National Art Honor Society.

WORK: ART, GRAPHICS,
AND EDUCATION

2003-2004 University of Chicago/Adler Planetarium - 3D Graphics Expert, Chicago, IL.
Designing museum exhibitions to explain cosmology.
Interactive Virtual Reality environments and web pages.

1996-2000 Pixar Animation Studios - Technical Director, Point Richmond, CA.
Member of Technical Director team for 3D computer graphics films

1996 University of Washington Television - Graphic Designer, Seattle, WA.
3D logos, interstitials, and images for television station broadcast.

1994-1995 Hand in Hand - Assistant Manager, Kirkland, WA.
Management, newsletter publication, and store display coordination of
not-for-profit, fair-trade, international crafts store.

1992-1996 U of W Resource Sharing Service - Library Researcher, Seattle, WA.
Maintained databases and assisted researchers with special collections.

FEATURE FILMS

1999 Toy Story 2 - Pixar Animation Studios, Point Richmond, CA.
Art Design - Research and design of props and characters.
Layout - Organization of the sets, animation blocking, and visual composition of shots.
3D Modeling - Created 3D scenery and props using Alias/Wavefront software.

1998 A Bug’s Life - Pixar Animation Studios, Point Richmond, CA.
Shot Lighting - More than 10% of film lit in 3D environment with Renderman/Pixar software.
Master Sequence Lighting - Head of lighting for entire sequence of film.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2004 One Tree Two, site-specific neon installation, Colson Hollow, Land Between the Lakes, KY.

We Now Return You to Your Regularly Scheduled Programming,
Media(tion), video documentary, Doncaster Art Gallery, South Yorkshire, UK.

Selected Works, Evolution - solo show, Gallery Cabaret, Chicago, IL.

We Now Return You to Your Regularly Scheduled Programming, This is for Real: War and the Contemporary Audience, video documentary, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University, NY.

2003 Urban Jungle, Carousel #3, image projections and talk, Garfield Park, Chicago, IL.

Medusa, El Dia de los Muertos, costume and performance, Chicago, IL.

2001: Odyssey Revisited, MFA Exhibition, digitally manipulated film stills, Chicago, IL.

Synchronicity 02 Documentary, SynchroniCity Fundraiser, video documentary of festival, The Hideout, Chicago, IL.

That Dream, private performance with neon sculpture, Warner Robbins, GA.

Syncopated Decay, Synchro Jam, image projections, Gallery Cabaret, Chicago, IL.

Josh, In Love in War, video projection, Ill Measures, Chicago, IL.

Lightening Rod, Beacon, Burning Man Festival, neon sculptures, Black Rock City, NV.

Trance, Rays of Light, neon and light sculpture, Lightology, Chicago, IL.

COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
AND WORKS

2003 Dragonfly, SynchroniCity 2003, neon sculpture, Colson Hollow, Land Between the Lakes, KY.

2002 Piasa, SynchroniCity 2002, neon sculpture, Wildlife Refuge, Kansasville, WI.

A Look on the Bright Side, Gallery X, full gallery neon installation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Untitled Sculpture, Neon Invitational, neon sculpture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

2001 Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace Chandelier, Burning Man Festival, dome and environment for events, Black Rock City, NV.

Crystal Palace Chandelier, Crystal Palace Costume Ball, San Francisco, CA.

1998 Baby, Pixar Animation Studios Employee Art Show, short film, Point Richmond, CA.

1996 Fish Schtick, UWTV, 3D computer animated short, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

1992 Insides, gallery installation, OK Hotel, Seattle, WA.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

2004 Cosmus: Virtual 3D Cosmology in Public Science Museums, (under consideration). VR for

Public Consumption, IEEE VR 2004. Andrews, Stephanie, et. al. Presentation. Chicago, IL.

NanoGraffiti: Mark-Making on the Molecular Landscape, Subtle Technologies 2004. Toronto, Canada.

2003 Burning Man Friends and Family, talk and performance given at Slide Circle Seminar #6, 1926 Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

2002 The Hall of Possible Selves, Drama in the Desert, work featured in documentary book and dvd, Raised Barn Press, San Francisco, CA.

The Hall of Possible Selves, Leonardo Magazine Online, work featured on website, Cambridge, MA. MIT Press.

2000 Selections from Burning Man Photography, Burning Man Slide Registry and Website, images included in website and publications, www.burningman.com, San Francisco, CA.

EVENT COORDINATION
AND VOLUNTEERISM

2001 Crystal Palace Costume Ball and Fundraiser, San Francisco, CA.

Organization head, responsible for coordinating major fundraiser for the Crystal Palace project. Numerous performers played all-night costume-ball event.

2000-2001 Firetown, Berkeley, CA. Member of organizing team for 80 person Burning Man Festival camp that contributed fire arts, events, large art installations, and public space to festival.

1999 Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters Forest, Berkeley, CA. Official event photographer.

1989 Friends of the Earth, Seattle, WA. Five week ecological and cultural exchange volunteer trip to India, Thailand, and Japan.

ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

College Art Association - organization for arts educators

SynchroniCity - independent, underground arts festival group

Women in Animation - organization for women involved in the animation industry

RHIZOME - .net arts association

FACES - women in art and technology group

Diatrope - internet-based art and science organization

ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES

2001 California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA. MFA work in Film, Video, and Performance - Partial Scholarship recipient.

1998-2000 Bay Area Theatre Sports, San Francisco, CA. Improvisational theatre.

2000 The Crucible - Industrial Arts Space, Berkeley, CA. Kinetic Sculpture

1997-1999 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. Color Photography, Contemporary Image in Photography American Photography and Surrealism

1996-1999 Pixar University, Point Richmond, CA. Technical Director Intensive Training, Making the Short Film, Gesture/Life Drawing

1997 SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, CA. Color in Computer Graphics

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