Curriculum Vitae

Experimental media environments and interactive electronic installations inspired by and synthesized with theoretical physics, astronomy, cosmology and biology

Education

1988 MSVisS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1985 BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Sculpture and Experimental Media, Kansas City, Missouri

Academic Positions

2008 Floyd and Delores Jones Endowed Chair for the Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2006 Director, Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2002 Associate Director/Co-Founder, Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2002 Associate Professor, Digital Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

1999 Director, Center for Digital Art and New Media Research, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California

1998 Assistant Professor, Chair/Founder, Digital Media Program, Department of Art Practice, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California

1997 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, New Media Institute, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California

1996 Acting Director, Center for Advanced Research Technology in the Arts and Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

1994 Assistant Professor, Cross-Disciplinary Arts, School of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

1990 Visiting Assistant Professor, Chair/Founder, Media Arts Program, College of Fine Arts, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

1989 Inaugural Leonardo Fellow, School of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1988 Fellow, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Selected Academic Councils, Initiatives and University Service

2008 Board of Director's, Center for New Media, University of California Berkeley, members include Bill Mitchell/MIT, Lev Manovich/UCSD, Red Burns/NYU

2008 College Budget Advisory Council, Dean Appointed Budget Oversight Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2007 Board of Director's, Center for New Cinema, Seattle, Washington

2007 DXARTS Tenure and Promotion Committee Chair, Juan Pampin, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2007 Faculty Search Committee Chair, DXARTS | Mechatronics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2007 Academic Technology Advisory Council (ATAC), Provost Appointed Standing Committee, Oversight of Campus Technology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2006 Information Systems Taskforce, Provost Appointed Taskforce, 5-10 Year Comprehensive Technology Plan, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2006 Faculty Search Committee Member, Industrial Design, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2006 Academic Technology Advisory Council (ATAC), Provost Appointed Standing Committee, Oversight of Campus Technology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2006 Doctoral Program Coordinator, DXARTS, Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2006 DUB - Design/Use/Build, Faculty Alliance on Human Computer Interaction, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2005 Faculty Committee on Academic Standards (FCAS), Provost Appointed Standing Committee, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2005 Digital Arts Center Planning Committee, Dean of Art and Architecture, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana

2005 Doctoral Program Coordinator, DXARTS, Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2005 Academic Technology Advisory Council/Wireless Advisory Group, Provost Appointed Committee, Oversight of Campus Wireless Policy and Deployment, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2005 Faculty Committee on Educational Technology (FCET), Provost Appointed Standing Committee, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2005 School of Art Glass Committee, A&S Dean Appointed Working Committee, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2004 Celebration Of Distinction, Keynote Presentation with Richard Karpen, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2004 Doctoral Program Coordinator, DXARTS, Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2004 Curriculum Committee Chair, DXARTS, Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2004 Faculty Search Chair, DXARTS, Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2003 Faculty Search Chair, DXARTS, Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2002 Mellon Foundation Panelist, Libraries of the Future, University of Washington

2002 Walker Ames Lecture Organizer, Ken Goldberg, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, January 13-18th

2001 Executive Council Member, Berkeley Institute for Design, CITRIS Initiative, College of Engineering, University of California Berkeley

2001 Executive Council Member, College of Environmental Design's, Center for Design Visualization, Organized Research Unit, University of California Berkeley

2000 Executive Council Member, The Consortium for the Arts, Organized Research Unit, University of California Berkeley

2000 Board of Director's, Berkeley Art Museum, New Media Committee, University of California Berkeley

1999 President's Planning Group on Digital Arts, Office of the President, University of California Berkeley

1999 Executive Committee and Research Council Member, System-wide Digital Media Innovations Agency, University of California

1999 Executive Council Member, Universiy of California Digital Arts Research Network (MRG), Office of the President

1998 Executive Council Member, President's Planning Group on Digital Art, Office of the President, University of California

1998 Primary Investigator, Co-Founder, Multi-Campus Research Group, UC Digital Arts Research Network, Office of the President, University of California

1998 Director of the Center for Digital Art and New Media Research, University of California

1996 Co-Director/Co-Founder, Laboratory for Animation Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Selected Exhibitions and Events

2008 United Nations and the International Astronomical Union’s Hubble Telescope Exhibition, “Arp’s Peculiar Universe”, with Re-commission of Instruments of Material Poetry, Anti-Gravity Project. Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon. Exhibition artists included, Lita Albuquerque, Vija Celmins, Russell Crotty, Michael C. McMillen, Anna Von Mertens

2004 In-Liquid Network, National Products Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, “Hyper-Runt:: Impossible Projects in Contemporary Art”, Altimira Device, Interstellar Telepresence Prosthetic; on-line catalog and archival website. Exhibition artists included, Ken Goldberg - UC Berkeley, Natalie Jeremijenko - Yale, Mark Napier - Columbia University, and Joseph Nechvatal - School of Visual Arts New York.

2003 Berkeley Art Museum, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, “Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics”, Chimera Obscura, with Richard Rinehart, Commissioned Telerobotic Installation; on-line catalog and CD-ROM

2002 Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, “Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics”, Chimera Obscura, with Richard Rinehart, Commissioned Telerobotic Installation; on-line catalog and CD-ROM

2001 Institute for Studies in the Arts, Phoenix, Arizona, Secret Agents, in collaboration with UC Digital Arts Research Network, Commissioned Networked Opera; on-line catalog and CD-ROM

2000 Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, New York, “First American Architecture and Design Triennial”, Liquiescence, in collaboration with LOOM Studio Architects, Commissioned Environmental Electronic Installation; catalog and PBS television

1999 Matthews Center, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, Input - Output, Telesculpture 99, networked rapid prototyping exhibition between Hong Kong, Paris and Boston

1998 Winter Olympics, Nagano, Japan, Alchymeia, Commissioned Ice Crystal Installation and Telepresence Project

1997 Exploratorium, San Francisco, California, Global Bodies, 24 hr live Internet Project

1997 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, “International Symposium for Electronic Art”, Alchymeia, Commissioned Internet Telepresence Project; catalog

1996 Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, Delaware, “Chaos of Delight” Instruments of Material Poetry, Anti-Gravity Project; catalog

1995 M.I.T. Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, “Light-Space-Time”, Instruments of Material Poetry, Anti-Gravity Project

1994 Kunsthocschule fur Medien Koln, Germany, “Solart”, Instruments of Material Poetry, Live Node Internet Exhibition

1992 State Museum, Columbia, South Carolina, “Contemporary Images”, Celestial Vaulting, Interferometric Commissioned Holography Installation; catalog

1992 Center for Contemporary Art, Lexington, Kentucky, Instruments of Material Poetry, Anti-Gravity Project

1991 Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, “MECHANIKA”, World Premiere, Celestial Vaulting, Interferometric Commissioned Holography Installation: catalog

1990 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, “ARTTRANSITION 90”, Art of the Future and Radical Concepts, Installation

1990 Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Two Person Show with Yoko Ono, “Celestial Vaulting”, Commissioned Interferometric Holography Installation

1989 Yeshiva University Museum, New York, New York, “Lights Orot”, World Premiere, Commissioned Interactive Installation; catalog

1988 Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany “85th Anniversary of the Deutscher Kunstlerbund”, Interactive Installation; catalog

1987 Documenta 8, Karlsruhe, Germany, Sky Chasm, in collaboration with the Laura Knott Dance Company, Commissioned Interferometric Holography Installation Performance; catalog

1987 M.I.T. Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Aqua Echo, in collaboration with the Laura Knott Dance Company, Commissioned Interactive Ice Crystal Installation Performance

1986 Smithsonian World Television, National Endowment for the Arts, “Desert Sun/Desert Moon”, Lone Pine, California, Photon Voice, in collaboration with the Laura Knott Dance Company, Commissioned Interactive Optical Encoding Installation Performance

Selected Reviews, Books, Media, and Reference

2008 “Art and Electronic Media”, Dr. Edward Shanken, Phaidon Press, London, England, ISBN-13: 978-0714847825

2008 "A Different Kind of Artist" The Daily, Intermission, March 6, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, http://thedaily.washington.edu/2008/3/7/different-kind-artist/

2007 "Where High Tech Meets High Concept | DXARTS The Aesthetics of New Technology" The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 23, Washington, D.C.

2006 “From Technological to Virtual Art”, Dr. Frank Popper, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, ISBN: 026216230X

2006 “DX Man” Melissa Michaels, Southern Oregonian, OSU Press, Ashland, Oregon, Fall 2006

2006 "Sound Argument" The Stranger, Vol III No. 49, May 4, Seattle, Washington, http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=32150

2006 "Simulation to Emulation: New Frontiers in Telematic Arts", MIT Press/Leonardo New Media Futures, College Art Association Conference, February 20-26, Boston, Massachusetts http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/events/caa06.html

2006 "Defying Categorization : DXARTS", Microsoft Research, May 13, Redmond, Washington, http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.asp?rid=3323

2006 "Celebration of Distinction", College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, May 18, Seattle, Washington, http://www.artsci.washington.edu/cod2006

2005 "Phenomenology of New Technology Arts", ARTMEDIA Press, Universita di Salerno, Mario Costa, Salerno, Italy

2005 "Art of the Stars" The Stranger, Vol 11 No. 29, December 7, Seattle, Washington, http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=25377

2005 "Artists in Industry and the Academy" Leonardo Journal of Art, Science and Technology, 38:5 (2005): 415-18, Edward Shanken, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2005 "Museums and Civic Dialogue" Case Studies from Animating Democracy, Americans for the Arts, Pam Korza, Washington, D.C. ISBN: 13:978-1-879903-37-1

2005 "DXARTS: World Leader" Columns, University of Washington Alumni Magazine, September 29, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2005 "Lights, Camera, Learning" University Week, University of Washington, August 18, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2005 "Shot on Location" The Daily, Vol 112 No. 150, August 3, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2004 "Sonic Saviors”, Popular Science Magazine, World Design Challenge Winner, Editors Choice Award, New York, New York

2004 "Playing God, Like Scientists”, East Bay Express, September 24, San Jose, California

2004 "University Community Address”, University of Washington President, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington November 30, http://www.uwnews.org/Uwnews/sites/OOP/index.asp?sm=115

2004 "Beyond Traditional Media”, Arts and Sciences Perspectives, Autumn, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2003 "DXARTS Makes History”, University Week, University of Washington, October 30, University of , California, Oakland, California, http://www.ucop.edu/tltc/news/2002/03/feature.php

2003 "Clone Home”, The San Francisco Weekly, September 3, San Francisco, California

2003 "Chimera Obscura”, The Guardian, Thursday, September 18, San Francisco, California

2002 "Digital Culture, The Fusion of Art and Technology" Seattle Times, Thursday, October 3, Seattle, Washington

2002 "Digital Arts: The Evolution of a Discipline" Office of the President, University of California, March, Seattle, Washington

2002 "Secrets of the Sequence" PBS Television Program 108, Chimera Obscura, Cronkite/Ward, June, Washington, D.C.

2002 "Wonders of Genetics Breed New Art" New York Times, Sunday, May 26, New York, New York

2002 "Art Ponders Genome Implications" Boston Globe, Sunday, April 7, Boston, Massachusetts

2002 "Seattle Show Brings DNA to Life" Seattle Times, Saturday, April 6, Seattle, Washington

2002 "Playful Look at Consequences of Genetic Exploration" Seattle Post, Saturday, April 6, Seattle, Washington

2002 "Haunted Houses, Art and Science" The Stranger, Vol 11 No. 29, Apr 4 - Apr 10 2002, Seattle, Washington, http://www.thestranger.com/2002-04-04/art.html

2002 “Art of the Meal" Wired Magazine, January 26, San Francisco, California, http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,49606,00.html

2001 “Springboard” PBS syndicated television program, July 7, San Francisco, California

2001 “Information Arts, the Intersection of Art, Science and Technology” Stephen Wilson, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, ISBN: 026223209X

2001 “Robot in the Garden, Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet” Ken Goldberg, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, ISBN: 0262072033

2000 “Digital dreams and Artists in Cyberspace” Leonardo Almanac, MIT Press February 27Cambridge, Massachusetts, http://www.clayd.com/off/digitaldreams.htm

2000 “Next Generation of Digital Media Makers” Film/Tape World Magazine, January, San Francisco, California

2000 “New Medium, New Message” San Francisco Chronicle, February 21, San Francisco, California

2000 "Art on the Internet" The Berkeleyan, Vol.28, No.21, February 9-15, Berkeley, California

1999 “Digital Dreams” San Francisco Chronicle, December 8, San Francisco, California

1999 “New Prodigies, The American Avante Garde” Surface Magazine, October/December, No. 20, San Francisco, California

1999 “Framing the Questions, The Arts and Humanities at Berkeley”, University of California Press, Berkeley, California

1999 "High Tech Tools" Time Out Magazine, The Times, June 25, Walnut Creek, California

1999 “Digital Deco” The Californian, December 2, Berkeley, California

1998 "Changing the Landscape of Art" The Berkeleyan, Vol.27, No.9, October 7-13, Berkeley, California

1998 “Going for the Gold" Wired Magazine, Feb 17, San Francisco, California, www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/10326.html

1994 "International Directory of Electronic Arts" Annick Bureaud, CHAOS, 3rd Edition, Paris, France

1994 “Art Program Loses Leader" The Kentucky, Vol. XCVI, No. 146, April 29, Lexington, Kentucky

1993 “Video Dream to Versailles”, The Woodford Sun, Vol. 125, No. 49, December 9, Versailles, Kentucky

1993 “Eat the Box” ACE Magazine, Vol.5, No. 6, May 1, Lexington, Kentucky

1992 "Aqua Echo" Center Magazine (cover story), The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, Vol.VIII, No.1, December/January, Louisville, Kentucky

1992 "Art of the Electronic Age" Frank Popper, Thames and Hudson, London, England ISBN: 0-8109-1928-1

1992 "Primal Light" The State, Vol. 101, No. 316 , November 22, Columbia, South Carolina

1992 “Visceral Muse”, Susan Parsons, WQTV, Television 36, Live Interview, April 15, Lexington, Kentucky

1992 “First Experimental Video at The Kentucky” Lexington Herald-Leader, Vol., No. 113, April 25, Lexington, Kentucky

1991 "Elektronisches Gestalten in Kunst und Design" Jurgen Claus, Rowohlt Press, Hamburg, Germany, ISBN: 3499181940

1991 "Building His Imagination" Lexington Herald-Leader, (arts cover story), Vol.10, No. 80, March 22, Lexington, Kentucky

1991 “Spotlight on the Arts, Celestial Vaulting Project”, Beth Craig, WXLG Radio, Interview, Part 1, September 15, Part 2, September 22, Lexington, Kentucky

1991 "Poets with Power Tools", Cincinnati Inquirer, Vol. 151, No. 44, May 23, Cincinnati, Ohio

1991 “Southern Wandering”, The State, Vol. 101, No. 266, October 3, Columbia, South Carolina

1991 "21st Century Art/Shawn Brixey at the Cutting Edge", ACE Magazine, Vol., No. 4, July 1, Lexington, Kentucky

1991 "MECHANIKA", Alternatives Magazine, Vol.1, No. 2, March/June, Cincinnati, Ohio

1991 “Cerebral Art”, Cincinnati Enquirer, Vol. 151, No. 89, July 7, Cincinnati, Ohio

1991 “Baffling Art”, Cincinnati Enquirer, Vol. 151, No. 52, May 31, Cincinnati, Ohio

1991 “Machine is the Medium and the Message”, Lexington Herald-Leader, Vol. 9, No. 68, June 16, Lexington, Kentucky

1990 “New Art Faculty”, Lexington Herald-Leader, Vol. 8, No. 279, September 19, Lexington, Kentucky

1990 "The New Immaterialists", Frank Popper, Kunst Forum, Vol. 50, No.4, October, Koln, Germany

1990 "After Hours”, The Vista Genesis Project, David Larkin, WMBR Radio, October 31, Interview, Boston, Massachusetts

1990 Attila Czaji, “Art and Technology Works”, Mucsarnok Publishers, ISBN: 963-7402-49-7 Budapest, Hungary

1990 “ARTTRANSITON 90 MIT”, TV-2 West German Television Interview, November 3, Boston, Massachusetts

1990 “Shawn Brixey and Curious Miracles”, The Kentucky, Vol. XCIV, No. 52, December 14, Lexington, Kentucky

1990 "The New Immaterialists", Frank Popper, Kunst Forum, Vol. 50, No.4, October, Koln, Germany

1990 "Cosmic Digital Code", Jurgen Claus, Leonardo Magazine, Vol. 24 No. 2, London, England

1989 “Celestial Vaulting”, Detroit Free Press, Vol. 8, No. 3, November, Detroit, Michigan

1989 “Art Tech 89”, Chunichi Shimbun, November 10, Nagoya, Japan

1989 “Shawn Brixey, Inaugurates “Leonardo Project”, University Record, Vol. 43, No. 20, February 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1988 “Lights/Orot, Yeshiva University Exhibition” Art News, September, Page 168-70, New York, New York

1987 “Natur und Technologie, Shawn Brixey und Laura Knott”, WolkenKratzer, Art Journal, Vol. 4, Juni, Juli, August, Hamburg, Germany

1987 “Optische/Akustische Klang Performance, Shawn Brixey”, Wiener Magazine, Deutschlands Zeitschrift fur Zeitgeist, Juni, Koln, Germany

1987 "Deutscher Kunstlerlexicon und Archiv", Weber und Wiedemeyer, GmbH Co. KG, Kassel, Germany, ISBN: 3-925272-14-3

Selected Grants, Awards and Distinctions

2009 Chair, Virtual Media Directorate, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Montreal, Canada January 15-18

2009 Convocation Speaker, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, New York, January 19-23

2008 STF Award, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Co-Inv. With DXARTS|CARTAH faculty, $205K

2008 Judge, Rockefeller Foundation New Media Awards, New York, New York

2007 Apple Computer Corporation, “Cluster Culture | Next Generation Grid Computing”, Cupertino, California, $35K

2007 STF Award, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Co-Inv. With DXARTS|CARTAH faculty, $335K

2006 Finalist/Fellow, CNN/TIME World Technology Awards, San Francisco, California, November 2-5

2006 Certificate of Honor for Outstanding Contribution, IEEE Society New England Chapter, Tufts University, Somerville, Massachusetts, February 23

2006 Distinguished Visiting Spring Lecturer, Department of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon

2006 AVID Corporation, “Research Partnership”, Tewksbury, Massachusetts, $50K

2005 Keynote Speaker, Artmedia XI International, Universita Degli Studi di Salerno, sponsored by the Associazione di Matematica e Informatica Italiana, Associazione di Informatica Musicale Italiana, and the Association Francaise d'Informatique Musicale, Salerno, Italy

2005 Apple Computer Corporation, “Culture of Innovation II”, Cupertino, California, $50K with Co-Pi. with Richard Karpen

2005 Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Department of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, $6K

2005 STF Award, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Co-Inv. with Richard Karpen, $330K

2004 Founding Committee Member, IEEE Society of Robotics and Automation, Networked Robots, Lausanne Switzerland, with Ken Goldberg et. al.

2004 World Design Challenge, Winner: Editors Choice Award, Popular Science Magazine, New York, New York, Co-Inv. Bret Battey, Ian Ingram, $5K

2004 STF Award, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Co-Inv. with Richard Karpen, $350K

2004 Apple Computer Corporation, “Culture of Innovation”, Cupertino, California, $250K with Co-Pi. with Richard Karpen

2003 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, New York, New York, $35K

2002 Intel Corporation, Mountain View, California, $25K Co-Inv. with Greg Niemeyer

2001 Henry Art Gallery, “Chimera Obscura”, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Co-Inv. with Rick Rinehart, $15K commission

2000 Hellman Award for Distinction in Research, Office of the President, University of California Berkeley, “The Eon Project”, $21K Honorarium

2000 Boxlight Corporation, “Liquiesence”, Poulsboro, Washington, $15K PI

2000 National Design Museum, “Liquiesence”, New York, New York, $5K Co-PI

2000 UC Digital Arts Research Network, Multi-Campus Research Group, Office of the President, University of California with UCB, UCSC, UCSD, UCLA, UCD, $500K Co-PI

1999 Educational Technology Grant, “Center for Digital Art and New Media Research”, Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley, $30K Co-Inv. with Alice Agogino

1999 Digital Secrets Exhibition, “Secret Agents Networked Opera”, Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, $15K Commission PI

1998 Faculty Research Award, “Computer Holography”, Committee on Research, University of California, Berkeley, $7K PI

1998 Finalist, EXPO 2000 Design Competition, “Epicycle”, Hannover, Germany, $5K design honorarium

1998 Capitol Projects, “Center for Digital Art and New Media Research”, Office of the Dean, Arts and Humanities, University of California, Berkeley, $40K PI

1997 National Institute of Health, Washington D.C., No. 1R18AI40674-01A1, Public Service Campaign, $1.6M Co-Inv. with Margaret Allen

1997 Intel Corporation, Mountain View, California, $25oK Co-Inv. with Richard Karpen

1997 San Francisco State University, Institute for New Media, San Francisco, California, First Distinguished Mentorship in New Media, $25K Honorarium

1996 Yakima Industries, Arcata, California, “Aqua Echo”, $6K PI

1996 Scientific Kelvinator, Walnut Creek, California, “Aqua Echo", $5K PI

1996 U.S. Filter, Renton, Washington, “Aqua Echo", $3K PI

1996 University of Washington, College of Arts and Sciences, Seattle, Washington, Curriculum Innovation Award, $10K Co-Inv. with Richard Karpen

1996 University of Washington, Office of the Provost, Seattle, Washington, Classroom Support Grant/Capitol Projects, $60K LA2 Renovation, with Richard Karpen

1996 Alias/Wavefront, Mountain View, California, “Laboratory for Animation Arts", $350K Co-Inv. with Richard Karpen, and David Salesin

1995 University of Washington, College of Arts and Sciences, Seattle, Washington, Educational Technology Grant, $15K Co-PI with Richard Karpen

1995 Newport/Klinger, Irvine, California, “Computer Holography for the Laboratory for Animation Arts”, $25K PI

1995 University of Washington, Office of Research, Seattle, Washington, Royalty Research Fund, Computer Holography, $40K PI

1995 Silicon Graphics Industries, Mountain View, California, “Laboratory for Animation Arts Launch Donation”, $650K Co-PI with Richard Karpen, and David Salesin

1995 Microsoft Incorporated, Bellevue, Washington, SoftImage Licenses, $350K Co-PI with Richard Karpen, and David Salesin

1995 Apple Computer Incorporated, Cupertino, California, “Luna Memoria", $15K PI

1995 University of Washington, Graduate School, Seattle, Washington, Matching Grant-Apple Computer, $16K PI

1995 University of Washington, College of Arts and Sciences, Seattle, Washington, Matching Grant-Apple Computer, $10K PI

1993 ITA Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio, Light Valve Projector,“Eat the Box”, The Kentucky Theater, $2.5K PI

1993 Kentucky Arts Council, Owensboro, Kentucky, Fellowship New Media,”Arts Embrace”, First State Conference on the Arts, $2.5K PI

1992 South Carolina Arts Commission, Columbia, South Carolina, “Celestial Vaulting”, $8K commission

1992 South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, South Carolina, “Celestial Vaulting”, $3.5K commission

1992 Kentucky Arts Council, Travel Grant, Frankfort, Kentucky, “Celestial Vaulting”, $2K PI

1992 Delaware Council for the Arts, New Forms Review Panelist, Newark, Delaware, honorarium

1992 Kentucky Arts Council, Inaugural New Media Fellowship, Frankfort, Kentucky $5K fellowship

1992 National Association of State Art Agencies, Invited Peer Review Expert, New Art Forms, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, $2.5K honorarium

1991 National Endowment for the Arts, New Forms Initiative, Atlanta, Georgia, $5K PI commission

1991 Javelin Electronics, Pasadena, California, “Instruments of Materials Poetry”, $2.5K PI, high resolution video camera

1991 Leica/Optical, Chicago, Illinois, “Instruments of Materials Poetry”, $10K PI, microscopy equipment

1991 Perkin Elmer Corporation, Oak Brook, Illinois “Instruments of Material Poetry”, $1K PI, holography optics

1991 Contemporary Arts Center, MECHANIKA, Cincinnati, Ohio, “Celestial Vaulting”, $2.5K commission

1990 Finalist, Media Park Koln Design Competition, M.I.T. Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Design Team, Koln, Germany, $2.5K design honorarium

1990 3M Corporation, Medical Division, Saint Paul, Minnesota, “Vista Genesis”, $1.5K PI

1990 Michigan Council for the Arts, Lansing, Michigan “Celestial Vaulting”, $2.5K PI project grant

1990 Cranbrook Educational Community, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan “Celestial Vaulting”, $2.5K commission

1990 Prodelin Satellite Communications Corporation, Newton, North Carolina, $2.5K PI

1989 3M Corporation, Coatings Division, Saint Paul, Minnesota, “Celestial Vaulting”, $1.5K project grant

1988 IBM GmBH, Stuttgart, Germany, “85th Anniversary of the German Art Union”, $2.5K PI

1987 Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, Boston, Massachusetts, Special Projects Grant, “Sky Chasm”, $10K Co-PI with Laura Knott

1987 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Provost Award, Documenta 8, "Sky Chasm", $2K Co-PI, with Laura Knott

1987 Council for the Arts at M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts, Documenta 8, "Sky Chasm", $2K Co-PI, with Laura Knott

1987 Hughes Aircraft Corporation, Carlsbad, California, Documenta 8, "Sky Chasm", $2K PI

1987 Documenta 8, GmbH, Kassel, Germany, "Sky Chasm", with Laura Knott, $25K Co-PI, commission

1986 PTR Optical Corporation, Watertown, Massachusetts Documenta 8, "Sky Chasm", $2K PI

1986 Council for the Arts at M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts, “Aqua Echo”, $2K Co-PI with Laura Knott

1986 Cambridge Reichert-Jung Optical Corporation, Buffalo, New York “Aqua Echo”, $1.5K PI

1986 National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C., CAVS/M.I.T. Inter-arts Project, “Desert Sun/ Desert Moon”, $82K Co-PI, group project grant

1986 American Optical Corporation, Rochester, New York, $2.5K PI

1986 WETA, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Smithsonian World Television, Washington, D.C., “Photon Voice”, $2K PI

Selected Public Lectures

2009 DXARTS and Inventing the Art of the Future, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, April 26-30

2009 Art of the Future, New Frontiers in Telematic Arts, Chapman University, Orange, California, April 13-16

2008 DXARTS and Inventing the Art of the Future, National Association of Schools of Arts and Design | Annual Conference - Keynote, Grand Hyatt, Seattle, Washington, October 10-12

2008 Altamira and Telematic Arts of the 21st Century, Kansas City Art Institute, Distinguished Alumni Lecture, National Sculpture Conference, April 3-7, Kansas City, Missouri

2008 Altamira and Telematic Arts of the 21st Century, Rutgers University, Sculpture Program, March 24, New Brunswick, New Jersey

2008 DXARTS | Projections, Art Dialogues Lecturer, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, March 13

2007 DXARTS Pioneering the Art of the Future, Simon Fraser University, November 28-29, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2007 Simulation to Emulation: Pioneering Telematic Arts in the 21st Century, Rutgers University, with James Coupe, November 11, New York, New York

2007 Simulation to Emulation: New Frontiers in Telematic Arts, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference, with James Coupe, November 9-12, New York, New York

2006 DXARTS and Inventing the Art of the Future, High School College Conference - Keynote, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, May 8

2006 From Simulation to Emulation: New Frontiers of Telematic Art in the 21st Century, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon, March 8

2006 From Simulation to Emulation: New Frontiers of Telematic Art in the 21st Century, IEEE Society Lecture Series, Tufts University, Somerville, Massachusetts, February 23

2005 From Simulation to Emulation: New Frontiers of Telematic Art in the 21st Century, Hornall Anderson Design Works, Seattle, Washington, November 16

2005 DXARTS and Inventing the Art of the Future, HASTAC Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, September 21

2004 People’s Choice Awards, DORKBOT Seattle, Center For Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington, May 5

2004 Interiors, The Work of Doug Aitken, Art Dialogues Lecturer, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, April 28

2004 DXARTS and Inventing the Art of the Future, National Science Foundation/IGERT Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, November 3-6

2004 Dramatic Arc, The Narrowing Wavelength of Utopic Energy and Distopic Reality in the Digital Arts, University of Washington, Freshman Orientation, Arts Keynote Address, Seattle, Washington, August 26

2004 DXARTS and Art of the Future, Microsoft Research Laboratories, Redmond, Washington, May 13

2003 DXARTS and Art of the Future, DORKBOT Seattle, Center For Contemporary Art, Washington, May 5

2003 Chimera Obscura and the Ghost of the Minotaur, ATC Lectures Series, University of California, Berkeley, California, September 15

2003 Turning Points, University of Washington, Freshman Orientation, Seattle, Washington, August 15

2003 Eon and the Art of Emulation, Intel Research Laboratories, Seattle, Washington, March 15

2003 Eon and the Art of Emulation, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Seattle, Washington, April 11

2002 Agents of Change, National Association of Media Arts Conference, Seattle, Washington, October 3-6

2002 Chimera Obscura and the Ghost of the Minotaur, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, January 23-27

2002 Chimera Obscura, Media Art and Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara, January 14-15,

2002 020202, Conference on Social Technologies, Intel Research Laboratories, Berkeley, California, November 3

2001 Teletobotics, San Francisco Media Arts Council, Berkeley, California, November 3

2001 New Media}tors, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California, September 23

2001 Eon, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 010101, March 23

2001 Art and Human Genomics, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, December 1-3

2000 PlanetWorks, Art and Biotechnology Keynote Speaker, International Planetworkers Conference, San Francisco, May 5-11

2000 CRASH, Berkeley Symposium on Critical Issues in Net Art”, Speaker and Symposium, Co-Chair with Ken Goldberg, Consortium for the Arts, University of California Berkeley, February 16-20

1999 @ the Intersection, Art and Technology in the Digital Age, Discover Berkeley, The College of Arts and Sciences, December 6-7,

1999 Alchymeia - In Conversation, The Townsend Center for Humanities, University of California, Berkeley, March 30

1999 UC Digital Arts Research Network, National Conference, Corporation for Educational Network Initiatives in California, Monterey, California, May 6-7

1999 Curious Miracles, Arizona State University, Institute for Studies in the Arts, Tempe, Arizona, March 3-7

1999 Better Living, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Jan. 23-27

1998 Net-Art, Distinguished Lecturer in the Arts, Seattle Public Library, Seattle, Washington, June 23

1998 The Epicycle Project, Weltausstellung/World's Fair, EXPO/2000, March 9-15 Hannover, Germany

1998 Art and Emerging Technology, Keynote Address, International Technology Summit, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, February 24-28

1998 Visiting Artist Lecture, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, California, January 21-24

1997 Art and Emerging Technology, Keynote Address, International Technology Summit, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, February 24-28

1997 The New Media Institute, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, December 4-8

1996 Virtual Culture, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington, December 18

1996 Alchymeia, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, December 4-8

1995 Computer Holography, College of Engineering, Computer Science Colloquia, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 29

1995 Curious Miracles, College of Engineering, Computer Science Colloquia, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, May 3

1994 Experimental Art Forms, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, May 10

1994 Console-ing Passions, PBS/Alternative Visions, National Video Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington April 6-9

1993 Kentucky Arts Council, Moderator, "Expanding Boundaries Program”, Southeastern Colleges of Art Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

1993 Technology Arts Laboratory, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, April 6-9,

1993 Instruments of Material Poetry, California State University, Long Beach, California, March 26

1992 Vista Genesis Projects, South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, South Carolina, December 6

1992 Informance, Curious Miracles, Clemson University, Greenville, South Carolina, September 22,

1991 National Association of State Art Agencies, New Art Forms, The Space Program, New York, New York, November 7-10

1991 The Artist Speaks, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, Kentucky, February 28

1990 ARTTRANSITION 90’, Electrophosphenes & Radical Concepts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 28

1990 Celestial Vaulting, Physics and Cosmology Lecture Series, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, September 12

1990 Arts Professions, Art of the Future, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, August 31

1989 Celestial Vaulting, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan November 19

1989 Photon Voice and Aqua Echo, Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, November 17

1988 Leonardo Project Inauguration, Art and Technology, University of Michigan, Arbor, February 4

1987 Desert Sun-Desert Moon, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, May 9

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