curriculum vitæ
Education
Master of Fine Arts
- Digital Arts and New Media Program
- University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
- 2008-2010
Master of Arts
- Division of Media and Communication
- European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland
- 2005-2008
Bachelor of Arts
- Mathematics Department
- University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
- 1994-1999
High School Diploma
- Lick-Wilmerding High School
- San Francisco, CA
- 1990-1994
Exhibitions
2019
Mending Distance
Diego Rivera Gallery at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2016
Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Declarations for the New Year
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2015
(processing) - Bay Area Artists and the Archive
Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley, CA
Making a Scene: 50 Years of Alternative Bay Area Spaces
SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers
Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA and Random Parts, Oakland, CA
Exhibition reviews in KQED Arts, SF GATE, East Bay express
2014
Overnight Strange: A Vaudeville for the Displaced (co-curator)
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2013
Four Core Chambers
Martina }{ Johnston, Berkeley, CA
Bay Area Media & Arts Festival (curator)
Children's Creativity Museum, San Francisco, CA
War & Healing
Euphrat Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Exhibition review in NYT Blog: At War
2012
Bay Area Global Youth Media & Arts Festival (curator)
Children's Creativity Museum, San Francisco, CA
Hungry Ghost
Thoreau Center of Sustainability, San Francisco, CA
Wartime Revival of the Senses
Rock! Paper! Scissors! Collective, Oakland, CA
2011
hidden in sight (with SoEx's Youth Advisory Board)
Southern Exposure , San Francisco, CA
All of the Above
the HOLOGRAM (pop-up gallery), Oakland, CA
A Place of Her Own
SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
2010
Things that are Possible
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
sonicSense: CIELO/SKY PART II
Parque Garcia Sanabria, Santa Cruz de Tenrife, Canary Islands, Spain
Artclash Collective's Fun-A-Day Show
Rock! Paper! Scissors! Collective, Oakland, CA
2009
sonicSense: Art of Collaboration Symposium
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Invisible Ingredient
Rock! Paper! Scissors! Collective, Oakland, CA
Artclash Collective's Fun-A-Day Show
Queens Nails, San Francisco, CA
early
Nub Circus: Burning Man 1998
Black Rock City, NV
Nub Circus: Burning Man 1996
Black Rock City, NV
Work History
2019-Present
California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA
- Adjunct Instructor, Critical Studies: Science/Mathematics
2014-2020
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, CA
- Adjunct Instructor, Liberal Arts: Science/Mathematics
2013-2016
Bay Area Society for Art & Activism
San Francisco, CA
2011-2013
World Savvy
San Francisco, CA
- Teaching Artist, Media & Arts Program: Interdisciplinary arts integration for middle and high school students and their teachers. Visual arts and global issues curriculum development and implementation.
2011
Southern Exposure
San Francisco, CA
- Assistant Teaching Artist: Visual arts curriculum development and implementation.
Asian American Women Artists Association
San Francisco, CA
- Project Manager: Visual arts curriculum development and implementation, working group facilitation, outreach coordination, maintain online platform for development and documentation.
- Teaching Artist: Visual arts curriculum development and implementation.
Tutorpedia
San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco, CA
- Supplemental Education Services Tutor: Individual tutoring, assessment, individual lesson planning, high school prep, proficiencies in reading, writing, mathematics, science, visual arts.
Non-Profit Freelance Projects
2010
Eyebeam Art & Technology Center
New York, NY
- Artist Assistant to Tahir Hemphill: data visualization using Processing 1.0.1.
2009-2010
sonicSENSE
Bay Area, CA
- Collaborative Project Research Assistant: data visualization, new media installation.
2008-2010
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA
- Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Digital Media (Professor Warren Sack), Feminist Science Studies (Professor Karen Barad), Introduction to Visual Culture (Professors Carolyn Dean, Boreth Ly)
2000-2010
Rainbow Grocery Cooperative Inc.
San Francisco, CA
- Board of Directors: finance management, data analysis, store redesign, public relations, health insurance, environmental law litigation, property acquisition.
- Anti-Oppression Workgroup: anti-sexism/racism/homophobia workshop development and facilitation, budget and proposal writing.
- Grocery Department: department coordinator, warehousing, receiving, stocking, customer service, cashiering, scheduling, timecards, policy governance.
2000
Meru Foundation
San Francisco, CA
- Model Maker: cut/assemble geometric paper models for mathematician Stan Kennan.
Visual Math Institute
Santa Cruz, CA
- Office Assistant: database management and Internet research (File Maker Pro) for Professor Ralph Abraham.
1999
Lovedog Tattoo and Art Studio
Santa Cruz, CA
- Studio Receptionist: workstation prep, design consultations, front-end reception.
1996-2000
Herland: The Wanderground
Santa Cruz, CA
- Bookstore: data analysis (Excel), business administration, feminist economics, tarot and astrology consultations, book keeping (Quicken), payroll, buying, receiving<./li>
- Cafe: food prep, barrista, dishes, cashier, customer service.
1995-1997
Santa Cruz Soccer Camp
- Soccer Coach: childhood physical education, beginning, intermediate, and advance level soccer technique, 7-12 year olds.
Conferences & Activities
Who We Be: Superpanel on Art, Protest and Racial Justice
San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco, CA. May 2015.
- Panel Organizer and Moderator: Featuring Jeff Chang, Alicia Garza, Ben Davis, Steven W. Thrasher, and Christian L. Frock
Open Engagement: Life/Work
Queens Museum, Queens, NY. May 2014.
Bridging the Gap: Celebrating UC Santa Cruz Alumni in Film, TV & Digital Media
UCSC Media Theater, Santa Cruz, CA. June 2011.
- Reception Speaker: In honor of Professor Emeritus Chip Lord
Emergency USA-Life Support for Civilian Victims of War and Poverty: 2011 Annual National Conference
Various Locations, San Francisco, CA. May 2011.
Exploratorium: Art as a Way of Knowing
City Club, San Francisco, CA. March 2011.
- Conference Attendee
Note Taker
The Art of Collaboration Symposium
UCSC Digital Arts Resource Center, Santa Cruz, CA. October 2010.
- Symposium Exhibitor: sonicSENSE
Full Transcriber of Proceedings
Western Regional Worker Cooperative Conference
Portland State University, Portland, OR. October 2007.
- Planning Board Member
- Conference Presenter: "Challenges to Democratic Decision Making"
1st Bay Area Conference of Worker Coops & Democratic Workplaces
Women's Building, San Francisco, CA. October 2004.
- Planning Board Member
- Conference Presenter: "Institutionalizing Anti-Oppression Training within Worker Coops"
1st National Conference of Worker Coops & Democratic Workplaces
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. May 2004.
- Conference Presenter: "Why Anti-Oppression Training is Essential to Workplace Democracy"
911/2000 (A Day of Art & Activism for Mumia Abu Jamal)
Dolores Park, San Francisco, CA. September 2000.
- Fundraiser & Event Organizer
- Activities Organizer
Research Practice
Current
Studio
Parenting/Childhood: Pregnancy--fetal-maternal relations--childbirth--child development--transitional objects--blankets
Privacy: Digital privacy--security--open source software--Linux
Teaching
Math: History of Mathematics--ethnomathematics--geometry--experimental geography--feminist histories of science--contemporary & conceptual art--art history/visual culture
Digital Media: Processing--data visualization--computer history--code/color--sound
2011-2013
Teaching Artist
Middle and high school curriculum development--project-based learning--arts integration--global issues--population--progress--sustainable communities
2011-2012
Studio
Landmine Awareness: Boys 6-12--Landmine Casualties: Boys 6-12--landmine data collection--children and war--politics of non-violence
Childhood and Improvised Play-Spaces: Girls 7-10--activities, interviews, and documentation
2008-2010
MFA
Electronics & Interaction Design--data visualization--Processing--Media & Software Studies--Exhibition & Installation--Play--Art & Science--Navigation & Knowledge Production--Gender & Science--Performativity & Physics--History of Art & Visual Culture
2005-2008
Media and Communication Division, European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland
Mapping & Visual Representation--Geography & Critical Spatial Practice--Media, Art, Politics--Deleuze: Science & History--Art, Community & Freedom--Art, Psychoanalysis & Philosophy--Poetry
2000-2008
Rainbow Grocery and Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives, San Francisco, CA
Worker-Cooperatives--Labor--Democratic Decision Making--Policy Governance--Non-Hierarchical Structures--Anti-Oppression
1994-1999
Undergraduate, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
History of Education--History of Mathematics--Science & Culture--Cultural Theory--Cultural Anthropology--Culture and Ideology--Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality--Single & Multivariable Calculus--Linear Algebra--Real & Complex Analysis--Psychobiology--Third World Feminism--Psychology & Gender--Humanistic Psychology--Science Studies
References
Available upon request.
updated November 2014
