kenseth armstead : kenseth@kensetharmstead.com : www.kensetharmstead.com
education
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2005 |
Polytechnic University, Integrated Digital Media Institute (MS) |
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1991 |
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program |
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1990 |
Corcoran College of Art and Design (BFA) |
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1989 |
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
awards
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2008 |
Film / Media Grant, Creative Capital Foundation |
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2008 |
Digital Matrix Commission, Longwood Arts Project / Bronx Council on the Arts |
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2007 |
Individual Artist Grant, Film & Media / New Technical Production, NYSCA |
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2006 |
Artist in Residence, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace |
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2006 |
Artist in Residence, Harvestworks |
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2006 |
Artist in Residence, Trebesice Castle, Trebesice, Czech Republic |
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2005 |
Excellence in Integrated Digital Media Award (Full-tuition Scholarship,) Polytechnic University |
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2003 |
Woodstock Artist in Residence, Center for Photography at Woodstock |
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2003 |
Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts |
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2002 |
Viewing Program, The Drawing Center |
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2000 |
Sculpture Purchase Prize Award, African American Museum |
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1999 |
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant |
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1997 |
Funded Artist in Residence, Sculpture Space, Inc |
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1996 |
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship |
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1996 |
U.S. Representative of Arts and Technology, Global Youth Exchange Grant, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan |
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1989 |
Camille Hanks Cosby Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
exhibition selections (* catalog available upon request)
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2008 |
Unnamable Name, Tompkins County Library, Ithaca, NY* |
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2007 |
Late Empire, Roebling Hall, New York, NY |
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2007 |
ART PARTY Silent Auction, a benefit for the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY |
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2007 |
The Downtown Dinner Silent Auction, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY |
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2007 |
LMCC Workspace Open Studios, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY |
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2006 |
MEMORIA: invisible_cities: i_prague_2 (from trebesice), FUTURA centre for contemporary art, Prague, Czech Republic* |
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2006 |
Open Studio Trebesice Castle, Trebesice, Czech Republic |
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2006 |
CinemaScope: Perpetual Art Machine, (Curated by Lee Wells,) Scope Art Fair, NY* |
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2006 |
Made in Woodstock III, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY |
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2005 |
MULTIPLEX, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN |
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2005 |
BROOKLinVIDEO, FUTURA centre for contemporary art, Prague, Czech Republic |
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2005 |
Arco International Art fair: Video Archive, Gigantic Artspace, Madrid, Spain |
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2004 |
20th Gala Ball Auction, African American Museum, Dallas, TX |
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2004 |
F|r|a|m|e analysis of movement, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY |
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2004 |
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY* |
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2004 |
Tactical Action, Gigantic Artspace, New York, NY* |
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2004 |
Hope: War Child Auction, Christie’s, London, England* |
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2003 |
AIM 23, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY * |
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2003 |
Veni Vidi Video, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY |
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2001 |
300 Years of African American Art, African American Museum (Included by curator Phillip Collins,) Dallas, TX |
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2000 |
Biennial: 19th Carroll Harris Simms, National Black Art Competition and Exhibition, African American Museum, Dallas, TX |
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1999 |
I am poem, film broadcast on Nickelodeon & Noggin |
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1998 |
Fiction, Washington Projects for the Arts/Corcoran, Washington, DC * |
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1996 |
NYFA Video Fellowship Winners 1996, 530 Lines of Resolution, Den of Thieves, New York, NY |
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1995 |
Long Wood Arts Project Benefit Exhibition, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY |
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1993 |
Miahaus, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY |
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1992 |
Dusk til Dawn, Dooley Le Capellaine Gallery, New York, NY |
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collaborative exhibition selections (as a member of the four-person collaborative art band X-Prz)
solo
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1995 |
No sell out... i wnt 2 b th ultimate commodity/machine (Malcolm X Part II,) Spirit Square, Charlotte, NC * |
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1994 |
Video installations VideoFest 1994, (Podewil) East Berlin, Germany * |
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1993 |
Dn't worry bout th gvrmnt, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA |
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1993 |
Jst bcz ur paranoid dn’t thnk thyr nt aftr u (Malcolm X Part 1,) Alternative Museum, New York, NY * Exhibition traveled to: Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA, Spaces, Cleveland, OH, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN |
group
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2002 |
Politics of resistance and musical cultures, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain |
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2001 |
Race in Digital Space, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA Exhibition traveled to: Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY |
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2001 |
Take Two: Contemporary Work by 13 International Artists, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON, Canada |
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2000 |
Sounding Snow, Centre Pour L'Image Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland |
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1999 |
Frames of Reference: Reflections on Media, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY |
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1997 |
Translocations, Photographers Gallery, London, England * |
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1996 |
No Doubt: African-American Art of the 90s, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT * |
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1994 |
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY *Exhibition traveled to: Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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1994 |
West Publishing Art and the Law Exhibition, West Publishing Company, Seattle, WA *Exhibition traveled to: Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA, Art Institute, Canton, OH, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, CO, Tyler Art Gallery, Oswego, NY |
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1993 |
Malcolm X: On the Subject, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA |
press selections
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2006 |
Three Takes on Memory, Tony Ozuna, The Prague Post |
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2006 |
Memoria, Lucie Ernstova, Atelier |
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2006 |
Memoria, Lada H. Vacková, Art and Antiques |
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2006 |
Residency program offers artists immersion in work 'Made in Woodstock' exhibit shows depth, Kathleen Murray, Poughkeepsie Journal |
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2006 |
New exhibits at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Babette Fasolino, Pulse |
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2005 |
Fast tracks, New American works capture the frenetic pace of modern living, Lizzy Le Quesne, The Prague Post |
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2004 |
In Geometric Forms, Bending Nature at Will, D. Dominick Lombardi, The New York Times |
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2004 |
Framing movement: Show opens activities at Photography Center, Paul Smart, Woodstock Times |
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2004 |
Extra Open: A conversation with Charlotta Kotik, Dread Scott, and Bill Scan, Horace Brockington, New York Arts Magazine |
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2004 |
Tactical Action, Broadcast Aired 05.10.2004, Stephanie Simon, New York 1 |
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2004 |
Voice Choice, Editor's Pick, Village Voice |
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2004 |
Brooklyn Museum Set To Reopen After Multi-Million Dollar Facelift, Stephanie Simon, New York 1 |
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2004 |
Local Color: The Brooklyn Museum opens its doors to the borough‘s best artists, Howard Halle,
BKLYN
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2003 |
Lineup For "Working In Brooklyn", N.F. Karlins, Artnet News |
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2003 |
Market Share Statements & Strategies: Young Artists Negotiate Their Entry Into the Gallery Scene, Karen Rosenberg, V. Voice |
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2003 |
A Mix of Works in the Bronx, Ken Johnson, The New York Times |
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2003 |
Art Review: Don’t Miss… ”Aim 23”, Sarah Schmerler, Time Out New York |
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2003 |
Multimedia: Opening, AIM 23: Artist in the Marketplace, Paul Laster, Flavorpill |
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2002 |
Art Stars Dress Up, Kay Itoi, Artnet Magazine |
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2000 |
Black and beyond, Exhibit embraces more than African-American themes, Mike Daniel, The Dallas Morning News |
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2000 |
Dallas museum sponsors a singular art event, Tom Sime, The Dallas Morning News |
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2000 |
Competition encourages black artists, Susan Parrot, The Arlington Morning News, Associated Press |
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1999 |
Arts Beat, Exhibition of Black Art opens, Tom Sime, The Dallas Morning News |
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1999 |
Dallas museum Showcases art by African Americans, Susan Parrot, Austin American-statesman |
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1999 |
African American Museum of Art announces winner of national black art competition, Calvin Verret Carter, The Weekly |
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1996 |
They Turn Teens Into Teachers, Michael Ryan, The Washington Post, Parade Magazine |
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1996 |
In Connecticut, Old Meets the New, Roberta Smith, The New York Times |
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1995 |
A Very Different Picture, Tom Patterson, The Charlotte Observer |
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1995 |
Art About Town, Community Pride Magazine, Charlotte, NC |
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1995 |
Provocative Art: Black Male, Laura Accinelli, L.A. Daily Breeze |
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1995 |
Black Male: Reframing Race in America, Susan L. Taylor, World Art Magazine |
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1994 |
1993 in review Alternative Spaces, Art in America |
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1994 |
Black Studies, Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker |
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1994 |
Visible Man, Elizabeth Hess, Village Voice |
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1994 |
Voice Choice, Kim Levin, Village Voice |
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1994 |
Arriva L'uomo Nero, Marco De Martino, Panaroma |
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1994 |
Black Like Them?, Mark Stevens, New York Magazine |
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1993 |
Heroes, Hypocrisy & Malcolm X, Dennis Freeland, The Memphis Flyer |
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1993 |
Voice Choice, Kim Levin, Village Voice |
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1993 |
DeCordova Scores a Perfect 11, Christine Temin, Boston Globe
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public |
· The National Endowment for the Arts (X-Prz) · The New York State Council on the Arts (X-Prz) · The New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs (X-Prz) · The North Carolina Arts Council (X-Prz) · The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg (X-Prz) |
private |
· Scharff Weisberg Inc. · Martin Marietta Projection & Display Products (X-Prz) · Sculpture Space · The Jerome Foundation (X-Prz) · Media Play (X-Prz) · Rockefeller Foundation Intercultural Media Program (X-Prz) · US Air (X-Prz) · Duncan Parnell Inc. (X-Prz) · Borders Books and Music (X-Prz) · Video Systems of the Carolinas (X-Prz) · Mediopolis Berlin e.V. (X-Prz) · The Peter Norton Foundation (X-Prz) · The Weatherhead Foundation (X-Prz) |
collections
· African American Museum, Dallas, TX
· Center for Photography at Woodstock at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
· Centre Pompidou (X-Prz)
· Cinemedia, Melbourne, Australia (X-Prz)
· William Cosby, New York, NY
· Charlene Engelhard, Boston, MA (X-Prz)
· Elizabeth Bigham-Hotson & David Hotson, New York, NY
· Kaywon School of Art & Design, South Korea (X-Prz)
· The Ottawa Art Gallery (X-Prz)
· Richard Schebairo, New York, NY
publications
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2007 |
30 years of Sculpture Space, Sculpture Space |
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2005 |
On location, Aspect Magazine, Volume 6 |
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2004 |
Video Art, Michael Rush, Thames & Hudson (X-Prz) |
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2004 |
Photography Quarterly, Center for Photography at Woodstock |
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2004 |
NYFA Artist of the Week, NYFA Interactive |
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2003 |
New York Portraits, Barney’s New York, Men’s Fall catalog |
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2000 |
Millennium Report, The Pollack-Krasner Foundation, Inc. |
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1998 |
Surface tensions, Art Journal Fall 1998 |
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1996 |
Visual Arts and Technology in the Twenty-first Century, Global Youth Exchange, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |
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1995 |
Black Male: Reframing Race in America, Susan L. Taylor, World Art Magazine (X-Prz) |
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1995 |
No sell out... i wnt 2 b th ultimate commodity/machine (Malcolm X Part II), Catalog, Spirit Square Center for the Arts (X-Prz) |
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1993 |
Y/X?, Jst Bcz U R Paranoid Exhibition Catalog, Alternative Museum (X-Prz) |
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1991 |
Whitney Independent Study Program 1990 - 1991 Journal, Whitney Museum of American Art |
lectures and talks
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2007 |
Spook Experiments: A Dialog, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York, NY |
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2007 |
Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ |
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2007 |
Pace University Fine Arts Public Lecture Series 2007, Pace University, New York, NY |
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2003 |
Artist Talk: in_authentic_b, video and digital printing, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY |
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1998 |
Visiting Artist Talk, MFA Program Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY |
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1996 |
Visual Arts and Technology in the Twenty-first Century, United Nations University, Global Youth Exchange, Tokyo, Japan |
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1995 |
Artist Talk, No Sell Out (Malcolm X part 2,) Spirit Square, Charlotte, NC (X-Prz) |
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1994 |
Kunstler Strategien (Artist Strategies), Berlin Video festival, Berlin, Germany (X-Prz) |
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1994 |
Artist Talk, Jst Bcz U R Paranoid, Spaces, Cleveland, OH (X-Prz) |
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1994 |
Artist Talk, Jst Bcz U R Paranoid, Anderson Gallery at VCU, Richmond, VA (X-Prz) |
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1993 |
Artist Talk, Jst Bcz U R Paranoid, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN (X-Prz) |
other accomplishments
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1996 |
Managing Editor, Rhizome Internet (currently rhizome.org) |
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1991 |
Co-Founded the art band X-Prz with Tony Cokes, Doug Anderson and Mark Pierson |