Education

Professional Experience

Festivals and Awards

Grants

Exhibitions

Visiting Artist and Curatorial Activities

Selective Bibliography

University of Washington (Bothell Washington - 2012). Talk on cross-disciplinary collaboration

Artist-in-Residence, Unitec Institute of Technology (Auckland, New Zealand - Summer 2011). Presentation of personal works and research on RIT summer study abroad program

DXARTS, University of Washington (Seattle, Washington - April 2010). Two workshops in experimental and direct animation processes and techniques

DXARTS, University of Washington (Seattle, Washington -February 2010). Presentation of personal works

Northwest Film Forum (Seattle, Washington - 2009). Workshop on direct animation and experimental animation processes

Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland, Oregon - 2009). Talk: "True Collaboration of Art Forms and Artists"

Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland, Oregon - 2009). Workshop on direct animation

Alfred State College (Alfred, New York - 2009). Retrospective

SIGGRAPH 2009 (New Orleans, Louisiana - 2009). Presented talk: "Visual Music and the True Collaboration of Art Forms and Artists"

Evergreen State College (Olympia, Washington - 2009). Workshops on direct animation method and experimental animation

Eastman School of Music (Rochester, New York– 2009). Collaborative art practice and abstract film

California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, California – 2008). Presentation and discussion of personal works

University of California at Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California – 2008). Presentation and discussion of personal works

Faculty Institute on Teaching and Learning, RIT (Rochester, New York – 2008). Guest speaker on collaborative art

Eyes and Ears: Sound Needs Image Part II, Hallwalls (Buffalo, New York - 2008). Invited artist to create "graphic score" for Open Music Ensemble live performance

28th Annual New Music and Art Festival, Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH - 2007). Featured artist with Allan Schindler and Jean Detheux

Meet the Filmmaker, Ottawa International Animation Festival (Ottawa, Canada - 2007). Panelist

Physics of the Arts, Fairport High School (Fairport, New York - 2007). Guest presenter

Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester (Rochester, NY - 2006). Guest speaker

Quay School for the Arts (Wanganui, New Zealand - 2006). Guest artist

Unitec Institute of Technology (Auckland, New Zealand - 2006). Experimental and direct animation workshop

Exploratorium (San Francisco, CA - 2006). Artist in residence

Cailfornia Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA - 2006). Guest artist

UCLA (Los Angeles, CA - 2006). Guest artist

Sierra Nevada College (Tahoe, Nevada - 2006). Personal works presentation, and workshop in direct animation

Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York - 2006). Experimental animation workshop

"(Im)permanence: Cultures In/Out of Time", Center for the Arts in Society conference, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA - 2005). Film presentation

Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY - 2005). Guest lecturer: Abstract Animation

Unitec Institute of Technology (Auckland, New Zealand - 2005). Artist in residence

University of Auckland (Auckland, New Zealand - 2005). Guest lecturer: Direct Animation in the Digital Age: The Films of Stephanie Maxwell

Particles and Pixels Symposium (Auckland, New Zealand - 2005). Keynote speaker

Unitec Institute of Technology (Auckland, New Zealand - 2005). Direct-on-film workshop

University of Melbourne, Victoria College of the Arts, School of Film and Television (Melbourne, Australia - 2005). Guest lecturer

Unitec Institute of Technology (Auckland, New Zealand - 2005). Guest lecturer: Scriptwriting for Animation

Unitec Institute of Technology (Auckland, New Zealand - 2005). Guest lecturer (with Allan Schindler): Artistic Collaboration

Media Design School (Auckland, New Zealand - 2005). Guest lecturer

Waikato University (Hamilton, New Zealand - 2005). Guest lecturer

Monday Films #1 and #3, Unitec Institute of Technology (Auckland, New Zealand - 2005). Curator

Media Design School (Auckland, New Zealand - 2005). Guest lecturer

Deakin University (Burwood, Australia - 2005). Guest lecturer: Animation and Digital Culture

Arte Nuevo InteractivA '05 (Merida, Mexico - 2005). "Collaborative Composition in Image and Music" workshop with composer, Allan Schindler

Careers in the Motion Picture Arts (Fairport, NY - 2005). Guest presenter for high school careers information event

Meet the Master, Ottawa International Animation Festival (Ottawa, Canada - 2004)

Visiting Artists and Lecturers Program (RIT - 1991 to present). Originator, coordinator and primary curator of the Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Film and Animation's program of international visiting artists and lecturers, thematic programs, and a weekly screening series 1991-1999

Surrey Institute of Art and Design (Farnham, England - 2003). Guest artist/presentation of personal works

Alternative Cinema and Digital Techniques, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY - 2002). Presentation of personal works and discussion of alternative practices using digital media

Non-Narrative Animation, Ottawa International Animation Festival (Ottawa, Canada-2002). Panelist

Board of Cooperative Education Services (Monroe County, NY -2002). Workshop with School of the Performing Arts staff regarding multimedia collaboration

Pentangle 5, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY - 2001). Visiting artist: Personal works

Northside Elementary School (Fairport, NY - 2001). Animation workshop with 5th grade children

SOFA Faculty Show, Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY - 2000). Curator

Northside Elementary School (Fairport, NY - 2000). Animation workshop with 4th grade children

Surrey Institute of Art and Design (Farnham, England - 2000). Guest artist: Presentation of personal works

Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY - 1999). Guest artist with Allan Schindler. Composer's Seminar Series, ''The Film and Music Collaborative Experience''

Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY - 1999). Guest speaker - Cinema and Society film studies course

San Francisco Exploratorium (San Francisco, CA - 1999). Artist in residence

San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco, CA - 1999). Visiting artist: Personal works

Mills College (Oakland, CA - 1999). Visiting artist: Personal works

Northside Elementary School (Fairport, NY - 1999). Animation workshop with 3rd grade children

New York University (New York, NY - 1998). Visiting artist: Personal works

University of Maryland (Catonsville, MD - 1998). Visiting artist: Personal works

Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI - 1998). Visiting artist: Personal works

School of Visual Arts (New York, NY - 1998). Visiting artist: Personal works

School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA - 1998). Visiting artist: Personal works

ImageMovementSound Festivals (Rochester, NY - 1997 - present). RIT faculty founder and director for large-scale annual collaborative productions project and exhibitions by faculty and students from the Rochester Institute of Technology (image makers), the Eastman School of Music (composers) and SUNY College at Brockport (choreographers).

Dudley Elementary School (Fairport, NY - 1998). Animation workshop with 2nd grade children

Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (Academy of fine and Applied Arts, Rotterdam, The Netherlands - 1997). Workshop in experimental animation techniques

Colgate University (Hamilton, NY - 1997). Co-curator of Innovative New Computer Music Works and Experimental Animations, a program of faculty and student works from the Film/Video Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Computer Music Center at the Eastman School of Music

Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY - 1997). Co-curator An Evening of New Computer Music and Experimental Films., a program of faculty and student works from the Film/Video Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Computer Music Center at the Eastman School of Music

London Film Makers' Coop (London, England - 1996). The Short Abstract Films of Mary Ellen Bute. Lecture and film presentation

Surrey Institute of Art and Design (Farnham, England - 1996). Personal works

Filmmuseum in Munchner Stadtmuseum (Munich, Germany - 1996). The Short Abstract Films of Mary Ellen Bute and feature film Finnegan's Wake. Lecture and film presentations

Filmclub 813 (Cologne, Germany - 1996). The Short Abstract Films of Mary Ellen Bute. Lecture and film presentation

Deutsches Filmmuseum (Frankfurt Am Main, Germany - 1996). The Short Abstract Films of Mary Ellen Bute and feature film Finnegan's Wake. Lecture and film presentations

Kommunales Kino Metropolis (Hamburg, Germany - 1996). The Short Abstract Films of Mary Ellen Bute. Lecture and film presentation

Kino Arsenal (Berlin, Germany - 1996). The Short Abstract Films of Mary Ellen Bute and feature film Finnegan's Wake. Lecture and film presentations

Filmpodium im <<STUDIO 4>> (Zurich, Switzerland - 1996). The Short Abstract Films of Mary Ellen Bute. Lecture and film presentation

Kommunales Kino (Stuttgart, Germany - 1996). The Short Abstract Films of Mary Ellen Bute. Lecture and film presentation

Cornell University (Ithaca, NY - 1995). Visiting artist: Direct-on-Film Animation Workshop with children

Images Festival of Independent Film and Video (Toronto, Canada - 1994). Curator of international experimental animation film program, Alternatoons

School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA - 1993). Visiting artist: Experimental Cinema, presentation and workshop

RIT School of Photographic Arts and Sciences photography and film classes:

 
                 Color Print Theory (Imaging and Photographic Technology Department - 1997)
                 Non-camera Image Generation

                 Creative Processes (Departments of Applied and Fine Arts Photography - 1994)
                 Personal Works, and The Creative Process of the Artist

                 Nontraditional Photographic Illustration (Department of Applied Photography - 1994)
                 Direct-on-Film Visual Imagery Creation

                 Creative Processes (Departments of Applied and Fine Arts Photography - 1993)
                 The Creative Process of the Visual Artist

                 Nontraditional Photographic Illustration (Department of Applied Photography - 1993)
                 Experimental Processes in Image Creation

                 Nontraditional Photographic Illustration (Department of Applied Photography - 1992)
                  Non-Photographic Image Generation

                 Color Print Theory (Imaging and Photographic Technology Department - 1991)
                 Alternative Image Creation

                 Film Production I (Film/Video Department - 1991)
                 Animation Techniques

                 Color Photography (Imaging and Photographic Technology Department - 1991)
                 Direct- on-Film Image Generation

Hunter College (New York, NY - 1991). Visiting artist: Film Works of Pioneer Experimental Animator Len Lye and Direct-on-Film Workshop

RIT/School of Photographic Arts and Sciences Faculty Forum (1991). Personal Works

San Francisco Exploratorium (San Francisco, CA - 1991). Visiting artist: Direct-on-Film Animation workshop with children

Royal Netherlands Embassy (Washington, DC - 1991). Curator/visiting artist: Contemporary Dutch Animation film program

Pleasure Dome (Toronto, Canada - 1991). Curator/visiting artist: Avant-Garde Animation: 1921-1991 film program

Direct Films in the U.S.A. (1991). Film program co-curator (with Cecile Starr, film historian) and program notes author. This show was one of several in the touring exhibition Composing Motion - Len Lye and Experimental Filmmaking by the National Art Gallery in Wellington, New Zealand

University of Maryland (Catonsville, MD - 1989). Visiting artist: Contemporary European Film and Animation

New York University (New York, NY - 1990). Visiting artist: Experimental Animation film show and workshop

American University (Washington, DC - 1990). Visiting artist: Experimental Animation

New York University (New York, NY - 1989). Visiting artist: Contemporary European Animation

San Francisco Cinematheque (San Francisco, CA - 1989). Curator/visiting artist: New Direct Animation from Europe film program

San Francisco Exploratorium (San Francisco, CA - 1989). Curator/visiting artist: Contemporary European Animation film program

San Francisco Art Institute (on two occasions, San Francisco, CA - 1989). Visiting artist: Contemporary European Animation, and Direct Animation

The Cooper Union School of the Arts (New York, NY - 1989). Visiting artist: Contemporary European Animation, and Direct Animation

Philadelphia College of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA - 1989). Visiting artist: Contemporary European Animation, and Direct Animation

Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (Academy of Fine and Applied Arts, Rotterdam, The Netherlands - 1989). Visiting artist: American Animation, and Direct Animation

University of Nijmegen (Nijmegen, The Netherlands - 1989). Visiting artist: Direct Animation, lecture and workshop

University of Nijmegen (Nijmegen, The Netherlands - 1988). Visiting artist:Direct Animation, lecture and workshop

Shaffy Theatre (Amsterdam, The Netherlands - 1988). Lecture introduction to experimental animated works of Mary Ellen Bute for Man Ray Passed Twice film program

University of Vermont (Burlington, VT - 1988). Visiting artist: Personal Works

San Francisco Exploratorium (San Francisco, CA - 1987). Curator/visiting artist: Experimental Animation Techniques film program and workshop

School of the Art Institute of Chicago Film Lecture Series (1987). Curator/lecturer: History of Animation Since 1945 film program

Art Institute of Chicago (1987). Curator/visiting artist for two museum film programs: Animation Techniques and Contemporary Animation

School of the Art Institute of Chicago Film Lecture Series (1986). Curator/lecturer: History of Animation Before 1945 film program

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1985). Visiting artist: workshop and film presentation of Direct Animation History and Techniques

San Francisco Exploratorium (San Francisco, CA - 1985). Curator/visiting artist: History of Experimental Animation film program and workshop

San Francisco Cinematheque (San Francisco, CA - 1984). Curator/visiting artist: Direct Animation film program

San Francisco Art Institute (on three occasions 1984 - 1985,San Francisco, CA). Visiting artist: Direct Animation History and Techniques

Emily Carr College of Art and Design (Vancouver, Canada - 1982). Visiting artist: California Independent Film

Camosun College (Victoria, Canada - 1982). Visiting artist: California Independent Film

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (Victoria, Canada - 1982). Curator/visiting artist: California Independent Film Exhibit film program, and Direct Animation workshop

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