Education

2013 MS.ACT(Art, Culture, Technology), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA USA

2002 BA (Music), Wesleyan University, Middletown CT USA

POSITIONS HELD

2020- Director BLACK HOLE, Los Angeles

2018- Co-Founder, Polytope Agency, Basel + Los Angeles

2016-17 Associate Professor of Art + Entrepreneurship, University of Guanajuato, Mexico

2006-2012 Curator (Music/Sound), Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, NY 

2003-2006 Associate Curator, Diapason Gallery for Sound, New York, NY  

2002-2006 Administrator, The Earle Brown Music Foundation, Rye, NY 

1997-98 Voting Member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education  (Elected Statewide student rep)

Teaching

2016-17 Audio and intersensory design courses at Universidad de Guanajuato, Salamanca-Irapuato

2014 Multi-day workshop, Is Audio a Thing? for Interfaz Festival in Merida, Yucatan (Marco Villalobos, Curator)

2013 Introduction to Sound Creations, Teaching Assistant w/Florian Hecker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2012 Performance Art, Teaching Assistant w/Joan Jonas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2011 Sound Doing and Thinking, Teaching Assistant w/ Florian Hecker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2006-2011 Various Guest Lectures and MFA advisees at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Department of the Arts 

Publications as Author

2020 America isn’t ready for a Jewish president. . ., Medium Politics

2017 The Whitney Museum and the Biennial Curators Owe the Public an Apology not Defense, Medium

2017 Interview with Jaquiline Kiyomi Gordon, 356 Mission Website for Not Exactly B-Flat

2017 Get a (Control) Room, essay w/ Courtney Stephens for Art Los Angeles Reader, Los Angeles CA

2016 In Paradise, Design Observer, Observer Quarterly 1: The Acoustic Issue, June 2016

2016 A Time Capsule on PSSST, Art Spaces, and Gentrification in Los Angeles, Medium

2016 Listening Beyond Turing, essay w/diagram for Okayama Art Summit, Okayama, Japan (English / Japanese)

2015 Figures in Air: Essays Toward a Philosophy of Audio, book, Inventory Press, ISBN: 978-1941753019

2014 Article, Sound, Audio, Music, Zetesis, Birmingham City University, Birmingham UK ISBN: 978-1-873352-10-6

2014 Newspaper Essay, Why Time-Based Art Takes Time, The Rapidian, Grand Rapids, Michigan

2014 Conference Paper, Twice Upon a Time, Birmingham University, Birmingham UK

2014 Conference Paper and Session Chair, Sound Art Curating Conference, Goldsmiths University, London UK

2014 Essays/ Interview, Sounding Geometry, MUAC, Mexico City, Mexico ( Spanish/English)

2013 Paper, Social Dimensions + Multiplicity in the Work of Earle Brown, Beyond Notation Conference, Northeastern University

2012 Audio, Drunken Boat, online magazine, Sound, Art / Dissonance issue,  

2011 Journal Co-Editor, Experiments and  Intensities, Cries from the Guts a hybrid galley/journal, University of Winchester, UK 

2010 Text, Remember Maryanne Amacher, MusikTexte (translated to German) 

2010 Text + Videos, Silence is Sexy - Silence issue of Arteeast Magazine,

2007 Essay w/Audio, Taking: The Pulse of a Medium essay/audio published in The Journal of the Valkenberg Hermitage, Berlin 

2006 Compilation Curator / Producer, Folio and Four Systems, Tzadik Records, NYC

2005 Conference Respondent, Session on Earle Brown, Society for American Music International Conference, Eugene OR

2004 Publication, Creative Diplomacy I: North Korea public art proposal published in Nuke Magazine, Paris 

2003 Utopian Artifacts, release on Stasisfield online label 

1999 Popular Music for Popular Feelings, CD-R 

Exhibitions / Projects as Artist 

2019 Diagrams published in Ear | Wave | Event Issue Four, release June 2019, Bill Dietz and Woody Sullender, Curators

2017 Prototype Commissioned for Madison Square Park, NYC - Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Curator

2015 Exhibition, One in a series of many possible temporary diagrams of everything, San Diego Art Institute

2015 Exhibition, Answers Are How Questions Are Lost To Ideology at The Windward School, Los Angeles

2014 Collaborative sound sculpture/fountain w/Giacomo Castagnola for El Papalote Museo del Niño, Cuernavaca, Mexico

2014 Installation, MusicX, Collaboration with Adam Schoenberg, UICA and Grand Rapids Symphony - AJ Paschka, Curator

2013 Sound design for the bathrooms at Play, Museum of Sex, NYC - Emilie Baltz, Curator

2013 Installation, One of Many Impossible Reconciliations Between the Finite and Infinite (Air Rooms prototype), MIT

2012 Installation, Burdock Systems, MIT Media Lab Cube

2012 Perfume Distribution, Real and Permanent Good, distributed at MIT Media Lab 

2012 Installation, *asterisk linz, OK Centrum, Linz - Georg Nussbaumer and Genoveva Reukhart, Curators

2011 Audio and Photographs, How to Know You Are in a Room With No Wall, Palais de Tokyo, Paris - Rahma Kazam, Curator

2011 Sound design for tasting menu, What Happens When, with Chef John Fraser and designers Elle Vos and Emilie Baltz 

2009 Installation, The End of Safari, Mass MoCA, 4/2009-2/2010 - Denise Markonish, Curator 

2008 Audio, You and Me, Going, MATA Festival 2008 Commission (premier 4/08, NYC, included in several performances since) 

2008 Installation, The Friendly Natives, Denniston Hill Artist Residency - Kara Lynch, Curator 

2007 Text + Audio, Taking: The Pulse of a Medium, Journal of the Valkenberg Hermitage Berlin -, Chris Kelley, Curator

2006 Public Art, The Phoenix, outdoor installation commissioned by the City of New Haven - Denise Markonish, Curator 

2006 Soundtrack, Return to Sender, w/Treva Wurmfeld, Gilded Pony Festival, Troy NY -  Bethany Wright, Curator

2006 Audio Installation, blank lineup for “Group Show I” at Diapason Gallery for Sound, NYC -  Michael Schumacher, Curator

2005 Audio for Dance, empty cartoon music commissioned by Carley Petesch Dance, Dance Theater Workshop, NYC 

2005 Installation, *asterisk for broken pianos, loudspeakers, and transduced glass, Peekskill Project- Kari Conte, Curator 

2004 Installation, carousels (parallax), transcriptions of pedestrian movement, metronomes, wire, Joyce Centre, Dublin 

2002 Scale for just-intonation synthesizer and shortwave radio, released by Stasisfield label as Utopian Artifacts     

2001 Touch for Halcyon tone generators, fractal noise, guitar, video, released by Stasisfield as Utopian Artifacts  

Performances

2010 Audio Performance, Issue Project Room for the Floating Points Festival - Stephan Moore, Curator

2010 Music Performance, Performa 2010 at LPR NYC with Luciano Chessa on Russolo “Intonoromori” constructed at EMPA

2006 Counting, Commissioned multichannel performance for Movement Research Festival - Koosil-Ja Huang, Curator 

2002 Anthem for solo voice, live electronics (Supercollider), eight loudspeakers, World Music Hall, Wesleyan Univ.

2000 spell, “mobile music” library of 26 unconducted compositions for six performers, Wesleyan University 

2000-2 Misc cornet performances with Anthony Braxton Large Ensemble, The New Talking Drums, and Acousmatique

2001 String Quartet and Ball Bearings (For Alvin Lucier), Performed 4/01, Wesleyan University, CT

1999 HEX, a modular group of short compositions for six performers with choreographies, Flywheel, Easthampton MA

INDEPENDANT Curatorial Projects

2012 Exhibition, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany, Maryanne Amacher exhibit within Sound Art

2012 Exhibition Contribution to The Future Archive at N.B.K Berlin. Ute Meta Bauer, Curator

2012 Collective Exhibition, Sao Paulo Biennial - Interpretation of Maryanne Amacher w/Supreme Connections 

2012 Collective Exhibition/Workshop, DAAD Berlin  w/Supreme Connections - Axel Weider/Ariane Beyn, Curator

2012 Collective Exhibition and talk, TATE Modern w/Supreme Connections (collective)

2010 Exhibition, Ludlow 38, City-Links with publication

Talks, Guest Lectures, Panels

2020 Online Workshop, Artists of the Futures 

2017 Workshop w Anna Craycroft, Tuning The Room, Otis College of Art

2016 Conference Talk, Universidad de Guanajuato for  Multimedia Cognition Art-Therapy Conference

2015 Lecture Presentation, Aalto University Media Factory Auditorium on recent work 

2015 Talk, Print Room, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2015 Lecture Discussion, The Public School, Los Angeles

2015 Panel on recent works and Figures in Air, New York Public Library, NYC

2014 Lecture, Universidad de Guanajuato (Art and Technology division), Mexico

2011 Panel, Transcultural Exchange Conference, Boston MA

2011 Panel, Improvisation + Political Action w/Axel Weider, Bina Choi and Bill Dietz as part of Miss Read, KW, Berlin

2011 Moderator, Intelligent Life, a one-day tribute to Maryanne Amacher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA

2010 Panel, as contributor to ARTEEAST magazine’s Silence issue, International Studio and Curatorial Program  NYC

2010 Lecture, Maryanne Amacher Archive project, MIT ACT Program

2009 Curatorial Panel, FuturePerfect and Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn NY

2009 Panel, Performance category, International Computer Music Conference 

2008 Talk, with Christoph Cox about time in sonic arts, MATA Festival, Brooklyn NY

2008 Lecture, Body Navigation, a festival of interactive music and dance, St.Petersburg, Russian Federation 

2006 Talk, Commencement Arts Panel 2006, Wesleyan University,  Middletown CT

2006 Talk, Eyebeam Gallery, NYC 

2006 TV Interview, NYC Public Access for MATA Festival (You and Me, Going)

2006 Panel, Performance category, New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), NYC 

2005 Panel, Sound Art panel for New York State Council on the Arts 

2005 Talk, Ford Pianos, Peekskill NY

Bibliography

2021. Interview, H0L0 Presents: Places of Assembly Episode 4

2020 Interview, Bridge Podcast. Episode 14

2019 Podcast Interview, The People Podcast Episode 70 w Todd Lerew, January 2019

2017 Video, Tuning the Room with Anna Craycroft, College Art Association

2016 Article, Capturing, and Changing, the Breezes Blowing Through New York, New York Times, 4/11/2016

2015 Preview, Windward School Magazine, Spring Edition

2011 Article, The Now-You-See-It Restaurant, New York Times, 1/24/2011

2009 Review, Mournful Reflections, Boston Globe 4/18/2009

2006 Review, The Sounds Of The City Multiplied (review of The Phoenix), Hartford Courant 8/16/2006 

2006 Review, In, Under And Around, (preview of The Phoenix), New York Times, 1/22/2006 

2007 Interview, Tracer cd and dvd on Mode Records

2005 Article, In Peekskill it Takes a Community, New York Times, 9/25/2005

1998 Op-Ed, Silver vs. Silber, The Boston Globe 2/12/1998

Residencies, Awards, and Grants

2015 Residency at Aalto University Media Factory, Helsinki Finland (3 months)

2015 Residency/Exhibition Award at The Windward School, The Installation Project, Los Angeles (4 months)

2014 Residency at Luoghi Communi, Turin Italy (3 months)

2013 Project Grant, MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology 

2013 Fellow, MISTI Mexico, Research Grant for speculative acoustic research in Mexico City (6 months)

2012 Director’s Grant for the production of Real and Permanent Good perfume, Arts at MIT

2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graduate Student Life, project grant

2011 Residency from DAAD Berlin Künstlerprogramm for exhibition development, Berlin Germany (2 months)

2010 “Best Music Curation”, Metroland (Upstate NY arts paper) for programming EMPAC 

2008 Residency at The Theremin Centre Moscow (with performance at The Place St.Petersburg), Russia (2 weeks)

2005 The Foundation from Contemporary Performance Arts, project grant  NYC

2003 The Lovell Memorial Prize for Music, Wesleyan University, Connecticut

1998 Commendation from Massachusetts Senate for work done on the State Board of Education