CV Selected (2007–present)
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Education
2005 — MFA, Design/Visual Communication, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2001 — Vordiplom, Communication Design, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule, Halle, Germany
1994 — BS, Studio Art, New York University, New York, NY
1990 — HS Diploma, Washington International School, Washington, DC

Awards
2018 — Award of Excellence Typography, Communication Arts 
2017 — AIGA Philadelphia Design Award, Philadelphia, PA
2014 — Official Honoree in NetArt, The Webby Awards
2008 — Print Magazine Design Regional Issue 

Faculty Positions (tenured, tenure-track, appointment-based)
2023–present — Associate Professor of New Media and Design (tenured), University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), Greensboro, NC
2017–2023 — Assistant Professor of New Media and Design (tenure-track), University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
2014–2017 — Assistant Professor of Graphic Design (tenure-track, reappointed), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
2009–2014 — Assistant Professor of Graphic Design (full-time appointment), The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2007–2009 — Assistant Professor of Graphic Design (tenure-track), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
2005–2007 — Administrative Director / Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Exhibitions
2024 — Artist Replete Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022 — Art Produce Gallery, Posters of Optimism, San Diego, CA
2021 — 1708 Gallery’s InLight 2021, Richmond, VA
2021 — Marking Time, Horace Williams House (with Susan Finer), Chapel Hill, NC
2019 — Acid Rain, Attic 506, Chapel Hill, NC
2019 — DesignInquiry: Futurespective, Institute of Contemporary Art, MECA, Portland, ME
2019 — Another Potato Chip Weekend, Gallery Oneoneone Annex, Carrboro, NC
2019 — Ambiguous Territory [traveling], Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2019 — Black Hole/Atomic City, Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, NM
2019 — Ambiguous Territory [traveling], Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY
2018 — Digital Disobedience, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2018 — Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC
2018 — Ambiguous Territory [traveling], University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2017 — Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2016 — AIGA Philadelphia Design Awards Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
2016 — Data Materialities, SIGGRAPH 2016 Art Gallery, Anaheim, CA
2016 — Artifact and Process, Weeks Gallery, Jamestown, NY
2015 — Different Data Detroit+Stockholm, NORDES 2015, Stockholm, Sweden (with Joshua Singer and Daniel McCafferty)
2014 — Different Data Detroit, Depe Space/MOCAD, Detroit, MI (with Joshua Singer, Daniel McCafferty, and Patricio Davila)
2014 — Acting in Translation, SIGGRAPH 2014 Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (curated by Basak Senova)
2013 — Praxis and Poetics, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art,  Gateshead, UK
2010 — Art in the Air, PECO Crown Lights, Philadelphia, PA
2009 — Art in Academia, Space 301, Mobile, AL
2008 — Media X,1708 Gallery,  Richmond, VA
2008 — Overload Virtual Art Collection, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA
2008 — Paperwork In, On, and Of Paper IV, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO
2007 — Gallery 400, Pathogeographies: Or Other People’s Baggage, Chicago, IL
2007 — Titles: An Exhibition of Artists’ Book Works, Balfour Books, Toronto, Canada
2007 — The Drawing Room, Fine Arts Gallery VCU, Richmond, VA

Publications
2022 — Ambiguous Territory exhibition catalog, Actar Publishers
2019 — AIGA Frontier conference proceedings (with Joshua Singer)
2018 — Displacements journal. Reality/Fiction, Vol.2, pg 50–54, GIPC Cultural Landscape Research Group, Madrid, Spain
2016 — Design Cities: Berlin, DesignInquiry publisher
2015 — Reflections on Research through Design, Studies in Material Thinking: Visual/Textual, Vol 13, Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
2015 — Cumulus: The Virtuous Circle, conference proceedings (with Joshua Singer)
2014 — Leonardo, Journal of Arts, Sciences and Technology, SIGGRAPH 2014, Volume 47, Number 4
2013 — Praxis and Poetics: Research Through Design, conference proceedings
2013 — Make/Do, DesignInquiry publisher
2008 — 100’s Visual logos & Letterheads, Matt Woolman, Angela Patchell Books, p.26
2008 — Print Magazine Regional Design Annual 2008

Lectures + Presentations
2024 — Artist talk, Imagination and Collage panel, College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL
2021 — 1708 Gallery, virtual
2020 — Southeastern College Art Conference, virtual
2016 — AIGA Design Educators Conference, Frontier, Bozeman, MT
2016 — VCU, Department of Graphic Design, Richmond, VA (with Joshua Singer and Daniel McCafferty)
2016 — SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY
2016 — Weeks Gallery, Gallery talk ‘Artifact and Process,’ Jamestown, NY
2016 — Design Colloquium, College Art Association Conference, Washington, D.C.
2015 — Mapping Ephemeralities, Art & Cartography, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015 — DesignInquiry NO QUO, Vinalhaven, ME
2015 — Live interview at Cumulus, EuDesignRadio, Milan, Italy (with Joshua Singer)
2015 — Cumulus: The Virtuous Circle, Milan, Italy (with Joshua Singer)
2014 — GIS Day—Discovering the World through GIS, Champaign, IL
2014 — Re: the City, Humanities Center Symposium, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2014 — Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
2014 — SIGGRAPH 2014 Art Gallery Talks, Vancouver, Canada
2013 — New Paradigms in Teaching and Learning, AICAD Symposium, Baltimore, MD
2013 — Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
2013 — Praxis and Poetics: Research Through Design, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2013 — DesignInquiry Station, Vinalhaven, ME
2012 — Remaking Research, AICAD Symposium, Vancouver, Canada
2012 — DesignInquiry/Design City: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2012 — Texas State University San Marcos, San Marcos, TX
2011 — DesignInquiry: Make/Do, Vinalhaven, ME
2010 — College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL
2009 — College Art Association Conference | ARTspace, Los Angeles, CA
2008 — Southeastern College Art Conference, (presented with Stephanie Hutin), New Orleans, LA

Workshops + Learning
2022 — Generative Typography (workshop with Lynne Yun & Kevin Yeh), Type at Cooper, Cooper Union
2021 — Pattern and Animation with Python & Drawbot (workshop with Maurice Meilleur), Typographics Festival
2021 — Animating with Risographs (workshop with Kelli Anderson)
2021 — Artist-centred Platforms (workshop with Craig Fahner)
2021 — Python for Visual Designers (workshop with David Jonathan Ross), Type at Cooper
2021 — Creative Writing with Computation (workshop with Allison Parrish), Anderson Ranch Arts Center
2021 — Coding for Artists P5.js (workshop with Ari Melenciano), Anderson Ranch Arts Center
2019 — Blow-Up: Exploration and Discovery (workshop with Casey Reas), Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2018 — Animating Video with Code: Generative Cinema (workshop with Casey Reas), Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2016 — Text as Image, Type as Thought (workshop with Marianne Dages), Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

Grants
2024 — Dean’s Creative Research Award, University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG)
2023 — Dean’s Creative Research Award, UNCG
2022 — Dean’s Creative Research Award, UNCG
2021 — Dean’s Creative Research Award, UNCG
2021 — Faculty Research Leave, UNCG
2020 — Dean’s Creative Research Award, UNCG
2020 — Faculty Research Grant, UNCG
2019 — Faculty First Research Grant, UNCG
2019 — Dean’s Creative Research Award, UNCG
2018 — Dean’s Creative Research Award, UNCG
2017 — Dean’s Creative Research Award, UNCG
2016 — Work Study Scholarship, Penland School of Craft
2015 — Creative Research Award, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
2014 — Faculty Academic Development Fund, The University of the Arts (UARTS)
2012 — Faculty Research Semester Course Release, UARTS
2011 — Faculty Enrichment Grant, UARTS
2013 — Hatchfund Open Match Fund
2012 — Imagery Grant, The DigitalGlobe Foundation
2008 — Center for Humanities, Technology and Science, University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC)
2008 — Faculty Research Grant, UNCC
2007 — College of Arts and Sciences Small Grant, UNCC

Artist Residencies
2015 — DesignInquiry NoQuo, Vinalhaven, ME
2014 — DEPE Space—DesignInquiry, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
2014 — DesignInquiry DesignCity, Detroit, MI
2013 — DesignInquiry Station, Vinalhaven, ME
2012 — DesignInquiry DesignCity, Berlin, Germany
2011 — DesignInquiry Make/Do, Vinalhaven, ME
2007 — Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA

Graphic Design Experience
2023–present — Graphic Designer, College of Visual and Performing Arts, UNCG, Greensboro, NC
2023–present — Graphic Designer, School of Art, UNCG, Greensboro, NC
2023 — Graphic Designer, Ideas on Purpose, New York, NY
2021 — Graphic Designer, Leah Sobsey, Durham, NC
2020 — Graphic Designer, Tungsten Branding, Asheville, NC
2020 — Graphic Designer, LEA Studios, LLC, Durham, NC
2019 — Graphic Designer, Sheryl Oring, Greensboro, NC
2019 — Graphic Designer, Barbara Campbell Thomas, Greensboro, NC
2017 — Graphic Designer, Revolve/MAP, Asheville, NC
2015 — Graphic Designer, Kid Owned and Operated Play, Urbana, IL
2011 — Graphic Designer, Creative Director, Exhibition Co-Coordinator for Active Territory, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2011 — Graphic Designer, College of Media Arts and Communication, UARTS, Philadelphia, PA
2009 — Graphic Designer, College of Arts and Architecture, University of North Carolina Charlotte
2009 — Graphic Designer, Ron Johnson, Richmond, VA
2008 — Graphic Designer, Stephen Vitiello, Richmond, VA
2007 — Graphic Designer, Department of Sculpture + Extended Media, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2007 — Graphic Designer, Graduate Artists Association, VCU, Richmond, VA
2007 — Graphic Designer, Department of Kinetic Imaging, VCU, Richmond, VA

Community
AIGA, Member
College Art Association, Member
DesignInquiry, Member, Board of Directors
DesignInquiry, Participant
Letterform Archive, Member
New Media Caucus, Member
SIGGRAPH, Member
Type Directors Club, Member

Skills
Processing, p5.js, Python, Jupyter Notebook, Drawbot
HTML, CSS, Glitch, WordPress, Figma
Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffects, Premiere, Media Encoder, Acrobat)
Zoom, Slack, Microsoft Office, Keynote, Google Workspace

Languages
English (native)
German
French