Rainbow Machine Artefacts
Vitae
Educational Background
2004 M.F.A. Painting. Boston University. Boston, MA
2000 B.F.A. Painting; B.F.A. Jewelry and Metalsmithing. University of WI-Milwaukee
Exhibition Experience
2012 Unfinished, Effjay Projekts, Sheboygan, WI. Invitational.
Continuum, University of WI-Milwaukee, Union Gallery
Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Time Arts exhibition. Invitational.
Effjay Projekts, Obscura, Sheboygan, WI. Invitational.
Around 30, Present Music, visual and music arts ensemble ‘for the brightest, most inventive young
composers, musicians, designers, videographers, and visual artists’ in Milwaukee. Turner Hall.
MARN Gallery. MARNSalon IV, Photo and Time-Based Media, Milwaukee, WI. Invitational.
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center, Ploch Art Gallery. Brookfield, WI. Solo exhibition.
2011 Cedarburg Cultural Center. UWM Faculty Exhibition. Cedarburg, WI
University of WI-Milwaukee, Milwaukee: A City Intersected, Union Gallery, WI
Milwaukee Artist Resource Network Gallery, Things on Strings, WI. Invitational.
Milwaukee Artist Resource Network Gallery. Art Auction. WI. Invitational.
Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
2010 Horicon Marsh Education Center, Horicon, WI. Revisiting Landscape: The Natural and the Artificial
Arcadia University Art Gallery, Selections from the Hand Drawn Map Association, Glenside, PA
Faculty Exhibition. Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.
You Are Here – Mapping the Psychogeography of New York City, Pratt Manhattan Gallery.
New York, NY. Curated by Katharine Harmon, co-curated by Kris Harzinski
One Hour Photo. American University Museum Katzen Art Center, Washington, D.C.
Pecha Kucha event. Sculptural-Performance piece using PowerPoint. Bay View, WI.
S0niK Fest- Sonic Arts, New Media, and Performance. Climate/Gallery. Long Island, NY.
2009 The Plan is the Body. Group Exhibition. Big Chimney Gallery. Chicopee, MA
Tarrant County College District. Fort Worth, TX. Invitational. Curator: Joshua Goode
Phosphene. Group Video Installation. Invitational. Borg Ward Collective Gallery.
Milwaukee Art Museum. Group Exhibition in collaboration with PresentMusic Orchestra.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Installation for Peck School of the Arts Open House.
2008 Faculty Exhibition. Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.
Caestecker Gallery, Rodman Center for the Arts – Ripon College. Invitational. Ripon, WI.
Woodland Pattern Book Center. Milwaukee, WI. Invitational. Curator: Fahimeh Vahdat.
2007 Carillon Gallery, Fort Worth, TX. Invitational Printmaking Exhibition.
Bowery Gallery. New York, NY. Juror: John Walker.
2006 Continuum 5(0). Institute of Visual Arts (Inova). Milwaukee, WI. Jurors: Josie Osbourne, Graeme Reid of West Bend Art Museum, Bruce Knackert of Inova.
Faculty Exhibition. Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.
Summer Exhibition. Milwaukee Art Museum. Group Show.
2004 Artists Who Teach. Alumni Faculty in the Department of Visual Art. UW-Milwaukee.
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition. Boston University. 808 Gallery
Shift. Solo exhibition. Boston University. Commonwealth Art Gallery
2003 In the Summer. Cerra Space. Dallas, TX. Group Exhibition
The Copley Society of Boston. Boston, MA. Group Exhibition
2002 Artemesia Gallery. Chicago, IL. Solo Exhibition
2001 Emulsion - Four Painters and a Photographer. Milwaukee, WI. Group Exhibition
Schauer Arts and Activities Center. Hartford, WI. Group Exhibition
Eight Counties Exhibition. John Michael Kohler Art Center. Sheboygan, WI.
2000 Northern National Art Competition. Rhinelander, WI. Nicolet College
23rd Annual Viennese Ball. Hilton Hotel. Milwaukee, WI. Silent Auction
Ology. Union Gallery. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
1999 Erector Square Gallery. New Haven, CT. Juror: Andrew Forge. International Exhibition
Wisconsin Artists Biennial. Haggerty Museum of Art. Milwaukee, WI.
Institute of Visual Arts (inova) Gallery. Milwaukee, WI. Solo Exhibition
Publications
2011 - (publication of artwork and essay) RCP.MLK2000 – The Remix Issue, Random Culture Productions and
MasterList 2000; essay The Chimerian Man: Notes on a Remix Culture
2010 - From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association
Princeton Architectural Press, 1st Edition, edited by Kris Harzinski, p.92-93. (Publication of artwork)
- BookForum, Volume 17, Issue 2, “Utopia & Dystopia”, p. 22-23 (publication of artwork). Main essays written by Paul La Farge and Keith Gessen.
- Embodiment and Mass Communications: Cyber and Mechanistic Perceptions of the Body, p.172-180
‘Revolution: Technology as Change’ Proceedings Publication from the 12th Biennial Symposium for Arts and Technology, Published by the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, Connecticut College
2002 - New American Paintings, number 41. (2002 Midwest Competition)
Juror: Bill Arning, curator of the MIT List Center for Visual Arts
2001 - Milwaukee Orbit Newspaper, number 17 - page 5 review on “Emulsion” show, by Douglas Holst
- UWM Today, volume 3, number 2 - page 15 article by Jessica Lanke and Eric Lind
Public Presentations: Symposiums, Lectures, and Workshops
2012 Effjay Projekts, Artist Talk, “Cognitive Dissonance: Aesop, Experience, and Effect”
Sharon Lynn Wilson Center, Artist Talk, “Our Plastic Visage and The Rainbow Machine Complex”
Semiotics and the issue of Semiological Turmoil
2011 FATE Biennial, St. Louis, MO. Panel Chair: William Hosterman, Department of Art and Design at
Grand Valley State University. Panel Topic: Foundations and Media: Bringing the System On-Stream.
Panel Talk on ‘Remix Theory and Remix Culture’; Media culture studies as tripartite relevance: visual literacy education; fine arts ancillaries; and conditions of postmodern reflection, proposed presentation conflates them into one discourse with a focus on media ecology and remix theory within observational drawing pedagogy. Discussion will include Mash-ups with brief notes in literature and music videos.
2010 12th Biennial Symposium for Arts and Technology, Ammerman Center, Connecticut College,
Lecture Talk on “Embodiment and Mass Communications: Cyber and Mechanistic Perceptions of the Body”;
published essay on historicity of communications media and their cultural effects
2008 Presentation of Work and Artist Talk, “Swarm Intelligence and Superstructures”. Ripon College.
Presentation of Work and Artist Talk, “Swarm Intelligence and Superstructures”. UW-Milwaukee Open House
2006-07 Bobby Digital: Self-Portraiture in the 21st Century Drawing Workshop.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Cross-platform, mixed media processes engaged interactivity between
traditional drawing and painting methods with contemporary visualization techniques and technological printing methods.
2005 Drawing and Painting as Language - Figurative Inspiration Workshop.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Conventional drawing methods reconfigured in unconventional, non-sequential
approaches, shifting into painting dialogues to encourage cross-platform interests within the paradigm of observed reality
with the human figure in experiential space.
Professional Experience
2004-present University of WI-Milwaukee - Associate Lecturer
Drawing: I, II, and Guest Critic for Advanced
Figure Drawing & Anatomy: Intro, Intermediate, and Advanced
2-D Concepts (for Visual Art Majors)
2-D Design Strategies (for Arts & Technology Majors)
Painting I
2012-present University of WI-Whitewater - Associate Lecturer
Drawing: I
2006-‘11 Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design - Instructor
Understanding the Visual I & II (hybrid course on Visual Culture studies, Critiquing Skills, & Portfolio)
Drawing I
Visual Dynamics 2 – Honors Course
Painting: I and II
Advanced/Intermediate Figure Painting
2002-’04 Boston University - Teaching Assistant
Drawing: I & II
Advanced Drawing
Anatomy Drawing
Awards and Grants
2011 Academic Staff Professional Development Award funding: lecture presentation, FATE conference, St Louis, MO
2003 Boston University. Merit Scholarship
Boston University. Constatin Alajalov Scholarship
Boston University. Graduate Assistantship
Robert Brooks Memorial Scholarship
2002 Boston University. Constatin Alajalov Scholarship
Boston University. Graduate Assistantship
2001 Visual Arts Milwaukee! (VAM!) and The Milwaukee Arts Board grant for the group
exhibition “Emulsion”
2000 Northern National Art Competition. Donor’s Award
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Rora Beck Art Scholarship
1999 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Art Department Scholarship
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Rora Beck Art Scholarship
1994 University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Art Department Scholarship
Research/Activities/Outreach
-Research and essays on mass communication, mass media, and digitality and their cultural effects on societies. www.valadez.pbworks.com
-Established Classroom without Walls, an online public collaborative project designed to cross geographical and institutional barriers, opening up pedagogy and visual projects to public interface. www.classroomwowalls.pbworks.com.
-Established a Facebook component to Classroom without Walls, to explore social media as pedagogy and as artistic process
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