online portfolio: http://GARhodes.com
EDUCATION
York University, Toronto, Ontario; Fulbright Scholar in Residence, PhD
Candidate, Department of Communication & Culture 〞 2005-2008
State University of New York at Buffalo, Dept. Media Study: Master of
Fine Arts, Media Arts Production 〞2002-05
University of Washington, Honors Bachelors of Arts, Italian Literature
〞 1991-96
TEACHING / RESEARCH
Future Cinema Lab, Department of Film, York University, Augmented
Reality Project Manager, Summer 2007 〞 current
Advanced Film Production, SUNY Buffalo, Adjunct Instructor, Spring 2008.
Film Video Hybrids, Dept. Media Study, SUNY Buffalo, Adjunct Faculty,
Fall 2007
Future Cinema Workshop, Dept. Media Study, SUNY Buffalo, Adjunct
Faculty, Spring 2007
Film & Society, Dept. Social Sciences, York University, Seminar
Instructor, Fall 每 Winter 2007-08
New Technology & Social Change, Dept. Social Sciences, York University,
Seminar Instructor, Fall 每 Winter 2007-08
Video Analysis, Dept. Media Study, SUNY Buffalo, Graduate
Co-Instructor, Fall 2004
Basic Video Production, Dept. Media Study, SUNY Buffalo, Graduate
Instructor, Fall 2002每Spring 2004
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY: solo media installation show, 2008
Blue Room, Open Video Project, Solo screening exhibition, Rome, March,
2007
Albright Knox Art Galley, Buffalo, NY; multi-channel film screening
"Tesseract" 每 11/06
Shikenader Theatre/ ＆Body Bilder＊ show, video installation, 'Mirror',
Vienna, Austria, 6/2006
Film Studies Association of Canada, Toronto, featured ＆future cinema＊
artist: augmented reality art installations ＆3-Card Psycho＊ and ＆
Before, During, & After＊ 每 5/2006
Rochester Contemporary Art Gallery, solo screening exhibition, 4/2006.
TopKino Theatre, Vienna; multi-channel film screening, "Tesseract"〞
11/05
Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY; solo multi-channel installation, "Tesseract
Windows" 9/2005
Buffalo Summer Film Institute, Buffalo, NY, Featured Filmmaker
"Tesseract"〞7/05
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, film screening, "Tesseract"
〞4/05
GROUP SHOWS
Split Film Festival, Croatia, 2007
Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland Institute of the Arts, 2007
Moscow International Film Festival, 2007
Chelsea Art Museum, Perpetual Art Machine special selection, 2007.
Vox Populi Gallery, Particulate. Philadelphia Pennsylvania, 2007
EMAF, European Media Arts Festival, Osnabr邦ck, Germany- 2007
Richmond Center Art Galleries, Ritual and Repetition, W. Michigan
University 2007
Perpetual Art Machine, contributor to video installation 2006-08
Scope Miami 每 Miami Florida
2nd Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art
Salone del Mobile - Milan Italy
Mudima Fondazione, Open Video Projects, Milan, Italy, 2007.
Reinberger Gallery, The Cleveland Institute of Arts, Sound Needs Image,
2006
LumpWest Gallery, Particulate, Eugene Oregon, 2006
Slade Research Center, London, Interval (2), screening "Metonymy and
Multichannel" 3/2006
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Resolutions, video screening,
"Scopophilia" 2006.
OMSK Film!Video!Performance!Sound
Masked Marvel" and "Great Success"〞4/06
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Termite TV (as performer), 2005
Carnegie Arts Center, Buffalo, Sound Needs Image show, multi-channel
screening, "Leaving"--2005
Jutro Filmu, Warsaw, Poland; awarded Best Photography, "Tesseract"〞4/05
Syracuse International Film Festival, NY, "Tesseract"〞4/05
International Surrealist Film Festival, New York "Great Success"〞4/04
Images Festival, Toronto, 2004 film screening, "Great Success".
2004 US Super 8 Film + Video Festival, Rutgers University, NJ:
Honorable Mention "Great Success".
Video Mundi, Chicago, film screening, "Great Success" 4/04
Burchfield Penny Arts Centre, Buffalo, NY; "24/48", video contributor -
2004
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, The Kamikaze Collective,
film screening, "Timecodes"〞2/03
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
International Symposium on Electronic Art, paper: " Approaching a
Material for Expression in the Aesthetics of New Media"; National
University of Singapore 2008.
International Symposium on Electronic Art, artist's presentation: "52
Card Psycho - Re-Imagining Cinema"; National University of Singapore
2008.
Politics: Web 2.0: an international conference, paper: "Selfploitation:
participatory pornography in web 2.0"; University of London, 2008
Latitude Fifty3, journal article: "Roses and Easier Flowers:
contemporary makeover culture", vol. 8: 3, 2007.
Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts conference 2006, NYC,
presenter: Made Over in America: Cosmetic Surgery, New Media, and
Celebrity 每 11/2006
Albright Knox Art Galley, Buffalo, NY, screening and ＆slide talk＊ 每
11/2006
University Southern California, screening & panel discussion of
documentary film work-in-progress, Made Over In America: contemporary
surgical beauty culture 每 10/2006
Interval (2): film can help us think though, conference 2006, The Slade
Research Center, London, presenter of video essay: Metonymy and
Multichannel.
publication (artist review in catalogue): "I look and I choose,"
co-authored with Prof. Bernadette Wegenstein, in Gabi Trinkaus "Works,"
Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna. 2006.
Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference 2006, panelist
presenting on: "The Flesh Image: Plastic Surgery and the Body as
Interface to the Image"
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts conference 2005, panelist
presenting on: "Reality Television's Extreme Makeover and the Beauty
Image Complex"
Interval (1): film can help us think through, conference, SUNY Buffalo,
screening presenter, moderator〞11/05
Metonymy and Multichannel, an analysis of split screen and
multi-windowed media environments in terms of image semiotics, and
multiplicities of durations: dissertation for Masters of Fine Arts,
SUNY Buffalo 每 6/05
War and Media conference, SUNY Buffalo, performer/presenter〞11/03
AWARDS
Health & Science Communications Media Festival 每 Bronze Award - 2008
Princess Grace Special Projects Award 〞 07
Niagara Council for the Arts/ Carnegie Arts Center Video re-Grant 〞
2004 and 2007
Fulbright Scholar Award, Canada 〞 05-06
"Best Film," Lancaster Arts Festival, NY; Award: for "Tesseract"〞9/05
"Best Photography," Jutro Filmu film festival, Warsaw, Poland; for
"Tesseract"〞4/05
Princess Grace Foundation, Film Production Award 〞03-04
EMPLOYMENT
Center for Development of Human Services, Video Producer for NY State
Child Welfare Services〞8/04-5/05
Squeaky Wheel Community Arts Organization, Video Editing Instructor, 〞
10/04-8/05
The Quill, the Graduate Student Magazine, SUNY Buffalo: Editor〞
9/03-7/04
SoundLab & Formula Gallery, Buffalo; Rough & Ready Media Installation
series: Curator/Organizer-03-04
The Tacoma Museum of Glass, WA: Video Documentary Editor, Producer〞
3/02-8/02
Un-Labeled Records, Seattle, WA: Audio Engineer〞1/98-11/99
Eyes Like Mars, Seattle, WA, a popular garage jazz band: Composer,
Pianist, Vocalist〞 6/95-1/99