Born: Berkeley, California Nationality: USA Addresses: P.O. Box 53, New York, N.Y. 10012 - Phone: 917.861.5002 P.O. Box 5262, Charlottesville, VA 22905 - Phone: 434.973.6160 Email: [email protected] Website: www.takeit.us 2005 Selected New Video Works The Way of Dance: Lin Lee-chen & the Legend Lin Dance Theater - Taiwan (70:00, Color) Niagara Falls, Short Video Documentary - New York (10:30, Color) Shave, Video - New York (3:00, B&W) Washington Square, Video and Digital Effects - New York (1:12, B&W) Valentina, Sound, Video and Digital Effects - New York & Virginia (1:54, Color) 14 Seconds, Video - New York (0:15, Color) TiredAngryHurt - Video and Digital Effects - Taiwan (0:32, Color) The Tea Gardens of Taiwan - Video Documentary - Taiwan (58:00, Color) Vassar College Dancers - Video Documentary - New York (20:00, Color) 2006 Scheduled Video & Film Works The Writer, 1-Minute Film - Video and 16mm, B&W The Fourth Son, a performance piece with one actor - Theater Performance, Video & 35mm Film 2005 Exhibitions, Events, Talks & Readings Reading, Cornelia Street Café, New York City - January 2005 Informal Talks with Film and Design Students, Fujan Catholic University, Taiwan - May 2005 Digital Photography Exhibition, TAV, Taiwan - May 2005 Digital Filming of Brooklyn Shorts, New York - August 2005 Digital Filming of Sophie Hong Fashion Show, New York Fashion Week - September 2005 Participant, World Trade Center Memorial Museum Program Workshop - September 2005 Digital Photography Published, The Oolong Teas of Taiwan, TEA magazine - Autumn 2005 "Fred Ott's Sneeze," Film Exhibition, Center for the Arts in Society, Pittsburgh - October 2005 Artist Talk, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University - October 2005 Sophie Hong Fashion Videos Exhibited, International Conference on Innovation & Creativity in Popular Culture, National Taiwan University - December 2005 Ocularis at Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, New York - December 2005 Selected Awards 2005 Artist-in-Residence, Taiwan, ??????? - Taipei Artist Village (Selected from 150 International Artists) Virginia Commonwealth University Award for "Things Come to Pass" Artist-in-Residence, VCCA 2005 Publications, Papers, Journals "The Coming Arts Renaissance in Taipei (?)", POTS, a Chinese-English publication, Taiwan "Harvesting Time: Edison, Einstein, Eisenstein & Beyond," Center for the Arts in Society, PA "The Oolong Teas of Taiwan," TEA magazine "Enrichment Beyond Measure," Guilford Magazine "The Cutting Edge: Masochism and Self-Laceration in American Film & Video" English Co-editor, 2004 TAV Annual Report, Taiwan 2006 Publications, Papers, Journals "Ear to the Wall: Sound, Cinema and Installation Art" Book Chapter, [im]Permanence: Cultures in/out of Time, Carnegie Mellon University Miro on Ice, book (publication forthcoming - with agents now) Selected Prior Publications Washington Post, Los Angeles Daily News, Princeton Spectrum, Friends Journal, Taiwan press Selected Past Readings, Lectures & Talks Governor's Advisory Group on Film Virginia Film Festival Panelist - Novelists in Film - Virginia Book Festival University of Virginia Screenwriting Class Reading - Virginia Commonwealth University Reading - VCCA (in collaboration with other Visual Artists) Workshops, talks & readings in Schools on both East and West Coast Professional Memberships & Associations Rhizome The Dramatists Guild of America The Writers' Room, An Urban Arts Colony, New York Dance Theatre Workshop, New York Dance Film Association, New York I.F.P., Independent Feature Project, New York Former Board Member, McGuffy Arts Center William Morris Society 2005 Collaborators Lin Lee-chin and the Legend Lin Dance Theater, Taiwan Natasha Kouri, Performance, New York Sophie Hong, Fashion Designer, Asia/New York/Paris Coppe', Musician, Tokyo Valentina Garcia, Actress, New York Sarah Burns, Actress, New York Jen Arvay, Actress & Dancer, New York. Rogan Brothers, Rock Musicians, Southern U.S. Education Bachelors, Honors in Philosophy, Guilford College: 1976 " Richardson Fellow " Study Abroad: London & Paris Masters, Philosophy and Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary: 1980 " Numerous Merit Scholarships Doctoral Studies, Philosophy, Arts & Theology, University of Virginia: 1992-3 " DuPont Fellowship Languages - Various Proficiencies German, French, Ancient Greek, Conversational Mandarin Chinese Representation Jon Levin, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Los Angeles Film Distributor The Film-Makers' Cooperative c/o The Clocktower Gallery 108 Leonard Street, 13th Floor New York, NY 10013 http://www.takeit.us