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JEFF THOMPSON
Assistant Professor of Digital Arts + New Genres, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA | mail [at] jeffreythompson [dot] org
EDUCATION
MFA: Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of Art, 2006
BFA: Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), 2004
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Assistant Professor of Digital Arts + New Genres
University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Teaching courses from introductory to advanced in video and sound art, creative programming, 3d modeling and digital fabrication, data visualization, web design, and related areas. Developed curriculum and facilities for new courses of study in New Genres (within the Art Department) and Digital Arts (within the interdisciplinary Digital Arts Initiative). Served on department and college committees for curriculum development, strategic planning, technology planning, and the department executive committee. -
Adjunct Professor of Digital Art and Video
Montclair State University; Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Taught and assisted in developing introductory and intermediate courses in video, both for narrative production and video art. -
Professor and mentor
Transart Institute MFA Program; Linz, Austria
Taught seminars titled “Transformative Practice” (performance within the context of the everyday) and “Expanded Remix” (interdisciplinary exploration of remix across media and history). Mentor graduate students throughout the year. -
Instructor
3rd Ward; Brooklyn, New York, USA
Developed and taught courses in woodworking and furniture design, digital media (Photoshop, Illustrator), and musical instrument building. -
Teaching Assistant (teacher of record)
Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of Art; New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
2009-PRESENT
2008-2009
2006-2007
2006-2009
2004-2006
EXPERTISE
- Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, Acrobat, file preparation for digital and offset printing
- Adobe Dreamweaver, HTML5, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Wordpress
- Processing, Arduino, Max/MSP/Jitter, Python, Java, Bash, game physics and interaction
- Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, DVD authoring, DSLR workflow, compression for web
- GarageBand, Audacity, stereo and multi-channel audio, studio and field recording
- RhinoCAD, Google SketchUp, mesh cleanup and file preparation for 3d printing and laser-cutting
- Physical computing/sensor design (Arduino), Eagle CAD, maintenance of digital printers
- Extensive experience with wood- and metal-working for functional and sculptural projects, musical instrument and interface design, comfortable with basic casting and foundry
DESIGN
WEB
PROGRAMMING
VIDEO
AUDIO
3D
OTHER
FABRICATION
AWARDS, FUNDING, and RESIDENCIES
- Research Council Grant-in-Aid (2013)
$6,500 for the production of a large-scale text/sculpture project
University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts Creative Research and Travel Grants (2009-2013)
Grants totaling over $20,000 for creative work and travel - Nebraska Research Initiatives (2012)
Grant through the Holland Computing Center, co-investigator on a $2 million grant, $10,000 of which will be used to create a public artwork for the Center - Artist-in-Residence at the Holland Computing Center (2009-present)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln; ongoing work in collaboration with supercomputing facilities
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA - Van Lier Fellowship (2008)
Harvestworks; New York, New York, USA - Dispatx.com (2007)
Commission for new video works - Department of Safety Artist-in-Residence (2007)
Anacortes, Washington, USA - Elsewhere Artist Collaborative
Artist-in-Residence: 2007 and 2009 (with Angeles Cossio)
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA - Vermont Studio Center (2006)
Nadine Goldsmith Fellowship; Johnson, Vermont, USA - VanDerlip Travel Award (2004)
Minneapolis College of Art and Design; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
PUBLICATIONS
- Boston Globe's "Brainiac" blog, "Every Possible Photograph That Could Ever Exist", February 27, 2013
- Creator’s Project, “Artist Jeff Thompson Aims to Create Every Possible Photograph Conceivable”, February 12, 2013
- PetaPixel, “Exhibition Uses A Computer To Generate Every Possible Photograph”, February 7, 2013
- Gizmodo, “Eventually This Mind-Bending Exhibit Would Brute Force Every Possible Image”, February 7, 2013
- Wired.co.uk, “Art Project Will Create Every Possible Digital Photo”, February 7, 2013
- WAD Magazine, “10000 Pixels”, February 17, 2012
- Brooklyn Rail, March 2009
- Activa, Issue 36, 2008, pg. 70
- BARM, Vol. 4, 2007
- Synapse - Sound Edition, Vol. 3, 2007
- Daily Targum, Vol. 137, No. 86, February 9, 2006
- Sculpture Magazine Vol. 24, October 2004
LECTURES/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Transmission and Openness: Strategies for the Geographically and Economically Disadvantaged
Panel discussant on innovation in academic galleries
FATE Conference 2013; Savannah, Georgia, USA - TEDxUNL
Talk about art, supercomputers, and cultural data
Sheldon Museum of Art; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA - Data, Poetics, and Supercomputers
Panel discussant at “Changing Paradigms: Art and Technology”
SECAC Conference 2011; Savannah, Georgia, USA - Data as Medium
Panel chair, College Art Association Annual Conference, 2011
New York, New York, USA - Art Exhibition Reviewer
Siggraph Asia Conference 2009 - Data as a Creative Visual Medium
Panel discussion chair
Harvestworks; New York, New York, USA - College Art Association 2008
Panel discussant on contemporary sound art
Dallas, Texas, USA - Texas Firehouse Gallery and Performance Space
Co-founder and director (2007-2009)
Long Island City, New York, USA - Artist Talks:
Harvestworks; New York, New York, USA; part of the New York Electronic Arts Festival
University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
University of North Texas; Denton, Texas, USA
Hartford School of Art; Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Webster College; St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Essex Community College; Newark, New Jersey, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
- Seam Sorting (2013)
LEVEL Gallery, Lawrence Technological University; Detroit, Michigan, USA - n/En- (2012)
Drift Station Gallery; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA - Glistening Waves (2011)
Harvestworks; New York City, New York, USA - Lamination (2008)
Local Project; Long Island City, New York, USA - Wavering Cedar and 100,000 Blades of Grass (2007)
Department of Safety; Anacortes, Washington, USA - Recording Exchange (2006)
Collaborative mail-art/music project with Dispatx.com and performance for eight electric guitars
Hogar Collection Gallery; Brooklyn, New York, USA - 8,000 Breakfasts (2006)
Elsewhere Artist Collaborative; Greensboro, North Carolina, USA - Amplification (2006)
Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University; New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
- Creativity + Technology = Enterprise
$7,500 in grant funding in collaboration with Harvestworks and the Industrial and Technology Assistance Corporation (NYC) to fund the production of haptic and non-visual games for mobile devices - Rhizome.org Commission
Project exploring the use of computers through the 20-year run of the television show Law & Order - Turbulence Commission
Project using my entire photographic library and AutoCAD’s 123dCatch software -
Code Conference: Media, Games, and Art
Swinburne University of Technology; Melbourne, Australia - 10th Annual Piksel Festival
Bergen, Norway - Transceiver
Curated with Angeles Cossio
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art; Omaha, Nebraska, USA - Redact/Froth/Expand/Smash/Stitch: New Video Works
Co-organized with Sharon Kennedy (Sheldon Museum of Art)
Sheldon Museum of Art; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA - WATCH IT!
Taubman Museum of Art; Roanoke, Virginia - Performance at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art
Live audio performance for electric guitar, laptop, and two custom-built 22' and 70' guitars
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art; Omaha, Nebraska, USA - Performance at Not Festival
Live audio/visuals via Skype
New York City, New York, USA - BYOB Linz (Bring Your Own Beamer)
grrrilla galleries; Linz, Austria - The Poetics of Data
Essay series on LemonHound.com - {SØNIK}
Festival
Bronx Art Space; New York City, New York, USA - One Night Stand (part of the “The Dissolve” biennial)
SITE Santa Fe; Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA - Sounding Landscapes
Curated by Eric Powell
Shu-box Theatre, University of Regina; Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada - The Product of Exchange
Curated by Wyatt Nash
Sudhaus; Berlin, Germany - New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
Curated by Zachary Seldess
Graduate Center, City University of New York; New York, New York, USA - Wyatt Nash and Jeff Thompson
Local Project; Long Island City, New York, USA - Reduplication of the Real
Tactile Bosch Gallery; Cardiff, Wales - 13th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA
Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina; Novi Sad, Serbia - Kunstfilmtag
Malkasten Theater; Düsseldorf, Germany - … a very loud silence
Curated by Avantika Bawa; Le Flash; Atlanta, Georgia, USA - Academia Invitational
Museum of Nebraska Art; Kearney, Nebraska, USA - Stored and Filtered: Technology, Time, and Landscape
Texas Firehouse; Long Island City, New York, USA - Investigations of Place
Jersey City Museum; Jersey City, New Jersey, USA - Material Reciprocity
Possible Projects; Brooklyn, New York, USA - Resonance in Residence
Collaborative exhibition with my sound installation class
3rd Ward Gallery; Brooklyn, New York, USA - Dis-Echo-Nance
Hunter College Times Square Gallery; New York, New York, USA - Altered Landscapes
Salisbury University Electronic Gallery; Salisbury, Maryland, USA - Transart Institute Faculty Exhibition
BV Gallery; Linz, Austria - Music Reclamation Project
Hogar Collection Gallery; Brooklyn, New York, USA - Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art
Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - Performance for Oranges
White Box Gallery; New York, New York, USA - Re-Surfacing
Hopkins Hall Gallery
Ohio State University; Columbus, Ohio, USA - All the Kings Horses
Asterix Gallery; Cleveland, OH - SoundLab - Memoryscapes
Al Kahf Art Gallery; Bethlehem, Palestine
Contemporary Art Museum; Casoria/Naples, Italy
Museo Arte Contemporaneo; Santa Fe, Argentina
Offizyna Art Space; Szczencin, Poland - The Whole is the Sum of Its Parts
Hogar Collection; Brooklyn, New York, USA - Stolen Time
Dam Stuhltrager; Brooklyn, New York, USA - Fresh Meat/Young Blood
Shore Institute for Contemporary Art; Long Branch, New Jersey, USA - Crossed Circuits
Performance at Hogar Collection; Brooklyn, New York, USA - First Look
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts; Summit, New Jersey, USA - Diagram and Scribble Archives
Stony Brook University Gallery; Stony Brook, New York, USA Spectrum: Works on Paper
Hogar Collection; Brooklyn, New York, USA - Sight/Sound: New Performance
Rutgers University; New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA - Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper (RCIPP) Exhibition
Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University; New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA - ISC 2004 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture
Grounds for Sculpture; Hamilton, New Jersey, USA - Box Fresh
Soap Factory; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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2005
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WRITING
- Wikipedia Loops
Paper on a project visualizing the structure of the Wikipedia corpus
Leonardo Electronic Almanac, MIT Press (2013) - What I See When My Eyes Are Closed
Paper on data visualization and poetics
Parsons Journal for Information Mapping; New York, New York, USA (2012) - Emergency Index
Work included in this book documenting contemporary performance
Ugly Duckling Presse; New York, New York, USA (2012) - Data and Poetics
A series of posts exploring the relationship of data and poetry
LemonHound blog (2011)
COLLECTIONS
New York Public Library; New York, New York, USA
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University; New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper Collection; New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Wexford Art Centre Artist Book Collection; Wexford, Ireland
DISCOGRAPHY
“Power/Field” compilation; Anarchy Moon Recordings, curated by Bob Bellerue, 2010
“Wavering Spruce and 100,000 Blades of Grass”; self-released, 2008
“Winter Recordings”; self-released, 2006
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
- FieldGuide
Publication of a practical handbook for starting and artist-run space
Drift Station; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA - Bookstore
Exhibition of nearly 1,200 artist books, zines, and other print publications
Drift Station; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA - 10,000 Pixels
International online exhibition of works exploring extreme limitation
Art Micro-Patronage, online - Chopped & Stretched
Curated with Angeles Cossio; including limited edition compilation CD
Drift Station; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA - mailto:
Curated with Angeles Cossio
Drift Station; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA - Indoor/Outdoor
Film screening, curated with Angeles Cossio
Drift Station; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA - Find & Replace
Drift Station; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA - Redacted Perfection
Curated with Angeles Cossio
Drift Station; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA - Work Makes the Work
Eisentrager Howard Gallery; University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA - Instructions for Initial Conditions
Curated with Angeles Cossio and Marissa Vigneault
Drift Station; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA - Live Soundtracks
Curated with Angeles Cossio and Marissa Vigneault
Drift Station; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA - Stored & Filtered: Time, Technology, and the Landscape
Texas Firehouse Gallery; Long Island City, New York, USA