CURRICULUM VITAE for JULIAN H. SCAFF

EDUCATION

September 2004 - July 2006 / Dutch Art Institute - Enschede, Netherlands
M.F.A. Degree in Public Art

September 1995 - June 1997 / UCLA - Los Angeles, California
M.A. Degree in Film and Television Critical Studies

September 1990 - June 1994 / Pitzer College - Claremont, California
B.A. Degree in Video Studies and Comparative Literature

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

March 2009 - present
Webster University - Leiden, Netherlands
Head of Department of Media Communications (department chair), responsible for hiring and managing adjunct faculty, advising students, planning curriculum and course schedule, and setting the overall vision for the department.

August 2006 - present
Webster University - Leiden, Netherlands
Adjunct Faculty in the department of Media Communications, teaching courses in visual design, video, and sound, theory and practice.

September 2006 - June 2007
TAUW - Deventer, Netherlands
Documentary Filmmaker and Artist for a research project on the environmental and cultural impacts of the A1 motorway in the Netherlands.

May 2002 - August 2003
University of Southern California - Los Angeles, California
eLearning Web Designer responsible for art direction and UI design for adapting university courses to online courses, taught workshops in digital design and supervised student RA's.

January 1999 - January 2002
Monster.com / JobTrak.com (JobTrak was acquired by Monster in November, 2000.) - Los Angeles, California
Hypermedia Design Director responsible for UI design, website usability metrics, and liason between creative and technical teams.

January 1998 - August 2001
Claremont Information Technology Institute (CITI) - Claremont, Calfornia
New Media Research Associate responsible for overseeing the design of new media projects and instructing graduate students at the Claremont Graduate University.

January 1996 - June 1997 / UCLA Department of Film and Television
Teaching assistant, taught lab sections for digital moviemaking and web authoring courses.

January 1995 - present / The Population Press - Redlands, California
Art Director for non-profit print and online publication on issues of population and sustainability.

SELECTED SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS

January 2010 (planned) / Arto Nivo Gallery, Bruges, Belgium
"Hands of Aeolus" group show of landart works made in Crete, Greece. Concept by Julian H. Scaff, curated by Fernand Callebert, participating artists TBA.

March 21, 2009 / Effusion: Movement Through Urban Space, Utrecht, Netherlands
A live video and music performance at Monument House, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Video by Julian H. Scaff and Jeroen van Westen, piano works composed by Heleen Verleur, music performed by Anne Ku.

March 12, 2009 / New Eyes on Landscape, Beirut, Lebanon
Exhibition of "New Eyes On Landscape" video works and guest lecture at Zico House contemporary art gallery.

January 14 - February 14, 2009 / A12 Project, Utrecht, Netherlands
Documentary film and video art installation titled "A12NU" in collaboration with Jeroen van Westen commissioned by the Gemeente Utrecht. The project documents the changing relationship between the cities of Utrecht and Nieuwegein with the A12 motorway, the main canal, and new real estate developments.
Stichting A12NU: http://www.a12nu.nl/
Architecturrcentrum AORTA: http://www.aorta.nu/

May, 2008 / Kunst Vlaai (Art Pie International), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Exhibition of my audio sculpture series "Radio Obscura", scavenged 1970's shortwave radios rewired with MP3 players that play radio programs I produced in Beirut, like artifacts from war.
http://www.kunstvlaai.nl/2008/

January-February 2008 / Gallery Artonivo, Bruges, Belgium
Exhibition of a series of land art videos that I produced on the island of Crete, Greece, as well as my digital photomontage "Levka Ori Palette" and book "Levka Ori Venturi Towers" that reconceptualizes landscape, public art and renewable energy for Crete.
http://www.artonivo.be/

September - November, 2007 / Tanzquartier and Museum of Modern Art (MUMUK) Vienna
Produced video art in conjunction with experimental music by Felix Kubin and dance choreography by Camilla Milena Fehér. Performance titled "Ich will aufwårts. Ich will abwårts" ("I want to go up. I want to go down.") deconstructs a contemporary society that is reliant upon endless operating instructions to create meaning between function, use and cultural interface.
http://www.tqw.at/

September, 2007 / Natural History Museum Rotterdam and WiMBY Rotterdam
Produced video art installation and performance for an exhibition titled "Wachten op Vogels" ("Awaiting the Birds") in collaboration with artists Jeroen van Westen and Michael Pestel. Performance explored theme of invasive species brought by climate change.

June, 2007 / "Here As the Center of the World" at the Villa de Bank, Enschede, Netherlands
Exhibited art radioworks derived from radio program "Take Me With You To Hamra Street" produced in Beirut, Lebanon in 2006. Sound played from a 1960's era shortwave radio made into a sculptural object. Show curated by James Beckett.
http://www.dutchartinstitute.nl/
http://www.zoopraxiscope.com/rad_hamra.html

April, 2007 / Scheltma Kunstefestival, Leiden, Netherlands
Exhibited art videos "Tecopa" about the site of an Indian massacre in the California desert and "Gunfighter" about the mythology of violence in the American psyche.
http://www.scheltmacomplex.nl/

April, 2007 / Tauw - Deventer, Netherlands
Exhibited film "Breukvlak" - an art film/documentary about the cultural and environmental impacts of the A1 motorway that connects Amsterdam with eastern Europe.

June, 2006 / 103.7FM "Voice of the People" - Beirut, Lebanon
Broadcast 1-hour radio art show titled "Take Me With You to Hamra Street" - an audio journey into the ecology of a city street in Beirut. Collaboration with Raed Yassin and Iris Tenkink.

May, 2006 / Grote Markt - Nijmegen, Netherlands
Displayed public/landscape artwork titled "Piles of Dirt" - rural materiality invades the urban space. Also a performance for my film "Piles of Dirt."

May, 2006 / Epsilonia Festival Radiophonique - Paris, France
Broadcast 45-minute radio art show titled "The Days Are Broken" about landscapes - http://epsilonia.free.fr/

April 17, 2006, 19:00 / ResonanceFM - London, UK
Broadcast 60-minute radio art show titled "Bob Recon's Extreme Frequency Café"
http://www.resonancefm.com/listings/20060417.html

February 2006 / Film is Dead Festival - Los Angeles, California
Showed two films at this festival: "Genomatica" directed by myself and Vitto Valentinov, and "The Many Faces of Julian H. Scaff" directed under the name Bob Recon.
Film is (still) Dead 2006: http://www.digitalartsinstitute.org/post-cinematic/filmisdead06.html

December 2005 / Planet Art - Enschede, Netherlands
Showed the film "Genomatica" as part of the group show BIMRAB 2 - http://www.planetart.nl/

September 2005 / Yranigami Gallery - Kauai, Hawaii
Showed my film "The Many Faces of Julian H. Scaff" (under the name Bob Recon) at this show of digital art cinema. http://yranigami.4t.com/dartcinema.html

September 2005 / W139 Gallery - Amsterdam, Netherlands
At the group exhibition titled "Big Mouth Radio Beam" I showed a short film I made with Vitto Valentinov titled "Genomatica". I also hosted a live radio broadcast of the show for the radio station ResonanceFM in London. - http://www.resonancefm.com/listings/20050929.html

August 2005 / InterMock Film Festival - Fresno, California
Showed my film "The Cosmodrome Futurists" at this international mockumentary and parody film festival: http://intermock.netfirms.com/2005.html

April 2005 / Radio Days - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Broadcast radio adaptation of "The Cosmodrome Futurists" and a re-edited version of "Music for Extreme Frequencies" for this art radio festival. http://www.radiodays.org/program.php?day=23

March 2005 / Pantentamt Futurismus - Hengelo, Netherlands
Showing of my film "The Cosmodrome Futurists" at an exhibition of futurist-inspired artworks organized by Felix Kubin and John Heymans. http://www.zoopraxiscope.com/futurist/

November 2004 / Focus Gallery - online
Group show utilizing digital generation and manipulation as an art form.
http://tomrchambers.com/index-145.html

October 2004 / Frieze Art Festival - London, UK
Broadcast "Music for Extreme Frequencies" radio sound work on ResonanceFM as part of the Frieze Art Festival. A collaboration with Paul Segers. http://www.friezeartfair.com/

September 2004 / Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts
"Snap to Grid" Group show http://www.lacda.com/exhibits/snaptogrid.html

August 2004 / InterFACES: International New Media Arts Group Exhibition
Raffles LaSalle International Design School - Bangkok, Thailand
http://culturebase.org/home/nexus/interfaces/

RECENT PUBLICATIONS, GUEST LECTURES & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

August, 2009 / Levka Ori: "Hands of Aeolus" in Crete, Greece
Guest project director and conceptual author for the Levka Ori artist-in-residency. Will lead an interdisciplinary group of 10 artists in creating landart works responding to or in dialogue with wind.

June-July, 2009 / External Examiner for an MFA Thesis at the Dutch Art Institute
Served as an external examiner for the MFA thesis of Hidenori Mitsue, a painting student at the Dutch Art Institute in Enschede, The Netherlands. The thesis is titled "The Eternal Ambiguity of Japan."

April 16, 2009 / Guest lecture at Kunstliefde, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Delivered a guest lecture on contemporary interdisciplinary video and landart practices. Viewed and gave critical commentary on the works of arists-in-residence at the Kunstliefde.

March 13, 2009 / Guest lecture at the Lebanese International University, Beirut, Lebanon
Deliverd a guest lecture on the new aesthetics of digital mobile cinema to upper division students in the Communication Arts Department.

August, 2008 / Levka Ori: "Archaeology of the Imagination" in Crete, Greece
Guest project director for the Levka Ori artist-in-residency and guest lectures at the Paleochora Museum. With the theme I propose to explore the language of archaeology as a way to investigate culture and land art. Project will culminate in the production of an art documentary film and book publication.

January 2008 / Publication: "Levka Ori Venturi Towers"
An art publication of text and images proposing a landscape art approach to renewable energy. Publication launched and sold through the Arto Nivo Gallery, Bruges, Belgium.

August 2007 / Levka Ori Creative Encounters Artists Meeting in Crete, Greece
Invited as a participant for this artist-in-residency exploring mediations of landscape with a highly interdisciplinary group of artists and designers.

June, 2007 / Technical University Delft, Netherlands - Guest participant and writer for the symposium titled "Vergroenen van de Versteende Omgeving" ("Greening of the Hardened Surroundings") on ecology, art and the use of materials in the city and the landscape.

April 2007 / Scheltma Veenfabriek, Leiden, Netherlands - Guest lecture titled "The American Gunfighter as Hero/Anti-Hero"

June, 2006 / Locus Sentio (Art Journal) - Essay titled "Sonic Notes from a Taipei Noodle Restaurant."

June, 2006 / Webster University - Guest Lecture titled “Representations of American Indians and Australian Aboriginals in the Cinema.”

May, 2006 / Cross-Reference Magazine - Paper titled "Futureplexity: The Analog/Digital Architecture of Detroit Techno."

April, 2006 / Open 9.5 (Journal) - Paper titled "Quietscapes: Noise, Silence, and (Re)Designing the Public Sonosphere."

June, 2005 / Open DAIz (The Dutch Art Institute) - Guest Lecture titled “Pathways as Art and Architecture.”

September 2005 / Population Press - Two short articles titled "Dutch Neighborhoods: A Model for Sustainability" and "Cities with Mini--Not Mega--Footprints.

COURSES TAUGHT AT WEBSTER UNIVERSITY:
Introduction to Media Production
Video Production I and II
Advanced Video Production
Interactive Digital Media
Delivering Digital Media
Special Topics: Streaming Media
Human Rights and Film
Media Research
Art: Alternative Media

Guest Lectures and Workshops at Webster University:
Lecture: Representations of Native Americans and Australian Aboriginals in the Cinema
Workshop: Aeshetics of Podcasting and Vidcasting
Workshop: Semiotics of Final Cut Pro Video Editing