Summary

Selected Work

Animating Transit (part 2 with an open call), co-curator & artist, Platform – Creative Musings on Mass Transit, NY Transit Museum, June 24, 2015.

An MBS Special Presentation, Visiting Artist, Console Living Room Exhibit. University of Mary Washington, April 2015, my blog post.

Encrypted Fills digital artist, Concrete to Data: An Evolution of Street Art and Graffiti in the Digital Age, Steinberg Museum, Long Island University, Feb. 2 – March 21, 2015, my blog post.

8-bit ElvisEmpire State, & SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, GIF, GIF, GIF, GIFSavannah GIF Festival, Jepson Center, Savannah, GA, January 24th 2015.

Animating Transit, part of Platform – Creative Musings on Mass Transit, NY Transit Museum, June 25, 2014, article in Observermy blog post.

Rehearsing the Shake Your Tail Feather1840s GIF Party, Late at Tate, Tate Museum, London, Feburary 2, 2014.

10 PRINT “ALONE”; 20 GOTO 10 (Alone/Together) Fifteen Folds, London, Feburary, 2014.

Day of the MOOC Now Animated. Satirical animated GIF featured in dozens of academic blogs, presentations and articles on the spread of MOOCs, 2013.

GIF Fight!, an on-going net art collaboration featured by Giphy.com on their Featured Artists blog for animated GIF artists. November 2013.

If I Could Just Reach My Utility Belt, 1 min video and Making Me Feel Glad That I’m Not You, 2:37 min video. Part of the Video Transcends, International Streaming Festival, April 2013 and the QCC Art Gallery 2013.

Don’t Touch That Dial, ongoing animated GIFs project started March 2013. Numerous contributions tagged as GIF featured posts. Featured on Tumblr’s Radar, February 2014.

Animated Alfred Hitchcock Movie Posters: PsychoThe BirdsVertigoNorth By Northwestand Rear Window. Spring 2012. I wrote a bit about how they became featured in a variety of culture blogs via reddit: BustleFast Companythe creators projectEl Huffington PostEl Hype 3BuzzfeedCollater.alMiklos Vince’s TumblrBloody Disgustingil PostThe RooseveltsWired, and Gizmodo’s Sploid.

Selected Presentations

I Grok GIF: An Immersion in the Art and Language of the Animated GIF, University of Mary Washington, April 13, 2015

The Personal Domain: Students as Authors and Administrators Architects of their Education, Northeast Regional Computing Program,WordPress for Teaching and Learning 2013, October 9, 2013

DIY Web Radio for Teaching and Learning, Bernard L Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College, October 19, 2011

The Education Arcade CUNY, Games Festival, CUNY Graduate Center, January 17, 2014

Makerspaces, Maker Pedagogy and the Promise of a Maker Commons, CUNY IT Conference, John Jay College, December 6, 2013

Who Owns the ePortfolio? Tensions between Institutional Assessment and Student Autonomy and Control, AAEEBL Annual ePortfolio Conference, Boston, MA, July 30, 2013

Open Ecosystems: Community-focused Development and the CUNY Academic Commons, CUNY IT Conference, John Jay College, November 30, 2012

CUNY Academic Commons: Social Network As Hatchery, Sloan-C 5th Annual International Symposium, Emerging Technologies for Online Learning, 2012 Sloan-C Effective Practice Award, July 27, 2012

Building and Supporting WordPress for Higher Education, WordCampNYC 2012, Bernard L Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College, June 9, 2012

Developing and Extending WordPress for Higher Education, WordCampNYC 2012, Bernard L Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College, June 9, 2012

Dreaming of 100 Million Posts a Year: On Federating Open Ed at CUNY, Faculty Academy, University of Mary Washington, May 16, 2012

Teaching on the Open Web CUNY IT Conference, John Jay College, December 2, 2011

DIY Web Radio as a Platform for Teaching, Learning, and Building Community, CUNY IT Conference, John Jay College, December 2, 2011

Connection, Collaboration, Community: Using the CUNY Academic Commons, CUNY IT Conference, John Jay College, December 2, 2011

Preparing for the Future: Creating a CUNY-wide approach towards Digital Media Programs, CUNY IT Conference, John Jay College, December 2, 2011

Developing and Distributing Open Textbooks through Multiple Platforms via the Cloud, CUNY IT Conference, John Jay College, December 1, 2011