Education:
2000 M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL.
1993 B.A., Hamilton College, Clinton NY.
Other Schooling:
1994 University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV.
1994 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.
Teaching History:
2006-present, Educator, The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television & Radio), New York, NY.
2005-2006, Adjunct Professor of Art Appreciation, Olive-Harvey College, Chicago, IL.
2000-2006, Adjunct Professor of Video, Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL.
2000-2006, Lead Artist, Gallery 37/After School Matters, Chicago, IL.
2005, Instructor, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
2004, Adjunct Professor of Photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2001, Adjunct Professor of Video, Robert Morris College, Chicago, IL.
2000-2003, Lead Artist, Arts Excel/Pathways to Development, Chicago, IL.
2000-2002, Summer Instructor, Antique Boat Museum, Clayton, NY.
1998-2000, Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
1994-1997, Teaching Assistant, New Horizons Academy, Las Vegas, NV.
Related Employment:
2000-present, Freelance Video Editor, HaloCo Ideas, Inc, New York, NY.
1997-present, Freelance Media Production, recycledcarbonrecordings, Las Vegas/Chicago.
1998-1999, Graduate Assistant, Video Data Bank, Chicago, IL.
1997-1998, Founder/Promoter, The L@b, Las Vegas, NV.
Selected Technology:
Mac/PC-based Avid, Mac-based FinalCutPro, Premiere and iMovie video editing software; Mac-based ProTools, PeakDV, SoundTrack, and PC-based CoolEditPro audio software; Mac-based DVDStudioPro and iDVD authoring software; DreamWeaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, AfterEffects, and more.
Awards & Recognition:
2006
Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs: for “Freed” video project.
2005
Merit-based Award, Residency funding at Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA: for “Freed” video project.
Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs: for “ECHOlocal” website.
2004
FLEX Festival, Gainesville, FL; First Prize, video <10 minutes: “White Blight Manifesto.”
2003
IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht, NL; Audience choice final screening: “evidence of what?”
1982
First Place, Onondaga All-County Science Fair: “The Carbon Atom.”
Selected Reviews & Bibliography:
“Southern Canadian”, A Rovescio, Invideo 2005 exhibition catalog, Milan, Italy, p. 78.
Thompson, Nato, “Slur of the Local,” At the Edge: Innovative Art In Chicago exhibition catalog, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Architecture and the Arts, 2004.
Duke, Emily Vey. “Kirsten Stoltman, Let’s Get it On/Paul Lloyd Sargent, White Blight Manifesto,” C Magazine, Summer 2004, p. 44.
“White Blight Manifesto,” Stati Liquidi, Invideo 2004 exhibition catalog, Milan, Italy, p. 76.
Rojas, Alexander, “11th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival 2004,” www.filmmonthly.com.
Turkoviç, Hrvoje, “Challenges of Discipline: One Take Film Festival 2003,” LJETOPIS Croation Film Chronicle, Issue 37, 2004.
Ng, Elaine and Biggers, Sanford, “Investigating the Global Voyeuristic Paradigm,” Sticky Fingers exhibition catalog, Para/Site, Hong Kong, 2001.
Holmes, Brian, “Kosov@:Futures of the Transatlantic Carnival,” Hieroglyphs of the Future, WHW/Arkzin, Zagreb, 2003, (originally published in 2000 at www.nettime.org as a review of “Carnival in the Eye of the Storm: Kosov@”).
Curatorial Projects:
2007
c.ommun.net, web-based magazine.
2005
Hardcore Histories, Mess Hall, Chicago.
2004
Gallery 400, “At the Edge: Innovative Art in Chicago” artist-curated exhibition series, Univ. of Ill., Chicago; ECHOlocal.
2002
Project Enduring Look, Gallery 1926, SAIC, Chicago; collaboration with Mary Patten, Laurie Jo Reynolds, et al.
1997-1998
the L@b, Las Vegas, NV; art & live music venue co-curated with Bil Hooper, featuring: Modest Mouse, Noisegate, Neutral Milk Hotel, the mAKE UP, more.
Publications & Public Engagements:
2007
Panelist, Video Vision Conference, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY.
Artist lecture, guest of Emily Vey Duke, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
2006
AREA Chicago Magazine, Issue #3, Fall 2006; “Contested Chicago: Pilsen and Gentrification."
Juror, 2006 Chicagoland High School Video Festival, Columbia College, Chicago, IL.
Hardcore Histories/Mess Hall, 2006; "YouTube.com: A New Musical Anthropology."
2005
AREA Chicago Magazine, Issue #1, Fall 2005; “A Lesson in Good Intentions."
VERSION>05, Chicago, IL; performative lecture- “Electric Lolita: Love and Hate in the Age of Surveillance.”
Artist lecture, Oakland University, Rochester MI.
2004
20x20x20, Select Media Festival, Chicago, IL; performative lecture- “The Accessibility of Knowledge Olympics.”
Southwest Petroleum Institute, Chengdu, Sichaun Province, China; guest lecturer.
Discordia, (www.discordia.us) art/technology/activism weblog; guest moderator for January 2004.
2002
Gallery 1926, SAIC, Chicago; performative lecture- “Blood & Basketball.”
Juror, 9th Annual Chicagoland High School Video Festival, Columbia College, Chicago, IL.
1999
Artist lecture, First Year Program Colloquium series, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Juror, Chicago International Film Festival, Educational TV panel, Chicago, IL.
Selected
Collections:
Invideo, Milan, Italy; “Southern Canadian” and “White Blight Manifesto."
Impakt Video Archive; Utrecht, NL; “Aggression,” “White Blight Manifesto,” “Southern Canadian,” and more.
Solo Screenings & Exhibitions:
2004
ECHOlocal, At the Edge: Innovative Art in Chicago, Gallery 400, Univ. of Ill. at Chicago; selected as artist-curator for audio art exhibition: audio installation- “Representative Sample.”
VERSION>04, Chicago; solo TLVSN broadcast- “Notes from the Desk of the Dept. of Homeland Security.”
Boat-In Movie, The Antique Boat Museum, Clayton, NY; feature- “It Rolls on the River.”
2003
We heart Rocky!, Discount Cinema, Chicago; screening, with Margaret Catania, of recent works.
the LOGOs project, 7/3 Split, Chicago; store-front window video installation.
VERSION>03, Chicago Cultural Center; solo screening- “SupaWhite: Five Works in Progress.”
2002
The Antique Boat Museum, Clayton, NY; documentary- “A Cup of Golden Yarns: 100 Years of the Gentleman Racers.”
2000
Gallery 2, SAIC, Chicago; solo performance- “Wilderness IV: Bird Narratives.”
Selected Group Screenings & Exhibitions:
2007
Public Collectors, www.publiccollectors.org, cur. by Marc Fischer; “Do Not Disturb sign collection."
Creative Time Presents: A Chicago Expatriate Vs., Creative Time, New York; video- “Sweet Home Chicago."
The Adventurous Type, cur. by Allison Peters, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; video installation- “Freed."
At Home and Beyond: Chicago’s Own, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago; screening- “Random Sampling #3."
2006
Corntempopo, Heimbold Visual Arts Center at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY; audio-installation collaboration
for Victor Margolin’s "Museum of Corn-temporary Art."
Just Good Art Auction, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; multimedia website- “The 10,000th Song."
Park Yourself, Chicago; site-specific performance series cur. by Jenny Roberts- “Columbus Drive Golf Club."
CUFF, Chicago; screening- “Random Sampling #3."
Displaced Occupation, cur. by Erica Erdman, President‘s Gallery, Harold Washington College, Chicago; video- “red glare.”
Living Art, CenterSpace, Gallery 37, Chicago; video- “the LOGOs project: Blood & Basketball."
VERSION>06 Festival, Chicago; interactive video installation: “Freed: Meandering."
Ice Capades Film and Video Series, Ice Factory, Chicago; screening: “White Blight Manifesto."
2005
Audio Relay, Temporary Services, various venues; inclusion of audio program- “Representative Sample."
Onion City Film Festival, Chicago Filmmakers; screening- “Southern Canadian."
Invideo, A.I.A.C.E., Milan, Italy; screening- “Southern Canadian.”
Z Film Festival, Nihilist, Chicago; screening- “the Hydra.”
Audio Relay, Temporary Services; audio construction- “Representative Sample.”
Made in NA, MA 2005, CAC, North Adams, MA; interactive video installation- “Freed #4: Meandering.”
Antimatter, Victoria, BC, Canada; screening- “the Hydra.”
Urban/Rural/Wild: Chicagoland Gridded/Revised, I space/Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago; screening cur. by Thomas Comerford- “White Blight Manifesto.”
VideoLisboa 05, Lisboa, Portugal; video lounge- “White Blight Manifesto.”
Chicago’s Own, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago; screening-“White Blight Manifesto.”
Onion City Film Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago; screening- “Southern Canadian.”
Best of FLEX Tour, various venues/cities including: Double Negative, Montreal, CA, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, UNCW Moviemakers Series, Wilmington, NC., Space 1026, Philadelphia, The Dirt Palace, Providence, The Woodser, Brooklyn, Flicker Theater and Bar, Athens, GA.; video- “White Blight Manifesto.”
2004
OneTakeFilmFestival, Zagreb, Croatia; screening- “Emily’s Movie.”
Invideo, A.I.A.C.E., Milan; screening- “White Blight Manifesto.”
IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht, NL; screening- “White Blight Manifesto.”
FLEX Festival, Gainesville, FL; screening- “White Blight Manifesto.”
Antimatter, Victoria, BC, Canada; screening- “White Blight Manifesto.”
Notes From the Underground Vol 4, Video Alliance, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada; screening cur. by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby- “White Blight Manifesto.”
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago; screening- “Notes from the Desk of the Dept. of Homeland Security.”
Good Luck with that Revolution, Video Mundi, Chicago; screening cur. by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby- “White Blight Manifesto.”
Living Art, CenterSpace, Gallery 37, Chicago; video- “powerless- a work in progress.”
Z Film Festival, Heaven Gallery, Chicago; screening- “White Blight Manifesto” & “Aggression.”
2003
Wimbledon School of Art, London; Chicago Show and Tell, screening cur. by Kent Lambert- “White Blight Manifesto.”
Smart Project Space, Amsterdam; America Annihilates Consciousness, screening cur. by Steve Reinke- “White Blight Manifesto.”
OneTakeFilmFestival, Zagreb, Croatia; screening- “powerless- a work in progress.”
Onion City Film Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago; screening- “White Blight Manifesto.”
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago; screening- “SuperWhite 48 kHz: Mixtape Cutups 1-11.”
Freedom Festival, BuddY, Chicago; video installation- “S.O.T.U.”
IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht, NL; screening- “evidence of what?”
Faculty Group Show, President‘s Gallery, Harold Washington College, Chicago; video- “evidence of what?”
2002
get-carded.net: inbox-dissent for the unsuspecting; On-line e-card protesting war with Iraq, cur. by Trebor Scholz, et al.
Curzon Soho, London; screening cur. by Amy Beste- “Aggression” (screening was subsequently censored).
Project Enduring Look, Gallery 1926, SAIC, Chicago; collaborative performance installation- “State of the Union.”
Interrogating Diversity, Betty Rymer Gallery, SAIC, Chicago; video- “evidence of what?”
2001
Sticky Fingers, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong; group show: video- “Anatomical Transgression.”
IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht, NL; screening- “Aggression” & “Anatomical Transgression.”
Pioneer Renewal Trust, Dogmatic, Chicago; collaborative site-specific installation.
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago; screening- “Aggression.”
Microwave Media Festival, Videotage, Hong Kong; screening- “Histeria.”
BRAT(wurst), BaseKamp & Project Room, Philadelphia; group screenings- “X-Mas in July.”
Department of Land & Space Reclamation, Butcher Shop, Chicago; collaborative site-specific performance- “Trash Ball.”
Just Once, 7/3 Split, Chicago; group screening- “Aggression.”
2000
Plain Brown Wrapper, Gallery 2, SAIC, Chicago; group screening- “Aggression”.
I Never Thought I’d Be a Halloween Costume, 7/3 Split, Chicago; performance- “Epistemology of the Corner.”
Gallery 312, University of Chicago MFA Exhibition, Chicago; collaborative performance- “congratulations.”
Uncut Special Edition, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; screening- “Images of April 14th, 1999” and “Histeria.”
MFA Film & Video Screenings, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; video- “Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex: 1. Histeria 2. A Child is Being Beaten 3. Anatomical Transgression.”
Wink, Leather Archives & Museum, Chicago; group screening- “Aggression.”
Thaw Festival of Video, Film & Digital Media, Iowa City; live sound performance- “The Ohm Trio.”
Displacement, Gallery 1926, SAIC, Chicago; group show: video- “Histeria” and performance- “un[en]titled-monopoly.”
Carnival in the Eye of the Storm, War/Art/New Technologies: Kosov@, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland; cur. by Trebor Scholz, video- “Images of April 14th, 1999.”
Gallery 2, SAIC, Chicago; group show: site-specific series of performances & installations- “Communicable.”
1999
Surface Readings, Gallery 1926, SAIC, Chicago; video installation- “Images of April 14th, 1999” and sound installation-“[in]filtration.”
School of the Art Institute of Chicago; site-specific video installation- “the eye in malevolence.”
1998
Desert[ed] Southwest Noise Fest, the l@b, Las Vegas; “churn” -live sound performance.
briefly…, the l@b, Las Vegas; “Enola Grey & the Vegas Valley Choir” -live sound performance.
1997
Trains Wreck, Café Espresso Roma, Las Vegas; “Enola Grey” -live sound performance.
1996
Southern California Noise Festival, Impala Café, Los Angeles; “churn” -live sound performance.
Wilderness II: pitcher plant reduction, Syracuse, NY; site-specific installation.
1995
April Fool’s Show, UNLV, Las Vegas; cur. by Karen Carson graffiti installation- “Graf-Core.”
1994
Women’s History Month Show, Temporary Contemporary, CACSN, Las Vegas; video installation- “La Mariposa.”
1993
Senior Thesis Exhibition, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; video installation- “In the Blink of an Eye” and performance- “Bake Sale.”
Selected Discography:
Paul Lloyd Sargent:
"representative sample" CD, recycledcarbonrecordings, Chicago, 2004.
Kaspar Hauser:
“Tin Can Gong” CD, Spacesuit Records, Chicago, 2002.
Enola Grey:
“Save The River!” benefit compilation CD, STR!, Clayton, NY, 2003.
“life expectancy of a just-born peep” CD, recycledcarbonrecordings, Las Vegas/Chicago, 2002.
“Here Come the Weak Hits” CD, Semi-Roar Records, Tokyo, 2000.
"Architectural Digressions” split CD, Elite-Generic Recordings, Columbus, OH, 1999.
“From Here to There” compilation 12”, blackbeanplacentatapeclub, Oxnard, CA, 1998.
“Lunchpail Surprise” compilation 7”, recycledcarbonrecordings, Las Vegas, 1998.
“Pocketful=a unit of measurement (not to be taken literally)” 7”, recycledcarbonrecordings, Las Vegas, 1997.
“Beachside Fruitstand” compilation 12”, blackbeanplacentatapeclub, Oxnard, CA, 1997.
“Make Way for New Emotions: Volumes 1-6” Cassettes, recycledcarbonrecordings, Las Vegas, 1995-1996.
Quaint:
“Intimately Disengaged” CD, recycledcarbonrecordings, Chicago, 2000.
“Envelope” 7”, recycledcarbonrecordings, Las Vegas, 1998.
churn:
“churn1.0” Cassette, recycledcarbonrecordings, Las Vegas, NV, 1996.
“churn.01” Cassette, recycledcarbonrecordings, Las Vegas, NV, 1995.