Education
M.F.A. Film, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
B.A. Theatre Arts and Philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
Studies in Photography, Harvard University, Boston, MA

Awards and Grants
2009
Annenberg Grant for Mister ArtSee, New York
2004
Harvestworks, NYSCA Grant, New York
2003
Machinista: AI Art Machine as Artist’s Co-Author, Distinctive Merit, Russia
Flash Forward, Flash Film Festival, New York, Silver
2002
Atlantic Center for the Arts, Residency with documentary filmmaker Alan Berliner
2001
New York Art Directors 80th Annual Club Award, Distinctive Merit Medal
Arts Council Grant, New York
2000
I.D. Magazine Silver Medal for Interactive Media
Communication Arts Gold Medal, Informational Design
ASCI Net Award
South by Southwest (SXSW) Best of Show and Best Cultural Experience
1999
Yahoo’s Project Cool and Best Site of the Year
New York Art Directors 79th Annual Club Award Silver Medal

Screenings and Exhibitions
2011
Salon 191, How are you Guest 10497
2010
Shanghai World Expo, This Modern World, Art as Billboard
17 Frost Art and Performance Space, Revolution of Everyday Life
First Biennale de Canarias of Architecture, Art and Landscape, Oldham Ahead, 7 screen video
2007
installation, Canary Islands, Spain. November 27 thru February 10
2006
Whitney Museum of Art, Tate Modern, Battle of Algiers (commission), New York/London
NodeL Festival, Variable, London
Sonar Festival, Computations, Barcelona
Pratt Museum, Media Miniatures, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New Data, New York, 2005-2006
The Chinese Academy of Art, New Media, Early works of Marc Lafia, Hangzhou, China
2004
Millenaris Park, New Montage, Budapest/New York/Tokyo
ICC Tokyo, Variable Montage, 2003-2004
2003
Nanofestival v.01, Ambient Machines, Rotterdam
ZKM, Future Cinema, Karlsruhe, Germany 2002-2003
Digital Art Lab in Israel’s Video Biennale, Sing to Me and Tell Me Your Story, Holon, Israel, 2002-2003
OK Center for Contemporary Art, Sing to Me and Tell Me Your Story Linz, Austria
Machinsta, Ambient Machines, Moscow, Russia
Chiangma Media Arts festival, Ambient Machines, Thailand
Le-Musee-Divisioniste Mediacentre, Ambient Machines, Paris, France
2001
Mill Valley Film Festival, Exploding Oedipus, Mill Valley, CA
Seattle International Film Festival’s New American Cinema, Exploding Oedipus
Flash Forward, Flash Film Festival, Metabolic House, New York
Atlantic Center for the Arts, Ambient Architecture, Site Specific Installation
SOMARTS Cultural Center, History and Disappearance
2000
Walker Art Center, Let’s Entertain, Minneapolis, MN, 2000. Show traveled to:
Portland Art Museum, Oregon, 2000
Le Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 200
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, 2000
1999
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), MemexEngine, Karlsruhe, Germany

Conferences, Talks and Publications
2010
17 Frost Art and Performance Space, New Narrative Film, Brooklyn, NY
Anthology Film Archives, The New Independence in Film, New York, NY
Norwood Club, Making Paradise, New York, NY
2006
Futurebrand, The Genius Lunch, The Cinema Engine and Computational Media, New York, NY
New School, Post-Linear Lab, Narrative Structures, New York, NY
2004
Montevideo Time Based Institute, Computational Media, Amsterdam, Netherlands
New York Film Academy, Working with Actors, On Exploding Oedipus, New York, NY
Cal Arts, The Integrated Media Program, Hybrids, Los Angeles, CA
Israeli Center for Digital Art, New Documentaries and Installation, Holon, Israel
Harvestworks, Indeterminate Time, New York, NY
2003
School of Visual Arts, The Event of Time, New York, NY
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Allegories and Algorithm’, London, England
Cal Arts, Shapes and Volumes, Wiki for Viralnet, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Eyebeam, ‘The (Re)Structured Screen: Conversations On The New Moving Image, New York, NY
Nettime.org, In Search of a Poetics of the Spatialziation of the Moving Image
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Computation and the Moving Image, New York, NY
Nettime.org, Spectra, and Rhizome.org, Documenta 11 Art and the Figuration of Histories
American Book Review, Review of Stephen Wilson’s book Information Arts
2001
SXSW, Networked Synaesthesia: A Tele-Metabolic Fold, Austin, TX
2000
SFMOMA, The Artwork in the Age of Online Communication, San Francisco, CA
SF International Art Fair, The Event of Art, San Francisco, CA
Millenial Digest’s Millenium Museum Issue, Museum as Interface
Artforum, The Pleasure of the Web: The Art of Active Montage
Walker Art Center, Hyperdiction, The Artist Entertainment Network, Minneapolis, MN
1997
George Hara Cultural Alliance, The Internet and Cultural Identity, Tokyo, Japan
Zakros Arts, The Telematic Manifesto

Filmography
2010
Revolution of Everyday Life, HD feature, 72 minutes
2009
Paradise, HD feature, 78 minutes
2008
Love and Art, DV feature, 70 minutes
2007
Oldham Ahead, documentary with 7 screen installation, 23 minutes
2005
Zanzibar, three screen narrative, 47 minutes
Permutations, 365 multi-screen short films
2004
Martin, long form narrative, 64 minutes
2001
Confessions of an Image, DV, 43 minutes, 2002 Exploding Oedipus, 35mm feature, 81minutes
1982
Baldwin, 35mm short, 6 minutes, 1994 Auto-re-tour, 16mm short, 23 minutes
1981
Fini La Guerre, 16mm short, 7 minutes

Photography Works
2007
Cartographies, 2011 Self-Exposure
2003
The Image, Alone, 2005 The Event of the Image
1998
History and Disappearance, 2001 Memories of Photography