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Education  //
June 2014

May 2011
MFA in Digital Arts + New Media, Arts Division, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

BA in Cinema, College of Mass Communications and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA
minor in Philosophy with an emphasis on film analysis
Residencies  //
April 2022

Sept 2014
    
Arad Artist Residency, 2 weeks, future Danube (River) Project, Arad Contemporary Arts Center, Israel

UCIRA Art2NRS, week-long residency under the artist duo, KinoEar, Yosemite National Park

Live Video - Performances - Exhibitions  //
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Other-scapes, AV performance with Hagai Izenberg (Radio Concrete), Sheik Abrek Festival, Tivon, Israel
Guest live video projections for Disappearing Act by Ilan Barkani and Maya Pennington, Say Temple, Haifa, Israel

"Walking Dimensions" (2014), Ptilia event, Sedek, Beit Alliance, Jerusalem

AV improvised duo with Wei Kang Beh, "Otherscapes" event, AL.Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Other-scapes, AV performance with Hagai Izenberg (Radio Concrete), Ptilia, Shoken Salon, Tel Aviv, Israel
Other-scapes, AV performance with Hagai Izenberg (Radio Concrete), Ptilia, Haifa, Israel


Cyborg Trio (w/ Maayan Tsadka + Zohar Shafir), new work for MusraraMix Fest, Jerusalem, Israel
Improvised performance with Maayan Tsadka + Zohar Shafir, Levontin 7, Tel Aviv, Israel

Hyperdirection 2, collaborative interactive video performance, Ptilia Concert Series, HaTachana, Sha'ar HaAmakim, Israel
Visual reflection piece of compositions by Amnon Wolman included in Naked art book, published by AKOH publishing
Hyperdirection, collaborative interactive video performance, Musica Nova's Aqua Alta Live concert, Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel
Hyperdirection, collaborative interactive video performance, new piece for Musica Nova: Aqua Alta - online concert


LoneWolf, Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel - via online festival (due to Covid-19)
LoneWolf, MASS:Pride, online monthly art publication
LoneWolf, Clexacon Film Festival, Las Vegas, NV, USA - via online festival (due to Covid-19)

Randy Killer and the Zombie Apocalypse for Isolated Mess #3 Halloween Special, online
Incoming Transmission for Isolated Mass#11, online
Maayan Tsadka + Dani Williamson (aka 'Bird Flock Folk') livestream, Indexical, online
Randy Miller Live in Quarantine, online
'Erev Betoch Randy Miller", full concert, HaTeiva, Tel Aviv, Israel
Randy Miller at 'The Unbearable Lightness of Coherency' concert, HaTeiva, Tel Aviv, Israel


Improvised trio (with Maayan Tsadka and Orr Sinay) for 2 commissioned performances, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel
Proto-Music 001 composed by Maayan Tsadka, Art Space, Tel Aviv, Israel

xPlace/Space:008, Splice Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY, USA
KinoEar: Reconstruct in Minshar, solo exhibition, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel


n o e y e s  at Neve Shechter Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
שיח לוחמים: פרולוג | Soldier's Talks: Prologue, collab. video installation, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
XPS: 005, 007, 008, Rules to Play By exhibition, Snapdragon Studio, St. Louis, MO, USA

     
xPlace/Space at Yami-Ichi Tel Aviv,  The Cuckoo’s Nest, Jaffa, Israel

n o e y e s  at Shakespeare Festival, Tmuna Theater, Tel Aviv, Israel
n o e y e s  Acapella noise choir performance, HaTeiva, Tel Aviv, Israel
n o e y e s  Acapella noise choir performance, Zimmer, Tel Aviv, Israel
n o e y e s  Acapella noise choir performance, Mitze Ramon Crater, Israel

KinoEar Soundfilm Series solo screening, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

KinoEar Soundfilms screening, Vetomat, Berlin, Germany
KinoEar Soundfilm Series solo screening, the wulf., Los Angeles, CA, USA
KinoEar UCSC Series, video/sound installation, The Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
“Walking Dimensions”, short film contribution, The Santa Cruz Super 8 Project, The Art Research Office gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

Exquisite Corpse in 2.5D, video reel contribution, The MAD Biennial, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Go As a River at Bloom Santa Cruz event, Lighthouse Park, Santa Cruz CA
Exquisite Corpse in 2.5D video installation at Digifabulous, The Regis Center for Art, Minneapolis, MN

“Authorized Personnel Only” video installation, The Gynt Project, DARC, Santa Cruz, CA
Reset Home video installation, Fashion and Digital Art, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA


Performer in Denizen performance at Zer0-1 Street Fair, San Jose, CA, USA
Untitled Top Surgery Photo Series, Florida Street Community Event, The Box Factory, San Francisco, CA, USA

Dataface, Varsity Center for the Arts, Carbondale, IL, USA

“The Yellow Wallpaper” at The Home Grown Film Festival, South Western Illinois College, Belleville, IL, USA
Happening, A Night of Live Art, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL, USA

Professional Experience  //   
Video Editor           >>  full editing resume
Current
2018 -
Editor and media manager, various documentation and website, Ensemble Musica Nova


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Untitled Cruising project by dancer/choreographer Amit Noy

8th Haifa Conference on Mediterranean Research DEEP DIVE videos (presented at conference), Haifa University, Israel
Aqua Alta, Musica Nova online concert
Ra’ash Adama by sound artist Maayan Tsadka for Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Liberation Through Hearing, video walkthrough of work by Dganit Elyakim, Hag Hamusika, Israel
Amplified Silence, concert and installation curated by Shira Legmann and Yiftah Kadan, Tivon, Israel (premiered online)

Mar-Chaim project by Yoni Niv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

Soldier’s Talk: Prologue installation, premiered at Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Documentation, concert series “…Playing with Electricity” curated by Hadas Pe’ery, Tel Aviv, Israel   

Great Wall of Oakland, Oakland, CA , USA

DA+NM Thesis Exhibit documentation videos, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Fictilis, Oakland, CA, USA

(and videographer) Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series, UC Santa Cruz, CA, US
(and videographer) Eye Music: A Festival of ASL Poetry, UC Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Technical / Production Work
current
2021 -
Head of Production, Tzlil Meudcan Festival for Contemporary Music and Research, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

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Venue manager, Große Realschulhalle, Donaueschinger Musiktage - Festival für Neue Musik, Donaueshingen, Germany

Venue manager, Bartók Saal, 100 Jahre Donaueschinger Musiktage 2021 - Festival für Neue Musik, Donaueshingen, Germany
Production team, Darmstädter Ferienkurse & Festival, Darmstadt, Germany

Production Manager, Israel Contemporary Players, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Lighting technician, Noor, full length live performance by Tamar Borer, Hateiva, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Stage Manager, HaTeiva, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
       
Technical Coordinator, ‘Where Are You Where Am I’ by Dorothea Rust, Tel Aviv / Jerusalem, Israel
   
Lighting assistant, "Kadam" music video by Orvim Ensemble, Ein Hashofet, Israel

Equipment Technician at the University of California Santa Cruz, USA
             
Assistant / videographer, Ecosex Workshop by Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, Emmetrop Arts Centre, Bourges, France

Videographer, EARTHY: An Ecosexual Love Story, performance by Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, CSC, San Francisco, CA, USA

Art Department production assistant – Fatal Call, Screen Actors Guild feature film, Sauget, IL, USA
Director's Assistant, 'Unfreedom', feature film , New York, NY, USA
       
Equipment technician, Cinema Equipment Room, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA
Public Talks + Workshops  //
current
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Queer Futures Writing Lab - Co-creator and moderator of a monthly collective experimental writing space, online

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Side-by-Side, micro-lecture & exercise on technology, re-contextualizing narratives & speculative histories, Berlin, Germany
Side-by-Side Narratives, artist lecture & workshop about film editing, and storytelling, Arad Contemporary Art Center, Arad, Israel

Communicating Science and Art - Conference - 8th Haifa Conference on Mediterranean Sea Research, University of Haifa, Israel

Speculating 'xPlace/Space' - Conference - Current Research in Speculative Fiction, University of Liverpool, England

Teaching  //
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Course Assistant, ART 80G – Visual Communications and Game Design, Chuck Eyler, UCSC

Course Assistant, FILM 130 – Silent Cinema, Shelley Stamp, UCSC

Teaching Assistant, ART 190B – Senior Project, Dee Hibbert-Jones, UCSC
Teaching Assistant, ART 80E – Tangible Memory: Artists in the Archive, E.G. Crichton, UCSC
   
Teaching Assistant, PHIL11 – Introduction to Philosophy, Rasmus Winther, UCSC
Teaching Assistant, FILM 080S – Special Topics in Film & Digital Media, Jesse Fankushen, UCSC
Teaching Assistant, FILM 20C – Intro to Digital Media, Kyle Lane-McKinley, UCSC

Teaching Assistant, ART 20C – Concepts & Practice in Photo & Print Making, Lewis Watts, UCSC
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