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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 //
Sept 2014    
UCIRA Art2NRS, week-long residency under the artist collective, KinoEar, Yosemite National Park
Exhibitions + Screenings //
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2019


2018


2017

2016

2015




2014



2013


2012

2011

2010

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)

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

שיח לוחמים: פרולוג, גלריה בנימין, חל אביב, ישראל| 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

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

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
Performances //
2020






2019


2018

2017




2012
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

n o e y e s  at Neve Shechter Gallery, Tel Aviv, 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

Performer in Denizen performance at Zer0-1 Street Fair, San Jose, CA, USA

Professional Experience //   
Video Editor          { extended editing resume }
2020


2019-20

2018


2018 -
present

2017-19

Feb - Mar 2016 

Jun 2015

Oct 2015 

2014
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, various concerts, Ensemble Musica Nova
      

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
Sept. 2020

June 2017 - present

Dec. 2016 - present

Dec. 2017

May 2015 - June 2016

2013     

2012

Sept 2011

May - Aug 2011   

Jan. 2009 – May 2011            
Lighting technician, Noor, full length live performance by Tamar Borer, Hateiva, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Production Manager, Israel Contemporary Players, 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
   
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

Care Services
2012  
In-Home Support Service (IHSS) provider,  through the State of California, USA
Public Talks + Workshops //
2019
Speculating 'xPlace/Space' - Conference - Current Research in Speculative Fiction, University of Liverpool, England
Teaching //
 2016

2015

2014


2013



2012
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
  • [Dani Williamson]
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