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Education 
June 2014

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

BA in Cinema, College of Mass Communications and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Residencies 
April 2022

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

UCIRA Art2NRS, one week, KinoEar (duo), Yosemite National Park, California
Performances + Exhibitions 
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Performer in 'Ways of Listening' with Ensemble Musica Nova, Transmeet Festival, Tel Aviv
Performer in 'Amnon Wolman 70', Ensemble Musica Nova concert, Felicija: Art Center and Library, Tel Aviv
Randy Miller and the Earthly Crisis, Queer Easter, Jugendbildungsstätte Kurt Löwenstein, Werftpfuhl, Germany
Thresholds concert, Ensemble Ptilia, Ticho House, Jerusalem
Randy's Pancake Breakfast, Randy Miller solo brunch cabaret, Haifa
Rivers and Stones, Ensemble Musica Nova x Ensemble Ptilia concert, The Mill, Sha'ar HaAmakim

Performer in 'Entanglements in Cyberspace', AOM, Sounds of the Metaverse Conference, Warsaw
Rivers and Stones, Ensemble Musica Nova x Ensemble Ptilia concert, Felicija: Art Center and Library, Tel Aviv
Breath Cycles: Day and Night, performance event, Ensemble Ptilia, Beit HaGefen Gallery, Haifa
Point.of.View: Gala Event for Duo Alto Video Project (Premiere), Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa
Breath Cycles II performance event, Ensemble Ptilia, Pyramida Contemporary Art Gallery, Haifa
Randy Miller, "Lone Wolf", Club Church, Amsterdam
Randy Miller at Hybrid Futures, Bar Bario, Amsterdam
Breath Cycles performance event, Ptilia Ensemble, Haifa
Randy Miller and LA LI "we're all animals" / ״כולנו חיות״, Mezo Gallery, Haifa
Premiere of Hyperdirection 3, audio-visual performance, CCA Tel Aviv
Randy Miller live at Syrup, Haifa


Performer in Environmental Dialogue, Ptilia concert, Meso Gallery, Haifa
Preview of 3 video works for Duo Alto, CEME Festival, Tel Aviv
"Pauline Dreams", Avatar Orchestra Metaverse (AOM) Orchestra, Ione's Dream Festival, Second Life (online)

Otherscapes, AV performance with Hagai Izenberg (Radio Concrete), Tel Aviv International Theater Festival, Tel Aviv

Live video performer, "Tal tal", commisioned AV piece by Yoav Levy for Ptilia, Maya Gallery, Tel Aviv
Live video performer, "Tal tal", commisioned AV piece by Yoav Levy for Ptilia, Meso Gallery, Haifa
Randy Miller Live at Pyramida Contemporary Art Gallery, Haifa
"Pauline Dreams", Avatar Orchestra Metaverse (AOM) Orchestra, Ione's Dream Festival, New York / Second Life (online)
Vocal performer in concert of works by Cornelius Cardew, led by Silvia Tarozzi, Marathon Hateiva, Teiva, Tel Aviv-Yafo
Otherscapes, AV performance with Hagai Izenberg (Radio Concrete), Sheik Abrek Festival, Tivon

Guest live video projections for Disappearing Act by Ilan Barkani and Maya Pennington, Say Temple, Haifa

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

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


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

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


LoneWolf, Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, Tel Aviv - 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
Randy Miller at 'The Unbearable Lightness of Coherency' concert, HaTeiva, Tel Aviv


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

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


n o e y e s  at Neve Shechter Gallery, Tel Aviv
שיח לוחמים: פרולוג | Soldier's Talks: Prologue, collab. video installation, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv
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

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

KinoEar Soundfilm Series solo screening, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem

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

Public Talks + Workshops 
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2022-23

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2021

2019
World-Building and Collective Voice, writing workshop, Haifa
Breath Cycles listening workshop, Ensemble Ptilia, Shaon Horef, Jerusalem

Co-Presenter, 'Entanglements in Cyberspace' keynote presentation, AOM, Sounds of the Metaverse Conference, Warsaw
Rivers and Stones, Ensemble Musica Nova x Ensemble Ptilia: Listening Workshop, Felicija: Art Center and Library, Tel Aviv
Queer Futures Presents / Hybrid Futures: Weekend-long Retreat + Exhibition of site-specific performances, Wedding, Berlin
Queer Futures Presents / Hybrid Futures: Songwriting-Performance Workshop, Bar Bario, Amsterdam
Queer Futures Presents / Hybrid Futures: Scriptwriting-Storytelling Workshop, Hopscotch, Berlin
Sonic Meditations Workshop, Ptilia Ensemble, Haifa

Queer Futures Presents / Spooky Writing at a Distance workshop at Underlab Berlin, Schönberg, Berlin
Queered Economies; Enacting Networks of Reciprocity, hands-on workshop at re:publica 23, Berlin
Drag at the End of the World: Songwriting for the Apocalypse, workshop in Wedding, Berlin

Co-creator and moderator for monthly collective experimental writing sessions - Queer Futures Writing Lab, online

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

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

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

Video Editing  
Current
2018 -
Editor and media manager, various documentation and website, Ensemble Musica Nova


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2016

2015

Sediments (Nawal Arafat, Maayan Tsadka, Leoni Schein) documentation video 

5 video works for DuoAlto music compositions

Untitled Cruising Project by dancer/choreographer Amit Noy
Spontaneous Stuckness concert documentation, Musica Nova

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

Liberation Through Hearing, video walkthrough of work by Dganit Elyakim, Hag Hamusika
Amplified Silence, concert and installation curated by Shira Legmann and Yiftah Kadan, Tivon (premiered online)
Mar-Chaim project by Yoni Niv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (premiered online)

Resonating, by Orr Sinay, filmed at Kelim Choreography Center, Bat Yam, Israel
Hypothetical Moon, installation documentation of Haggai Izenberg, Tel Aviv

Soldier’s Talk: Prologue installation, premiered at Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv
Museum of Capitalism documentation video, Fictilis

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

30 Years of Musica Nova, Celebration Invitation, online

Great Wall of Oakland, "Illuminate Jack London", Oakland, CA

DA+NM Program MFA Thesis Videos, University of California Santa Cruz, CA
Fictilis, "True Cost Market" for COAL Prize Ceremony, Oakland, CA


Production Work 
current
2023-
2017-2021
Production Manager, Israel Contemporary Players, Tel Aviv-Yafo

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2020, 2021

2016 - 2021

2017

2016

2015 

2013     

2011


2009 - 2011  

Venue manager (littlebit), Kleiner Sporthalle, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Festival für Neue Musik, Donaueshingen
Venue manager (littlebit), Akademie für Tonkunst (AFT), Darmstädter Ferienkurse & Festival, Darmstadt
Production team (littlebit), Moers Festival, Moers

Venue manager, T1, Theater Haus - ECLAT Festival Neue Musik, Stuttgart

Venue manager (littlebit), Bartók Saal, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Festival für Neue Musik, Donaueshingen
Venue manager (littlebit), Main Stage (Sporthalle) Lichtenbergschule, Darmstädter Ferienkurse & Festival, Darmstadt

Venue manager (littlebit), Große Realschulhalle, Donaueschinger Musiktage - Festival für Neue Musik, Donaueshingen

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

Head of Production, Tzlil Meudcan Festival for Contemporary Music and Research, Tel Aviv-Yafo

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

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

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

Art Department production assistant – Fatal Call, Screen Actors Guild feature film, Sauget, IL
Director's Assistant, 'Unfreedom', feature film , New York, NY
       
Equipment technician, Cinema Equipment Room, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Teaching 
 2016

2015

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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 | 2026
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