Education

M.F.A. Parsons School of Design, New School University NY, NY, 2000

Post BFA, Hunter College, NY, NY, 1998

BFA, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, 1997

Solo Exhibitions:

2006 Beijing Cubic Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China, 06/01 thru 07/15/2006

Sanban Gallery, Beijing, China, 05/25 thru 06/25/2006

Richland College Art Gallery, Dallas, TX, 03/24 thru 05/12/2006

2005 Blue Star: Three Walls Gallery, San Antonio, TX, 10/07 thru 10/28/2005

Beijing Cubic Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China, 06/09 thru 07/17/2005

Sanban Gallery, Beijing, China, 06/3 thru 06/09/2005

2004 Methods Gallery, Dallas, TX, “Gestural Transmission" (solo performance), 10/02/2004

Sanban Studio Gallery, Dashanzi International Art Festival, Beijing, China, 07/25 thru 08/06/2004

Baseline Gallery, Vacaville, CA, 06/25 thru 07/25/2004

Studio 107 Gallery, Austin, TX – “Curious Comforts," 06/15 thru 08/10/2004

Group Exhibitions

2006 V.M. Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan, “Platform” (International/Traveling) – 12/01 thru 1/31/2006

The Reina Sofia Museum of Art, Madrid, Spain, (Part of Artechmedia ’06, International Symposium/Exhibition), 10/2006

Studio 107, Austin, TX, “Robotics, Relational Informatics, and Interaction” 10/2006

Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, grant project “Sun.Dial” 09/2006 (pending)

The Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX, “Platform” (International/Traveling) – 07/15 thru 09/15/2006

Central Academy of Fine Art Gallery, Beijing, China (International), 07-08/2006

Gerald Peters Gallery New York, New York, NY (National), 07/6 thru 07/31/2006

Indiana University Art Museum - SOFA Gallery, Bloomington, IN, “Robotic and Emergent Systems RES-Art Exhibition” (National) – 06/2006

3^rd Beijing International New Media Exhibition/Symposium, Beijing, China, grant funded project “Sun.Dial,” 06/10 thru 06/20/2006 (pending)

IDMAa IDEAs Exhibition/Conference, Hiestand Galleries at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, “<CODE> Human Systems, Digital Bodies” (National), 04/1 thru 04/10/2006

The Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX, “Arlington Museum Art Auction” (National) 04/2006

The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX, “Wish Art Auction” (National)

Preview: 03/04 thru 03/11/2006, Auction: 03/11/2006

Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX. “DRIVER” (Regional) 01/14 thru 02/04/2006

2005 Studio 107, Austin, TX, “Holiday Punch” - 12/3 thru 12/31/2005 (National)

The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX, “Moving Pictures” (National), 11/4 thru 12/23/2005

South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, “In the Game” (National) 10/28 thru 12/31/2005

Ars Electronica 2005, Linz, Austria, “Hybrid” Exhibition/Symposium [assisting Zach Lieberman on two concerts] 09/02/2005

Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), Los Angeles, CA, “Snap to Grid” (International) 09/08 thru 10/01/2005

The 2^nd International San Francisco Biennial, San Francisco, CA, (International), [Received Best in Show Cash Award], 07/26 thru 08/18/2005

2^nd Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium (In The Line of Flight 2005: The Millenium Dialogue), Beijing, China, (International), 06/21 thru 07/30/2005

Beijing Cubic Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China, “Luna, Electronic Language” (International), 06/18 thru 07/30/2005

The Center for Fine Art Photography (The Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art), Fort Collins, Co., “Intimate Flora” (National), 05/06 thru 06/18/2005

Plano Art Center, Plano, TX – Plano Art Association 2005 National Juried Exhibition, 05/03 thru 06/03/2005

Limner Gallery, Phoenicia, NY, "Digital Art Extravaganza" (International), 05/05 thru 05/29/2005

Caladan Gallery, Beverly, MA, “Contemporary Icons” (National), 05/01 thru 05/31/2005

South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, “Tech Art II” and part of the Boston CyberArts Festival (National), [Received the “Award of Merit” Cash Prize], 04/15 thru 05/29/2005

LA Center for Digital Art (LACDA), Los Angeles, CA, “Top 40” (International), 03/10 thru 04/02/2005

Texas Biennial 2005, Austin, TX (National), [accepted but did not exhibit], 03 thru 06/2005

El Centro College Art Gallery, Dallas, TX, “Fresh Space” (Regional), 02/06 thru 03/04/2005

2004 School of Visual Arts Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, “Faculty Exhibition,” December

El Centro College Art Gallery, El Centro College, Dallas, TX, “(Regional Exhibition) Pano Art Invitational and Auction” - September 27^th-October 24^th

Methods Art Collective Exhibition, Dallas, TX, “PULSE” (performance) – October 2^nd

Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, “Timeshift” Conference (International Exhibition), August 20^th, [assisted Golan Levine and Zachary Lieberman with “Messa Di Vocce” and “Manual Input Sessions”]

500X Gallery, Dallas, TX – “Open Show” – April 25 – May 25.

500X Gallery, Dallas, TX – “Expo 2004 (Regional Juried Exhibition)” – Honorable Mention Award – March 1 – April 1.

2003 School of Visual Arts Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, “Faculty Exhibition,” 12/2003 thru 1/2004

Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, “Cyberarts” Symposium/Exhibition (International), [assisted Golan Levine and Zachary Lieberman with the “Messa Di Vocce” performance], 09/2003

2000 Arnold Aronson Gallery, New York, NY, “Restart,” 05/24 thru 06/13/2000

1999 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY - ”Digital Quartet,” 04/10 thru 06/01/1999 (performance)

1998 Leubsdorf Gallery, New York, NY - “Somebody,” 05/16 thru 06/04/1998 (performance)

1997 Good Bad Art Collective, Denton, TX, “Nothing to see here,” 05/1997

500X Gallery, Dallas, TX, “X Select Show,” 04/1997

Invited Lecture Presentations

2006 Symposium Talk & Workshop – “9th Texas Sculpture Symposium,” Texas Tech University: South Campus, Junction, TX. 11/03 thru 11/05/2006

Symposium Talk/Panel Discussion – “3^rd Beijing International New Media Exhibition/Symposium,” Beijing, China, “Electronic Media Art Education Processes in Beijing,” 06/2006 (pending)

Lecture, at “Computational Aesthetics: Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Beauty and Happiness” Symposium. AAAI 2006, Boston, 07/16 thru 07/17/2006

One Week Workshop – Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, 06/06 thru 06/10/2006

Workshop – “Controlled Kinetic Interfaces: Analog to Digital Response” – Robotic and Emergent Systems (RES) Art Symposium/Exhibition at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), 06/01 thru 06/10/2006.

Artist/Gallery Talk – “IDMAa IDEAs Exhibition/Conference, ‘<CODE> Human Systems, Digital Bodies’” Hiestand Galleries at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio - 04/08/2006

Artist Talk – “Interaction, interfaces, and Relational Environments” – Digital Art Festival at Richland College, 04/04/2006

Artist Talk – “Art and Technology” - Plano Art Association invited me to give a Wednesday lecture on art and technology at the Plano Art Center in 03/27/2006

Artist Talk – Colin County College, invited by the Department of Art and Art History - 03/20/2006

Artist Talk – Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia Department in the University of North Texas School of Music, Denton, TX, 03/09/2006 (invited by Damian Keller)

Artist/Curator Talk – “Feng Mengbo, ‘Bytes & Pieces,’ and Texelectronica” -Fort Worth Modern Art Museum, Tuesday Evening Talks, Ft. Worth, Texas, 02/21/2006

Curatorial Talk – “Bytes & Pieces,” University of North Texas School of Visual Arts Gallery, 02/08/2006

Artist Presentation – w/ Artechmedia '06 (ARCO) Festival (International Symposium/Exhibition) - Madrid, Spain, 02/09/2006

Workshop – “Art and Technology” - Plano Art Association invited me to give a one-day workshop on "Art and Technology Praxis" at the Plano Art Center as a Saturday Series Workshop 03/27/2006

2005 Artist Talk – Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX, 12/02/2005

Symposium Talk/Panel Discussion - 2^nd Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition/Symposium, “In the Line of Flight: The Millenium Dialogue,” Beijing, China, Symposium Dates: 06/21 thru 06/23/2005 Exhibition Dates: 06/21 thru 07/30/2005 (Talk title: “The Relationship of Electronic Media Art-making to the Alchemical Process”)

Artist Talk/Symposium/Panel Discussion - Beijing Cubic Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China, (International Symposium: “The Emergence of Electronic Media Art in Beijing”) – 06/19/2005

One Week Workshop – Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China (invited by international artist Feng Mengbo and CAFA Director Ma Gang) – 06/06 thru 06/10/2005

Artist Talk – Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China (invited by international artist Feng Mengbo and CAFA Director Ma Gang), 06/02/2005

Artist Talk - Bei Wei University, Beijing, China, 06/2005

Artist Talk – El Centro College, Dallas, TX - "Merging Art with Emerging Technologies," 02/28/2005

Artist Talk- University of North Texas, Denton, TX – to discuss the work in the Faculty Show, 01/2005

Artist Talk- Bei Wei University, Beijing, China – “Competition and Cooperation - Art and Technology and Interactivity in the 21^st Century,” 08/2005

2004 Artist Talk – Sanban Gallery, Beijing China, 08/2005

Artist Talk - Bei Wei University, Beijing, China, 07/2005

2003 Visiting Critic – Parsons University, New York, NY, Mark Stafford’s MFA Thesis Studio Course

2002 Artist Talk – Parsons University, New York, NY, Zachary Lieberman’s BFA Motion Graphics Course

Grants & Awards

2006 Invited to Contribute an interactive artwork "Controlling the Wild West (Scene 2)" that sold at the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art's 2006 Wish Art Auction to Benefit the Art Center.

Awarded, Supplimental Travel Grant of $1000.00 from the University of North Texas (for travel to exhibition at Reina Sofia Museum.)

Program Committee Member, for Computational Aesthetics: Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Beauty and Happiness. AAAI 2006, Boston, July 16 -17^th, 2006.

Co-Author/Coordinator/Curator, “Texelectronica – Electronic Art and Sound Festival in Texas” – October, in collaboration with Joel Savary: Cultural Attache and French Consolate General to the United States, and Pierrette Lacour: UTD Visual Art Program Coordinator - (upcoming).

Awarded, Grant from The University of North Texas School of Visual Arts and The School of Music for $3100 as matching the grant from the French Embassy for the creation of “Texelectronica – Electronic Art and Sound Festival in Texas.” February

Awarded, Grant from the French Embassy for $3100 for the creation of “Texelectronica – Electronic Art and Sound Festival in Texas.” February

Awarded Curatorial Grant, The French Embassy has formally invited me to travel to Art Centers, Universities, and cultural districts in France, in search of artists working with Electronic and Emergent Media, in preparation for “Texelectronica,” April

Awarded, The Visiting Artists Committee of The University of North Texas School of Visual Arts has granted me $1000 to bring Feng Mengbo to UNT to exhibit, perform, and screen his movies for UNT students.

Awarded, The School of Music has offered $200, and the School of Visual Arts Studio Division has offered $500, to the cost of bringing Feng Mengbo to UNT.

2005 Awarded, Supplimental Travel Grant of $2000.00 from the University of North Texas (for artist in residency in Austria.)

Winner, Best in Show Cash Award at the The 2^nd International San Francisco Biennial, San Francisco, CA. Curated/Juried by Marian Parmenter, Director of The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artist’s Gallery – August

Faculty Advisor, Electronic Media Artist’s Group - UNT SoVA

Faculty Advisor, Dorkbot - UNT SoVA Chapter

Awarded, Grant of $500.00 in hardware from Dell Computers for Sun.dial project.

Awarded, Grant of $1500.00 in hardware from Parallax, Inc. for Sun.dial project.

Awarded, Grant of $3000.00 in hardware from Parallax, Inc. for Sanban Gallery exhibition in Beijing China and for the workshop gave to the students of the Chinese Academy of Fine Art in Beijing during May through June

Exhibition Juror – 2005 American Juried Art Salon – www.artjury.com , Plano, TX. Spring

Awarded, “Award of Merit” by Curator/Juror Mary Flanagan, South Shore Art Center, “Tech Art II” Exhibition, Cohasset, MA

Curator, Cora Stafford Art Gallery, "All Information Aside-Art You Can Touch" Denton, TX

Awarded, $3000 Research Initiation Grant funding “Project: Sundial”, UNT Center for Research, Denton

2004 Winner, 500X Honorable Mention Cash Award, Dallas, TX

Awarded, Supplimental Travel Grant of $1900.00 from the University of North Texas (for exhibitions and talks in China.)

2002 Membership, Member of the “Dorkbot” Group at Columbia University, NYC www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotnyc - 2002-present

Winner, UNICEF Award for Creating Motion Graphics for Three Conferences on Children

2001 Selected, Leadership Award at R/GA Interactive

2000 Winner, Communication Arts Site of the Day for Design of www.risd.com
Winner, AIGA Silver Pencil for Prada Kiosk
Winner, AdWeek Ecommerce Best Designed Site www.ibm.com

Bibliography

2006 Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, ”The Art and Science of Game Programming” – (second submission) with Ian Parberry and Timothy Roden, SIGCSE 2006, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. (submitted, accepted)

Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, ”Planning for Game Programming Classes: On Collaboration with Visual Arts, and the Laboratory” – (third submission) with Ian Parberry and Timothy Roden, SIGCSE 2006, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. (submitted, not accepted)

Arlington Museum of Art Calendar, ”Castanets and a Catcher’s Mit” was published as a full page photograph in the July section of a calendar promoting the Museum’s February Auction, January

Artlies Magazine. Issue #49, Exhibition Review of Austrian artist Karina Nimmerfall at Janette Kennedy Gallery in Dallas, TX, February

Artlies Magazine. Issue #49, Exhibition Review of Karyn Olivier at Dunn and Brown Contemporary, February

Glasstire, “Drive By Booting: Driver at the Bath House Cultural Center. Dallas” written by Charissa N. Terranova, January

North Texas Daily, “Visual Arts Faculty Shows Off” by Shasha Beard. January 24^th.

Rhizome.org, Based in New York, NY. Created/Maintained by The New Museum in NY, NY., “Driver” exhibition at the Bath House Cultural Center.

Rhizome.org, Based in New York, NY. Created/Maintained by The New Museum in NY, NY., Member since 01/06

2005 Glasstire, “John Pomara: Painting in Continuum” written by Noah Simblist, October.

North Texas Daily, “SOVA exhibit highlights artistic efforts of NT faculty,” written by Amanda Koellman, features artworks in variety of mediums, December 1

Academic Keys for Fine Art Group, Chosen and Listed as Who’s Who in Higher Art Education at: http://finearts.academickeys.com/

The-Artists.org, (online artist listing) – listed at the following url:

http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=DB12F599-D5DA-F555-86D3AF20497AEA40

Artlies Magazine. Issue #48, Exhibition Review of Trenton Doyle Hancock at Dunn and Brown Contemporary, November

Might Be Good, Fluent Collaborative and Testsite, “Max Kazemzadeh’s Dial-logs at Three Walls,” by Catherine Walworth, Issue #55, pp. 30-31 October 7, 2005.

San Antonion Current, “Formatting Identity,” Upcoming Exhibitions, October 7, 2005.

Guidelive, Fluent Collaborative and Testsite, “Max Kazemzadeh’s Dial-logs at Three Walls,” Issue #55, pp. 30-31 October 7, 2005.

Dallas Morning News, “Tom Sime New Bath House exhibit will show plenty of Heart,” by Tom Sime, Tuesday, February 1, 2005

Tulane Review Magazine, Tulane Literary Society. Spring 2005. entry entitled “Passage, by Max Kazemzadeh”, pp. 30-31.

Catalog: “The 2^nd International San Francisco Biennial,” Beijing, China. (For Exhibition: July 26^th– August 15^th, 2005), Published by The World Council for Arts and Culture.

Catalog: “In the Line of Flight: The Millenium Dialogue - 2^nd Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium,” Beijing, China. (Symposium Dates: June 21^st- June 23^th, Exhibition Dates: June 21^st – July 30^th), Edited by Lu Xiaobo, Zhang Ga. Published by Tsinghua University Press.

Catalog: Beijing Cubic Contemporary Art Center (11-art.com), Beijing, China, (International Exhibition) – June 18^rd- July 30^th(exhibiting four interactive artists: 2 from China, 1 from Sweden, and myself / each artist gave a performance with their work at the June 18^th opening)

Chinese Contemporary Art News, ”International Interactive Art Exhibition at Beijing Cubic Contemporary” – published by Chinese Art Book Co.,LTD. - June 2005 (Chinese)

TimeOut Beijing, ”Reactive Art in Dashanzi” – June 2005 (Chinese)

Hong Kong Daily News, ”Interactive Electronic Media Art at 798 Art District in Beijing” – by Zhang Wei Yuan - June 2005 (Chinese/English)

CNArts.net, ”Interactive Art at Sanban” – June 3, 2005 (Chinese documentation)

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Grand Text Auto, ”Boston Cyberarts – TechArt II Show,” by Mary Flanagan – April 20, 2005

Arts Media: Boston’s Culture Magazine, ”High Tech, High Art,” pp 17, 26 (on the cover), by Paul Fitzgerald – May/June 2005

Coagula Art Journal, ”iArt-Art & Digital Imaging Technology: The Top 40 Show @ LACDA” by Roger Macintosh – April/May 2005

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2003 North Texas Daily (Cover Photo and Article), Fan, Li. 2003. “The Art of Teaching” – Friday, vol. 88, Issue XX. 16 January

2000 Parsons Book 2000, Parsons School of Design. 2000. “A See-Saw and A Scoreboard - The

Problems with Competition within an Inherently Cooperative Environment” May

1997 Denton Record Chronicle. McMullan, Dawn. 1997. “Burning Rubber-Kazemzadeh retires traditional themes.” 16 January

Denton Record Chronicle, McMullan, Dawn. 1997. “Throw-away exhibition.” 20 February.

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Employment

06/05-now Writer – ArtLies Magazine, Houston, TX

Visiting Professor / Artist in Residence – Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, China

www.cafa.edu.cn

04/05-now Exhibition Juror – American Juried Art Salon – www.artjury.com , Dallas, TX

08/03-now Assistant Professor of Electronic Media Art – University of North Texas, School of Visual Arts, Denton, TX

01/99-now Visiting Lecturer in Electronic Media Art – Pratt University, New York, NY

08/01-05/03 Visiting Critic & Lecturer in Design and Technology (MFA & BFA courses ) - Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

11/01-08/03 Founder/Owner - Wonderblimp Interactive, Brooklyn, NY

02/00-11/02 Interactive / Visual Designer – R/Greenberg and Associates (R/GA Interactive), New York, NY

05/98-02/00 Interaction / Web Designer – Delirium, Inc, New York, NY

03/97-09/98 Interaction / Web Designer – Digital Media Design, Inc, New York, NY

06/95-03/97 Creative Director - PGS Advertising, Dallas, TX

BORN

1972 Dallas, Texas,