Education
2000 M.F.A. Visual Arts University of California San Diego
1992 B.A. Media / Culture Brown University
Academic appointments
2002 Associate Professor of Media Studies, Harvey Mudd College
2012 Graduate Studio Instructor, California College of the Arts
2006 Extended Graduate Faculty Member, Art Department, Claremont Graduate University
2001 Adjunct Professor, University of California, San Diego
Exhibitions
2015
Videonale International Video Art competition, Bonn, Germany
Workshop at Corner College Collective, Zurich
Screening at Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles
Screenings at UCSD, Swarthmore, CalArts, Pitzer College
2014
Modern Animals, Curated by Stupid Pills, Hyperion Tavern, Los Angeles
Experiments on Film, Curated by Imagine Science Films, Exploratorium
Exile: A Living Forest, ONCA Gallery, Brighton, England
Art and Nature in Contemporary Culture, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2013
Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland
Festival on Wheels, various cities, Turkey
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Romania
New Horizons International Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland
Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Study, Marseille, France
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside, USA
Transitio New Media Festival, Mexico City
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, Canada
Oak Cliff Film Festival, Texas
BAMcinemafest, Brooklyn
Los Angeles Film Festival
ArtiFACT Gallery, UC San Diego
One week theatrical screening at Cinefamily, Los Angeles
True/False Film Festival
Berlinale Film Festival, Germany
Sundance Film Festival
Glasgow Film Festival, Scotland
Kino der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Burning Ice Festival, Brussels
Transverse Film Festival, Michigan
Strelka Institute, Moscow
Web broadcast MUBI curated films
2012
**Solo show, Edinburgh College of Art, as part of Edinburgh Visual Arts Festival
Imagine Science Film Festival
dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel Germany (as part of Worldly House)
Broadcast in UK as part of Random Acts, Channel Four / BBC
Rome Film Festival
Underwire Film Festival, London
Gallery 516, Albuquerque New Mexico
2011
**Solo show, Arts Catalyst, London
Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention, Hybrid Art for work in progress
Abandon Normal Devices festival, Liverpool
Nottingham Contemporary
2009
**Solo show, Project Series 39, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
“Interspecies” exhibition, London, sponsored by Arts Catalyst
Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, sponsored by Arts Catalyst
Intelligent Design: Interspecies Art, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside
“Interspecies” exhibition, sponsored by Arts Catalyst, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, England
“An Uncommon Eye: Diana Zlotnick Collection.” LA City College Gallery.
2008
**Solo show, TELIC Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, CA
The Public School at TELIC Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, CA
“Animalia,” Proctors Mainstage, NY
Aspect Magazine: The Chronicle of New Media Art. Volume 12: Vital. December 2008.
Multispecies Salon, Play Space Gallery, California College of the Arts
“Body-Art-Disease” Symposium screening, UCLA Art | Sci Center
Rencontres International Science Cinema Festival, Marseille, France
Darwin Bicentennial, Ohio State University, Hopkins Gallery
“Hotbed: Video Cultivation beside the Getty Gardens,” In conjunction with California Video, curated by Anne Bray, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (May 9, 10)
Cinemania Anthroidea, Documentary Film Series, UCSD
“Who is Our Inner Ape.” Southern California Primate Research Forum, CSU Fullerton
2007
E n t e r 3 Festival, Prague
Mill Valley Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
“Distant Relations,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark.
Screenings and exhibitions beyond soft science compilation
2007
“UNnatural,” Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennesse
“Allegories of the Genome,” curated by Holly Longstaff, <www.genomic-art.com>
2006
“Close Encounters,” ScienceLiteratureArts Conference, Amsterdam
Course on Art and Technology, UC Davis
Pineapple Project Room, Malmo, Sweden
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2005
“The Documentary Impulse,” Scripps Humanities Institute Series, Scripps College
“Intersections of Art and Science” Symposium, Pomona College
“Kloone 2004,” Conference and Exhibition, Amsterdam
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Wignall Gallery, Chaffey College, screening and installation with Critical Art Ensemble
2004
International Media Art Award 2004 Top 50 Nominee for “Science and Art Showing the Invisible,” programmed by ZKM and SWR (Southwest German TV) broadcast on
SUEDWEST TV, Swiss TV, ARTE in October 2004
Program curated by Steve Seid, University of Washington.
Critical Art Ensemble Benefit, Galapogos, NY
Critical Art Ensemble Benefit, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco
“Do It Yourself DNA Day,” Curated by Heath Bunting, Bristol, UK
“Powering Up; Powering Down” Technica Radika Conference and Exhibition, University of California, San Diego
“DNA: Art and Science – The Double Helix,” University of South Florida, Contemporary Art Museum.
“The Genome and Society,” Freshman Seminar, taught by Dr Laura Garwin, Director of Research Affairs, Bauer Center for Genomics Research, Harvard University.
New York Underground Film Festival.
“InterMedia,” Cincinnati Art Museum, Screenings
2003
“Genetic Screenings: Recent Experimental Work about the Human Genome,” curated by Steve Seid, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
“Genetic Screenings” film program in coordination with “Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics,” Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Cinematexas International Short Film Festival, Austin, Texas
“Digital Improvisation,” California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside
Grants and awards
2015
Digital Humanities Course Development grant, Mellon Foundation
2014
Center for Environmental Studies research grant, HMC
Dean of Faculty Mid-Career Development Grant for Women in Gaming
2012
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Computational Biology Grant
Selected Participant, Digital Humanities Collaboratory Workshop
2011
Research Award, Harvey Mudd College
Honorary Mention, Ars Electronica
2010
Major Arts Award, Wellcome Trust
2009
Intercollegiate Science and Technology Studies Research Grant, Claremont Colleges
2008
Faculty Research Grant, Harvey Mudd College
Artist Resource for Completion Grant, Durfee Foundation
2007
Nominee, New Media Arts Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation and Renew Media
Semifinalist honor, International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, National Science
Foundation and The Journal Science
Co-Production award, Banff New Media Institute
2006
Furthermore Grant for Writing and Publishing Museum of Jurassic Technology Catalogue
2005
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant for Faculty Career Enhancement, New Venture Category
HMC Sabbatical Supplement Grant
2004
International Media Art prize, sponsored by ZKM
Faculty Research Grant, Harvey Mudd College
2003
Faculty Diversity Teaching Grant, Harvey Mudd College
Faculty Research Grant, Harvey Mudd College
2002
Fellowship, “Up Front and Personal/Intimate Technologies” Residency, Banff Arts Centre
2001
Creative Capital Media Grant for Stories from the Genome
United States Institute of Theatre Technology, Project Grant
2000
California Council for the Humanities, Major Project Grant for Baroque Opera
1999
Canada Arts Council, New media collaboration grant
Marin Arts Council, Individual artist grant in film/video
Getty Research Institute, Research support grant
Rachel Mayeri
Education 2000 M.F.A. Visual Arts University of California San Diego 1992 B.A. Media / Culture Brown University Academic appointments 2002 Associate Professor of Media Studies, Harvey Mudd College 2012 Graduate Studio Instructor, California College of the Arts 2006 Extended Graduate Faculty Member, Art Department, Claremont Graduate University 2001 Adjunct Professor, University of California, San Diego Exhibitions 2015 Videonale International Video Art competition, Bonn, Germany Workshop at Corner College Collective, Zurich Screening at Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles Screenings at UCSD, Swarthmore, CalArts, Pitzer College 2014 Modern Animals, Curated by Stupid Pills, Hyperion Tavern, Los Angeles Experiments on Film, Curated by Imagine Science Films, Exploratorium Exile: A Living Forest, ONCA Gallery, Brighton, England Art and Nature in Contemporary Culture, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2013 Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland Festival on Wheels, various cities, Turkey Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Romania New Horizons International Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Study, Marseille, France Selections from the Permanent Collection, Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside, USA Transitio New Media Festival, Mexico City Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, Canada Oak Cliff Film Festival, Texas BAMcinemafest, Brooklyn Los Angeles Film Festival ArtiFACT Gallery, UC San Diego One week theatrical screening at Cinefamily, Los Angeles True/False Film Festival Berlinale Film Festival, Germany Sundance Film Festival Glasgow Film Festival, Scotland Kino der Kunst, Munich, Germany Burning Ice Festival, Brussels Transverse Film Festival, Michigan Strelka Institute, Moscow Web broadcast MUBI curated films 2012 **Solo show, Edinburgh College of Art, as part of Edinburgh Visual Arts Festival Imagine Science Film Festival dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel Germany (as part of Worldly House) Broadcast in UK as part of Random Acts, Channel Four / BBC Rome Film Festival Underwire Film Festival, London Gallery 516, Albuquerque New Mexico 2011 **Solo show, Arts Catalyst, London Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention, Hybrid Art for work in progress Abandon Normal Devices festival, Liverpool Nottingham Contemporary 2009 **Solo show, Project Series 39, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA “Interspecies” exhibition, London, sponsored by Arts Catalyst Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, sponsored by Arts Catalyst Intelligent Design: Interspecies Art, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside “Interspecies” exhibition, sponsored by Arts Catalyst, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, England “An Uncommon Eye: Diana Zlotnick Collection.” LA City College Gallery. 2008 **Solo show, TELIC Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, CA The Public School at TELIC Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, CA “Animalia,” Proctors Mainstage, NY Aspect Magazine: The Chronicle of New Media Art. Volume 12: Vital. December 2008. Multispecies Salon, Play Space Gallery, California College of the Arts “Body-Art-Disease” Symposium screening, UCLA Art | Sci Center Rencontres International Science Cinema Festival, Marseille, France Darwin Bicentennial, Ohio State University, Hopkins Gallery “Hotbed: Video Cultivation beside the Getty Gardens,” In conjunction with California Video, curated by Anne Bray, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (May 9, 10) Cinemania Anthroidea, Documentary Film Series, UCSD “Who is Our Inner Ape.” Southern California Primate Research Forum, CSU Fullerton 2007 E n t e r 3 Festival, Prague Mill Valley Film Festival Chicago Underground Film Festival “Distant Relations,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark. Screenings and exhibitions beyond soft science compilation 2007 “UNnatural,” Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennesse “Allegories of the Genome,” curated by Holly Longstaff, <www.genomic-art.com> 2006 “Close Encounters,” ScienceLiteratureArts Conference, Amsterdam Course on Art and Technology, UC Davis Pineapple Project Room, Malmo, Sweden Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany 2005 “The Documentary Impulse,” Scripps Humanities Institute Series, Scripps College “Intersections of Art and Science” Symposium, Pomona College “Kloone 2004,” Conference and Exhibition, Amsterdam Chicago Underground Film Festival Wignall Gallery, Chaffey College, screening and installation with Critical Art Ensemble 2004 International Media Art Award 2004 Top 50 Nominee for “Science and Art Showing the Invisible,” programmed by ZKM and SWR (Southwest German TV) broadcast on SUEDWEST TV, Swiss TV, ARTE in October 2004 Program curated by Steve Seid, University of Washington. Critical Art Ensemble Benefit, Galapogos, NY Critical Art Ensemble Benefit, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco “Do It Yourself DNA Day,” Curated by Heath Bunting, Bristol, UK “Powering Up; Powering Down” Technica Radika Conference and Exhibition, University of California, San Diego “DNA: Art and Science – The Double Helix,” University of South Florida, Contemporary Art Museum. “The Genome and Society,” Freshman Seminar, taught by Dr Laura Garwin, Director of Research Affairs, Bauer Center for Genomics Research, Harvard University. New York Underground Film Festival. “InterMedia,” Cincinnati Art Museum, Screenings 2003 “Genetic Screenings: Recent Experimental Work about the Human Genome,” curated by Steve Seid, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX “Genetic Screenings” film program in coordination with “Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics,” Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA Cinematexas International Short Film Festival, Austin, Texas “Digital Improvisation,” California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside Grants and awards 2015 Digital Humanities Course Development grant, Mellon Foundation 2014 Center for Environmental Studies research grant, HMC Dean of Faculty Mid-Career Development Grant for Women in Gaming 2012 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Computational Biology Grant Selected Participant, Digital Humanities Collaboratory Workshop 2011 Research Award, Harvey Mudd College Honorary Mention, Ars Electronica 2010 Major Arts Award, Wellcome Trust 2009 Intercollegiate Science and Technology Studies Research Grant, Claremont Colleges 2008 Faculty Research Grant, Harvey Mudd College Artist Resource for Completion Grant, Durfee Foundation 2007 Nominee, New Media Arts Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation and Renew Media Semifinalist honor, International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, National Science Foundation and The Journal Science Co-Production award, Banff New Media Institute 2006 Furthermore Grant for Writing and Publishing Museum of Jurassic Technology Catalogue 2005 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant for Faculty Career Enhancement, New Venture Category HMC Sabbatical Supplement Grant 2004 International Media Art prize, sponsored by ZKM Faculty Research Grant, Harvey Mudd College 2003 Faculty Diversity Teaching Grant, Harvey Mudd College Faculty Research Grant, Harvey Mudd College 2002 Fellowship, “Up Front and Personal/Intimate Technologies” Residency, Banff Arts Centre 2001 Creative Capital Media Grant for Stories from the Genome United States Institute of Theatre Technology, Project Grant 2000 California Council for the Humanities, Major Project Grant for Baroque Opera 1999 Canada Arts Council, New media collaboration grant Marin Arts Council, Individual artist grant in film/video Getty Research Institute, Research support grant