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MICHAEL W. WILSON
EDUCATION:
1999
YALE UNIVERSITY Master of Fine Art, Sculpture
1997
SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE Bachelor of Fine Art, New Genres
1992 HENDRIX COLLEGE Bachelor of Art
SELECTED SCREENINGS BROADCASTS EXHIBITIONS:
New Haven, CT San Francisco, CA Conway, AR
2011 : Close the Eyes (Preview Screening), Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria 2011 : Pop Patriotism 2011, Carriage Trade, New York, NY 2011 : Silhouette City (Screening/Discussion), Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, Missoula, MT 2011 : Silhouette City (Screening/Discussion), Center for Inquiry (CFI), Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2010 : American Crusaders, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, News Channel, Quebec, Canada 2010 : American Crusaders, (Int’l Broadcast Premiere) on XL Reports, RT Channel, Moscow, Russia 2010 : Silhouette City (Screening/Discussion), Arkansas Literary Festival, Little Rock, AR 2010 : Silhouette City (Screening/Discussion), Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 2010 : Professor Dialogues, I5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2010 : Silhouette City (Screening/Discussion), Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2010 : Silhouette City (Screening/Discussion), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2010 : Silhouette City (Screening/Discussion), University of Lethbridge, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2009 : Silhouette City (Screening/Discussion), UCSD Price Center Theater, San Diego, CA 2009 : Silhouette City (Screening/Discussion), Broad Performance Space, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 2009 : Silhouette City (Screening/Discussion), TechnoCultural Studies, UC Davis, Davis, CA 2009 : Theatrical Release: Silhouette City, Roxie Theater, San Francisco, CA 2008 : Silhouette City (Screening/Discussion), Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA 2008 : Silhouette City (Screening/Discussion), Royce Hall UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 2008 : Silhouette City (World Premiere), Miami International Film Festival, Miami, FL 2008 : Silhouette City (Preview Screening),San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, SF, CA 2007 : History Will Repeat Itself, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany 2006 : Voiceovers, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles 2005 : Rhizome Commissions, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY 2004 : ALT_CTRL, Beall Center for Art & Technology, UC-Irvine, Irvine, CA 2004 : Join Us, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO 2004 : Fight Club, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2003 : Waco Resurrection, The Kitchen, New York, NY 2003 : Conclave Exspectatio, Realartways, Hartford, CT (solo) 2003 : American Dream, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY 2002 : Artists from L.A.: Parkhaus im Malkastenpark, Dusseldorf 2002 : POP Patriotism, Momenta Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Michael W. Wilson APPOINTMENTS:
Visiting Professor, Department of Media Studies, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA Video Production, Fall 2010; Video Production, Spring 2011 Media Arts for Social Justice, Spring 2011 Adjunct Faculty, Department of Art, University of California–Riverside Current Topics in Contemporary Art, Spring 2009 Immaterial Sculpture: Time-Based, Spring 2009 Immaterial Sculpture, Fall 2005 - Fall 2009 Adjunct Professor, Department of Art, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA Introduction to Computer as Medium, Spring 2005 Interactivity, Fall 2004 Visiting Profesor, Department of Art, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA Beginning Sculpture, Fall 2004 - Spring 2005 Visiting Professor, California State University–Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA The Business of Art, Fall 2004 Adjunct Faculty, Department of Art, University of California–Irvine Visual Culture, Spring 2004 Digital Multimedia, Winter & Spring 2003 Digital Aesthetics, Fall 2002 & Fall 2003 Adjunct Faculty, Department of Art, Pasadena City College Digital Cinema, Fall 2002 - Spring 2004 Motion Graphics, Spring 2001 Visiting Professor, Department of Art, Otis College of Art & Design Art & Technology Practices, Fall 2003
LECTURES/PANELS/INTERVIEWS:
2010 : Guest Filmmaker, Michael Slate Show, KPFK, Pacifica Radio Network, On-air interview 2010 : Visiting Artist, Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), Presentation/Q&A, Portland, OR 2010 : Visiting Artist, Concordia University, Q&A discussion, Montreal, Canada 2010 : Visiting Author, Arkansas Literary Festival, Arkansas Studies Institute, Little Rock, AR 2009 : Visiting Artist, Department of Art, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 2009 : Visiting Artist, Pitzer College Department of Art, Claremont, CA 2009 : Panelist, Post-screening discussion at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA 2008 : Visiting Artist, California Institute of the Arts, Film Today Series, Valencia, CA 2008 : Panelist, Post-screening discussion (moderated by Robert Scheer) at Royce Hall, UCLA, CA 2008 : Artist Presentation, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA 2008 : Panelist, (Panel Discussion: Apocalyptic Christian Nationalism), Little Rock Film Festival, AR 2007 : Visiting Artist, (Steel Center Lecture: Christian Patriotism), Hendrix College, Conway, AR 2007 : Visiting Artist, (Fiction and Allegory in Current Media Practices), UCSD, San Diego, CA 2006 : Panelist, (Panel Discussion: Silhouette City) Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, AR 2006 : Panelist, (Panel Discussion: Resistance & Film) Goethe Institute, San Francisco, CA 2004 : Visiting Artist, (PARC Forum Lecture Series) Palo Alto Research Center 2004 : Visiting Artist (Issues in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture - Prof. Y.S. Min), UC–Irvine 2004 : Visiting Artist w/C-level (Contemporary Issues and Practice - Prof. A. Zaki), UC–Riverside 2003 : Visiting Artist w/c-level, California Institute of the Arts 2002 : Visiting Artist (The Rhetoric of Performance - Prof. M. Marotte), Stanford University
Michael W. Wilson SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
PUBLICATIONS:
AWARDS:
2010 : Review: Silhouette City, Elan Martin, September – October, THE DOT CONNECTER 2010 : The Empire Strikes Back To Unify Working Community, Kevin Patra, April 13, KCET 2010 : Rightward Christians…, Patrick Lejtenyi, MONTREAL MIRROR 2010 : The Christian Right Wants America Back…, Michael Connors, THE CONCORDIAN 2009 : Review: Silhouette City, SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN 2009 : Silhouette City, BAY AREA REPORTER 2008 : Secularism Strikes Back, Conrad Geller, Vol. 34, Winter, CINEASTE 2008 : Playing the Past, Whalen & Taylor (eds), VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PRESS 2008 : Is Silhouette City this year’s Jesus Camp?, Blake Rutherford, INCONTENTION.COM 2008 : Good versus Evil on the Eve of America’s Meltdown, Matthew Taylor, THE ROYAL GAZETTE 2008 : Silhouette City, MIAMI HERALD 2008 : Christian Nationalism on the Rise, Truthdig.com, November 3 2007 : Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Video Games, Bogost, Ian. MIT PRESS 2006 : Under Fire at I-Space, Alan G. Artner, September 22, 2006, CHICAGO TRIBUNE 2006 : At the Edge of Art, Joline Blais & Jon Ippolito, THAMES & HUDSON 2005 : The End of Celluloid: Film Futures in the Digital Age, Matt Hanson, ROTOVISION PRESS 2004 : Game resurrects Waco tragedy, Jeff Douglas, July 3, ASSOCIATED PRESS 2004 : Un tissu de vérité pour mailler le virtuel, Marie Lechner, January, LIBERATION 2003 : Online Games Grab Grim Reality, Matthew Mirapeau, September, NEW YORK TIMES 2003 : Art Picks, October, TIMEOUT:NEWYORK 2003 : Waco Resurrection, October, FILMMAKER MAGAZINE 2003 : Reviews, Ken Johnson, March 14, NEW YORK TIMES 2002 : Critics’ Picks, Martha Schwendener, ARTFORUM.COM 2002 : “Pop Patriotism” at Momenta, Nicole Rudick, THE THING.NET
Operational Aesthetics, (OccupyEverything.org, March, 2011) On Art, The New Materialism, Clayton Crockett & Jeff Robbins, editors. (Palgrave Macmillan 2012) A Kingdom at Any Cost: Right-wing Visions of Apocalypse in America, (Dist. by Univ. of Chicago, 2009) Advancing the Kingdom, (Talk2Action.org, May 2, 2008) Psychic Secession, (Journal of Aesthetics & Protest #4, Los Angeles, CA: 2006) Apocalyptic Algorithms, (PARC Forum Lecture Series, Palo Alto Research Center: 2004) Conclave Expectatio, (Cakewalk Magazine #6, Los Angeles, CA: 2003) Ritual Desire for Social Satisfaction, [Catalog, ed. Jennifer Nelson (Kunsthalle Duesseldorf, 2003)]
2009 : Instructional Resource Grant (UC-Riverside) 2008 : Headlands Center for the Arts, (Artist -in-Residence) 2008 : Eastman Foundation Grant 2008 : LEF Foundation Grant 2007 : Paul Robeson Fund Grant 2006 : Yip Harburg Foundation Grant 2005 : Ars Electronica (Honorary Mention) 2004 : Rhizome Commission
Michael W. Wilson COLLECTIONS:
WEBSITES:
Haverford College Library, Haverford, PA Swarthmore College Library, Swarthmore, PA Trexler Library, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, Goethe Universität, Franfurt, Germany The Library of Congress; Exit Art Reactions Collection, Washington DC University of Kansas Library, Lawrence, Kansas duPont-Ball Library, Stetson University, DeLand, FL
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