Katherine Sweetman
(619) 838-7666
http://katherinesweetman.com
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Education:
2008 M.F.A. Visual Arts, The University of California, San Diego
2004 B.A. Major: Visual Arts & Technology, Minor: Business Administration, California State University, San Marcos (magna cum laude)
2004 Summer Intensive Program, The New School University, New York
2001-2003 Electronic Media studies, University of South Florida, Tampa
1998-2001 Graphic Design studies, University of Florida, Gainesville (Amy DeGrove Scholarship)
Professional Experience:
2009-Present Media Librarian, Passmorelab, San Diego, CA
People's Post Videographer, MEDIA ARTS CENTER San Diego, San Diego, CA
2009 Instructor, San Diego State University (see Teaching Experience)
Instructor, Southwestern College (see Teaching Experience)
Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant, and Conference Liaison, University of Florida's Paris Research Center, Paris, France
2008-2009 Director of Lui Velazquez, alternative art space/ art gallery, Colonia Federal, Tijuana, México
2007-2009 Instructor, California State University, San Marcos (see Teaching Experience)
2008
The University of California, San Diego:
Instructor, University of California, San Diego (see Teaching Experience)
Teaching Consultant with the Center for Teaching Development, position as consultant for teaching improvement and effectiveness, UCSD, Fall
Assistant to Associate Professor Adriene Jenik, ActiveCampus Project, Research Assistantship
2005-08 Teaching Assistant University of California, San Diego (see Professional Teaching Experience)
2007 Photography Assistant to Doug Hall, large format photography assistant
2006 Ron Sachs Communications, camera operator, video footage used for, Hurricane 2006! National Hurricane Survival Test-2006
2004-06 Darrell Wright Video Productions, San Diego, CA. Office and Sales Assistant, Graphic Designer, and Video Editor
2004 Groovy Like a Movie, San Diego, CA. Sales and marketing assistance, graphic design, and production assistant work
1999-02 Flair Pro Color Lab, Gainesville, FL. Digital Department, computer aided color correction, touch-ups with PhotoShop, general Digital Department work, and service
1998-99 University of Florida School of Art and Art History, Gainesville, FL. Photographic Assistant to the Director of School of Art and Art History
1998 University of Florida Art Gallery, Gainesville, FL. Gallery Attendant. assisting the Gallery Director
Exhibition Record:
2010 Shifting Ground, Gallery Gray, Online Video Exhibition
Navel Gazing: Artist's Visions of Florida, Brevard Art Museum, Melborne, FL, Jan-April
2009 HIT Faculty Biennial Show, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA.
The Sketchbook Project, Art House traveling exhibit, Art House Gallery Atlanta, GA, Museum of Contemporary Art DC, Washington, DC, Chris' Jazz Cafe Philadelphia, PA, Laconia Gallery Boston, MA, Antenna Gallery Chicago, IL, Soulard Art Market St. Louis, MO, 3rd Ward Brooklyn, NY, Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) Atlanta, GA, Chicago Art Source Gallery Chicago, IL
7th International Film Festival Yerevan/Armenia, -One Minute Ine Shot 2009- Curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne as part of COLOGNE OFF, May 2009
Nine Transient Things (flier), Infinity Lab Exhibition, Voz Alta Gallery, San Diego, CA
Suburban Picnic, screening as part of the first "North Park Nights", Projections in empty building, North Park San Diego, CA
2008 The Infinity Lab Presents, Phantom Slightings: Art After The Post-Chicano Movement (flier), Lui Velazquez, Tijuana, Mexico
A dia de los Muertos altar exhibition curated by Cal A.Vera, Hosted by Centro Cultural de la Raza (flier), The Infinity Lab exhibition, San Diego, CA
Entijuanarte 2008, Colectivo Lui Velazquez, CECUT courtyard, Tijuana, Mexico
The San Diego Woman’s Film Festival 2008, Reading Cinemas, Galumphs Theaters, San Diego
A Room of One's Own: Intimate Art in Contemporary Space, Adapta Project, Terra Sur, Tijuana, Mexico
The Rencontres Internationales BERLIN, video consultation library, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Viva La Revolution, video screening, "Fridays off the 405", The Getty Center, Los Angeles CA
MFA 2008, University Gallery, The University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
The Rencontres Internationales MADRID, documentary video collection, Complejo El Águila, the Auditorio del Ministerio de Cultura, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Instituto Cervantes, Filmoteca Española
INCOGNITO, Santa Monica Museum Benefit Show, Santa Monica, CA
Networked, (flier) Group Show, Gallery Aferro, Newark NJ
You Like Fish and Chips and Porn (flier), Solo Exhibition, Marcuse Gallery, La Jolla, CA
UCSD Open Studios: Graduate Open Studios, Visual Arts Facility, University of California, San Diego
2007 The Rencontres Internationales PARIS, documentary video collection, Jeu de Paume, the Centre Pompidou, the cinema l'Entrepôt, Palais de Tokyo Centre Pompidou
The TOAST show, Sibell-Wolle Fine Arts building, University of Colorado, Boulder
Snap to the Grid, group benefit show, Los Angeles Center For Digital Art, Los Angeles CA
The Latency of the Moving Image, Telic Arts Exchange curated by Eduardo Navas, Los Angeles, CA
"Lucent", Public Art Installation, Office of Research Affairs, Collaboration with Owen Mundy, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
"Etcetera" Spring Festival, (flier) Video Installation for event, Visual Arts Facility, La Jolla, CA
Living information, group exhibition, Marcuse Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Addressing Iraq: Mail-Art About the War, Reitz Union Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL & University of South Florida Tampa, FL (traveling exhibition)
UCSD Open Studios: Graduate Open Studios, Visual Arts Facility, University of California, San Diego.
YouTube Relevance Project "8 Weeks in LA", Solo Exhibition, Marcuse Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2006 UCSD First Year Review for MFA program: Video Screening Places, People, and Things. Screening and Reception
2004 The Circus of Misconceptions, solo exhibition for Ray at Night Gallery Walk. A circus of work and freak show-style memories, North Park, San Diego, CA
CSUSM Screening Nights, video showing under guidance and direction of Instructor, Tony Allard. San Marcos, CA
2003 Techno Prisoners, multiple person show under the guidance and direction of Professor Deborah Small. San Marcos, CA
ART x TRA II, multiple person show under the guidance and direction of Professor David Avalos. San Marcos, CA
2001 The Peacock, a short film. A spoof on consumers being seduced by sexy marketing schemes. Accepted and Shown at the Florida Film Festival.
Selected Articles and Reviews (on work):
New Video Highlights Free Speech Troubles at Southwestern College, FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), Peter Bonilla, January 2010
Fringe Theories, Ricahrd Gleaves, Art As Authority, January 2010
Fringe Theories: Ideas that Depart Significantly from the Prevailing or Orthodox Views by Sheena Ghanbari, Sheena Ghanbari, SDVAN Picked Raw Peeled, December 2009
On The Fringe, The To-Do List, City Week, San Diego City Beat, December 2009
Freephone Art Project offers the deported a chance to phone home*, Diane Haithman, Los Angeles Times, May 2009
UCSD grads showcase art south of the border, Hector Trujillo, La Jolla Light, May 2009
Lui Velazquez Artist Space, Derrik Chinn, SignOnSanDiego article, interview, slide show May 2009
The Infinity Lab presents Nine Transient Things, Michele Guieu, Inspiration, etc, May 2009
Calit2 Artists participate in Tijuana Art Initiative, Micha Cadenas, Calit2 Life, http://life.calit2.net/
'Faite comme d'habitude' or the Culture of Me Me Me New Contemporaries II - Part 1, Kevin Freitas, Art as Authority, February
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid Catalogue, (detail) 2008
Our picks of this week's events: Art Taken Seriously, Kinsee Moran, San Diego City Beat December 2008
The New Frontier: A Sense of Renewal in Tijuana, CITY magazine, Issue 55, November 2008
The Infinity Lab, Mania Magazine, Fall 2008 issue
Kruger Art Receives Urine Award at the University of California, President of Art, Oct 2008
You Tube Evolution: Artists and others are using the online resource for more than just home videos, cover story, Kinsee Morlan, San Diego City Beat, August 2008
The Gift That Keeps on Giving, Art Vent June 2008
Getty Hijacked: Video hackers take down Getty’s video ‘art’ site, June 2008
The Getty's "Video Revolutionaries" website attacked by digital artists and "over thrown"!, June 2008
UCSD / University Art Gallery / MFA 2008, Michele Guieu, Inspiration, etc, June 2008
Action! They're ready to take the helm, Lee Grant, San Diego Union Tribune, May 2008
The Latency of the Moving Image, essay and curated show at Telic Arts Exchange, by Eduardo Navas, May 2007: Remix Theory, May 2007: New Media Fix, April 2007
Open Studios Provides Window to Students’ Art and Lives, UCSD News, March 2007
Those Freaky Streets : Katherine Sweetman Explores the Dark Side of the Circus, San Diego CityBeat, December, 2005
Articles, Reviews and Texts (written):
Michele Guieu Takes Command of The Art Produce Gallery, SDVAN Picked Raw Peeled, January 2010
All e-Communication is Miscommunication, Pros* Journal, Issue Zero, January 2010
The Man Behind the Latino Film Festival, San Diego Entertainer Magazine, January 2010
Eileen Myles is a Legend, SDVAN Picked Raw Peeled, December 2009
Local Screening of The Yes Men Fix The World, San Diego Entertainer Magazine, <sdentertainer.com>, November 2009
Best Alternative Art Gallery, Best off the Beaten Path Day Trip, Best Study Cafe, San Diego City Beat BEST OF 2009 Issue, November 2009
Tijuana/San Diego Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface, SDVAN Picked Raw Peeled, October 2009
Little Gallery, Big Art: Art Produce Gallery Presents "Untied & Severed", San Diego Entertainer Magazine, <sdentertainer.com>, October 2009
X Marks the Spot: San Diego artist Doug Thompson X's greatest masterpiece just might be where he lays his head, San Diego CityBeat, September 2009
Extra! Extra!: From Hummer humping to teaching kids about world news, artist Tim Schwartz is as subversive as he is sweet, San Diego CityBeat, July 2009
Lust For Life: Paris expat Michele Guieu paints away the world’s troubles, San Diego CityBeat, June 2009
Homing In - An Exhibition of 50 San Diego Artists, SDVAN Picked Raw Peeled, June 2009
Kim MacConnel and Brian Dick, ART NOTES: Kim MacConnel and Brian Dick DISCOMBOBULATED (pdf), April 2009
Gabriel Figueroa: Cinematographer, CECUT exhibition review, SDVAN Picked Raw Peeled, April 2009
The Image Collector: From collages to documentary film, no art medium is off limits to Perry Vasquez, San Diego CityBeat, February 2009
Morbidly Aware Painter Ricardo Islas uses memories and experience to present his gritty version of border life and Brent Beltrán puts together a cultural series on deportations, San Diego CityBeat, January 2009
Deportation Nation: Visual Migrations, SDVAN, Picked Raw Peeled, February
Christmas at La Casa del Tunel, SDVAN, Picked Raw Peeled, December 2008
The Gender of Dragon, San Diego CityBeat, November 2008
I Want to See You in My Clothes! Glenna Jennings and Fabian Cereijido @ Lui Velazquez, SDVAN, Picked Raw Peeled, November 2008
Tijuana is Intense, SDVAN, Picked Raw Peeled, October 2008
Make Some Noise: Nina Waisman creates the soundscape—you create the sound, San Diego CityBeat, October 2008
Swimming in the Media Stream, Show Review Mesa College, San Diego, August 2008
Curated Shows and Events:
FRINGE THEORIES: Ideas that Depart Significantly from the Orthodox or Prevailing Views, Agitprop, San Diego, CA December 2009
The Flâneur Reconsidered, The University of Florida's Paris Research Center, Paris, France, July 2009
Lui Velazquez Presents Trish Stone & Aldo Guerra, May 2009
Intimate Simulations, Grand Opening of Lui Velazquez 2.0, April 2009
Lui Velazquez Presents Phantom Slightings: Art After the Post-Chicano Movement, December 2008
Lui Velazquez Presents Glenna Jennings and Fabian Cereijido, November 2008
Lui Velazquez Presents Bob Medina, "Buttoning Up the Border", Lui Velazquez, Tijuana, September 2008
Digital Crack, Digital Art and Video for the Web, Cal State San Marcos, December 2007
Co-organizer of UCSD Open Studios with Sara Hunsucker 2006 & 2007
Living Information, Marcuse Gallery, La Jolla, California, April 2006
Teaching Experience:
Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
2009 Instructor, ART 130/TELE 113 The History of Film as Art
San Diego State University, CA
2009 Instructor ART448 Sequential Media
California State University, San Marcos, CA
2009 Instructor VSAR 304 Advanced Video
2008 Instructor VSAR 305 Art and Digital Video for the Web
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2008 Instructor VIS 40/ICAM 40 Intro to Computing in the Arts
Teaching Assistant VIS 40/ ICAM 40 Intro to Computing in the Arts under Brett Stalbaum
California State University, San Marcos, CA
2007 Instructor VSAR 305 Art and Digital Video for the Web
Instructor VSAR 305 Art and Digital Video for the Web Lab Section
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2007 Teaching Assistant VIS 40/ICAM 40 Intro to Computing in the Arts under professor Adriene Jenik
Teaching Assistant VIS 140/ICAM 101 Digital Imaging: Image and Interactivity under Naomi Spellman
Teaching Assistant VIS 159/ICAM 150 The History of Art and Technology under professor Lev Manovich
2006 Teaching Assistant VIS 40/ICAM 40 Intro to Computing in the Arts under professor Lev Manovich
Teaching Assistant VIS 40/ICAM 40 Intro to Computing in the Arts under Brett Stalbaum
Teaching Assistant VIS 40/ICAM 40 Intro to Computing in the Arts under Brett Stalbaum
2005 Teaching Assistant VIS 84 The History of Film under professor J.P. Gorin
Awards, Honors, and collections:
2009-2010 Navel Gazing: Artist's Visions of Florida, $1,000 artist stipend, Brevard Art Museum, Melborne, FL
2009 Video Art Database, collects Dating in LA (link)
Dating in LA selected as part of the One Minute Film Collection, curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Judge, 4th Annual Student Media Festival, campus-wide student media contest, Cal-State San Marcos, CA
2008-2009 VIsual Arts Department Funds Lui Velazquez
2008-10 UCSD Faculty Fellowship nomination by the Visual Arts Department
Summer Teaching Fellowship at UCSD, Intro to Computing in the Arts
2007-08 Senior Teaching Assistant for Visual Arts Department, UCSD
2007 Public Art Competition winner for "Lucent" in collaboration with Owen Mundy
UCSD Summer Teaching Fellowship nomination
2006 American Cinema Editors Student Editing Competition, ACE finalist
2005 Russell Grant recipient for documentary film, Swimming with Rosemary, a hard look at life after Hurricane Katrina.
2003 & 2004 Deans list at California State University, San Marcos.
2001 Florida Film Festival award, screening of The Peacock.
2000 & 2001 Deans list at University of South Florida.
1999 Amy DeGrove Scholarship, (competitive scholarship awarded to top three undergraduates in the School of Art and Art History).
1998 & 1999 Deans list at University of Florida, Gainesville.
Presentations, Panels and Lectures:
2009 Snapshots Changing Perspectives in the San Diego Art Scene, Panel Moderator, Panelists included: Robert Pincus (SD Union Tribune), David White (Agitprop, UCSD), Patricia Frischer (SD Visual Artist Network), Philly Joe Swendoza (Art Rocks!), Organized by Freitas of Art as Authority, Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA
2008 Colectivo Lui Velazquez, as part of Proyecto Cívico: Diálogos e Interrogantes, Panel Talk at Centro Cultural de Tijuana (CECUT), Organized by Bill Kelley jr. (Images), November
The Infinity Lab, Presentation with Ricardo Dominguez, Nina Waisman, Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cardenas, for Cal Arts Students at Calit2, San Diego, CA November
Infinity Lab Presentation of Getty Hijack, to VSAR 305, Digital Art and Video for the Web Cal-State San Marcos, November
Guest critique presenter, Photography class, University of Florida, Gainesville, October
A So-Cal Experience, presentation for “Curating Public Culture” with Kyong Park, presentation for Hugh M. Davies and others
2007 Work Presentation for Graduate Critique with Professor Louis Hock
Work Presentation for Graduate Critique with Professor Adriene Jenik
2006 Panel Discussion, Successful Students on CSUSM's major, Cal-State, San Marcos
2005 Work Presentation for Intro to Grad Studies with Barbara Kruger
Freelance Videography projects:
"I like painting anything", People's Post, MEDIA ARTS CENTER San Diego, December 2009
Trouble at Southwestern College, People's Post, MEDIA ARTS CENTER San Diego, November 2009
Professional Organizations / Memberships:
San Diego Visual Arts Network
CAA College Arts Association
San Diego Filmmakers
Frontera Filmmakers
LACMA member
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