Artist Bio:
A. Bill Miller, Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, at Penn State Altoona. He earned his MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His nationally and internationally exhibited works include his acclaimed Gridworks Project, which comprises abstract ASCII drawings, ink drawings, animated GIFs, and video elements.
Artist Statement:
We exist within a built environment that is constantly mediated by the grid. Grids organize space through coordinate mapping and patterns of development. Grids compress, redisplay, and reorder information. Grids are an enforcement system imposed upon both nature and culture. I respond to this ubiquity by creating gridworks. These forms examine the blurred boundary between the machine and the human - the tool of data collection and the interpretive mind.
Experience
2010 - Present
Assistant Professor, Penn State Altoona.
Digital Media related courses in the Visual Art Studies Program
2008-2010
Associate Lecturer, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.
Web Design I, Net+Art, Art Explorations Web Design, Observational Drawing
Part-Time Faculty, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
Observational Drawing, Kinetic Drawing, Experimental Animation
2006-2008
Instructor of Record/Graduate Teaching Assistant, UWM. Observational Drawing
2003-2005
Construction Assistant at Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity Americorps Volunteer.
Education
2008 MFA, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee; Milwaukee, WI; Painting and Drawing.
2007 MA, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee; Milwaukee, WI; Painting and Drawing.
2002 BFA, University of Wisconsin – Stout; Menomonie,WI; Studio Arts.
2001 Northbrook College; semester of study in Worthing, West Sussex, UK.
Exhibitions
2012
FILE RIO 2012, Electronic Language International Festival, Art Galery of Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, BR, Mar 12-Apr 8th
Scan2Go, New Media Caucus year long online exhibition, Released at CAA 2012
<terminal> monitors, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN, 2/20-3/2
A/Vworkssssss, One Night Event/Performance, Borg Ward Collective, MIlwaukee, WI Jan 3
2011
Streaming Festival 6th Edition, Het Nutshuis, The Hague, Netherlands, Dec. 1-18 2011
FestivalMulti2011_Especial - Curator David Quiles Guillo, Video Art Program, Rio de Janiero, BR, Nov-Dec 2011
Sheroes, One-Night Interactive Installations (Monthly), Toronto, CA, Nov. 18 and Dec. 23
GLI.TC/H Chicago - Live Video Performance, Chicago, IL Nov. 3-7
GLI.TC/H Program at FLIP Animation Festival, Birmingham, UK, Oct. 29
Punto Y Raya Festival, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, November 3-6, 2011
BYOB Sao Paulo, Rojo Nova Sao Paulo, Oct. 29
Video On Paper Zine http://videoonpaper.tumblr.com/
3ra Convocatoria Belica, Valencia, Venezuala, September 2011 http://mvs.260mb.com/index2.html
I AM NOT A POET Festival, Edinburgh Aug.8-21 http://tkunst.wordpress.com/
Street Show: The Things Between Us, USB Dead Drop Exhibition, Released in New York
v1b3 Uncommon Program, Highland Park Festival, Detroit, MI, July16 & 17
FILE 2011, Electronic Language International Festival Exhibition, SESI Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo, BR
I've Zine The Darkness, Dieschönestadt Gallery, Halle, Germany
BYOB Utrecht, CBKU Gallery, Utrecht, Netherlands
moves11, International Festival of Movement on Screen, Liverpool, UK
New Media Caucus Showcase, SVA MFA Computer Art Department, CAA, New York, NY
Getting Closer, Curated by Lindsay Howard, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
gridworks - Ivyside Gallery, Penn State Altoona
TPS Reports: Performance Documents - SpaceCamp MicroGallery, Herron School of Art and
Design, Indianapolis, IN
2010
Cyber Human Forms, Online Exhibition, Unknown Artists Virtual Museum, http://www.uavm.net
Future Selves, The Big Screen Project, New York, NY
10,000 Jiggawatts, Screening, Small Space & Jackpot Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Art Fair, Online Exhibition, http://hypothete.com/VirtualArtFair/
C, mini video festival, Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery, Atlanta, GA
MARNmentors Exhibition, Brooks Stevens Gallery, MIAD, Milwaukee, WI
Cream of The Crop, Screening, Starlight Cinema, Madison, WI
Kate Brandt Pink, Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
MAM After Dark: Here And Now, MIAD one night show, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Ethereal Views, Eclipse Gallery, Algoma, WI
2009
Samples from Gridworks Collection Project, Some Walls, Oakland, CA, http://somewalls.com
Byte Scrapers, Online Exhibition, Unknown Artists Virtual Museum, http://www.uavm.net
Pixel Project, Online Exhibition, Unknown Artists Virtual Museum, http://www.uavm.net
9/9/09 Performance Art Showcase, Milwaukee, WI
Pixilerations [v.6], New Media Festival, Providence, RI
The End of Television, Video Program Broadcast, The Nerve, Pittsburgh, PA
FILE, Electronic Language International Festival,Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Crosstalk Video Art Festival, Godor Club, Budapest, Hungary.
Flickers of Recognition: Technology and the Self Portrait, Peninsula School of Art Guenzal Gallery, Door County, WI.
Visionary Drawing Building, Online Drawing Archive. http://www.drawingbuilding.org
Flight Box, Present Music Event at Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Terminal 1st Annual Short Film Festival, Terminal Gallery at Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN.
Gridworks2000, Add-Art Firefox Plugin Exhibition, http://www.add-art.org
2008
Illuminators Exhibition, Koltsovo International Airport, Yekatenaburg, Russia.
MFA Exhibition, Inova/Arts Center, UWM, Milwaukee, WI.
Digital Media at La Nau, Valencia, Spain, v1b3 program. http://www.v1b3.com
Media Arts Show at Visionary Landscapes: Electronic Literature Organization Conference, Vancouver, Wa.
Make Your Own History, Group Exhibition, Historic Blatz Brewery, Milwaukee, WI.
Locally Groan, Collaborative Film and Video, UWM Union Theater, Milwaukee, WI.
Art Architecture and Music for the New Milwaukee, Present Music Event at Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2007
MA/MFA Exhibition, MA Group Show, Inova 3, UW-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI.
THE.SURREAL.DEAL, Group Show, Lakefront Gallery, Madison, WI.
2006, 2005, 2004
v1b3, Video In The Built Environment, Summer 2006: Orange, CA and London, UK.
Transforming the Grid, Group Show, Opensource Gallery, Champaign, IL.
Visible Fringe Festival, large and small group exhibitions, Minneapolis, MN.
Curatorial
Juror - West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, 2011
Phosphene, Video Installation Event, Borg Ward, Milwaukee, WI. October 2009.
SPRAWL, Group Exhibition, Borg Ward, Milwaukee, WI. November 2008.
Collections, Publications, & Presentations
Scan2Go, Published Art Catalogue, Released by New Media Caucus at CAA 2012
Rhizome ArtBase (Collection - "Sentences on Conceptual Art in gridfont7" 2012
Rhizome ArtBase (Collection) - "gridSol-precomps" 2011
GLI.TC/H 20111 READER[ROR], Publication (critical essays and artwork) 159pp
SpringGun Press, Issue 4, Online Literature and Digital Art Journal, 2011, http://www.springgunpress.com/
+81 Magazine, Vol.47 Pattern Graphics Issue, Tokyo, Japan,
RCP.ML2K.PDF, co-founder & contributer, pdf webzine published quarterly online
"Re:Exercises in Style", Special Collections, Golda Meir Library, UWM, Milwaukee Artists's Books And Zines
MungBeing Magazine,Issue #23 of bimonthly online magazine, December 2008.
Illuminators Exhibition Catalog, 2008.
Cream City Review, Spring 2008, semi-annual UWM literary journal.
"Line, Space, Time" Presentation on Panel "Tools, Models, and Ideas forChanging the Way We Think About Line"
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE), Biennial Conference 2009, Portland, Oregon.