Curriculum Vitae

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Daniel Miller

Dimensional Practice Area
The School of Art & Art History
Public Digital Arts Faculty

The University of Iowa
100 Studio Arts
1375 Highway 1 West
Iowa City, IA 52246
website: www.danmillerart.com
email: daniel-w-miller@uiowa.edu

Education:


The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

Master of Fine Art Degree in Time Arts


Hope College, Holland, Michigan

Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sculpture


New York Arts Program, G.L.C.A., New York, NY.

Apprenticeship.

 

Teaching Experience:

 

2014- Present

            Assistant Professor of Emerging Technologies in Sculpture, Dimensional Practice Area
            The School of Art & Art History, Public Digital Arts Faculty

            Teaching:
            Graduate Sculpture Workshop
            Sculpture I

1997- 2014   

            Adjunct Assistant Professor, Art & Technology Dept., The School of The                            Art of Institute of Chicago, IL.

            Courses Taught:        

            Fabricating for Motion (cross-listed with Sculpture Dept.)

            Robotics

            Kinetics                                                          

            Actuator Design & Integration (cross-listed with Sculpture Dept.)

            Contemporary Practice Art & Tech.

            Fundamentals of Art with Technology I

            Fundamentals of Art with Technology II

 

2010    Instructor, Oxbow, school of art and artists’ residency, Saugatuck, MI.
            Sculpture Course: Kinetics: Form in Motion

                                          

1999-03

            Instructor, Academic Computing Dept., Columbia College, Chicago, IL

 

            Courses Taught: 

            Introduction to Robotics

            Computer Controlled Installation Environments


 

 

Exhibition Record:

2014   SpotLight, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL

2013   OBJECTIVE/SUBJECTIVE: Mapping as Visual Language, Northern Illinois   University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL.

            LEVEL 2013, Installations along Chicago Riverwalk.

            Lightsense, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL.

2012    ISEA 2012, Machine Wilderness, Exhibited: Chiroptera Domus at

            The Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, Albuquerque, NM.

2012,   Conflux, Pearl Conard Gallery, Ohio State University at Mansfield, OH.

2011    Petri Dish, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA 

2010    KY.7 Biennial, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY.

            Altered Landscapes, solo exhibition, Moraine Valley Community College, Palos   Hills, IL.

2008    Tweak Interactive Art &  Live Electronic Music Festival,

            installed Site A in City Hall, Limerick, Ireland.

            International Festival of Electronic Art 404, in Europe:

Trieste Italy, installed Site A at Molo 4 cruise ship passenger terminal.

Basel Switzerland, installation of Site A in custom geodesic dome.

 

2007    Designed & Constructed Robotic Mechanism for Domestic Tension, by  Wafaa Bilal, FlatFile Galleries, Chicago, IL.

2002    The Rockford Midwestern Exhibition, Juried Competition, Rockford IL

            Signal::Noise, Swanson Cralle Gallery,

Louisville, KY.

 


2001    Interface: Exploring Possibilities, Fassbender Van Straaten Gallery,

Chicago, IL.


2000    Interchange,  Solo exhibition of current work; partially funded by CAAP Grant;

Gallery One, Elgin Community College, Elgin IL.

in::formation, exhibited and curated sine::apsis experiments show

Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago IL.

 

1999     Juried Alumni Show- 5 year; Hope College, Holland, MI.

 

Neurectopia, sine::apsis experiments; Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago,IL.


Ten, 10 year invitational exhibition at the Soap Factory; N.N.E., Minneapolis, MN

 

Exocytosis, sine::apsis experiments, Gallery EGG, Chicago, IL.

 


1997    ISEA 1997,exhibited: Light Structures , Chicago, IL.


 

Lectures:

 

2011    Lecture: Motion & Light in Art at the Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL


2000 Lectures & workshops,  California State University at Long Beach

Long Beach, California.


Elgin Community College, artist lecture

Elgin, Illinois.

 

Betty Rymer Gallery, artist lecture

Chicago, Illinois.

 

1998    N.N.E. at Soap Factory, artist lecture

Minneapolis, MN.

 

Published:

 

2008    Shoot An Iraqi, Art, Life and Resistance Under The Gun by Wafaa Bilal & Kari Lydersen; City Lights; San Francisco, CA; pages. 16,20,24

 

2002    Information Arts, intersections of art, science, and Technology,

            By Stephen Wilson, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, page. 744.

 

2000     LEONARDO, Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences & Technology

"in::FORMATION, The Aesthetic Use of Machine Beings".

            Leonardo Gallery, Volume 33, Number, 4 2000

 

Chicago Reader, Feb. 11, 2000; "Technically Brilliant" by Fred Camper

Section 1, pg. 34.

 

Grants/Awards:

 

2012                Faculty Enrichment Grant, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.

 

2008                Faculty Enrichment Grant, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.

 

1999                C.A.A.P Grant awarded for Colony an electronic sculpture

Chicago, Illinois.


1997-95           Graduate Grants and Teaching Assistantships S.A.I.C., Chicago, Illinois.

 


1994                The Herman Miller Art Award, Hope College

Holland, Michigan.

1993                Holland Area Arts Council Award

Holland, Michigan.


 

Exhibitions Curated:
2000    in::formation, Sine::apsis Experiments; Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago IL.

1999    Neurectopia, Sine::apsis Experiments; Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago,IL.
1998    Exocytosis, Sine::apsis Experiments, Gallery EGG, Chicago, IL.

Professional Organizations:
2005-1998       Sine::apsis Experiments, founding member; a not-for-profit organization  with 501 (c) 3 status, dedicated to the exhibition, curating and research of electronic sculpture. Chicago, IL.