Curriculum Vitae - David Rokeby

135 Manning Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada  M6J 2K6	tel: (416) 603-4640	fax: (416) 603-4641
born in Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada on November 14, 1960.


Education

1984	graduated with Honours in Experimental Art from Ontario College of Art.
1979	completed one year at Trinity College, University of Toronto, in philosophy and visual art.


Exhibition/ Performances/ Competitions (Selected)

1996	Watch, "International Symposium of Shadows", London, U.K.
Very Nervous System, "The Presence of Touch", Gallery 2, School of the Art  Institute of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A.
Watch, "European Media Arts Festival", OsnabrÄck, Germany.
Very Nervous System, "New Persona / New Universe", Biennale di Firenze, Florence, Italy.
Very Nervous System and Echoing Narcissus, Tempozan Contemporary Art Museum, Osaka, Japan.
Very Nervous System and Watch, "Interactive", Salina Arts Center, Salina, U.S.A.
Very Nervous System, "Schatze und Visionen", Graz, Austria.
Watch, at the Holly Solomon Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.
Watch, at Inter/Access, Toronto, Canada.
Watch and Measure, at the Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Canada.

1995	Very Nervous System, in "Arte No Seculo XXI", Sao Paulo, Brazil.
	Very Nervous System, in "Net@Works" Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico.
	Silicon Remembers Carbon, ArsLab 2, Torino, Italy.
	Watch, at "Info-Art", Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea.
Border Patrol  (w/ Paul Garrin) at "Info-Art", Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea.
Measure, at "The Interaction '95", Ogaki City, Japan.
	Measure, at "Sound Art '95", Hannover, Germany.
	60, in "I am Listening", Glendon Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
	Very Nervous System, in "Triennale di Milano", Milan, Italy.
	Silicon Remembers Carbon, in "Press Enter", the Power Plant Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada.

1994	Very Nervous System, "Berliner Dirigentenwerkstatt", Academie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany.
	Very Nervous System, "TechnoArt", Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, Canada.
Measure, "Chaos Never Died", Seattle, U.S.A..
Nervous Orpheus, telecommunications event w/ Don Ritter, CISR, Vancouver / McLuhan Center, Toronto.
Verbarrage, interactive performance w/ Leslie-Ann Coles at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.
Very Nervous System, "Corps et Machines", Deuxi¶me Biennale de Charleroi/Danses, Charleroi, Belgium.

1993	Very Nervous System, "Futuro Remoto", Mostra D'Oltremare, Naples, Italy.
interactive video for Requiems for the Party Girl  (R. Murray Schaeffer), Dumaurier Theatre, Toronto, Canada.
interactive performance, Berliner Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal, Berlin, Germany.
Very Nervous System, "Kunstliche Spiele", MedienLabor MÄnchen, Munich, Germany.
Very Nervous System, interactive public installation, "Potsdam 1000", Potsdam, Germany.
Very Nervous System, "Conference on Dance and Technology", Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

Silicon Remembers Carbon (Desert Dreams a Mirage), "World-Wide Video Festival", Den Haag, Netherlands.
Telematic Performance w/Jocelyn Robert, John Oswald, and Don Ritter (Toronto / Galerie Obscure, Quebec).
The Desert Dreams a Mirage, in "Feuer/Erde/Wasser/Luft", Deichtorhallen, Mediale, Hamburg, Germany.

1992	Measure, "New Music Across America", Toronto, Canada.
Very Nervous System, for the "IMZ Congress", the Power Plant Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Noodle, and Petite Terre w/Erik Samakh, "Glenn Gould Conference", CBC Broadcast Centre, Toronto, Canada.
interactive sound environments for Ein Sommernachtstraum (dir: Martin Politowski), Munich, Germany.
Very Nervous System, at "Canada Dance Festival", National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Canada.
Very Nervous System, in "Electronic Expressions.2", Megahan Gallery, Allegheny College, Meadville, U.S.A.

1991	Very Nervous System, at "Ars Electronica", Linz, Austria.
(Perception is) The Master of Space, at the "MuuMediaFestival", Otso Gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
(Perception is) The Master of Space, at the "European Software Festival", Gasteig, Munich, Germany.

1990	Very Nervous System, at "Second International Symposium on Electronic Art", Grûningen, Netherlands.
performances w/Don Ritter, Leslie-Ann Coles, Tom Demuzio, "New Music America", MontrÚal, Canada.
(Perception is) The Master of Space, at the "European Media Arts Festival", OsnabrÄck, West Germany.
Very Nervous System, solo exhibition, Plug-In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada.
outdoor interactive installation for the "Kanagawa International Outdoor Art Festival", Manazuru, Japan.
Very Nervous System, at the "Rencontres Internationales Art Film/Art Video/Art Ordinateur", Paris, France.

1989	Very Nervous System, exhibition and performance in "Invitation to Interactive Art", Kawasaki-shi, Japan.
Very Nervous System, exhibition in "Computer Music Festival", Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
Very Nervous System, exhibition in "Art et Ordinateur", Galerie de L'UQAM, MontrÚal, Canada.
Liquid Language, in "Artware : Artist's Bookworks", A Space, Toronto, Canada.
Echoing Narcissus, in "artware: Kunst und Elektronik", Hannover, West Germany.
Very Nervous System, in "Beyond Electronics", Open/Access Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada.
Very Nervous System, exhibition in "Machinations" at Galerie Christiane Chassay, MontrÚal, Canada.
	
1988	interactive performances and workshops at the Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.
Echoing Narcissus, in "Guerilla Tactics", MacDonald-Stewart Gallery, University of Guelph, Canada.
interactive dance performance in "Diffusion" at the Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Very Nervous System, in the "Siggraph '88 Art Show", Atlanta, USA.
Echoing Narcissus, at "Images du Futur", MontrÚal, Canada.
Very Nervous System, exhibition and dance performances in "FÚstival des Arts ElÚctroniques", Rennes, France.
Very Nervous System, solo exhibition at the National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, Canada.
Echoing Narcissus, in "Guerilla Tactics", McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada.

1987	communications event w/Robert DesRosiers, Leslie-Ann Coles, Bell Canada Studios, Toronto / Ottawa.
Echoing Narcissus, exhibition in "Guerilla Tactics", A Space, Toronto, Canada.


1986	Very Nervous System, exhibition in "Arte, Technologia e Informatica", Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
communications event, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France / Roberson Center, Binghamton, USA.
interactive performance in "ArtMedia 2", University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.
Body Language, solo exhibition, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, Canada.
Body Language, solo exhibition, MacDonald-Stewart Gallery, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.

1985	Body Language, exhibition in "ElectroCulture", ArtCulture Resource Center, Toronto, Canada.
Body Language, exhibition at Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences, Binghamton, USA.
Body Language, solo exhibition, McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada.
Body Language, solo exhibition with dance performance, A Space, Toronto, Canada.

1984	Body Language, solo exhibition, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Body Language, exhibition, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Canada.
compositions for soundtrack of feature  film "Next of Kin" (dir. Atom Egoyan).
performances w/ Gerald Berg, Toronto International Festival and Music Gallery,Toronto, Canada.
Reflexions, solo exhibition, MacKenzie Gallery, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada.

1983	Reflexions, solo exhibition, ArtCulture Resource Center, Toronto, Canada.
Reflexions, at "Digicon '83", Vancouver, Canada.


Grants and Awards

1993	"Prix Ars Electronica" Honourable Mention for Interactive Art, Linz, Austria.

1991	"Prix Ars Electronica" Award of Distinction for Interactive Art, Linz, Austria.
Runner-up, "International New Media Technology Competition", MontrÚal, Canada.

1988	PetroCanada Award for Media Arts.

1984	George Reid Scholarship, Ontario College of Art.

1983	Dorothy Stevens Scholarship, Ontario College of Art.

Computer Integrated Media Grant, Canada Council (1991 / 87 / 86 / 84)
Travel Grant, Canada Council (1990 / 89 / 87 / 86)
Electronic Media Grant, Ontario Arts Council (1994 / 1989 / 87 / 84)
Exhibition Grant, Ontario Arts Council (1988 / 85)

Lectures/Articles/Presentations  (selected)
1995	panel member for the Symposium on Interactive Art, Ogaki City, Japan.
	Artist's talk, "Press Enter", the Power Plant Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Instructor/organizer for "Meta-Composition" MAX workshop, Inter/Access, Toronto, Canada.

1994	instructor for "Berliner Dirigentenwerkstatt", workshop for Classical music conductors, Berlin, Germany.
demonstration/lecture of Very Nervous System, IRCAM, Paris, France.

1993	instructor for "Berliner Dirigentenwerkstatt", workshop for Classical music conductors, Berlin, Germany.
lecture at the "Centre for Image and Sound Research", Vancouver, Canada.
panel member at the "Conference on Dance and Technology", Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

1992	lecture to Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria.

1991	workshop and presentation at Galerie Obscure, QuÚbec City, Canada.
artist-in-residence, "Residency on the BioApparatus", Banff Centre, Banff, Canada.
presentation and panel at the "Prix Ars Electronica KÄnstlerforum", Linz, Austria.
panel member in discussion of interactive art at the "MuuMedia Festival", Helsinki, Finland.
presentation in "Cyberspatial Intersections", Dance Theatre Workshop, New York City, U.S.A.

1990	panel member at "Rencontres Internationales Art Film/Art Video/Art Ordinateur", Paris, France.

1989	panel member in "International Symposium on Interactive Art", Kawasaki-shi, Japan.
"Experiential Art", lecture, Siggraph '89, Boston, U.S.A..
"Technology: Tool or Subject", panel discussion, Art Space, Winnipeg, Canada.

1988	"Motion to Music" workshop, Banff School of Fine Arts, Banff, Canada.
"Echoing Narcissus", lecture at McDonald-Stewart  Gallery, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.

1985	"Body Language", lecture at McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, U of T, Toronto, Canada.