Tel: 360-271-7694 • pbill23@yahoo.com • http://www.lanternproductions.com/pbill

•Eastern Connecticut State University- Willimantic, CT
Adjunct Professor: Taught graphic design, a class integrating digital production tools with typography and design history.
2004-5
•Chashama- New York
Artist in residence: Worked from studios on Times Square and in Tribeca, painting, filming, documenting other
artists/performances, and redesigning website. Collaborated with other artists to create installations, curate and run exhibitions at Chashama. www.chashama.org
2001-5
•TRAFIKAfilms- New York
Partner: Conceptualized structure and direction of non-profit company. Created web page, organized and maintained small video lab and office, aided artists in editing and creating videos, worked with school children from the After School Program to make a short video broadcast on NY1, and created films screened at international film festivals.
2000-2002
•CARTAH lab- Seattle,WA
TA: Assisted teaching video installation classes to create videos and output them to a variety of media. Designed web pages, created instructional materials, and aided in maintenance and acquisition of computers for the CARTAH lab.
Nov ‘99 June ’01.
•Trimedia- Prague, Czech Republic
Freelance Designer: Web design, including conceptualizing and producing graphical elements for pages; designed interface for CD-ROM projects; created titles for movie projects using the Media100 and Adobe AfterEffects; conceptualized and designed project for broadcast TV. Worked with students at FAMU(Prague’s film academy) to create installations.
April ‘98 -Sept ‘99
•Prognosis Weekly- Prague, Czech Republic
Production Manager: Involved in all aspects of layout and printing of a weekly newspaper with a readership of 24,000. Scanned photos; produced illustrations and covers; designed ads and media kits; system manager for a network of PowerPC Macintosh computers; and dealt with the printer in optimizing print quality and actual production quality control.
September ’94-March ’95
•Reed College software development lab (or D-lab)- Portland, OR
Student intern: Duties included; computer hardware maintenance, software development, teaching Photoshop, and research.
Summer 1992
•Országos Grafikai Muhelyj- Vác, Hungary
Lithographer, freelance artist.
Fall 1991
•Atelier Franck Bordas- Paris, France
Apprentice lithographer, studio hand, and paper cutter
Spring to fall 1991

2003 NEA artist grant
2001-5 Chashama artist in residence, NYC
1999-2001 Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Research in The Arts and Humanities at the University of Washington

(solo)
•Chashama@217 e. 42nd
NYC April ‘05
Transmission: 42nd st.
•Peep-o-rama gallery
NYC December ’03-January ’04
The Last Pornography
•Peep-o-rama
NYC October ’02
Peepshow II
•Chashama Gallery
NYC May ’02
paintings
•Nico Gallery
Seattle May ’01
Magdalena’s Window and Other Stories
•Galleri Vrontos
Copenhagen, Denmark July ’99
works
•Kulturni-Socialni Centrum Prague
Winter-Spring ’97
pieces of the city
•The Globe Gallery
Prague Winter ’95 and ‘96
paintings
(group)
•FILE festival-installation
São Paulo, Brazil November, 2005
transmission: são paulo
•FILE festival-HIPERSONICA
São Paulo, Brazil November, 2004
Labtestransmission
•The Kitchen,
NYC October ’02
Necessary Translations
produced event and showed collaborative video poem:
Dream of the City– included on DVD
•CrossPathCulture
NYC Oct. ‘01-June ‘02
various video installations/paintings
•Marymount College
Tarrytown, NY May ‘02
video collaboration in dance performance
•Oasis film and Video festival
NYC May ‘02
Dream of the City
•PoetryProject NYC
NYC April ‘02
Dream of the City
•Henry Art Gallery
Seattle May ‘01
MFA 2001
•Henry Art Gallery
Seattle Jan-May ‘01
TERRAFORM I
•SOIL Gallery
Seattle Jan.‘01
Hlavní /Main Train Station
•Bellevue Art Museum film and video fest Seattle
June, 2000
The Orchard
•Radost f/x
Prague Winter 1997
•Open studios: The Distillery
Boston 1994
•Wave Gallery
New Haven 1993
•Flux Gallery
Portland, OR 1992
•Fuse Gallery
Portland, OR 1991

•New York City, 42nd St.
March 2002
Placebo Sunrise
For the Chashama foundation.
•Sarajevo, Bosnia
June 1998
Peoples bus
Mural completed with the help of local youths
•New Haven, Center st.
April 1994
All the world’s but a stage

New York City May 2003
Hudson River Walk
Large format acrylic painting
for The Hudson River Park Conservancy

Software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe AfterEffects, FinalCut Pro, Quark Express, Adobe Illustrator, Media Cleaner Pro, Adobe GoLive, Cinema 4-dXL, HTML, Flash, Cinema 4D.
Hardware: All Macintosh systems, Windows, flat bed scanners, filmscanners, Nextstations, some UNIX.
Cameras: Sony PD-150, VX-2000, PD-100, Canon XL-1, several one-chip models, and Super-8.
Printmaking: Stone print lithography, Intaglio, Silkscreen

Paul Berger peberger@u.washington.edu Professor, U.W.
Sharon Butler butlers@easternct.edu Professor, E.C.S.U.
Norman Lundin lundin@u.washington.edu Professor, U.W.
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Everything here is the path of a responding that examines as it listens. Any path always risks going astray, leading astray. To follow such paths takes practice in going. Practice needs craft. Stay on the path, in genuine need, and learn the craft of thinking, unswerving, yet erring. –Heidegger, 1950

My best teachers have always had very strong styles in their own art; the challenge lies in encouraging students to develop their own style. I teach my students to examine as they listen. In exposing students to new ideas and technical practices the students must choose what is important to them. The students build on and branch off of the structure I provide.

In todays world of new media, the basic skills of typography and graphic composition are ported to the web, to broadcast design, and interactive DVDs, to name just a few possibilities. The modern designer must have a skill set that combines an extreme felicity with the tools at hand, an in depth knowledge of up to the minute technologies, with a subtle appreciation of type, an ever curious eye, and creative understanding of how to hierarchize information. In a liberal arts context, a procession of graphic design classes introduce the student to typography and to the digital production tools which then lead to more specific classes in– print production, web design, and motion graphics.

My own design philosophy can be summed up in a word: eclectic. Certain design problems call for a Helvetica Neue clean Swiss look, others for a fragmented David Carson look– the hierarchy of information to be registered in the media is of primary importance.
i am a painter by training- but graphic design is also a visual process of composition.
i can explicate the field of graphic design today without imposing any design ideologies on my students and get them excited to change the way people look at the world.