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Curriculum Vitae Download Full CV Teaching 2019-PresentUniversity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; AS Teaching Track Assistant Professor of animation, video, and performance in the digital area of the Studio Arts Department2014-PresentCarnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; Adjunct Assistant Professor of electronic and time-based media in the School of Art2020-2024Brew House Association, Pittsburgh PA, Distillery Artist Residency Program Mentor2024-PresentUniversity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Film and Media Studies Program Affiliated Professor2023-PresentUniversity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Affiliated Professor Education 2013Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; Master of Fine Arts; Visual Art2004West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV; Bachelor of Fine Arts; Intermedia (video, installation) Media Design 2025Media Designer, Marthaodyssey, Co-Presented with Live Artery and New York Live Arts in association with the Martha Graham Company, The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, NYC featuring Jesse Factor Media Designer, Pittsburgh Opera Annual Fashion Show Media Designer, Ego, New Hazlett Theater, CSA series presenting Ramin Akhavijou Media Designer, Dragonfly Dawn, New Hazlett Theater, CSA series presenting Joanna Abel Media Designer Sum of Y’all, PearlArts Movement & Sound, Braddock, PA2024Media Designer, Marthaodyssey, Kelly Strayhorn Theater featuring Jesse Factor Technical Video Assistant, Rewilding exhibition by Sarah Moore, University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh Media Designer, House Party 2023, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, 12 channel installation Media Designer, Trans-Q Live; Carnegie Museum of Art Media Designer, Show Queen, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, featuring Jesse Factor Media Designer, Underland x Alice, New Hazlett Theater, CSA series presenting Kontara Morphis Media Designer, Pittsburgh Opera Annual Fashion Show, featuring couture by Brian David Designs Video Mapping and System Designer, Myth-Science of the Gatekeepers, Pittsburgh Glass Center, exhibition by Rainbow Serpent2023Media Designer, Suite Life, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, custom animations Media Designer, House Party 2023, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, 12 channel installation Media Designer, Perseverance, New Hazlett Theater, presented by Prime Stage Theatre Media Designer, Trans-Q Live; Carnegie Museum of Art Media Designer, Opposites Abstract, New Hazlett Theater, presented by The Children’s Museum / MuseumLab and featuring Kelsey Jumper and Treasure Treasure Media Designer, Show Queen, Performing Arts Forum, Saint-Erne-Outre-et-Ramecourt, France, featuring Jesse Factor Media Designer, Show Queen, Milton Art Bank, Milton, PA, featuring Jesse Factor2022Media Designer, Carnegie Mellon University School of Music, ‘Looking at You’ opera directed by Richard Gammon Media Designer, Suite Life, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, custom animations Media Designer, House Party 2022, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, 12 channel installation2020Media Designer, I Am A Haunted House, The Kelly Strayhorn Theater, featuring Jesse Factor2019The Diva Saga: The Legend of the Worst Drag Queen, Gibson Center for the Arts, Washington College2016Media Designer, School House Rock, McCoy’s Grand Theater, Moorfield, WV2004M edia Designer, The City Wears A Slouch Hat, Gladys G. Davis Theatre at West Virginia University Exhibitions 2025Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London, UK (featuring Institute for New Feeling)2024Neither Here Nor There, Brew House Arts, University of Pittsburgh Studio Arts Faculty Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA2023Video Art PGH, Miller ICA, featuring Show Queen with Jesse Factor, curated by Cameron Granger, Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh Pride Exhibition, Wick Monet, featuring Show Queen with Jesse Factor, curated by Sarah El-Hefnawy, Pittsburgh, PA2022OUPS, 10 Ans – Exposition Anniversaire, Galerie Axolotl, Curated by Yann Perol, Toulon, France2021Art Now America, Slocumb Galleries, featuring ‘Chimera’ with Jesse Factor, Juried by Mike Calway-Fagen, Johnson City, TN2020Wellness – Participate, Tend and Befriend!, Kristianstads Konsthall, curated by Filippa Forsberg, Kristianstad, Sweden Bloomfield Garden Club Artist-In-Residence Exhibition with John Musser and Jesse Factor, Unsmoke Systems, Braddock, PA Looking Out, Miller Institute for Contemporary Art at Carnegie Mellon University, curated by Alex Young, Pittsburgh, PA Re|Search, International Symposium on Electronic Art, curated by the Archiver le Présent Curating Collective, Montréal, CA Re|Search, online exhibition curated by the Archiver le Présent Curating Collective, archiverlepresent.org/ Daily Trumpet, Instagram exhibition @dailytrumpet, curated by Jonathan Horowitz2019Intersections: Studio 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Miller ICA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (multiple past recognized collaborative projects including The Drift, and TQ.TV) Sous le web, la plage!, ‘Re@ct’, NEoN Digital Arts Festival, Dundee, Scotland, curated by Martin Zeilinger ——————, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, curated by Brett Yasko Conglomerate, The Host Eats a Lot Then Gives Birth to Himself, Chert Lüdde, Berlin, Germany2018FRONT Triennial: An American City, Cleveland Institute of Art, Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland, OH IAM: Episode I. Laboratory, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Open Codes: Living in Digital Worlds, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany Best Wishes, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ Identity Play, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA2017The Heart of The Tin Man, MWoods, Beijing, China Constant As the Sun, MoCA Cleveland, OH2016This is Presence, solo exhibition, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa TX Artists’ Film International, Zeyno Pekünlü and The Institute for New Feeling, Whitechapel Gallery, London Artists’ Film International exhibition, MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal; Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey; Fundacion PROA, Buenos Aires2015Recess Gallery, New York, NY, Institute for New Feeling: Seek and FELT BOOK Screenings + Performances 2025Beyond Microtonal Music Festival, Bellefield Hall, University of Pittsburgh, with Salle Cinq by Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis2023Show Queen, Performing Arts Forum, Saint-Erne-Outre-et-Ramecourt, France, performance featuring Jesse Factor Show Queen, Milton Art Bank, Milton, PA, performance featuring Jesse Factor Reaching Towards Abstraction, Kresge Theater at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, screening with Jesse Stiles Variety! Variety! Variety!, WQED Studio A, Pittsburgh, PA, with Activated Anamorphs, Exploded Ensemble and Pitt Studio Arts2022House Party, The Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh, PA, temporary 12 channel video installation Relic Screening, ScreenDance Miami Festival produced by Miami Light Project, featuring Jesse Factor at the Pérez Art Museum2021Relic Digital Video Screening, Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, Chicago, IL, featuring Jesse Factor Institute for New Feeling, Avalanche private screening, Black Cube, Denver, CO Window to Elsewhere, presented by Exploded Ensemble and Activated Anamorphs via Twitch, featuring Jesse Factor The Stream, presented by Exploded Ensemble and Activated Anamorphs via Twitch, featured video with Jesse Factor2020Slippery Rock University Faculty Dance Concert, I Am A Haunted House (excerpt), with Jesse Factor, Slippery Rock, PA On the Stage: Virtual Performance, I Am A Haunted House (excerpt), with Jesse Factor, Iowa Dance Festival, Iowa City, IA Institute for New Feeling screening of Avalanche, Black Cube Online Symposium, Black Cube, Denver, CO The Diva Saga: The Legend of the Worst Drag Queen, part of the Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s Global Stream Digital Commissions Program streamed on The Show Must Go On(Line) channel by City of Asylum, Pittsburgh, PA Bloomfield Garden Club, Pittsburgh, PA, performances with Jesse Factor and Veronica Bleaus WordHack, Video Screened with U+1f440 performance, Babycastles, New York, NY Beyond Microtonal Music Festival, Animation with Delanie Jenkins + Del Sol String Quartet, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA I am a Haunted House, collaboration with Jesse Factor Freshworks, Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s Alloy Studios, Pittsburgh, PA2019The Diva Saga: The Legend of the Worst Drag Queen, Tawes Theatre, Gibson Center for the Arts, Washington College, Chestertown, MD Streaming Space, video in public art installation curated by Alisha Wormsley + Ricardo Lamuuri, Market Square, Pittsburgh, PA The Cinema of Gender Transgression: Trans Film: The Films of Suzie Silver: Trans-Q TV, curator Madsen Minax, Anthology Film Archives, NYC Femmebit, screening of Institute for New Feeling’s ‘Lens’ at NAVEL, Los Angeles, CA2018Subsurface: Site Specific Site + Sound, performance in Brady’s Bend Underground Storage / Limestone Mine, Brady’s Bend, PA2017Avalanche, public performance, Black Cube, Denver, CO Friday Flights performance, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA2016PopRally, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY In Real Life: Fim & Video, Screenings Artists’ Film International, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Artists’ Film International exhibition, Reflection at Video-Forum of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Germany; Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy Akademie Schloss Solitude, The Artist is Online, Stuttgart, Germany, screening Fellowships + Residencies + Awards 2025Humanities Center Co-Teaching Fellowship, the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, with John Musser New Hazlett Theater, Community Supported Art (CSA) Design Pool for Media Design2024Generative AI Teaching as Research Fellows Program, Fellow for AI generative animation at Carnegie Mellon University New Hazlett Theater, Community Supported Art (CSA) Design Pool for Media Design2023Pittsburgh Creative Corps, Office for Public Art and Riverlife, Pittsburgh, PA, juried member2020National Endowment for the Arts, Grant for Fail-Safe Performance Series with Angela Washko and Jesse Stiles Black Cube, Denver CO, Alumni Project Grant for Chimera featuring Jesse Factor Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s Alloy Studios, Pittsburgh, PA; Freshworks Residency 2019Washington College, Chestertown, MD; Artist in Residence 2017Pact Zollverin 1/2/8 Residency, Essen, Germany; Institute for New Feeling Black Cube Fellowship 2017, Denver, CO2016Schlosspost Web Residency, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Fellowship and Fund for Art @ the Frontier Grant2015Recess Session Residency, New York, NY; Institute for New Feeling Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Fellowship and Fund for Art @ the Frontier Grant2014Cannonball Residency, Miami, FL; Institute for New Feeling2012Carnegie Mellon University; Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Fellowship PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE + INTERNSHIPS 2025Pittsburgh International Dance Film Festival, juror for the 2025 series2024The Sculpture Center in Cleveland, juror for the 2024 Revealed Emerging Artist series Kelly Strayhorn Theater member of the HomeMaker Artist Council / Freshworks 2023-2024 season juror2023Kelly Strayhorn Theater member of the HomeMaker Artist Council / Freshworks 2023-2024 season juror2022Videographer and Editor, music video for Congregation of Drones Photographer and Videographer, press images for Congregation of Drones Workhorse Queen / Angela Washko Assistant for booth at RuPaul’s DragCon 20222021Visual Effects Editor, Angela Washko’s ‘Workhorse Queen’ documentary, screened at Slamdance Film Festival 20212020Web Designer for Point Park University/Pittsburgh Playhouse, ‘Through Broken Doors’, managed by Adil Mansoor and Paul Kruse Video Editor for Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School, Music Department ‘Don’t Give Up On Me’ music video Motion Graphics and Video Editor for Studio Nightcap’s Crash: Autodrive independent video game trailer Compositing and Effects Animator for Delanie Jenkins’s Animation premiered at Sound Series: Beyond Microtonal Music Festival, with Del Sol String Quartet at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA2019Assistant Videographer, Angela Washko’s ‘Workhorse Queen’ documentary2018Assistant Videographer, Angela Washko’s ‘Workhorse Queen’ documentary2017Artist-Teacher, Vermont College of the Fine Arts Curation 2015 - 2024Co-Producer of Trans-Q Live, Carnegie Museum of Art/The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA2023In Dialogue, Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, University of Pittsburgh, featuring Alisha Wormsley and Mikael Owunna2022Fail-Safe presents Young Joon Kwak, Xina Xurner, and local performers, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh, PA Darrell Thorne visiting artist performance, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA2021Two Nights Out by The Dragon Sisters, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Steiner Lecture Series screening and discussion Co-organizer of the Bloomfield Garden Club, June Salon w/ guest artist Rachel Rampleman2019 - 2020Co-Producer of Fail-Safe, Glitterbox Theater/Twitch online streaming, Pittsburgh, PA Publications + Bibliography + Press 2025Crook, Phillip, Celebrating 10 Years of TQ Live! Connecting Queer Art in Pittsburgh, CFA Magazine, Spring 2025 Young, Mollie, “Studio Arts and GSWS unveil the works of their first class of resident artists”, PittNews, Jan 22, 2025 2024Ryan, Elise, “A New Regality of Order: Jesse Factor’s Marthaodyssey”, Petrichor Pittsburgh, Nov. 25, 2024 Crook, Phillip, “Celbrating 10 Years of TQ Live! Connecting Queer Art in Pittsburgh”, art.cmu.edu, Sept 4, 2024 Long, Samuel, “TQ Live! celebrates 10 years of highlighting queer-centric performance art”, Post Gazette, Sep 3, 2024 Ilochi, Chi, “Scott Andrew – The Light (Digital Download”, feature on Styling By Chi, March 17, 2024 2023Singh, Shreya, “CMU ad Pitt’s ‘Variety! Variety! Variety!’ event explores multitude of art forms’, The Pitt News, April 17, 2023 2021Janae, Dani, “Trans Q Live!, a showcase for LGBTQ+ performers, returns for its seventh year”, PGH City Paper, Aug. 12 2021 Waltz, Amanda, “Bloomfield Garden Club brings drag, music, comedy, and more…”, Pittsburgh City Paper, June 08, 2021 Waltz, Amanda, “Pittsburgh-produced documentary Workhorse Queen looks at life after…”, Pittsburgh City Paper, Feb. 09, 2021 Pitz, Marylynne, “CMU, local arts groups receive $240,000 in NEA grants”, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Feb. 05 2021 Crott, Emma, “Feature on The Institute for New Feeling”, Art Monthly Australasia, forthcoming Rinaldi, Ray Mark, “What is a museum? Maybe not what you think.’, The Know – The Denver Post, Jan. 11, 2021 2020“Experts Weigh In On Current Job Market Trends”, Zippia.com, Dec. 9 2020 Guttenplan, Zoe, “Emergency Index Vol. 9”, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020 Black Cube, “Chimera: An Interview w/ Scott Andrew & Jesse Factor”, BlackCube.art, Nov. 12, 2020 2018 Söderholm, Carolina, “Stark utställning som sätter fart på våra kroppar och tankar”, Kristianstadsbladet, Oct. 27, 2020 Stell, Cortney, and Hannah James. “Institute for New Feeling, Avalanche.” Essay. In A Nomadic Art Museum: Black Cube 2015 - 2020 , edited by Ashley Mingus, 114–27. Black Cube, 2020 Pitz, Marylynne, “Bloomfield Garden Club puts eclectic artists on a backyard stage”, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Oct. 11, 2020 Taylor, Charlie, “It pays to have an actual job’: Artists share their side hustles”, ThePittNews, Sept. 30, 2020 Waltz, Amanda, “BGC cultivates new group exhibition at UnSmoke Systems”, Pittsburgh City Paper, Sept. 2, 2020 Snowden, Jordan, “Diverse artists and musicians are focus at newly launched BGC”, Pittsburgh City Paper, August 18, 2020 Pitz, Marylynne, “Bloomfield Garden Club cultivates artists for backyard performances”, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 4, 2020 O’Driscoll, Bill, “Hollywood Legend’s Afterlife As A Queer Icon Inspires Pittsburgh-Based Dance…”, WESA 90.5, March 5, 2020 Waltz, Amanda, “I Am A Haunted House uses dance, new media, and a Hollywood…”, Pittsburgh City Paper, March 4, 2020 Smith, Sarah Elaine, “What (Be)comes (of) a Legend Most?”, QueerPGH, Feb. 28, 2020 2018Mattera, Julianne, “CMU Students Delve Beneath the Surface in Art, Music Performance”, CMU News, Dec 4, 2018 O’Driscoll, Bill, “Limestone Mine Hosts Second ’Subsurface’ Art Event”, WESA 90.5, Dec 4, 2018 Russell, Andrew, “Carnegie Mellon University students transform old mine into underground arts festival”, Trib Live, Dec 4, 2018 Reynolds, Jeremy, “Subsurface: CMU’s second annual underground art and music...”, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Dec 2, 2018 Flint Magazine: Issue 1+2 2017Stromberg, Matt, “Artists Comb Through the Getty Center, Making Music with Hairbrushes and More”, Hyperallergic, July 11, 2017 Archey, Karen, “Art & New Age: Who Cares?”, Frieze, March, 2017 2016Cruse, Alex. “I’m Only Now” The Institute for New Feeling and the Politics of Presence, OpenSpace, SFMoMA, November 3, 2016 Malick, Courtney. “First Look, Institute for New Feeling”, Art in America, Nov, 2016 Pangburn, PJ. ASMR Is a Joke (But Laughter’s Still the Best Medicine), Creator’s Project, Aug 24, 2016 Rudin, David. “Artists Explore How We Express Feelings Through Technology.” Kill Screen, May 2016 Palop, Benoit. “125 Artists Explore the New Feelings of the Future.” The Creators Project, May 10, 2016 Stromberg, Matt. “ArtRx LA, Felt Book Exhibition.” Hyperallergic, May 3, 2016 Oliveira, Adele. “This Art Exhibition Wants You to Feel.” Hyperallergic, April 6, 2016 2015Frank, Priscilla. “How to Feel New, Now,” Huffington Post, August Sierzputowski, Kate. “Seeking Digital Decompression with The Institute for New Feeling,” Hyperallergic, July Friedlander, Emilie. “Why We Can’t Stop Watching TV Shows About Cults.” The Fader, June