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education:

2002-2004 MA Design, University of California Berkeley,
College of Environmental Design
Architecture Department, Visual Studies Program
Research included new media art practice and the urban landscape.
1989-1993 BFA with honors, New York University,
TISCH School of the Arts
Combined degree program in the Department of Photography and the Interactive Telecommunications Program
selected exhibitions:
10.07-03.08 RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA.
10.07 Open Skies, COCA Center for Outdoor Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA.
08.07-11.07 Dark Matters: Artists See the Impossible, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
09.06 Conflux Festival, New York, NY
08.06 ISEA2006/ZeroOne International Symposium of Electronic Art San Jose, CA
11.05-6.06 Art Along the Avenue Temporary Public Art Program, Emeryville, CA
09.05 UbiComp: Metropolis and Urban Life, Tokyo, Japan
11.04 VIPER Basel | 2004: International Festival for Film Video and New Media, Basel, Switzerland
07.04 Urban Atmospheres, RX Gallery San Francisco, CA
11.03 Fall Arts Festival, Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco, CA
10.03 Beyond Media: Intimacy, Florence, Italy
06.03 Vertigo, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
12.02 Shadowbox, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
04.01-10.01 Open House, The Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
04.00-11.00 Turning Point: South 2000, Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC
09.99-01.00 Residents: 1999/2000, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
09.99 SITE, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
05.98-06.98 Urban Renewal Laboratory, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
04.98-06.98 Interface: Art + Tech in the Bay Area, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
07.97-09.97 Single Room Occupancy, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
02.97-05.97 Boundaries, The Exploratorium, San Francisco CA
06.96-08.96 Cento: A Market Street Journal, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
03.95-10.97 The Permanent Atelier, The Exploratorium, San Francisco
07.95-09.95 Nagasaki Journey, The Friends of Photography | Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA

panels/lectures:

11.07 Moderator, Southern Exposure Gallery San Francisco "Garden Talks"
06.07 Moderator, Southern Exposure Off-Site Symposium, De Young Museum
San Francisco "Urban Tactics: Artists Interventions in Public Space"
08.06 Panelist Interactive City Theme ISEA2006/ZeroOne San Jose
02.06 Guest Lecturer, San Francisco Art Institute
05.05 Panelist, Mobile Digital Commons Network Symposium, Montreal “Sampling the Spectrum: The Politics and Poetics of Mobile Technologies”
11.04 Panelist, VIPER Basel | 2004 International Festival for Film Video and New Media, Basel
11.03 Guest Lecturer, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
03.03 Panelist, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco: “Research as a Vehicle for Art + Design”
10.01 Guest Lecturer, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside
11.99 Guest Lecturer, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte
11.99 Guest Lecturer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
03.97 Guest Lecturer, California College of the Arts, Oakland
11.96 Panelist, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco: “The Politics of Indecency: Censorship in New Media”
11.96 Panelist, Society for Photographic Education, Oakland: “From Silver to Cyber”
10.96 Guest Lecturer, The San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco: “Market Street Walking Tour: The Frontier”
10.96 Panelist, California College of the Arts, Oakland: “Alternative Narratives using Digital Media”
01.96 Panelist,The Governor’s Conference on the Arts, Los Angeles: “Public Space in the Age of Cyberspace”
03.95 Panelist,The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco: “Photography and Multimedia”

residencies/fellowships:

2005 Artist in Residence The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
2003-04 Artist in Residence UCSF Mount Zion, San Francisco, CA
2002 Nominee Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation
2002 Recipient Creative Work Fund, Visual Arts Grant
2001-02 California Artist-In-Residence Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2001 Recipient John D. and Susan P. Diekman Fellowship
2001 Artist-In-Residence Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA
1999 Artist-In-Residence McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC

published work:

2006 Alison Sant,"Redefining the Basemap" in Ed. Christiane Paul and Patrick Lichty Intelligent Agent, vol. 06 no. 02 (2006).
2006 Alison Sant, "TRACE: Mapping the Emerging Urban Landscape" in Ed. Drew Hemmet, Leonardo Electronic Almanac: Locative Media, vol 14 issue 3 (2006).
2006 Alison Sant + Elizabeth Goodman "SITESpecific" in ed. Nisar Keshvani, Leonardo Electronic Almanac: Locative Media, vol 14 issue 3 (2006).
2004 Alison Sant, “Redefining the Basemap” in ed. Marc Tuters + Rasa Smite, Acoustic Space: Trans Cultural Mapping (Riga: The Center for New Media Culture RICX, 2004) p. 153-56. Also available online at www.locative.net/tcmreader.
1996 Susan Schwartzenburg, Alison Sant + Amy Snyder, Cento: A Market Street Journal (San Francisco: San Francisco Art Commission, 1996).

reviews:

05.00 Charlotte City Scene: “Turning Point”
12.26.99 The Charlotte Observer: “Impressionistic Web Site Chronicles Change in Charlotte,” Richard Maschal
07.11.99 The Charlotte Observer: “Artsy Inaugural,” Kathy Haight
04.30.97 The New York Times On-Line: “Exploring How San Francisco Became What It Is”
08.14.97 The San Francisco Chronicle: “Private Spaces,” Kenneth Baker
08.06.97 The San Francisco Bay Guardian: “Dancing in the Dark,” Glen Helfand
05.97 Afterimage: “Archives of the Street,” Gregory Sholette
07.17.96 The San Francisco Examiner: “A Market Street You Didn’t Know Existed”
01.96 David Siegel, High Five Award for “Remembering Nagasaki”
01.96 Newsweek: “Remembering Nagasaki”
01.96 On-Line Design: “Remembering Nagasaki”
12.08.96 Web Review: “Spotlight: Ali Sant, Portrait of a Web Artist”
01.20.95 The San Francisco Examiner: “Playing Around with Multimedia”

curatorial projects/juries:

2007 Selection Panel San Jose Airport artist commissions
2006-2007 "SoEx OFFSITE", Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco
2006 Juror Community Domain theme for ISEA2006/ZeroOne, San Jose
2005 Juror San Jose Airport Artist in Residence for ISEA2006/ZeroOne, San Jose
1996 Juror New Langton Arts Bay Area Award Show
1994, 1995 "Multimedia Playground", Exploratorium, San Francisco

employment:

2004-present Senior Lecturer, California College of the Arts
2004-present Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute
2005 Visiting Artist in Advanced Electronic Arts, Mills College
1997-2004 Freelance Media Designer
Created web sites for clients including McColl Center for Visual Art, Sant Architects, The Summit Foundation, and Stretcher.org.
1999 Media Arts Teacher, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte
Taught new media art practice and theory.
1993-97 Media Exhibit Designer, The Exploratorium, San Francisco
Created hands-on educational exhibits using new media for both the exhibition floor and the museum web site. Co-curated two eight-week exhibitions on the uses of emerging media technologies, Multimedia Playground ‘94 and ‘95. Taught long distance learning classes using video streaming technology and wireless video on the exhibit floor, and ran workshops on the fundamentals of multimedia for the Teachers Institute.
1993-94 Producer, Eden Interactive, San Francisco
Creating an educational CD-ROM on the collection of Roy Neuberger.
1991 Printer for photographer Larry Clark, New York
1991 Photography Instructor, East Harlem Community Center, New York
Taught photography workshops to students in East Harlem.
1990 Photo Researcher, Magnum Photos, New York

related experience:

2005-present San Jose Airport Art Program Oversight Committee, San Jose
2005-present Curatorial Committee and Board Member, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco
2000-present Member, META
1996-97 Board Member San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco
1996-97 Board Member New Langton Arts, San Francisco