| Michael Luck Schneider 646.623.3315 |
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Education Masters Degree in Interactive Telecommunications, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU 2003. Apprenticeship, Korean Traditional Folk Song Master Pak Jong Wook, Seoul, Korea 1999-2001. Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art/ Environmental Sculpture, Pomona College, CA May, 1997. Stuyvesant High School of Science, New York, NY 1993. |
| Teaching and Professional Work | |
| New York City College of Technology Instructor Fall 2006 - Present |
Courses Taught: Entertainment Control Systems, Entertainment Video Systems, Internship Coordinator, Electricity for Live Entertainment, Theatrical Lighting. Involved in developing two new certificate programs in interactive emerging technology. Created and proposed a class in physical computing.
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Developed, designed, and fabricated interactive exhibits for museums and expos such as American Museum of Natural History, Panasonic, Staten Island Children’s Museum.
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ITP/NYU
Visiting Assistant Professor Spring 2004 – Present |
Courses taught: Physical Computing I (2004 - present), a graduate level course exploring the creation and implementation of computer human interfaces using physical interaction. Rethinking the Switch (2005) Applying physical computing for Adaptive Design, our students were paired with students with disabilities (K-12) to design a new interactive device for them. Developing Assistive Technology (2005) co-taught with the school of Occupational Therapy, students from both departments worked in the field to research, develop and prototype new interactive devices for therapy applications
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Cooper Union School of Engineering
Fall 2005 |
Co-Taught Design, Illusion and Reality , with Adrianne Wortzel, a class in tele-robotic puppetry.
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ITP/NYU
Resident Researcher August 2003 – August 2005 |
Researcher on independent projects; public art using embedded network technology, networked spaces, performance and technology, assistive technology.
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ITP/NYU
Technical Assistant March - June 2003 |
Set up and maintained three multi-media computer labs, Apple and PC, of approximately 70 machines.
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Tisch NYU
Theatrical Set Construction August 2001-March 2003 |
Built sets for dance and theater as carpenter, painter and metalworker.
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Inner City Arts, Los Angeles
Head Ceramics Instructor July 1997 - December 1998 |
Responsible for curriculum development and maintenance of full time ceramics program teaching inner city children ages 6 – 13.
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Pomona College, California
Ceramics Technician 1994 - 1996 |
Established and maintained college ceramics studio. Constructed gas kilns and fabricated tile press and other equipment necessary for slip casting and ceramic applications
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| Artistic and Design Experience |
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Awarded an international artist in residence grant to spend a month in Sydney, with sound artist Bruce Odland, to develop a multi-sensory installation for children with disabilities.
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Rock My Chair
ISEA ZeroOne San Jose C4F3, August 2006 |
Invited to create and display a networked musical set of rocking chairs at the San Jose Museum of art during the International Symposium of Electronic Arts 2006.
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Eliza Redux
2005 - present |
Working with artist, Adrianne Wortzel on an on-line robotic psychiatrist that consults with people using internet streaming, live chat and tele-robotics. Shown at the San Jose Art Museum.
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Sphere
Fall 2004 |
Worked with artist, Walter Channing, to build an eight foot sphere that rolls by remote control.
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BuzGlo
Terrence Cardinal Cooke Center, 2004 - 2005. |
An interactive rehabilitation space designed for children with severe disabilities that breaks from the repetitive cyclical time of the hospital creating a space that feels part of nature.
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Bird of Paradise exhibit
Wildlife Conservation Society, Spring 2005 - |
Creating interactive space for birds to communicate with other birds at other zoos to encourage mating behavior and to create more interesting exhibit.
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Sofa of Jung
Sydney Biennale, 2004. |
Interactive Sound Environment development and installation with Mario Rizzi.
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MotoHoho
Founding Member, 2003 |
A group of artists and designers who use network technology to create artistic portals that connect people around the world.
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World Ear
ITP Summer Show 2002, NYU |
A networked art piece designed and built with Kentaro Okuda for installation inside Metro cars around the world, to stream live ambient sounds and which allowed for recording and listening to short messages, to encourage intercultural understanding and communication.
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Los Angeles Municipal Gallery
Barnsdall Park, 1997 Artist assistant to Kim Abeles |
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Metro Green Line Harbor Freeway Station
Los Angeles 1996. Locus: City Imprints |
Assisted Steve Appleton with a public art Installation at the Harbor Freeway Green Line metro station, using hand signs and architecture of the local community as inspiration.
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50th Scripps Ceramic Annual
Scripps College, Claremont, CA 1994 Primary assistant |
Constructed and installed a large scale architectural ceramic work.
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| Selected Projects |
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| Daily Beat Harlem Children's Zone 2006 |
Designed and constructed, with Daniel Shiffman, an interactive for a health center that uses a players heart beat to drive an animated particle-system based game.
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Panasonic OxyRide Interactive
Consumer Electronics Show, Winter 2006. |
Built the physical interface and programmed a game in which players competed by pounding on the top of a large battery causing an animated head to expand and explode.
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Bike Trip
December 2005 |
Built a hardware system for Artist, Irina Nakhova, which enabled users to pedal a stationary bicycle through a multi-screen projection environment.
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Insect Orchestra and Spider Vibrate
Staten Island Children’s Museum, Fall 2005. |
Programmed, designed and built the electronics and software for two audio-visual interactive elements of an exhibit about bugs.
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Panasonic OxyRide Interactive Wall
Fall 2005 |
Programed an animated, computer vision driven video projection for a touring electronics expo.
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Amis
Fall 2005 |
Helped design and prototype the electronics of interactive light cubes for PEEL designers.
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Gravity Wall (Einstein Exhibit)
American Museum of Natural History, 2005. |
Worked with Dan Shiffman to build an interactive computer vision driven projection which illustrated some of Einstein’s theories of the space-time continuum.
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Calendar Clocks (Einstein Exhibit)
American Museum of Natural History, 2005. |
Built the hardware and software to drive 48 VFD clocks, all counting at different speeds, as if they were in a rocket traveling close to the speed of light.
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Dinosaur Mat
American Museum of Natural History, Spring 2005 |
Designed and built the electronics, PCB, and software to control an 8’ x 4’ grid of 1152 switches which interfaced with software to display dinosaur footprints wherever children stepped.
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Siggraph
Los Angeles, California August 2005 |
Presenting physical interfaces for the wold wide web and invited panelist for “The Social Web: Platforms, Communities, and Creativity”
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Usability Professionals Association: Bridging Cultures Conference
Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 2005 |
Discussion of how advances in embedded network technology have made it possible to start designing physical objects and spaces that harness the power of the internet to connect people, relay information, and entertain. This presentation is an overview of networked objects and a summary of the design process used to create WorldEar.
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Made on a Mac – Lecture Demonstration
Apple Store Soho, NYC July 2004 |
In-store demonstration and performance of “Speaker Trees” a real-time audio sculpture using live footsteps of dancers as an audio source.
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| Selected Performances | |
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Diorama
Merce Cunningham Studio, New York, December 2003 |
Created “Falling Twice Over,” a live sound environment that responds to dancers movement, and “In the Floor,” a composition using sounds of life, for a dance performance choreographed and performed by Esse Aficionado.
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Inside the Mind of a Line, History
Joyce Theater SOHO, March 2003 |
Created live sound generated by dancers movement, manipulated in real-time for pieces choreographed by Gina Graham.
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AMSynthesis
Sunday New Genre, New York, July 2002 |
Performance using live radio samples manipulated by gesture using an instrument I created.
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Stranglet
Merce Cunningham Studio, New York October 2002 |
Live, improvisational audio using AMSynthesis, a computer assisted instrument, for performance by Esse Aficionado.
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AMSynthesis
New Interfaces for Musical Expression NYU, New York, September, 2002 |
Performance and exposition, exploring new ways of fusing technology and music.
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| Selected Korean Ch’ang Performances | |
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Ch’il Song nim Gwa Il-gop na-jol
( The Seven Star God and his seven helpers ) Seoul Cultural Center Main theater. September 2000 |
Main role in traditional Korean pre-shamanistic cow performance.
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Kae Taryong ( song of the dog ), Susul Nam-bong-ga ( Song of the roaming playboy )
Korean National Traditional Music Center. September 2000 |
Solos in performance of Korean traditional music from the northwest province.
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Chajun Nan-bong-ga, Norae Karak
Un-hyong palace. June, 2000; October 2000 |
Solos in performance of traditional Korean songs from the northwest province.
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Bae-baengee-goot
Dong Son Arts Center. April 22-25, 2000; Ch’un-an Cultural Arts center April 3, 2000 |
Korean traditional epic poetry performance.
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Korean National Military Radio
October 2000 |
Hour long interview and studio performance of traditional Korean songs.
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KBS Korean Traditional Radio Program
September 2000 |
Two segment interview and performance of traditional Korean songs.
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Honors
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Skills
Software : MAX/msp Jitter, Processing, C, Cubase, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Director. Physical Computing |