Ella Joseph, Visual & Theatre Performance Artist
Email: ella@scenoart.net
Website: www.scenoart.net
Education
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2000 - 2001
1997 - 2000
1984 - 1989 Summer 2000 1990 - 1992 |
MA Scenography: Central Saint Martins College of
Art and Design, London, United Kingdom á
Theory and Practice
in Contemporary Visual Performance, Utrecht School of Arts, The Netherlands á
Video & Film,
Photography & Public Art, University of Art and Design Zurich,
Switzerland MFA Theater Design: University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada BS/MS Textile Engineering: Gh. Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania
Body Weather Laboratory: Passe Partout Foundation, Utrecht, The Netherlands Painting: George Enescu University of Arts, Iasi,
Romania |
Areas of Specialization
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Theatre/Performance, Video, Painting, Photography, Installation and Public Art
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Professional Experience
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2006 - Present
2003 - Present
2003 - 2004 2002 - 2003 2001 - 2003 1997 - 2000 1990 - 1992 1989 - 1995 |
Video Specialist: Synacor Inc., Buffalo, NY Creative Director: Internet to Interactive (i2i) Concepts, Toronto, Canada
Visiting Artist: Art and Technology, Pacific New
Media, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honululu, HI Guest Advisor: Scenography, School for New Dance
Development (SNDD), Amsterdam, NL Instructor: Digital Video and Archiving, Nieuw
Millennium Foundation, Amsterdam, NL Stage Design Assistant, Frederic Wood Theater,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Teaching Assistant: Geometry & Technical
Drawing, Gh Asachi University of Iasi, Romania Textile Engineer/Researcher, The National Textile Research Institute (CERTEX), Bucharest, Romania
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Exhibitions/Screenings/Performances
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2009
2008
2007
2006 2005 2004 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997
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Video Performance Installation: A House of Stone or Sunk In, or . . .
Infringement Festival 2009: ScenoArt Studio & Gallery: Buffalo, NY
Performance of Movement and Sound: Parsifal Unspoken
Babeville - Asbury Hall: Buffalo, NY Video Performance Installation: A Piece of Earth or Shake Yourself Free
Infringement Festival 2008: Squeaky Wheel; ScenoArt Studio & Gallery: Buffalo, NY
Video Performance Installation: All
Aboard Hallwalls' Artists & Models, Theme: Unhinged, Central Terminal, Buffalo, NY
ScenoArt
Studio & Gallery, Buffalo, NY Manipulated Photography: Elefteria . . . Nevermore, Triptych
Albright-Knox,
Collectors Gallery: Area Artists Show, Juried Exhibition, Buffalo, NY Art
Dialogue, Western New York Group of Artists: Abstract Art, Juried Exhibition,
Buffalo, NY Video: Euphoria or One Piece Always Missing,
2002 CEPA Gallery: Members Exhibition, Buffalo, NY
Video:
Over the Rainbow . . . Somewhere, 2006
Burchfield-Penney Art Gallery, The Members Exhibition, Buffalo, NY Video Performance Installation: Within
Boundary or A Ride in The Air Infringement Festival 2007: Hallwalls; ScenoArt Studio & Gallery, Buffalo, NY Gicle Print Series (from Video Stills): A Ride in The Air
Buffalo
Society of Artists @ Art Dialogue, Juried Exhibition, Buffalo, NY Art
Dialogue, National Small Works, Juried Exhibition, Buffalo, NY Photography Series: Bananas
ArtPark
Gallery: Buffalo Society of Artists, Juried Exhibition, Lewiston, NY Gicle Print Series (from Video Stills): Bumpy Road
Buffalo
Society of Artists @ Buffalo Arts Studio: Tri-Main
Building, Juried Exhibition, Buffalo, NY Video: Over the Rainbow . . . Somewhere
Open
Doors Niagara, Niagara Arts and Cultural Centre, Niagara Falls, NY Miden,
International Festival, Kalamata, Greece Gicle Print Series (from Video Stills): Theatre of Truth(s): Bit Two/Bumpy Road
Video: Theatre of Truth(s): Bit
One in 1min
Euroscreen21,
Screenings in over 15 European countries Video: Selfportrait
Kalamata
Video Festival, Greece Video Performance Installation: Theatre of Truth(s): Bit One & Bit Two Salvador
Allende Festival For Peace, DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, Canada Video Performance Installation: Theatre of Truth(s): Bit One or Bugged Down
Offthemapgallery,
Toronto, Canada Video Performance: Euphoria or One Piece Always Missing
Nieuw
Millennium Showcase, Amsterdam Video: Euphoria
or One Piece Always Missing: (Euroscreen21)
Muu
Galleria / Muumaanantai, Helsinki, Finland Museum-Kunst-Palast,
Duesseldorf, Germany Maumaunderground,
Barcelone, Spain Pan
Forum of Art, Emmerich, Germany Museum-Kunst-Palast,
Duesseldorf, Germany Medientrum,
Graz, Austria, Europe Culture Capital 2003 Iiris
Videofestival, Jyvaskyla, Finland Academy
of Fine Arts, "Istituto di Istoria e Fenomenologia delle Arti",
Mercata, Italy Center
for Contemporary Arts, Prague, Czech Republic 35h
Fournos Art Act Event, Athens, Greece . . . Video Installation: Sureseeker
in Venice Nieuw
Millennium Showcase, Amsterdam Video: Chestnut JVC
Video Festival Tokyo, Japan Performance Installation: Inertia
Veem
Theater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Video: Over the Moon University
of Art and Design Zurich Video: Selfportrait
University
of Art and Design Zurich Video: Chestnut
University of Art & Design Zurich,
Switzerland Staged Photography: Bananas (Series) University
of Art and Design Zurich Performance: Body in Time Utrecht
School of Arts, Utrecht, The Netherlands Interactive Video Installation: Meeting Place
Utrecht
School of Arts, The Netherlands Performance Installation: E
motion Utrecht
School of Arts, The Netherlands Photography: Thailand Series
Utrecht
School of Arts, The Netherlands Set Concept and Design: Peer
Gynt
Ibsen
Festival, Skien, Norway Chan
Center for the Performing Arts, BC Tel Studio, Vancouver Scenography: Parsifal Wagner
Forum Graz Festival, Austria Scenography: The
Magic Flute Prague
Quadrennial Student Exhibition, Check Republic Performance: Jonah
Chan
Center of the Performing Arts, Vancouver Scenography: Comfort Me with Apples Theatre
Fringe Festival, Vancouver Scenography: The
Dance & the Railroad Chan
Center for Performing Arts & Stanley Park, Vancouver Scenography: The Orphan Muses Vancouver
Little Theater, Vancouver Scenography: The
Seagull
Student
Exhibition, Frederic Wood Theatre, Vancouver, Canada |
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Professional Services
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2004 - 2006
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Board of Directors: YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, Canada
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Exhibitions Curated
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2007
2007
2005
2004 |
Curtain Up! Visual Art Exhibit for The Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County, NY
Art Runs Deep @ The Stillwater: Showcase of Buffalo Society of Artists, Buffalo, NY Artist as Curator, Speaking Scenography: ScenoArt, YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, Canada
Euroscreen21-2003, DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto,
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Lectures/Conferences
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2006
2003
2002
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Theatre of Truth(s): Art 21 Event at Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, Niagara Falls, NY
The Changing Role of Technology in the Arts: Pacific New Media, University of Hawaii, HI
XIV IFTR/FIRT World Congress, Theatre and Cultural Memory Space: |
Professional Associations
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2004 - 2008
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College Art Association, NY
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Production
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2003 - Present 2002 2001 2001 - 2002 1998 1997 |
Digital Imaging, Pre, Production & Post
Production i2i
Concepts (www.i2iconcepts.net,
click on projects link) Music Video Pre-Production, Production & Post
Production: Lawn
Nieuw
Millennium Foundation, Amsterdam Video Pre, Production & Post Production: Making
The Band Video Nieuw
Millennium Foundation, Amsterdam Video Post Production: Expedition 360 Nieuw
Millennium Foundation, Amsterdam Video Post-Production: Saving
History Nieuw
Millennium Foundation, Amsterdam Video Production & Post Production: Mixt Nieuw
Millennium Foundation, Amsterdam Archiving
& Streaming Media for Internet Production & Post Production: Silo
Theatre Nieuw
Millennium Foundation in Collaboration with Silo Theatre, Amsterdam Music Video Production & Post Production: El
Shit Nieuw
Millennium Foundation, Amsterdam Video Post-Production, Digital Indexing and
Archiving: Surinam
Project Nieuw
Millennium Foundation, Amsterdam Audio Digital Indexing and Archiving: Jacobsen Collection Nieuw
Millennium Foundation, Amsterdam Video
Projection Design (Directing, Production & Post-Production): Top 17
Theater
Compagnie, Amsterdam Set Design Assistant: Over the Moon Frederic
Wood Theatre, Vancouver Costume Design Assistant: Macbeth Frederic
Wood Theatre, Vancouver Lighting Design Assistant: Beautiful City Frederic
Wood Theatre, Vancouver Set Design Assistant and Scenic Painter: A
MidsummerŐs Night Dream Frederic
Wood Theatre, Vancouver Scenic Painter: At the First Brush,
Instructional Video Material: Scene Painting Techniques Independent
Producer in Collaboration with University of British Columbia, Canada Lighting/Video Projections Design Assistant: Thetree.thetower.theflood Chan
Centre for the Performing Arts, BC Tel Studio, Vancouver Set Design Assistant and Scenic Painter: Moliere's Shorts
Frederic Wood Theatre, Vancouver |
Technical Skills
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Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Quark Xpress, Flash, QuickTime, Media Cleaner, Sound Edit 16, Go Live, DVD Studio Pro, Word & Excel; Proficient on Apple Macintosh & Windows Platforms |
References available upon request