Emit Snake-Beings: Curriculum Vitae D.O.B 18-12-1967 Ph- 021 165 1233 Email: emit@snakebeings.co.nz Education and qualifications: PhD. Awarded 15th February 2016 - Screen & Media - Waikato University M.A. (First Class Honors) –2010 - Screen & Media - Waikato University B.A. (First Class Honors) – 2008- Screen & Media- Waikato University Related work experience at university level: Current position: Lecturer at Screen & Media programme, University of Waikato, New Zealand 2015 - Video production and creative project management. Teaching fellow and convener Waikato University - SMST210-15T 2012 and 2011. Video production. Teaching fellow and convener for SMST210 -11S and SMST310 -12A Waikato University 2010 Small studio production SMST210-10S and– duties: planning lectures, course outline, assignments and marking – course convener. Video production. Teaching fellow Waikato University – 4 semesters in 2009 and 2010. TV studio production, Video production Two and three, Animation studies - Software tutor for all video production tools including: After Effects, Final Cut, DVD studio pro, and Motion. Other duties: troubleshooting software and hardware issues, assisting creative development of student work, and liaison between students and Teaching Technologies. Part-time tutor Waikato University Three semesters in 2007/08: Video production One: three semesters as sound tutor, duties: planning lectures, assignments and demonstration of equipment and software. Video production Two: Software tutor for all video production tools including: After Effects, Final Cut, DVD studio pro, and Motion. Other duties: troubleshooting software and hardware issues, assisting creative development of student work, and liaison between students and Teaching Technologies. Academic publications: Snake-Beings, E. (2015). Trash aesthetics and the sublime: Strategies for visualising the unrepresentable within a landscape of refuse. New American Notes On-line, The Aesthetics of Trash(7). Retrieved from http://www.nanocrit.com Snake-Beings, E. (2014). DiY participatory culture - Allowing space for inefficiency error and noise. Acoustic Space 12 (Techno-Ecologies II.) (PRINT). Snake-Beings, E. (2013). The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author function. Media International Australia: The University of Queensland(147: Lifestyle Media and Social Transformation in Asia) (PRINT). Snake-Beings, E. (2013b). From ideology to algorithm: The opaque politics of the Internet. Transformations, 23. Retrieved from http://www.transformationsjournal.org Funding and awards: University of Waikato Doctoral Thesis scholarship 2011-2015 University of Waikato Masters Thesis scholarship 2009. University of Waikato FAS Honors award 2008. Sir Edmund Hilary scholarship, Waikato University. Full scholarship between 2007 and 2009 Creative New Zealand: Various funding through the creative communities funding between 2001 and 2009. Hamilton Community Arts Council. www.hcac.org.nz Creative projects and exhibitions International exhibitions Hamilton Underground Film Festival (2013) – multiple screen event: Melbourne, London, Tokyo and Tazmania. Karen Karnak: (Upstage Festival 090909, International, 9 September 2009) Interactive web-based performance festival: http://upstage.org.nz/ Retrospective Screening: ( Catalunya, Spain, 18th-19th July 2008) 2 events– Teatre Flor De Maig, Gratallops, & La Vilella Baixa Priorat, Catalunya, Spain. With Arnolfini Collective [Cat] – 9 Films + Directors talk [in Spanish] + Live improvised film Soundtrack with The Kaosphere Orchestra OtherFilm Festival: (Brisbane, Australia, November 2007) – Performance and super8 film show. REF: http://www.otherfilm.org/artists.htm - part of the ‘monster soup’ section during tour with the Venting Gallery Melbourne Venting Gallery – Invisible Perspectives Tour: (Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Blue Mountains Sydney, November 2007) Film showings and combined expanded cinema projections working with Australian improvised sound makers Sydney Shorts: (Australia- Cable access show TVS ch31 Aug 06) repeated on triangle TV in Auckland NZ – June 07 –Film screening The remote viewers, and Death of an Orchestra. Hull Arts Lab: (Humberside, UK June 2006) Selection of films in a solo film screening New York Independent Film Festival (New York, 2006) Film screening Martin and Snakes go to the Zoo as actor and co-writer. Director Michelle Saville Exhibitions in NZ galleries: Bingodisiac – participatory music event using random numbers and bingo cards to create a soundscape for visuals by Snake-Beings 2011-2012. – Auckland, Hamilton and Wellington. Featuring over 60 participants. Various sound and video performances at Audio Foundation 2011-2014 Incarnate: The [in]Complete moving image works of Karen Karnak 1991-2009: (Wintec Ramp Gallery, Hamilton, 5 November – 24th 2009) multiple screen moving image installation and performance. Karen Karnak and digital materialities: (Aotearoa Digital Arts Symposium, Wellington, July 2009) Short presentation. Mind Games: (Hastings City Art Gallery, April 2009). Group exhibition of Surrealism in Aotearoa, featuring a three minute animation by Emit Snake-Beings. Italian Film Festival Hamilton: (Waikato Museum of art and History, Hamilton February 2008) Invited curator of the screenings organized by Steven Chappell. Ghost Rider: (James Wallace Gallery Auckland 19th October 2007) Five films screened as part of James Robinson’s celebratory show as winner of the Wallace arts award 2007 Night Vision: (Dunedin Fringe Festival film night 2006) film screening Death of an orchestra ALT TV – (sky digital Aug 07) film screening Plastic The Bad Horse film festival: (Wanganui School of art and design 2006) film screening Death of an orchestra, voted best animation.