Curriculum Vitae
Email: joe@farbrook.net
Web site: http://farbrook.net
Professional
Assistant
Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Interactive Media and Game
Development. Worcester, MA.
Education
M.F.A. 2004
Media Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder.
B.A. 2001 University of Colorado at Boulder. English,
Creative Writing. Summa Cum Laude.
Selected Exhibitions
2008
The Last Book, National Library of Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Impermanence, La Lutta Project Space, Brooklyn, NY.
Falling Away, Lana Santorelli Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY.
DigitalArt.LA, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Nostalgia for Neverwas, ArtsWorcester Gallery at the Hanover (solo exhibition), Worcester, MA.
Digital Fringe Festival 2008, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne, Australia.
Tractatus, traveling to the following galleries:
1. Universidad Nacional: September 1-30 (Colombia).
2. Universidad de Iquitos : October (Peru).
3. Universidad del Estado del Amazonas UEA: November (Brasil).
4. Bliblioteca Publica del Banco de la Republica, November and December (Colombia).
5. Museo De Arte Contemporaneo, Universidad Nacional De Colombia Sede Bogota: March 1-30, 2009 (Colombia).
Centers and Borders: From ABC to XYZ, traveling to the following galleries:
1. XYZ Gallery, Beijing, China.
2. Blachridge Art Gallery, Beijing, China.
Transitions, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME.
Scratching
the Surface, ArtsWorcester Gallery at the Hanover, Worcester, MA.
Collision
1101, Axiom Gallery, Boston, MA.
Brian Burkhardt's Word of Mouth, Gallery Diet, Miami Beach, FL.
TRANS, The Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA.
COLLISIONtwelve, MIT Stata Center, Cambridge, MA.
Centers and Borders: Artwork from the United States, The Gallery of School of Fine Arts, Yinchaun, China.
and Ningxia Exhibition Center, Yinchaun, China.
A Cool Breeze, ArtsWorcester Summer Exhibition, Worcester, MA.
ArtsWorcester Biennial 2007 (Sally Bishop Prize for Best of Show), Worcester, MA.
Desert Generation, Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Isreal and Meneer de Wit gallery, Amsterdam.
312 Offline ON Holiday, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada.
Nexus,
Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede, Medallin,
Columbia and
Amozonia Departmento de
Extension Cultural Leticia, Colombia.
Experimental
Video at the Incubator, Kansas City, MO.
312 OnScreen, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery's Festival of Contemporary Film & Video in Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada.
Worcester Artist Group Members Show, Worcester, MA.
2006
IDIOMA-TIC,
Downtown Aurora Visual Arts, Aurora, CO.
DC Independent Film Festival,
Washington, DC.
Common
Collective, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO.
Machinima
Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY.
2005
The Post-Industrial Carnival, Building of the Union Train Station Downtown, Tampa, FL.
Stirfry
Film Festival, Willamette University, Salem, OR.
Multiplex Film Festival, Milsma, The
Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN.
Virtual Terrain
(2-person exhibition), Synapse Gallery, Benton Harbor, MI.
2004
white paint, and i can see your
panties;an evening of performance and installation, Boulder Museum of
Contemporary Arts and CU Art Museum University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
Diatribes, PREFACIO, La Fabrica Arte
Contemporaneo, Guatemala City, Guatemala (curator: Dario Escobar).
Common Wounds, The International
Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Palestine.
Fresh Produce, A collection of new
works from Colorado Artists, Gallery Sovereign, Boulder, CO.
CU-Denver College of Arts and Media
Faculty Show, Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Denver, CO.
The Discourse of Others, Salon de
Artes Plasticas, Mexico City, Mexico.
Benefit and Anniversary Celebration
for Gallery Sovereign, Boulder, CO.
Art From Pedagogy, National
Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
MFA Exhibition, University of
Colorado Fine Arts Museum, Boulder, CO.
WAR, Gallery Sovereign, Boulder, CO.
The Dairy Center for the Arts,
auction exhibition, Boulder, CO.
Constructing Identity, College Hall
Gallery, Tarrant College, Hurst, Texas.
Risque, auction exhibition for the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO.
2003
W/O Windows, performance art
exhibition, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Arts and University of Colorado Fine
Arts Museum, Boulder, CO.
Blood: Lines & Connections, The
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO.
SAVVY, St. Louis Artist's Guild, St.
Louis, MO, 2003 (Goueter Missouri Collection Prize for Diatribes)
Sense Data: an evening of
audio-visual arrangements, Soiled Dove, Denver, CO.
Soiled Live, Soiled Dove, Denver,
CO.
Visual Soundings: Music for Ruins,
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO.
Priceless, The Dairy Center for the
Arts, Boulder, CO.
After the Fall, Casa de La Cultura,
Oaxaca, Mexico.
Workspace Gallery, Boulder, CO.
Exhibition Chile, Santiago, Chile.
2002
Workspace Gallery:
'The Walls are Red', Boulder, CO.
Muerte y Memoria:
Imagenes de Colorado, EE.UU., Galeria Rufino Tamayo, Casa de la Cultura
Oaxaquena, Oaxaca, Mexico
2001
Korea Web Art Festival.
Screenings
2005
Stirfry
Film Festival, Willamette University, Salem, OR.
Multiplex Film Festival, Milsma, The
Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN.
2004
Diatribes, PREFACIO, La Fabrica Arte
Contemporaneo, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2003
Forest Through The Trees, Sense
Data: an evening of audio-visual arrangements, Soiled Dove, Denver, CO.
Soiled Live, Soiled Dove, Denver, CO
Music For Ruins, A.D.A.P.T.
Festival: Visual Soundings, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
E.D.A.S., Experimental DVDs
Screening, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Reviews/Interviews
2006
Let's
face it, Dava exhibit takes a look at the multimedia world. Aurora Sun
Sentinel, July 6th, 2006.
2004
Gallery Sovereign Demonstrates the
Power of Political Art, WAR exhibition review by J. Gluckstern, The Daily
Camera, March 4, 2004 Face to Face with 'WAR': Colloquium Addresses Conflict,
Its Causes and Consequences, article by Cheryl Nedderman, Colorado Daily, March
2.
2003
Complete the 'Diatribe', review of
Diatribes in the BLOOD Lines & Connection exhibition review by Elizabeth
Decoursey, Colorado Daily, November 18.
Social Studies, BLOOD Lines and
Connections exhibition review by Michael Paglia, Westword, October 30.
International Perspectives at MCA,
BLOOD Lines & Connections exhibition review by J. Gluckstern, Daily Camera,
October 19.
'Blood' Scales Man's Nature, Place,
BLOOD Lines & Connections exhibition review by Voelz Chandler, Rocky
Mountain News, October 3.
Beyond U.S.A. BLOOD Lines Mines a
Streak of Protest, BLOOD Lines & Connection exhibition review by Susan
Froyd, Westword, October 3. CU Grad Students Take On Current Events at the
Dairy Center, Priceless exhibition review by J. Gluckstern, The Daily Camera,
February 23.
Grants + Fellowships
+ Awards
2007
ArtsWorcester Biennial 2007 Sally
Bishop Prize for Best of Show.
2004
Mark Addison New Media Grant.
Professional Development Grant,
University of Colorado Graduate Program.
2003
Jacob Lamont Scholarship.
Mark Addison New Media Grant.
SAAVY Award.
Artsbridge Grant.
2002
Professional Development Grant,
University of Colorado Graduate Program.
2001
University of Colorado M.F.A.
Graduate Fellowship.
Suma Cum Laude, University of
Colorado at Boulder.
Visiting Artist
Lectures
2004
Digital narrative, invitation of
Casey Kohler, Denver University.
Digital narrative, invitation of
James Wentworth, University of Colorado at Denver.
2003
Digital narrative, invitation of
Brian Delevie, University of Colorado at Denver.
2002
Histories of Internet Art, ED-MEDIA
conference, Denver, CO.
2001
Digital narrative, invitation of
Mark Amerika, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Research Interests
Three-dimensional design and game theory.
Machinima, and narrative video.
All aspects of digital media and fine art computing.
Graphic design, visual rhetoric, and visual culture.
The book arts, textual studies, and on-line narrative.
Audio sculpture.