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This is a collection of games and game modifications.

Papers on Games as art

These works are a hybrid of traditional and new media which include self-portraiture, interactive, and commentary.

These are new media works which include self-portraiture, interactive narratives and other explorations.

These are traditional media media works which include self-portraiture, commentary and abstract expression.

 

All content unless otherwise noted
copyright 1999-07 Andrew Y Ames.

References

 

curriculum vitae

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Education

2008 MFA candidate Digital+Media, Rhode Island School of Design

2004 BFA Electronic Media Art & Design, University of Denver's School of Art and Art History

2001 AGS (Specialist) Multimedia Technology Design & Animation, Red Rocks Community College

Professional Experience

2006-2007 Teacher’s Assistant. Rhode Island School of Design,

Experimental Games DM-7008-01,

Intro to Creative Programming DM-7021-01,

Sensing Materials and Embodied Interaction DM-7026-01.

2006-Present Head checkout room monitor, On call Tech. Digital+Media department Rhode Island School of Design, schedule monitors and checkout room hours.

2006-2007 Creative. Apple Store Providence Place, share scheduling duties, conduct One-to-One sessions and certified DVD Studio Pro.

2004-2006 Partner, Designer. Tackhammer Concepts, worked with clients and partner to develop graphic identities and websites.

2004 Designer, Prepress, On call tech. Columbine Copy and Print. Graphic designer, prepress layout, also maintained and optimized all computer systems.

2003-2004 Work Study, Graphic designer. School of Art and Art History, University of Denver, as a work study I assisted professors Sarah Gjertson, and Maynard Tischler prepping for class, also worked in the main office answering student questions and answering phones. As the departmental graphic designer I designed annual newsletter and postcards.

2001-2002 Guest Lecturer, Lecturer. Red Rocks Community College, as a guest lecturer I gave tips and tricks lectures for the classes Photoshop 1 & 2, Intro to Illustrator, Corel Painter, and Advanced Design; as a lecturer I designed and developed curriculum for Intro to Mac OS X and Intro to InDesign.

2000-2001 Lab technician, Head Lab technician. Red Rocks Community College, as a lab technician I assisted with computer maintenance and equipment checkout; as the head lab technician I maintained 3 mac labs and file servers, trained all new techs, and was in charge of scheduling.

2000-2004 Owner, Designer, Technician. Three Hundred Sixty Degrees of Design, LLC, incorporated design firm at 18, did design work for Lakewood Orthodontics, DarkStar Enterprises, Society of Biblical Literature.

Freelance Work

2007 Programmer, Aquidneck Fine Properties, electronic signature

2007 Programmer, Harken Productions, site update

2007 Designer, Brian Lenhart Interactive, LLC, twinpondscenter.com

2006-present Designer, image consultant. Those Guys, LLC, identity & branding design

2006 Technical Consultant. Jill Vincent, consulted on software and computer upgrades.

2004-2006 Technician, Designer, Programmer. Designo, worked with Phil Dineen on multiple web projects and monthly newsletter. Projects include: shdcolorado.com, protocolsllc.com, protocolsllc.com/blog, artcraftsign.com, denverdatasystems.com, designo.com, and the Children's Hospital monthly newsletter.

2004-2006 Technician, Production Assistant. Ema Design, Inc., maintain computers as well as assist and collaborate on project proposals and client work. Projects include: collaborations on emadesign.com, allenkennedy.com & logo, assisted with RTD go with the flow posters, Hildebrand Ranch Signage, Echobana print collateral.
2004 Technical Consultant. Nancy Rice. Updated software and hardware.

2003-present Web designer. Maynard Tischler. Designed and developed online artist’s portfolio.

2003-2005 Technician, Production Assistant. Greta Designs, maintained computers and assisted with color correction and design proofing.

1997-2002 Designer. Lakewood Orthodontics, designed website and patient info packets.

Exhibitions

Sep.-Oct. 2007 Canned Personalities. PIXILERATIONS [v.4]: STORIES +/- ORNAMENT a showcase of digital media and interactive performance, The Space at Alice.

Sep. 2007 Canned Personalities. Added to Rhizome's ArtBase. http://rhizome.org/object.php?o=47099&m=1047044

Feb. 2007 Deconstructing Gender. Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, iS.CaM, proudly presents: Web Biennial 2007. International Contemporary Art Exhibition on the World Wide Web. http://www.webbiennial.org/galleries/g1.htm
Jan. 2007 Deconstructing Gender. Added to Rhizome’s ArtBase. http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?42338

Jul. 2006 The Cheat. First Friday opening, A Neo Studio's & Potential Cloud Formations Collaborative Event/ Exhibit.

Feb. 2006 Deconstructing Gender. Soft Core @ Core: Contemporary Erotic Art by Denver's Best Established and Emerging Artists, Core New Art Space

Jan. 2006 A selection of studio work. Winter Festival, 5th Floor Studio's

Sep. 2005 Technical Difficulties (revised). New Work by Digital Artists. Potential Cloud Formations @ Denver West.

Jul. 2005 Simplicity & projected slideshow of Untitled Series #3: Emotion. Untitled Exhibit, 5th Floor Studio's
Jan. 2005 A projected slideshow of Untitled Series #1. Winter Festival, 5th Floor Studio's
May 2004 Before Moving On… “ ” (The Mark), Annual Senior BFA Show, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery
Feb. 12, 2004 Triggers. University of Denver Media Arts Festival, Student and Faculty works, Special event at The Rock Island

Mar. 2003 Technical Difficulties. Solo Exhibit, Colorado's Cable Center

Oct.-Dec. 2003 Untitled Series #2. Phase I, Solo Exhibit, Treehouse café

Jun.-Jul. 2003 Untitled Series #1. Places: figment, ethereal, conceptual, Noa Noa Espresso and Gallery
Feb.-Mar. 2003 Viscus. The Artists Formerly Known as Students, Juried Student Show, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery

May to Jun. 2001 Discover Creative Mastery, Noa Noa Espresso and Gallery

2000 & 2001 Multimedia Technology Center Art Show, Red Rocks Community College

Private Collections

2007 Untitled #7 from Untitled Series #2 sold at aution, Bid to Rebuild.

2007 Untitled #3 & #6 from Untitled Series #2 sold at aution, Bid to Rebuild.

2005 Untitled Series #3: Emotion. Zarella Nicole Lezama Durand, Lima, Peru

2003 Technical Difficulties. The Cable Center, Denver, Colorado

Collaborations with other Artists

2006-Present Deconstructing Gender 2. Collaborating with Laurel McMechan. Second in the series of web-based games currently under development.

June 2006 The Cheat. Potential Cloud Formations with Miguel Angel Tarango. Neo Studios First Friday, Interactive Projected Video using Apple Developer Tools

2006-Present Social Breakout*06. Potential Cloud Formations with Miguel Angel Tarango. Concept and design collaboration. Proposed work currently seeking venue.

2006 Deconstructing Gender. Collaboration with Dr. Frank Ritchel Ames. Interactive web-based game.

Nov. 2004 Corporate Calavera Project 2004. With Matt Jenkins, performance photographer.

2004 “” (The Mark). Collaboration with David Hilgier. Mark design, and three separate installations

Lectures

Oct 07 Maya Demo Requested by Enrique Martínez for his class On Form and Giving Form GRAD-060G-01, Rhode Island School of Design

March 06 “Getting started and breaking out on your own in the world of design,” Invited by Rafael Fajardo to speak to his senior BFA students, School of Art and Art History University of Denver

March 05 “The collaborative studio design process,” Invited by Miguel Angel Tarango to speak to his Visual Meaning students, School of Art and Art History University of Denver

February 05 “The collaborative studio design process,” Invited by Miguel Angel Tarango to speak to his Visual Meaning students, School of Art and Art History University of Denver

Artist presentations

March 27, 2007 War Decks & Kick the Can, University of Denver, School of Art and Art History, ARTD 4375 Graduate eMAD Critique

Published Papers

June 2007 Modifying Art, Fylkingen's journal Hz online journal. Issue number 10. http://hz-journal.org/n10/ames.html

Committees, Memberships

2007-present College Art Association.

2007-present International Game Developers Association.

2006-present Rhizome. Contributing member to the ArtBase and RAW.

2005-present Potential Cloud Formations. Member, artist, collaborator.

2003-2004 Gallery 023. Committee member. worked with other committee members to select student work proposed for display in the student run gallery.

2001 Multimedia Advisory Committee. Member at invitation of Ms. Candace Warrol. Warren Technological School, Graphic Communications Department, Helped inform how to set up and supply new computer lab.

Volunteer Work

2004 Site design and branding. Computer Village, helped to provide the non-profit with a graphic identity and web presence.

Dec. 02-Feb. 03 Designer, Consultant. Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Digital Collections, served as graphic designer/consultant for the Liberty Bell 7 Project

Feb. 2002 Custom-designed system specifications and utility disks for a Mac lab; configured file server; wrote maintenance procedures for faculty and staff. Kunsberg Elementary School at National Jewish Hospital.

Credentials

2001 Vocational Teaching Credential. Awarded by Red Rocks Community College

Awards & Honors

2006 Fellowship Grant. Digital Media department, Rhode Island School of Design

2006 Assistantship. Digital Media department, Rhode Island School of Design

2006 Nominated for the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship. One of two students nominated by the University of Denver to be entered in the national competition for the scholarship.

2002 & 2003 Harrison Merit Scholarship. School of Art and Art History, University of Denver

2002 & 2003 Colorado Scholar. University of Denver

2002 & 2003 DU Educational Grant. University of Denver

2002 & 2003 Transfer Scholar. University of Denver

2002 National Dean’s List. University of Denver

2000-2001 National Dean’s List. Red Rocks Community College

2000 Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society. Red Rocks Community College

1999-2001 Vice President’s List. Red Rocks Community College

1999 Earned GED graduating a year early from High School

Travels

2005 Juarez, Mexico

2005 Peru, stayed with a family in Lima, visiting Cusco, and Machu Picchu

Relevant Knowledge

Operating Systems: Mac/Win

Multimedia & Design

[certified] Apple DVDStudio Pro

[expert] Apple Aperture, LiveType, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Streamline, Corel Painter, Macromedia Fireworks, Adobe ImageReady, HTML, Pages, Keynote, iLife

[advanced] Adobe Acrobat, QuarkXpress, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash, Corel Bryce, Fontographer, CSS, Quartz Composer

[intermediate] Macromedia Freehand, NewTek LightWave 3D, Adobe After Effects, Poser, Open Office, WordPress

[knowledgeable] Apple FinalCut, Logic, Motion, Media Cleaner Pro, Adobe Golive, BBEdit, JAVAscript, Processing, PHP, MySQL, Aurdino

Networking

[expert] AppleShare IP, Network Assistant

[advanced] OS X Server, FireRaid, SoftRaid

artistic

Drawing, woodblock printing (oil and waterbased using western and eastern techniques), wood-working (furniture making and refinishing), frame making, sculpture, sewing, guerrilla installation, digital & 35mm photography, basic electronics, ceramics