Nik Williams' Resumé

Thanks! to Ken Feingold

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NIK WILLIAMS: Digital Artist/Consultant

A brief BIO (excluding artist exhibitions and lectures)

Current: 

- Consultant for Center for the Advancement of Digital Cinematography in
cooperation with Silicon Graphics and the International Photographers of
the Motion Picture and Television Industries, Local 600, IATSE.

- Project Director for the design and construction of the Beecher Center
for the Electronic Arts,  Youngstown, Ohio, to be completed in 1998.

- Director of Project ChronoMnemos, a virtual reality based
architectural environment employing GPS technology. Preliminary progress
will be demonstrated at the Center for Advanced Inquiries into the
Interactive Arts, Newport, Wales 97 and the International Symposium on
the Electronic Arts (ISEA97), Chicago.
 
- Founder of the Manhattan Open Inventor (from which VRML was derived)
group,  a coalition of independent artists and software developers
working on interactive 3D projects; sponsored by Silicon Graphics
(defunct).

- Member of the Board of Directors of The Wardenclyffe Project,
dedicated to the creation of a Nikola Tesla Museum on the site of his
original laboratory in Shoreham, New York.

- Member of the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) group which
continues to be responsible for developing the 
specifications for delivering virtual reality over the Internet/WWW.

- Research and development consultant for Project GeoNet, sponsored by
the European Economic Union, with Jason Cunliffe, Nomadics Ltd, a real
time meta-data exchange network for member EEU nations.

Past:

- Co-designer with Shuya Abe of the Paik/Abe video synthesizer and
assistant to Nam June Paik while both a student and faculty member at
the California Institute of the Arts: 1969-72 (MFA) 

- Artist in residence at various experimental TV labs around the
country, including WNET, WTTW, WGBH and KQED: 1972-75

- Collaboration with Salvador Dali on four pulse laser holograms for his
show at the Knoedler Gallery, New York: 1972-73

- Original member of the Rockefeller Foundation's Study Group for
Independent Video Programs and founding member of the Bay Area Video
Coalition, the first independent producer's facility dedicated to
serving video artists in the United States: 1975-77

- Cameraman / editor "We are an Enigma", an hour-long video
documentary on the plight of the gypsies in Europe, aired on TF-1 in
1981. Won honorable mention at Cannes Film Festival in the Independent 
Documentary category.

- Consultant to both Francis Coppola and LucasFilm for several
video/film projects, including the off line video-for-film system
installed in Coppola's "Silver Fish" production van ("Rumble Fish" and
"One From the Heart"): 1978-80

- Special video effects consultant to Roberta Friedman, special effects
coordinator for "Star Wars" and "The Empire Strikes Back" by George
Lucas: (same time period)

- Co-founded "Rhythm and Noise" a multimedia performance group which
produced a number of public events in both the Bay Area and 
Los Angeles. Collaborations with the Residents and released two albums
and several prototypical "music videos" on their label, Ralph Records:
1978-1984

- Video consultant to Philips, N.V. on their CD-I system in Eindhoven,
the Netherlands: 1986-87.

- First true Internet multicast of a movie ("WAX" by David Blair) over
the M-BONE/T1 line connected to multiple sites around the world with
Vincent Bilotta, New York, 1992.

- Creation an Internet POP (Point-of-Presence) in Civitella D'Agliano, a
rural village north of Rome, Italy,  as a test for how to integrate
global telecommunications technologies in underdeveloped communities,
with Ingo Gunther and Tobias Pfeil. 

- Numerous lectures, demonstrations and shows thoughout the United
States, Europe and Asia.

- AGRIPPA, the first digital self-erasing book with author William
Gibson and painter/graphic artist Dennis Ashbaugh. The first reading of
the self-erasing digital text over the internet 1992 by Robert Ashley.

- First contemporary art exhibition utilizing the Internet, with Dennis
Ashbaugh, Washington, D.C. 1992.

- Collaboration with Dennis Ashbaugh and architect James Doerfler on the
Atlanta Beautification Competition for the 1996 Olympic Committee (2nd
prize).

- Lecture at Columbia University School of Architecture, with Dennis
Ashbaugh and Henry Lowengard, New York 1993.

- Lecture at Mississippi State University, Honors Program, with Dennis
Ashbaugh, November 1994.

- Lecture/demonstration at the Butler Institute for American Art in
Youngstown, Ohio, with Dennis Ashbaugh, February 1995.

Nik Williams