CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
MFA 2011 California Institute of the Arts - Art, Integrated Media
BA 2009 Whitman College - Art, Minor in English, Magna Cum Laude
EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES & SCREENINGS (*SOLO EXHIBITION)
2022
Processed, Sierra Arts Foundation, Reno, NV
2021
DOOMSCROLL, Leonardo ISAST Pavilion, 5th thewrong biennale, web
Silent Screen, Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Denver, CO
Re-generation, Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Denver, CO
*Social Stress Test, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo, South Korea (forthcoming)
*Social Index, New Glyph Gallery, The Holland Project, Reno, NV
2020
Undocumented events and object permanence, The Wrong, online exhibition
Human, Stay Gallery, Downy, CA (virtual)
Feelin’ Loopy, Treat Gallery, Fizz Digital
Clouds: The 6th International Exhibition on New Media Art, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
Connections, Reno-Tahoe International Airport, Reno, NV
The Body Language, THE ROOM, Venice, Italy
Art Teleported Brooklyn NY 2020, Brooklyn, NY
2019
*Handshake Flag, Harborview & Pole, San Pedro, CA
*Small Gestures, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo, South Korea
Screening, AR Projects, Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA
2018
Apparatus, Plexus Projects, New York, NY
*Metafork, Thank You For Coming, Los Angeles, CA
Scroll, The Reef, Los Angeles, CA
2017
National/Washington, LARC/UMM, Klowden Mann, Culver City, CA
Inauguration, Main Gallery, Valencia, CA
Town Hall, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA
soundbodyspace, Mumbo, Valencia, CA
2016
Play: Open Call 2016, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
OneHouse Arts, OneHouse ArtsExperience Museum, Temple City, CA
PMBW, Laboratory for Lifelong Learning Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Body Part Position Points (Portland, OR), Otherplaces.la, online
2015
* Performance Protocol, AR Projects, Los Angeles, CA
*Social Haptics Learning Center, themonthly, online
*FLOP, Mitchell Gallery, USC Roski School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
*GAME Night, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
* Key-Swipe Finger-Calligraphy, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Watchmen: Surveillance and the Flanuer, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Trans•pose, The dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA
Hello L.A., studio 1.1, London, England
2013
Future Play:Active A John Cage Birthday Party Workshop, Centre for the Living Arts, Mobile, AL
Have You Seen My Privacy?, Concord, Los Angeles, CA
Gastro-Aesthetics: History of Food & Art, Thank You For Coming, Los Angeles, CA
Fast Service While You Wait, Venice 6114, Los Angeles, CA
2012
*Dental Focus Focal Group, Six & Six, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Road Concerts: Mulholland Dérive, Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles, CA
Perform WOW!, Small Form Space, Los Angeles, CA
Trash, The New Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA
2011
Saved by the Eternal Telethon, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA
*Pericutaneous Model Building Workshop, A116, CalArts, Valencia, CA
*Reciprocal Handwashing Station, D300, CalArts, Valencia, CA
*Human Architecture Headgear Activity (HAHA), Woodbury University, Burbank, CA
Los Angeles Road Concerts: Sunset Boulevard, Sunset & Fig, Los Angeles, CA
GLAMFA (Greater Los Angeles MFA Exhibition), Cal State University, Long Beach, CA
Fast-Forward II: A Screening of Contemporary Video Art, SBCAF, Santa Barbara, CA
Into My Seas, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Intimacies, The Farley Building, Los Angeles, CA
LA Napoli, Cercle Blanc Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2010
*Egress, Main Gallery, CalArts, Valencia, CA
Eternal Telethon: Infinity + 24, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
Playing Dumb, Amy Adler’s Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Cut/PASTE Collage as Methodology in Video Art, PØST, Los Angeles, CA
Energia 14-15, Energy Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2009
Dirty Communication, A402, CalArts, Valencia, CA
Thesis Exhibition, Sheehan Gallery, Walla Walla, WA
PUBLICATIONS & RESEARCH
“The Virtual Fluxus Counterculture.” Dada Studies as Countercultural Practice, forthcoming.
“Into the Clouds: New Media Art 2021.” Catalogue, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, forthcoming.
“Augmented and Socialized: Abstracting Interactions Between Bodies and Phones.” Presentation, Art Teleported Brooklyn NY 2020, forthcoming.
“Gesturing Toward Small Data.” Presentation, CICA New Media Art Conference, 2019.
“Posthuman: New Media Art 2020.” Catalogue, CICA Museum, forthcoming.
viralnet Research Fellow. viralnet-v4.net, 2017-2018
“Whimmydiddles ,Whirligigs, and Capital Punishment: A History of Toys and Games, Being A Partial and Idiosyncratic Exploration of Several Centuries of Developments, Focusing Largely on Europe and North America.” viralnet.net, 2016.
“In Response: Some Thoughts on Soap Bubbles and Spiderwebs.” Best Friends Learning Gang Reader, forthcoming.
“An Interview with Chris Bassett on NIKE: Los Angeles Defense Area.” viralnet.net, 2015.
Play:Active—A Curatorial Project in the Form of a Workshop, viralnet.net, 2013.
“Ask Shirley.” Intimacies, 2011.
PRESENTATIONS
“Moving with Machines, Seeing with STYLEGANS.” Stories About Computers Symposium, University of Nevada, Reno, October 2021.
“Dialogical Appearance: Remote Vision.” Performance, Collab Project, New Media Arts Conference, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea, June 2020.
“Augmented and Socialized: Abstracting Interactions Between Bodies and Phones.” Presentation, Art Teleported Brooklyn NY, January 2020.
“Digital Text Inside the Body.” Art Writing Symposium, University of Nevada, Reno, October 2019.
“Gesturing Toward Small Data.” Presentation, CICA New Media Art Conference, June 2019.
“Whimmydiddles ,Whirligigs, and Capital Punishment.” Lecture in “Explorations in Teledildonics” series for Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA, May 2016.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Exhibition notes, Unbounded Unleashed Unforgiving, CAA Conference, 2021.
Curci, Luca. “Interview: Tyler Calkin,” ITSLIQUID, Marc. 1, 2020.
Roesch, Ariane. “The UNIT Talks: Tyler Calkin,” The UNIT Talks, 2015.
Moore, Catlin. “The Quantum Leap to Something New, Part II,” DailyServing.com June 25, 2013.
Sommer, Danielle. “#loveletter,” DailyServing.com Jan. 14, 2013.
TEACHING
2018-present
Assistant Professor & Digital Media Area Head, Department of Art, University of Nevada, Reno.
2012-2018
Special Faculty, The Center for Integrated Media & The School of Art, California Institute of the Arts.