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Zach Poff
Video Silence - See http://www.zachpoff.com/site2/projects/videosilence/
AWARDS and RESIDENCIES
2008 Residency, ISEA 2008, Singapore
2007 Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
2004 Residency, Polli Talu, Estonia (with MAP Intermedia performance group)
2001 Residency, Armenia - Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art

EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS, PERFORMANCES
2008
Auburn University - Parallel Rhetoric: Coming and Going
National Museum of Singapore (ISEA 2008) - Appropriate Response (with nbaldrich)
SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME - The Past is a Ghost (with nbaldrich)
FILE Electronic Language Festival, Brazil - The Baltic Sea (with nbaldrich)
VELOCITY, Folly Art Center, UK - The Baltic Sea (with nbaldrich)

2007
Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA - installed three new works (with nbaldrich)
Journal of the New Media Caucus - published Artist Statement (with nbaldrich)
MEDIAWORKS, Perimeter Gallery, ME - installed Parallel Rhetoric, Explosions and Reactions
Int. Symposium on Comp. Aesthetics, Banff, Canada - The Shape of Memory (with nbaldrich)
Time Out, CMCA, ME - The Shape of Memory (with nbaldrich)
312 OnScreen, Newfoundland, Canada - Movement Reflection (with nbaldrich)
Zemos98 Festival, Sevilla, Spain - Movement Reflection (with nbaldrich)

2006
Perform.Media festival, Indiana U. - installed Observational Soundscape IV (with nbaldrich)
"When Artists Say We" at Artists Space, NYC - Documentation of work with NB Aldrich
"Dynasty" at Gallery MC, NYC - installed Parallel Rhetoric: 2001 + 2005
Carnegie Art Center, NY - installed Parallel Rhetoric: Coming and Going
Hallwalls Art Center, NY - installed Interactive Soundscape Designer (with nbaldrich)
Bates College, Olin Arts Center - installed Observational Soundscape III (with nbaldrich)

2005
WORK Gallery, Ann Arbor MI - installed "Parallel Rhetoric: 2001 + 2005"
Cooper Union Art School, NYC - installed "The Observational Soundscape II" (with nbaldrich)
Not Still Art festival, NYC - screened "Movement Reflection" (with nbaldrich)
The Imagination Project, ME - created "Stonington Soundscape" (with nbaldrich) during residency
University of Maine at Orono - installed "The Observational Soundscape I" (with nbaldrich)

2004
Stonington Opera House, ME - US premiere of "Variatsioonid" (with nbaldrich and Brendan McCall)
Ayers Island Contemp. Arts Fest, ME - performed "0011" (with nbaldrich and Duane Ingalls)
Polli Talu, Estonia - created "Variatsioonid" (with nbaldrich and Brendan McCall) during residency
Unity Arts Center, ME - performed "Kick in the Eye" (rev 2) (with nbaldrich and Brendan McCall)
St. Marks Church, NYC - performed "Kick in the Eye" (rev 1) (with nbaldrich and Brendan McCall)

2003
Hallwalls Art Center, NY - installed "Explosions and Reactions" and "Search Signals"
Bennington College, VT - performed "Institution" (with nbaldrich and Brendan McCall)
Antifreeze: Armenian Center for Experimental Art - screened 3 films

2002 and earlier
New Work: Bennington College, VT - installed 5 pieces in group show
Armenian Center for Experimental Art - resident artist in Yerevan, Armenia
Faculty Show: Bennington College, VT - installed "Public Haunting" in group show

INSTRUCTION
Cooper Union School of Art - 2003 - present
Projects in Sound Art - studio class introducing aurality within individual artistic practice
Digital Photography - comprehensive digital photo class for the Continuing Education program
Film and Video Seminars - techniques instruction within intro classes

Bennington College - 2001 - 2003
Intro to Video Art - comprehensive course covering the history, theory, and techniques of video art
Electric Art (with nbaldrich) - course exploring the rise of the media culture in the 20th Century
Video Toolbox - video techniques course to accompany intro classes
Breaking the Frame - course focusing on audio and video as installation techniques
Summer Intro to Video (assisted Kate Howard) - intro for high-school students

The Imagination Project - 2005
Intro to Final Cut Pro - FCP workshop for a Maine community media arts project

SOUND FOR FILM
just act normal - Hollie Lavenstein - 2008
Lay Down Tracks - Danielle Lombardi / Brigid McCaffrey - 2006
My Neck is Thinner than a Hair (version 2) - Walid Raad - 2006
States of Unbelonging - Lynne Sachs - 2005
My Neck is Thinner than a Hair - Walid Raad - 2004
Cellar - Ben Hickernell - 2004
Investigation of a Flame - Lynne Sachs - 2001
CLEAVE - Hollie Lavenstein - 2000
Euphoria - Lee Boot, John Chester – 2000

ARTIST ASSISTANT WORK
Please, Please, Pleased to Meet'Cha - Nina Katchadourian - 2006
Makedown (take 2) - Dennis Adams - 2005
Makedown (take 1) - Dennis Adams - 2004
Freeload - Dennis Adams – 2004