Dane Watkins - Current Resume

Date of Birth 18.10.65

Bursaries, Residencies and Commissions

2007

Render Commission, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada.
Cywaith Cymru Commission, Galeri Caernarfon, Wales.

2006

Artist in Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, USA.
New Eyes Commission, Blackdown Hills AONB, Somerset, England.

2005

Artist in Residence, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Ogaki, Japan.
gage05 Festival Commission, Hull Time Based Arts, England.

2004

Fire Station Commission, Tyne & Wear Fire Service, England.
Clark Digital Bursary, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, England.
exStream Residency, Hull Time Based Arts, England.
Individual Artist Award, Arts Council England, South West, England.

2003

European Media Artist Residency, Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V., Germany.
Radiator 02 Commission, Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, England.
Reflective Practitioner Bursary, South West Arts, England.

2002

Burning Bush 2, Web Commission, New Media Scotland, Scotland.

Exhibitions, Presentations and Screenings

2008

'Blue Circles' survey University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
'Disorder' email survey of Spark, CBC radio program, Canada.
'The Call of the Dead' selected for chico.art.net annual international juried online exhibition, California, USA.

2007

'Empty Days' exhibited at 1.3 Festival of Video and New Media Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
'Disorder' email survey of Galeri Caernarfon, Wales.
'Partly Cloudy' exhibited at The Brewhouse, Taunton, England.
'The Call of the Dead' Multimedia prize Avanca '07, Portugal
'Drawing and Animation in the Digital Environment' presented at University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Canada.
'The Call of the Dead' a 'Tugboat presents:' exhibition in the Bemis Underground, Omaha, USA.
'Human Mutations' presented at Art Talk, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, USA.

2006

'New Forms of Narrative in Digital Art' presented at Digiville, Brighton, England.
'City Running' drawings exhibited at Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, England.
'Index of Animated Objects' presented at Flatpack Festival, Birmingham, England.

2005

'officious' exhibited at CAFKA 05, Canada.
'autoerotic' exhibited at Popping Pixels, USA.
'animated objects' exhibited 404 Festival, Argentina.
'Index of Animated Objects' exhibited at IAMAS, Japan.

2004

'Index of Animated Objects' presented at the 3rd Whitby Conference, England.
'Portraits' presented at LabCulture Symposium, Bridport, England.
'Portraits' exhibited at the Engine Room, Bridgwater, England.
'officious' exhibited at the EICH Gallery, Hull, England.
'autoerotic' exhibited at Watershed, Bristol, England.

2003

'Empty Days' presented at d-motion, Halle, Germany.
'TargetArt' exhibited at Stills Gallery, Scotland.
'TargetArt' exhibited at PraterTheatre, Berlin, Germany.
'TargetArt' exhibited at Radiator 02, Nottingham, England.
Free-fall exhibition at Peterborough Museum, England.

2002

'help' exhibited at Web Racket show, DeCordova Museum, Massachusetts, USA.
'them' featured on Boston CyberArts on-line Gallery, USA.
'handycom' selected as a Di-Da Web page for arteleku.net, Spain.
'Handy Hands' exhibited in the garage festival, Germany.
'Handy Hands' exhibited at LA Freewaves, USA.

2001

'them' exhibited at Transmediale, Germany.
'them' shortlisted for the virose links award, Portugal.
'Machine Corporation' featured in ‘inflect’, Canberra Centre for Writing, Australia.
'him' shortlisted for the eliterature 2001 poetry awards, USA.
'him' published in Eastgate Systems Ltd Reading Room, USA.
'him' shortlisted for the Lite Show, Boston CyberArts Festival, USA.

2000

'help' published in Eastgate Systems Ltd Reading Room, USA.

Teaching

2005 Animation and Interactivity, Plymouth University, England.
2003—2004 Animation and Interactivity, Surrey Institute of Art and Design, England.

Digital Media Trainer

2000—2003 PVA MediaLab, Bridport, England.

Artist Faclilitator

2000—2004 LabCulture PVA, Bridport, England.
LabCulture venues include, Artsway New Forest, Vivid Birmingham,PVA MediaLab Bridport, Lighthouse Brighton, The Watershed Bristol, The Eden Project Cornwall

Education

1990—1993, BA, Graphic Design, John Moores University Liverpool, England.
1989—1990, Foundation in Art and Design, Shelley Park Bournemouth, England.