CAULEEN SMITH
1112 E. 45th Street, #2A
Chicago, IL 60653
312.834.1248
cauleen@me.com
www.cauleensmith.com
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2001 - 2007
Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Radio-Television-Film
2007-2008
Assistant Professor
Massachusetts College of Art
Department of Film and Video
2008 to 2012
Acting Associate Professor
University of California, San Diego
Department of Visual Arts
2012 Spring
Graduate Advisor
University of Illinois, Chicago
School of Art and Design
2012 Summer
Faculty
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2012-2013
Visiting Artist
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Department of Film, Video, New Media and Animation
EDUCATION
1987 - 1991
BA
San Francisco State University
School of Creative Arts
1994 - 1998
MFA
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Film, Theater, and Television
2007
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
VIDEO / FILMOGRAPHY
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Wall Doc.
Daily Rains.
Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron.
Memory Poison Bones.
Sapphire Tape #1: The Message.
White Suit.
drylongso.
The Changing Same.
The Green Dress.
The Carbonist School Study Hall
Dark Matter and Postcard
Marriage is for White People
I Want To See My Skirt. With poet, Aaron Van Jordan.
(Afro)Galactic Postcards From M94
Right Hand Only Left Hand Lonely
Nebulae – Austin
NTSC
Entitled
The Fullness of Time
Remote Viewing
Elsewhere
The Name You Can Trust For Good Clean Family Fun
Working Title: PORTAL
Cauleen Smith CV 2011-2012
VHS
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16mm TRT: 12:00
16mm TRT: 05:30
VHS
multimedia installation
VHS
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16mm TRT: 03:30
16mm TRT: 82:00
35mm TRT: 09:30
35mm 6-channel installation
MiniDV TRT: 12:00
DVCam TRT: 08.25 / 05:00 respectively
MiniDV 2-channel video
Super-8 multi-channel video.
Podcasts, interactive website
2-channel video installation
16mm film sculpture
MiniDV 6-channel installation
Super-8 TRT: 06:30
MiniDV TRT: 50:00
4K
TRT: 15:00
35mm installation.
16mm TRT: 04:00
16mm diptych.
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2010-12
Sine At The Canyon, Sine At The See, By Kelly Gabron
T Minus Two
Black And Blue Over You ( After Bas Jan Ader For Ishan)
The Grid
The Vanishing
Glossolalia 3.0
Glossolalia 7.0
The Way Out is the Way "Tuo" or Constellation Chicago
Found footage
16mm.
HD
4K
4K
youtube assemblage
youtube assemblage
14 short films
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TRT: 78:00
AUDIO+VISUAL+PERFORMANCE
2010
Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band #1
On-site flashmob.
Rich South High School Marching Band at Chinatown Square
2010
Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band #2
On-site flashmob.
LGBT Lakeside Pride Marching Band at Hilliard Homes
2011
Findings #1: Evidence of Synesthesia and the Exploration
of Visual Materiality in the Creative Practice of Sun Ra
Eighty 35mm slides + Tuning Forks
2011
Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band #3
On-site flashmob
Rich South High School Marching Band at Meat packing District
2012
Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band #4
Southshore Drill Team at Museum of Contemporary Art
On-site flashmob in conjunction with "A Seed is a Star" opening
2012
Black Utopia
Archival Materials from Experimental Sound Studio
and University of Chicago Special Collections
One hundred-sixty 35mm Slides + Double 12"Vinyl LP
2012
Sea Continent, Rock Map
Museum Artifacts from L.C.Bates Museum
Hinckley, Maine
Eighty 35mm slides + LP
SOLO SHOWS
2006
I Want To See My Skirt
2007
2007
2007
2008
2011
2012
2012
Right Hand Only Left Hand Lonely
NEBULAE, Austin
NTSC
The Fullness Of Time
Remote Viewing and Other Ways of Seeing
MCA Screen: Cauleen Smith: A Seed is a Star
The Journeyman.
In collaboration with poet, Aaron Van Jordan. Commissioned by
Fluent~Collaborative testsite. Austin, TX. Curated by Risa Puleo.
3 Walls Gallery, San Antonio, Texas. Curated by Michelle Monseau.
MASS Gallery, TX. Department of Engineering University of Texas at Austin.
Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas. Curated by Katherine McQueen.
The Kitchen. New York, New York. Curated by Nato Thompson for Creative Time.
The Kitchen. New York, New York. Curated by Rashida Bumbray.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Curated by Julie Widholm-Rodrigues
threewalls. Chicago, IL. Curated by Shannon Stratton
SOLO FILM / VIDEO SCREENINGS
1993
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San Francisco Cinemateque. Curated by Steve Anker.
Sundance Film Festival. American Spectrum.
Hamptons Film Festival. Feature Competition.
Urbanworld Film Festival. Feature Competition.
Los Angeles Pan-African Film Festival. Feature Competition.
SOAP FACTORY. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Curated by Ben Heywood.
National Museum of Women in the Arts. Sisters in Cinema Series. Curated by KJ Mohr.
New Orleans Human Rights Film Festival. Curated by Emily Ratner and Jordan Flaherty.
California State University, San Marcos. MEDIA MAKERS SERIES.
TEMESCAL STREET CINEMA 09. Curated by Arne Johnson. Oakland, CA.
Millennium Film Workshop. Curated by Howard Guttenplan. New York, New York.
Threewalls Gallery. Curated by Shannon Stratton. Chicago, Illinois.
VIDEO STUDIO. Studio Museum of Harlem. New York, New York. Curated by Thomas Lax.
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2011
Reel Women Presents: African American Women Speak: Representation and Activism in Film” Organized by
Professor Roxanna Walker Canton. Fairfield University, Connecticut.
GROUP SHOWS
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Flaherty Film Seminar.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Inaugural Show.
“New History,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, curated by Milena Kalinovska
“All Dressed In White” Video show. Women & Their Work. Austin, Texas. Curated by Diane Zander.
“The Carbonist School - Study Hall”. June 24 – August 5, 2006. Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery. Atlanta,Georgia.
Curated by Cinque Hicks.
“You Were Never Here”. Soap Factory. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Curated by Ben Heywood
“Boundless. Perception From Within.” Dougherty Arts Center. Austin, Texas. Curated by Deborah Roberts.
“The Bungalow Project.” 2308 S. Presa, San Antonio, Texas. Contemporary Art Monthly. Curated by Anjali
Gupta. Representing Fluent~Collaborative. Austin, TX.
“20MB SHOW.” MASS Gallery. Austin, Texas. Curated by Aaron Dubrow.
“Texus Nexus." Contemporary Art Museum of Houston. August 2007. Curated by Valerie Cassel-Oliver and Toby Kamps.
“Selections ’08.” Stephen D. Paine Gallery. Massachusetts College of Art. Boston. Curated by Lisa Tung.
“Lone Star Video” The Center for Contemporary Art. Tel-Aviv, Israel. Curated by Dana Taggar.
“In Katrina’s Wake.” The Blanton Museum. University of Texas at Austin. Curated by Annette DiMeo Carlozzi.
“Spectacle Spectacular.” Curated by Ben Coonley and Michael Smith. Light Industry. New York, NY.
“City Stage.” Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA.
“Never Has She Ever….” Mason Gross Galleries. Rutgers University.
“Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black WomenArtists and the Moving Image since 1970.“ ContemporaryArts Museum, Houston, TX.
“Arte Projects at Prospect 1 New Orleans.”
“A Strange Land”. Austin, TX. Creative Research Laboratory.
“THE MOVING INDEX” Summer Edition. Produced by ART OFFICE.
“Desire.” The Blanton Museum of Art. Curated by Annette DiMeo Carlozzi. Austin, Texas.
“Summer Salon Series.” Balboa Park San Diego Museum of Art. With David White, and May Martinez.
“Instruments of Resurrection." Roots and Culture Gallery. Curated by Elizabeth Chodos. Chicago, IL.
"Archival Impulse." Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago. Curated by Lorelei Stewart.
"This House is not a Home." Southside Hub of Production, Chicago, IL.
"Herstory Inventory." Kunsthaus Bregenz, KUB Arena. Bregenz, Austria. Curated by Ulrike Müller
"Raw/Cooked:Ulrike Miller." OrganizedbyEugenieTsai,JohnandBarbaraVogelsteinCurator of ContemporaryArt,BrooklynMuseum.
The Bearden Project. Studio Museum ofHarlem. CuratorThelmaGolden.
GROUP FILM / VIDEO SCREENINGS
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Sundance Film Festival.
Philadelphia International Film Festival.
London Film Festival.
Special Merit Award, National Black Programming Consortium. 1993.
Pan-African Festival, Milan Italy. 1994.
Bad Girls Show New Museum, New York.
Los Angeles County Museum Of Art: Bay Area Avant-Garde Film: Then And Now, 2001.
“Race in Digital Space”. Studio Museum of Harlem and M.I.T List Center for VisualArts Center. Curated by Erika Dalya Muhammad.
Kunstkanaal, Netherlands Television.
Cinema de Baile. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Anthology Film Archives. Canyon Cinema.
“You Wear It Well – Short Films and Videos about Fashion and Beauty Around the World.” Curated by Dino Dincos.
Cinespace. Los Angeles Opening: August.
Colorado University. STAN BRACKAGE SYMPOSIUM 2010. Curated by Ed Halter.
Eye & Ear Clinic. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. With Lauren Kelley. Curated by Ivan Lozano.
“Radical Light: Alternative Film And Video In The San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000.” Curated by Steve Anker,
Kathy Geritz and Steve Seid. Presented by Los Angeles Film Forum. Touring 2011- 2012.
Maysles Institute Cinema. Black X: African Diaspora Experimental Film Series. The Fullness of Time. Curated by Bill Jennings.
COMMERCIAL OR COMMISSIONED WORK
2005
2006
Texas Prize Portraits. Commissioned by Jones Center at the Arthouse. Austin, Texas.
Cantata for Salamanders and Twelve Choirs. For Daniel Bozhkov. S-16 and Video. Curated by Regine Basha.
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2011
Invisible-Exports. Artist of the Month Club. Commissioned by Risa Needleman. Curated by Annette Di Meo
Carlozzi. Rice Geometries, 2006-2011.
HONORS AND AWARDS
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Special Merit Award, National Black Programming Consortium.
Hamptons Film Festival. Awarded Honorable Mention.
Honorable Mention Best Feature Film, Hamptons Film Festival, “Drylongso”
Urbanworld Film Festival. Awarded Best Feature Film.
Nomination. Independent Spirit Award Best Debut Performance for lead Actress
Winner. Independent Spirit Award Movado Someone To Watch. “Drylongso.”
Los Angeles Pan-African Film Festival. Awarded Best Feature Film.
Urbanworld Film Festival, Best Feature Film, “Drylongso”
Texas Exes Teacher of the Year. University of Texas Alumni Association
Jury Award: Best Film. New Orleans Human Rights Film Festival.
James D. Phelan Art Award in Film, Video, and Digital Media. San Francisco Foundation.
threewalls. Summer Artist Residency. Chicago, IL.
University of California Institute for Research in the Arts. Director’s Grant.
University of California San Diego Academic Senate Research Grant.
University of Chicago, Black Metropolis Research Consortium Research Fellowship.
Vermont College of Fine Arts Visiting Artist, Summer Residency.
Experimental Sound Studio Residency, Chicago, Illinois. Creative Audio Archive Research.
Artist Award. National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture.
RESEARCH, EVENTS, PANELS, CONFERENCES, LECTURES
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Black Filmmakers Foundation, Oakland, CA. Grants Juror.
Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA. Grants Juror.
SXSW Narrative Competition Juror.
SXSW Narrative Competition Selection Committee.
Artist Talk. Jones Center for the Arthouse. Austin, Texas.
“Afrofuturism”. SOAP FACTORY GALLERY TALK. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
National Black Programming Consortium. Juror
“Boundless” Artist Panel. George Washington Carver Museum, Austin, TX.
ITVS Grants Juror.
Reviewer. BloodBeats Volume 1. by Ernest Hardy. Red Bone Press.
Artist Talk. California Institute of the Arts.
Artist Talk. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
Juror. LEF Foundation. Boston, MA.
Guest Curator. Compact Space. "The Black Tower" UCSD MFA group show.
ONGOING CAROUSEL MICROCINEMA. Initiated in 2009, this roving Public Space Laboratory for the promotion and study of
historical and contemporary time-based media.
2010
California Institute of the Arts, ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE. April 12-16.
2010
UCSD Art History Graduate Student Conference. "What is Public Culture?" Panel discussion and slide presentation with
Jordan Crandall, Kyong Park, and Teddy Cruz.
2010
Artist Selection panel. The City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture. Southcrest Trails PublicArt Project.
2010
Society for Film and Media Studies Conference. Panel participant for L.A. Rebellion Retrospective with Charles Burnett, Julie
Dash, Billy Woodbury, and Barbara McCullough.
2010
Selection committee Juror. . Women & Their Work Gallery. Austin, TX. March 24-28.
2010
Visiting Artist. California Institute of the Arts. Valencia, CA. April 11-17.
2010
Artist Talk. Sullivan Galleries. School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
2010
Carousel Microcinema in Chicago at Threewalls. Hosted by Kerry James Marshall.
2010
Art Matters Symposium. Los Angeles, California.
2010
Artist Talk. University of Illinois, Chicago. Gallery 400 Lecture Voices: Cauleen Smith "Survey of Work: History,
Imagination and Cognitive Estrangement."
2010
Artist Talk. Creative Capital Board Retreat. New York, New York.
2010
UCIRA State of The Arts Conference. Research Presentation. U.C. San Diego.
2011
Roundtable Discussion: Cauleen Smith and Ruby LaToya Frazier. Studio Museum of Harlem.
2011
Carousel Microcinema in New York at The Kitchen in conjunction with REMOTE VIEWING.
2011
Fairfield University, Connecticut. Department of New Media / Film / TV / Radio. Artist talk and screening.
2011
University of Indiana, Bloomington. Black Film Center Archive. Artist talk and screening.
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University of California, San Diego. Center for Research and Computing in the Arts. Panel discussion, "World
Building and Contemporary Art" with Kim Stanley Robinson, Sheldon Brown, and Kris Kardambikis.
"L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema" Symposium. Organized by Dr. Jacqueline Stewart and Dr. Allyson Nadia Field.
UCLAFilm and TelevisionArchive. Pacific Standard Time:Art in L.A. 1945-1980. Some Semiotics of Larry Clark's Passing Through.
“History Through The Lens,”A Panel Discussion. The DuSable Museum of African American History.
New Museum, Skowhegan & White Columns present CONVERSATION #3. Cauleen Smith and Greg Tate present The
Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment in Cinema.
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Faculty Talk.
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
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Afterimage. Jesse Lerner. Flaherty Seminar.
“Re-creating their media image: two generations of black women filmmakers.” Cineaste. June 22, 1993. John Williams.
A Critical Cinema Volume 3. Scott MacDonald. University of California Press. “Cauleen Smith on
Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron.”
“New Histories,” The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Leah Gilliam. Page 58 – 68.
“Tech Histories: Seven artists reflect on experimental media of the African Diaspora,” Independent Film & Video Monthly,
July. Erica Muhammad.
“Not Just the Same Old Thing,” Release Print, October. Cara Mertes.
“A Filmmaker Shines: Cauleen Smith Debut.” Sacramento Observer.
“Reviews: Drylongso.” October 26, 1998. Oliver Jones.
“Looking out for Black Women,” by Teresa Moore, San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, November 1, 1998.
“Review: Drylongso.” Hollywood Reporter 87.
“10 Directors To Watch.” Variety.
“Young Black Women are Film's Unlikely Topic.” The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. April 29, 1999. Elfrieda Abbe.
“Oaklander's Film Well Received At Sundance”. Oakland Post. February 10, 1999. Diane D. Urbani.
“Desperate Measures,” by Amy Taubin, The Village Voice, May 11, 1999.
“Cauleen Smith,” by Kate Haug, The Independent, April.
“Face Off” Filmmaker Magazine, The Sundance Issue.
“I Too Sing,” L.A. Weekly, October 20-26, 2000 .
“Twenty-five to Watch” Filmmaker Magazine.
“Classroom cutups: 'Lampoon' schools students on Grade A comedy.” Dallas Morning News. January 22,
2006. Karen Brooks.
“Third Girl film deal. (Martha Southgate, Washington Square Films)”. Black Issues Book Review. March 1,
2006. Angela P. Dodson.
“Betwixt and Between.” Code Z Online.com. November 6, 2006. Cinque Hicks.
“Four shows from Austin and SA”. Glasstire.com. December. by Rachel Cook.
“Cauleen Smith and A. Van Jordan: I Want To See My Skirt, testsite”. Artlies, a Contemporary Art Journal.
Issue 53. Ivan Lozano.
“Cauleen Smith: NTSC” Austin Chronicle. NOVEMBER 2, 2007: ARTS. NIKKI MOORE.
“NTSC”. Catalog. Greg Tate. Women and Their Work.
“Cauleen Smith: NTSC” Artlies, a Contemporary Art Journal. Issue 57. Till Richter.
“The Angry Flood and the Stories in Its Wake.” New York Times. Lim, Dennis. August 15, 2008.
“Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image since 1970.“ Barnwell-Brownlee, Andrea
195 pages. Hardcover. 2008.
“Halls of Academe: End Times 101.” The New Yorker. Ioffe, Julia. May 18, 2009.
“Science Fiction As A Survival Tactic: On Cauleen Smith’s The Fullness Of Time." Left Turn. Gumbs,
Alexis Pauline. January / February 2010. Issue 35. Pg. 18.
Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 - 2000. Steve Anker, Cathy Geritz, and Steve
Seid. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. pp. 161, 270-272, 303.
"Review: Cauleen Smith, “Remote Viewing” Time Out - New York. Wilson, Michael. February 8, 2011.
"Cauleen Smith, The Kitchen."Artlies, a Contemporary Art Journal. Issue 68. Ewing, John.
"Cauleen Smith By Leslie Hewitt." BOMB. Hewitt, Leslie. Number 116 / Summer 2011. pp 88-95.
"Cauleen Smith's Sun Ra-inspired "A Star Is a Seed" at the MCA." The Chicago Reader, The Bleader. Fishman, Elly.
June 1, 2012. http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/
"Cauleen Smith and Claire Tancons in conversation about THE SUPERNOVA PROCESSION." Claire Tancons.
The Issue Project Room. May 30, 2012. http://www.issueprojectroom.org
"Cauleen Smith:Star is a Seed, A Seed is a Star." Art 21 Blog. Nettrice Gaskin. July 17, 2012. http://blog.art21.org
"In Defiance of History: Rashid Johnson & Cauleen Smith." Capper, Beth. May 30, 2012. http://www.artslant.com/
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"Cauleen Smith at the Museum of Contemporary Art - MCA Screen continues with Smith’s meditation on Sun Ra."
Weinberg, Lauren. June 7, 2012. http://timeoutchicago.com/
"MCA Screen: Cauleen Smith." Rodrigues-Widholm, Julie. Summer 2012. pp 12-13.
PUBLICATIONS
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“Dogma,” The Independent Film and Video Monthly. (February): 40. 1999.
“Wings Off Desire: A conversation with Kasi Lemmons,” Filmmaker Magazine. Winter Issue: 35-38. 2001
“Counter Currents and the Joy Quotient,” The Independent Film and Video Monthly. (August): 25-29. 2003
“Call Me Frank,” might be good…, Issue #73. July 14, 2006. http://www.fluentcollab.org/mbg/archives.php
“Desire.” Catalog By Annette DiMeo Carlozzi and contributing writers. 86 pages. Color. Soft cover. 2010.
"The Association for the Advancement of Cinematic Creative Maladjustment - A Manifesto.
MEMBERSHIPS AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
2000 – 2004
2001 – 2002
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2005-2007
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2011
Board Member. Independent Feature Project, Los Angeles, CA.
Sundance Institute Writer’s Lab. Selection Committee.
SXSW Narrative Competition Juror.
SXSW Narrative Competition Selection Committee.
Austin Film Society “Exploratory Committee”.
Cinematexas Board Member. Austin, TX.
San Diego Media Arts Center, Board member and Advisory Committee.
Volunteer: Blackstone Bicycle Works, Woodlawn, Chicago, IL.
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