JESSICA J. RAJKO Assistant Professor, Arizona State University [email protected] jessicarajko.com

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2019-present Assistant Professor - Wayne State University, Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre & Dance

2014-2019 Assistant Professor - Arizona State University, School of Film, Dance and Theatre, (75%) and School of Arts Media and Engineering (25%) Founding Co-Director - Human Security Collaboratory Affiliate Faculty - Global Security Initiative Affiliate Faculty - Synthesis Center Graduate Advisor - Interdisciplinary Digital Media & Performance Concentration 2012-2014 Scottsdale Community College, Dance Program, Faculty Adjunct 2011-2012 Grand Canyon University, Dance Program, Faculty Adjunct 2009-2012 Arizona State University, School of Dance, Faculty Associate 2009 Arizona State University, School of Arts, Media, & Engineering, Faculty Associate

EDUCATION May 2009 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ MFA Dance & Interdisciplinary Digital Media (Outstanding Graduate of the Year) May 2005 Hope College, Holland, MI BA Dance Performance and Choreography/Psychology Double Major

ARTWORK AND CREATIVE RESEARCH Many of my creative projects are large-scale, transdisciplinary, collaborative works that result in multiple performances, exhibitions, and publications.

I. Juried and Commissioned Choreography International 2016 Vibrant Lives: Handmade Amplified (4 hours). Invited for presentation in Highs & Lows an experimental performance series curated by MD301, 4Bid Gallery at OT301, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

National 2017 The Banality of Surveillance (10 minutes). DUMBO Dance Festival, juried submission to dance festival curated by Young Soon Kim, Brooklyn, NY

2015 Topography (9 minutes). Pop Up New Media Festival, Interdisciplinary performance festival curated by Western New Mexico University professor Peter Bill, Silver City, NM

Regional 2017 I’m Not as Think as You Drunk I Am (60 minutes). Commissioned performance fully produced and financially supported by Mesa Arts Center, Virginia G. Piper Theater, Mesa, AZ

2017 Me, My Quantified Self, and I (60 minutes). Self-produced 3-day event which included guest performances, open cyber security labs, and a panel discussion

Jessica Rajko 1 related to personal data output by the Border Quants collective, Unexpected Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

2017 Me, My Quantified Self, and I (20 minutes). Commissioned presentation for the 10-year anniversary of Breaking Ground Dance Festival, the most prestigious contemporary modern dance festival in metro Phoenix, curated by Carley Conder, performed at Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ

2016 Vibrant Lives: DataPLAY (60 minutes). Co-created with Eileen Standley, a real- time composition commissioned by SPARK! Mesa’s Festival of Creativity, a large public arts festival that involves international artists and sees over 10,000 attendees annually, curated by Shawn Lawson, performed at Mesa Arts Center, Mesa AZ

2015 I’m Not as Think as You Drunk I Am (60 minutes). Original evening-length dance work presented at one of the most popular music venues in downtown Phoenix, included performances by two local bands and a local DJ, self-produced, Crescent Ballroom, Phoenix, AZ

2015 The Recreational Art of Letting Go (8 minutes). juried performance for Breaking Ground dance and film festival, curated by Carley Conder, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe AZ

2015 The Recreational Art of Letting Go (8 minutes). Phoenix Art Museum’s Andy Warhol exhibit gala opening, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix AZ

2014 The Amyloid Project (30 minutes). Subsequently Teathered Dance Concert, curated by Carley Conder, Terpsicore Studios, Phoenix AZ

2014 The Amyloid Project (30 minutes). an original composition commissioned for the SPARK! Mesa’s Festival of Creativity, a large public arts festival that involves international artists and sees over 10,000 attendees annually, curated by Shawn Lawson, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa AZ

2012 Introspect (8 minutes). en CORE Dance Concert, invited work for local dance showcase concert curated by Candy Jimenez, Phoenix Center for the Arts, Phoenix AZ

2012 Introspect (8 minutes). Play! Digital Arts Festival, Curated by urbanSTEW, MADCAP Theaters, Tempe AZ

2012 Introspect (8 minutes). Expresiones Cinco Dance Concert, invited performance for Dulce Dance Company’s annual festival curated by Candy Jimenez, Playhouse on the Park, Phoenix AZ

2012 Introspect (8 minutes). Experimental Arts Festival, an interdisciplinary art/technology festival curated by Christopher Scinto, Paradise Valley AZ

2010 You’ll Never Be Alone (8 minutes). Breaking Ground dance and film festival, Curated by Carley Conder, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe AZ

Choreography for Students 2012 Commute (10 minutes). “@” Spring Dance Concert, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix AZ

2011 Object/Subject (10 minutes). Legacy Fall Dance Concert, Grand Canyon

Jessica Rajko 2 University, Phoenix AZ

2010 Finding a Final Resting Place (6 minutes). Dance Annual Concert and the Transition Projects dance concert at Arizona State University

III. Juried and Commissioned Interactive Installations and Technologies

International 2017 Vibrant Lives: The Living Net. Interactive vibrotactile, hand-crocheted net that vibrates with the room’s collective data output. Juried ‘Interactive Installation’ exhibition at the annual CHI conference, Denver, CO

2017 Nostalgia Americana. A quilt designed to visually display a computational sentiment analysis of Donald Trump’s tweets during the 2016 presidential campaign. Juried exhibition, IEEE VIS Conference, Phoenix, AZ

2016 Vibrant Lives: The Living Net. Invited for presentation at the joint Digital Humanities Summer Institute & Electronic Literature Media Arts Festival, an interdisciplinary festival presenting artwork by international artists and scholars, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

2016 Vibrant Lives: Handmade Amplified. Invited for presentation in Highs & Lows an experimental performance series curated by MD301, 4Bid Gallery at OT301, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2014 Intonarumori: invited to exhibit at the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, an Interdisciplinary festival curated by Gregory Oh, the sound boxes remained on display at THEMUSEUM for one month following the festival, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

2009 Beautiful Light, 4LWM: Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Art Festival, a highly prestigious international arts festival, this project was selected as the city’s highlight commission suspended between the city hall towers, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

National 2018 Vibrant Lives: The Living Net. Invited exhibition by the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, PA

2017 Wearable Technology Prototyping. Juried showing of custom wearable technology designs for pedagogical purposes for the Dance and New Media: Integrating Dance and Technology in University Dance Programs Conference, New York University, New York, NY

2016 Vibrant Lives: DataPLAY. A series of interactive sculptures created by Jessica Rajko with Bobby Zokaites, received a juried invitation and commission by Parallel Studios for the Currents New Media Festival, an interdisciplinary arts festival that presents international new media artists, Santa Fe, NM

Regional 2017 Digital Divide. A series of crocheted, knit and quilted data visualizations co- created with the Tempe Needlewielders, a volunteer group of senior textile artists who work out of the Pyle Adult Recreation Center, Tempe, AZ

2016 Vibrant Lives: DataPLAY. A series of interactive sculptures created by Jessica Rajko with Bobby Zokaites, commissioned by Mesa Arts Center for the Arts SPARK! Festival of Creativity, a large public arts festival that involves

Jessica Rajko 3 international artists and sees over 10,000 attendees annually, curated by Shawn Lawson, Mesa, AZ

2015 Animal Companion. An interactive, projection-based installation created by the Jessica Rajko and other members of the urbanSTEW artist collective, an invited commission by the Heard Museum as part of its Superheroes Summer Exhibit featuring several regional and national artists, the Heard Museum is an internationally recognized museum featuring indigenous and American Indian art, Phoenix, AZ

2015 Cloaked. Invited for presentation at the Soul Justice Project, an interdisciplinary social justice performance project created and curated by Tomas Stanton, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ

2014 The Amyloid Project. An interactive, sculpture installation created by the Jessica Rajko and other members of the urbanSTEW artist collective, an invited commission by SPARK! Festival of Creativity, a large public arts festival that involves international artists and sees over 10,000 attendees annually, curated by Shawn Lawson, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa AZ

2013 Flow States: Breaking Ground dance and film festival, Curated by Carley Conder, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ

2013 Intonarumori. a series of 6 interactive soundboxes created by the Jessica Rajko and other members of the urbanSTEW artist collective, an invited exhibition at the Prowl and Play children’s festival, Phoenix Zoo, Phoenix, AZ

2013 Intonarumori: a series of 6 interactive soundboxes created by the Jessica Rajko and other members of the urbanSTEW artist collective, an invited exhibition for the Arizona Celebration of Freedom, Mesa’s 4th of July festival, Mesa, AZ

2013 Intonarumori: a series of 6 interactive soundboxes created by the Jessica Rajko and other members of the urbanSTEW artist collective, an invited exhibition and performance by the Percussion Ensemble Concert, curated by Douglas Nottingham, Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ

2013 Intonarumori: a series of 6 interactive soundboxes created by the Jessica Rajko and other members of the urbanSTEW artist collective, an invited commission by SPARK! Festival of Creativity, a large public arts festival that involves international artists and sees over 10,000 attendees annually, curated by Shawn Lawson, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa AZ

IV. Juried and Commissioned Screendance

International 2011 Hidden Spaces (10 minutes). A screendance film made by Jessica Rajko (editor, director of photography) and Mary Fitzgerald (choreographer), music: Julian Peterson, Selected for XIII Festival International VideoDanzaBA, an international screendance festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina

National 2011 Hidden Spaces (10 minutes). A screendance film made by Jessica Rajko (editor, director of photography) and Mary Fitzgerald (choreographer), music: Julian Peterson, Selected for Movies By Movers Vol. II, a national screendance festival in Winston Salem, North Carolina

Jessica Rajko 4 2009 Ricochet (10 minutes). Screendance made by Jessica Rajko (director of photography), Greta Schoenberg (artistic director, editor) and Carley Conder (choreography), Selected for presentation at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, a prestigious, international screendance festival, San Francisco, California

Regional 2017 Networks (8 minutes). Screendance commissioned by Scottsdale Community College (SCC) dance, directed by Jessica Rajko (editor) in collaboration with SCC’s Instinct Dance Company (performers), Francisco Flores (interactive laser art) and Alonso Parra (director of photography), presented at the SCC spring dance concert, Scottsdale, AZ

2011 Hidden Spaces (10 minutes). A screendance film made by Jessica Rajko (editor, director of photography) and Mary Fitzgerald (choreographer), music: Julian Peterson, Invited for presentation at the Phoenix Experimental Arts Festival, a regional interdisciplinary arts festival curated by Christopher Scinto, Phoenix, AZ

2011 Hidden Spaces (10 minutes). A screendance film made by Jessica Rajko (editor, director of photography) and Mary Fitzgerald (choreographer), music: Julian Peterson, Invited for presentation at Lights!Camera!Dance! film festival, a regional screendance festival curated by Carley Conder, Phoenix, AZ

2011 Hidden Spaces: (10 minutes). A screendance film made by Jessica Rajko (editor, director of photography) and Mary Fitzgerald (choreographer), music: Julian Peterson, presented at the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

2010 The Picture Gallery (8 minutes). A screendance film created by Jessica Rajko with performance by Aaron McGloin Dance Company, music by local band Dry River Yacht Club, presented at screendance festival Camera: Dance Film Festival curated by Carley Conder, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ and Body Movement by Aaron McGloin, Margaret Gisolo Theatre, Tempe, AZ

2009 Ricochet (10 minutes). Screendance made by Jessica Rajko (director of photography), Greta Schoenberg (artistic director, editor) and Carley Conder (choreography), presented at Dances in Black & White: CONDER/dance annual concert, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe AZ

V. Juried and Commissioned Performance

International 2017 For a Gibbous Moon. presented by MD301, real-time movement and music composition performance with prestigious professional artists including dancers Makiko Ito, Lily Kiara, Michael Schumacher, and Manuela Lucia Tessi, and musicians Wilbert de Joode, and Michael Vatcher, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2014 Flow States. selected for performance at the Joint International Conference Computer Music and Sound and Music Conference, Athens, Greece

National 2017 Wicked Bodies. invited performer for weeklong intensive to generate new material for Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Tempe, AZ

2015 Flow States. invited performance at the (sub)Urban Projections art festival, curated by Harmonic Laboratory, Hult Center, Eugene, OR

Jessica Rajko 5 2011 The Zoo. Ashleigh Leite Dance, invited performance at the Gotham Dance Festival Joyce Theater, New York, NY

2009 – 2011 Principal Dancer CONDER/dance Performed throughout the West Coast of the United States, and performed work by guest artists Ashleigh Leite, Charlotte Boye-Christensen, and Keith Johnson

Regional 2015 Floating Chronology. Mary Fitzgerald Dance, juried performance for Breaking Ground dance and film festival, curated by Carley Conder, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ

2015 Floating Chronology. Mary Fitzgerald Dance, invited performance, curated by nue[Box], Phoenix Arts Center, Phoenix, AZ

2015 Flow States. invited performance at Experimental Arts Festival, Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ

2013 Untitled. Liliana Gomez Dance, Canal Convergence public art festival, curated by Scottsdale Public Art, Scottsdale, AZ

2012 Ain’t Over ‘Til the Fat Lady Sings, Constitution. selected as a solo artist for A Ludwig Dance’s annual concert, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ

2012 The Borders Between Us: Mary Fitzgerald Dance, Movement Source, Inc. Dance Company annual concert, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe AZ

2007 The Weight of Light. Mary Fitzgerald Dance, selected for the Arizona Dance Festival, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ

V. Residencies

National 2018 Politics of the Grid. dance composition and wearable technology design residency with University of New Mexico’s dance department, Albuquerque, NM

PUBLICATIONS AND SCHOLARLY PRESENTATION I. Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters “Embodied Learning: Somatically Informed Instructional Design,” book chapter, Perspectives on Wearable Enhanced Learning: Current Trends, Research and Practice, Springer, Ilona Buchem, Ralf Klamma and Fridolin Wild, ed. forthcoming Fall 2019

“’Bodying’ Digital Humanities: Considering Our Bodies in Practice,” book chapter, Doing Digital Humanities Volume 2, Routledge, Richard J. Lane, Raymond Siemens, & Constance Crompton, ed. forthcoming Spring 2020

“A Call to Action: Embodied Thinking and Human-Computer Interaction Design,” book chapter, Routledge Companion to New Media and Digital Humanities, Routledge, Jentery Sayers, ed. Spring 2018 (100%)

"Towards an Aesthetics of Touch." with Lauren Hayes, Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Movement Computing. ACM Press, July 2017

Jessica Rajko 6 "The Living Net: A Haptic Experience of Personal Data." with Jacqueline Wernimont, Stjepan Rajko. Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM Press, 2017.

“Touching Data Through Personal Devices: Engaging Somatic Practice and Haptic Design in Felt Experiences of Personal Data,” with Michael Krzyzaniak, Jacqueline Wernimont, Eileen Standley, Stjepan Rajko, Proceedings of MOCO’16, 3rd International Symposium on Movement and Computing, ACM Press, July 2016

“Computational Understanding of Full-body Gesture in an Interactive Arts Context,“ with Ellen Campana, Todd Ingalls, Gang Qian, Stjepan Rajko, Dilip Swaminathan, Harvey Thornburg, Kathleya Afanador, Jodi James, Assegid Kidane Sankar Rangarajan, book chapter, Integrating Gestures, June 2009

“A dynamic Bayesian approach to computational Laban Shape Quality analysis,” with Dilip Swaminathan, Harvey Thornburg, Todd Ingalls, Jodi James, Stjepan Rajko, Ellen Campana, Bo Peng, Gang Qian. Pavithra Sampath, Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, Hindawi Press, December 2009

II. Conference Presentation International “Knowledge (Mis)Interpretations: Dance in Computational Research,” Preformed Panel, Dance Studies Association Conference, Evanston, IL, August 2019

“Towards an Aesthetics of Touch,” International Sociological Association’s World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Ontario, July 2018

“Haunted Databases: searching for dancers in the HCI archives,” Dance Studies Association Conference, Valetta, Malta, July 2018

“What Escapes Computation in Interactive Performance?” Selected Panel Contributor, 5th International Symposium on Movement & Computing, Genoa, Italy, June 2018

“Touching Data: What Does Big Data Feel Like?” Dance and Somatic Practices Conference, Coventry, UK, July 2017

“Toward an Aesthetics of Touch” with Lauren Hayes, 4th International Symposium on Movement & Computing, London, UK, June 2017

“Critical Creative Practice: Moving toward Intersectional Feminist Frameworks in Concert Dance Composition,” World Dance Alliance Americas Conference, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, August 2016

“Touching Data Through Personal Devices: Engaging Somatic Practice and Haptic Design in Felt Experiences of Personal Data,” 3rd International Symposium on Movement & Computing, Thessaloniki, Greece, July 2016

“Improvisatory Practices within Mediated, Interactive Environments,” Text, Media, and Improvisation, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, June 2008

“On Cross-modal Perception of Musical Tempo and Human Movement Speed,” with Kathleya Afanador, Ellen Campana, Todd Ingalls, Dilip Swaminathan, Harvey Thornburg, Jodi James, Gang Qian, Stjepan Rajko, International Computer Music Conference, Belfast, Ireland, May 2008

“Response: an applied example of computational somatics,” with Ellen Campana, Todd Ingalls,

Jessica Rajko 7 Jodi James, Dilip Swaminathan, Harvey Thornburg, Stjepan Rajko, Sankar Rangarajan, Kathleya Afanador, ENACTIVE/07 Enaction in Arts Conference, Grenoble, France, November 2007

National “Not My Data,” Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference, Boston, MA, September 2017

“Compassionate Kinesthetic Disruption of Digital Technologies and Digital Culture,” Dance and New Media: Integrating Dance and Technology in University Dance Programs Conference, New York University, New York, NY, April 2017

“Beautiful Displays: Virtuosic Dance Bodies in Wearable Technology,” CORD+SDHS Conference 2016, Pomona, CA, November 2016

“Post conference workshop: Embodied and Critical Making,” with Jacqueline Wernimont, Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory 2016 Conference, May 2016

“Vibrant Lives DataPlay,” with Jacqueline Wernimont, Eileen Standley, Signal/Noise: FemTechNet Conference on Feminist Pedagogy, Technology, & Transdisciplinarity, April 2016

“Do-It-Yourself and Do-It-Together: Leveraging shared resources for wearable technology design in dance,” National Dance Education Organization Conference, Phoenix, AZ, October 2015

“Flow States,” with Mary Fitzgerald, National Dance Education Organization Conference, Phoenix, AZ, October 2015

“Business Unusual: moving the field from best practices to next practices,” with Alexandra Nelson, Grantmakers in the Arts Conference, Houston, TX, October 2014

“Building Dance and Technology Curriculum for the K-12 Educator,” National Dance Education Organization Conference, Los Angeles, CA, October 2012

Regional “Lunch Session: interactive and embodied movement workshop,” by invitation, 4th Biennial Pave Symposium in Entrepreneurship in the Arts, Tempe, AZ, May 2015

“Wearable Tech Workshop: Do-It-Together Cape Creation,” Jessica Rajko (curriculum development), Hilary Harp (workshop facilitator), #ItWasNeverADress Steam Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, July 2015 (75%, lead scholar)

III. Public Talks and Workshops International “Palpability & Wearable Computing,” University of Victoria, (invitation to teach weeklong faculty- level intensive workshop), June 2019 (12 enrolled)

“Palpability and Wearable Computing,” Jury-selected workshop for the Dance and Somatic Practices Conference, Coventry, UK, July 2017

“Palpability & Wearable Computing,” University of Victoria, (invitation to teach weeklong faculty- level intensive workshop), June 2017 (14 enrolled)

“Bodies Matter: Palpability & Wearable Computing,” University of Victoria, (invitation to teach weeklong faculty-level intensive Workshop), July 2016 (14 enrolled)

Jessica Rajko 8 National “Touching Data: Palpability, Ethics, and Embodied Agency in Consumer Wearables and Big Data Archives,” Invited lecture/demonstration at Harvard’s ArtTechPsych IV hosted by the Digital Futures Consortium, invited by Cole Crawford, Cambridge, MA, March 2018

“Catching Metadata in the Living Net: A Review of ‘Vibrant Lives,’” Invited guest lecture at University of Pennsylvania’s Price Lab for Digital Humanities, invited by Stewart Varner, Pennsylvania, PA, March 2018

“Touching Big Data,” Invited guest lecture and wearable tech workshop at Davidson College, invited by Alison Bory, 20 attendants, Davidson, NC, February 2018

“Aesthetics of Touch: Performance Practices and New Media Design,” Jury-selected workshop for the Alliance of Women in Media Arts and Technology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, February 2018

“Not My Data,” Invited guest lecture and wearable tech workshop at New Mexico University’s ART Lab, invited by Amanda Hamp (dance) and Lee Montgomery (visual art), 80 attendants, Albuquerque, NM, November 2017

Regional “Compassionate Kinesthetic Disruption,” Invited recorded talk for the Office of Knowledge Enterprise and Development (OKED), video release set for spring 2018, Phoenix, AZ, November 2017

“How do we perform digital technologies and how do digital technologies perform us?” Invited public talk for TEDxASU, 500 attendants, Tempe, AZ, March 2017

IV. Published Artwork Mentions Photograph and short description of “The Living Net” in Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities (Debates in the Digital Humanities), Jentery Sayers, ed. January 2017

“Hearing Eugenics,” by Jacqueline Wernimont, SoundingOut.com (official publication of the Sound Studies Association), July 18, 2016. https://soundstudiesblog.com/2016/07/18/hearing- eugenics/

GRANTS AND COMMISSIONS I. External Grants Tempe Cultural Council, Vibrant Cities Grant, 2016, $4000.00

National Endowment for the Arts, State Partnership Grant, 2014 (staff collaborator, Arizona Commission on the Arts) $756,000.00

Arizona Commission on the Arts, Festival Grant, “Play! Festival of Creativity,” 2011 $2,000.00

Tempe Arts Council, Tempe Arts Project Grant, “Play! Festival of Creativity,” 2011 $4,075.00

Arizona Commission on the Arts, Organizational Development Grant, general operating support, 2010 $1,000.00

Tempe Arts Council, Tempe Arts Project Grant, “STEWshops: Art/Tech Workshop Series,” 2010 $2,000.00

Jessica Rajko 9 Arizona Commission on the Arts, Organizational Development Grant, general operating support, 2009 (Lead PI 50%) $1,000.00

II. External Commissions Mesa Arts Center, Performance Commission, “I’m Not as Think as You Drunk I Am,” 2017 $5,000

Scottsdale Community College, Screendance Commission, “Networks,” 2017 $4,000

Parallel Studios, LLC, Currents New Media Festival, “Vibrant Lives: DataPLAY,” 2016 $5,000.00

Mesa Arts Center, SPARK! Festival of Creativity Commission, “Vibrant Lives,” 2015 $8,100.00

Heard Museum, Superheroes Summer Exhibit, “Animal Companion,” 2015 $5,350

Mesa Arts Center, SPARK! Festival of Creativity Commission, “The Amyloid Project,” 2013 $5,000

Mesa Arts Center, SPARK! Festival of Creativity Commission, “Intonarumori,” 2012 $5,000

III. Internal Grants Arizona State University Herberger Research Council Interdisciplinary Project Collaboration Grant, “Dance and Technology in the American Southwest,” 2018 $5,000

Program for Transborder Communities Seed Grant, “Border Quants: Feminist Approaches to Data, Bodies and Technologies Across Borders,” 2016 $18,700

Institute for Humanities Research Seed Grant, “Vibrant Lives and Data Archives,” 2015 $6,000.00

Herberger Research Council Seed Grant, “Vibrant Lives and Data Archives,” 2015, $11,366.00

Interdisciplinary Art and Performance Faculty Grant, “D!G,” 2015 $5,000.00

Pave Program in Arts Entrepreneurship, “Case Study” and “Research Assistant,” 2009, $5,000.00

III. Internal Funding Support Arizona State University General Operating Support provided by the Global Security Initiative to the Human Security Collaboratory, 2016 $25,000.00

General Operating Support provided by the Global Security Initiative to the Human Security Collaboratory, 2015 $10,000.00

IV. Applied but not awarded National Endowment for the Humanities, Level II Digital Humanities Advancement Grant, “Touching Data: Developing Novel Approaches to Archival and Quantified Data Through Sound and Touch,” 2017 $35,286.00

Doris Duke Foundation, MAPFund, “Safe Harbor,” 2016 $38,500.00

Doris Duke Foundation, MAPFund, “Safe Harbor” invited to submit full proposal a after submission of letter of interest, 2015 $38,500.00

Jessica Rajko 10 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art and Technology Lab Grant, “Vibrant Lives and Data Archives,” 2015 $35,541.00

Knight Foundation, Prototype Fund, “Eugenics Archive,” 2015 $35,000.00

AWARDS Raspberry Pi Design Contest Winner, MAKEzine.com, (urbanSTEW) 2013

Teaching Artist Roster, Arizona Commission on the Arts, 2009 – 2012

Outstanding Graduate of the Year, Herberger College of Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, 2009

Heimann Memorial Scholarship, Arizona State University, 2009

Miditron Wireless Competition Winner, dance-tech.net, 2008

TEACHING I. Arizona State University Instructional Development DCE 660/AME 598 - Body Matters: Palpability and Wearable Computing: I designed this transdisciplinary graduate level course cross-listed between Dance and Arts, Media, and Engineering (AME). In this class, students engage in self-study through movement-based somatics practices and relate this learning to wearable technology design.

Courses DCE 693: Applied Project, Spring 2017 DCE 680: Practicum, Spring 2018 DCE 660: Graduate Creative Practices III, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015 DCE 635, 335 & 235: Contemporary Ballet II/III, Fall 2017, Fall 2016 & Fall 2015 DCE 634, 534 & 334: Postmodern Contemporary III, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2014 DCE 634, 534 & 234: Postmodern Contemporary II, Spring 2015 DCE 598, 494 & 294: Contemporary Technique, Spring 2016 DCE 598: Apprenticeship (graduate student, Postmodern Contemporary II), Spring 2015

DCE 361: 3rd Year Creative Practices II, Spring 2018 DCE 331: 3rd Year Movement Practices, Spring 2017 DCE 294: Hybrid Action: Physical Intelligence in Digital Culture (AME Course), Fall 2014 DCE 135: Contemporary Ballet I, Fall 2014 DCE 134: Postmodern Contemporary I, Fall 2015 & Spring 2015 DCE 131: First-Year Movement Practices II, Spring 2018 AME 598: Body Matters: Palpability & Wearable Computing (cross-listed DCE 660), Fall 2016 AME 499: Individualized Instruction (independent study), Spring 2017, Fall 2016 AME 194: Introduction to Digital Culture (co-taught with former AME Director Thanassis Rikakis), Fall 2010

Jessica Rajko 11 Mentoring Ongoing Mentorship • Faculty Advisor, Interdisciplinary Digital Media and Performance, dance area/School of Arts, Media & Engineering, 2015-present M.F.A. Graduate Thesis Committees • Halley Willcox, dance, Spring 2019 • Sharon McCaman, dance & IDMP, Spring 2018 • Committee Chair, Yingzi Liang, dance, Spring 2017 • Grace Gallagher, dance, Spring 2016 • Ricardo Alvarez, dance, Spring 2016 Faculty Mentor • Sharon McCaman, dance & IDMP MFA student, HASTAC Scholars Program, Fall 2017 • Audra Carlisle, digital culture undergraduate student, HASTAC Scholars Program, Fall 2017 Research Assistants • Michael Krzyzaniak, PhD Candidate, Media, Arts and Sciences, Summer 2015 • Kruthika Tanikella, Masters of Computer and Information Science, Fall 2015

Other • Workshop Facilitator: Designing Health Lab, School of Nutrition and Health Promotion, Fall 2016 • Workshop Facilitator: High School Dance Experience, dance, Fall 2015 • Guest Lecturer: HDA 240 Art and Design Management, Spring 2015 • Guest Instructor: HDA 210 Creativity and Innovation Design and the Arts, Fall 2014

III. Master Classes • Guest instructor, Davidson College, contemporary modern, Spring 2018 • Guest instructor, University of New Mexico, contemporary ballet, Fall 2018 • Guest instructor, University of Oregon, co-taught contemporary technique class with Mary Fitzgerald and performed a solo at an affiliated festival, Spring 2015 • Guest instructor, Scottsdale Community College Theatre Conservatory, taught somatics and improvisation workshop to undergraduate theatre students, Summer 2015

III. Grand Canyon University Courses • Technology for Dance Educators • Modern Technique I – III • Ensemble IV

IV. Scottsdale Community College Courses • Modern Technique III/IV • Modern Technique for Summer Dance Conservatory (taught in partnership with Scottsdale Conservatory Theatre)

SERVICE I. Internal Arizona State University Faculty Reviewer, Undergraduate Interviews, dance area (2015-present) Faculty Reviewer, Graduate Interviews, dance area (2015-present) Steering Committee Member, Pave Program in Arts Entrepreneurship (2014 – 2018)

Jessica Rajko 12 Tenure-Track Faculty Search Committee, dance area (2015-16) Grand Canyon University University Curriculum Standard Development: Modern Technique I – III, Technology for Dance Educators (2011-12)

II. International Double Blind Peer-Reviewer, Full Paper and Works-In-Progress, Tenth Anniversary Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2015)

III. National Review Board Member, Journal of Dance Education (2015-present) Advisory Board Member, Eugenic Rubicon Project, recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant (2016-present) Local Advisor and Organizer, National Dance Project/Arizona Dance Community Arts Convening (2016) Member, Congress on Research and Dance (2014 – present) Member, National Dance Education Organization (2014 – present) Member, Association for Computing Machinery (2014 – present) IV. Regional Committee Member, Dance Café Advisory Committee to Mesa Arts Center (2017-present) Chair, Scottsdale Community College Dance Technology Advisory Committee (2013-present) Ambassador, Axosoft, LLC It Was Never A Dress STEAM Initiative (2015-2017) Adjudicator, Breaking Ground Dance and Film Festival (2013-2016) Board Member, nue[BOX] (2015) Invited Member, City of Tempe Arts & Culture Steering Committee, (2014-15) Core Team Member, Emerging Arts Leaders Phoenix (2013-15)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL, NON-ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2012-14 Artist Services Coordinator, Arizona Commission on the Arts Developed and manage artist grants applications and panel review processes; Provided workshops and learning opportunities for artists statewide; Built and managed the arts opportunities newsletter and online artist resources; Developed and managed the Arizona Public Art Network; Managed the agency internship program 2009-present Co-Founder & Co-Director, nonprofit organization urbanSTEW 2013-2014 Managing Director, Arizona Public Art Network 2013 Selection Panelist, Creative Economy Fund Panel, Mesa Arts Center 2010-2013 Owner, Stunt Weasel LLC 2010- 2010 Senior Media Specialist, ASU School of Computing 2010 Curator, Phoenix Fringe Festival 2010 Residency Manager, Echo:System Winter Residency

Jessica Rajko 13