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Timothy Nohe Artist – Composer | Born 18 October 1960 Resume: 2000-2010 Associate Professor Faculty Senate President (2011 – present) Granted tenure as an Associate Professor, June 2003 University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Department of Visual Arts FA 111, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, Maryland USA 21250 Adjunct Professor Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3086 Associate Centre for Media Arts Innovation, University of Technology Sydney PO Box 123 Broadway, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2007 Email: [email protected] | Cell: + 1 410.412.6483 | Fax: 410.455.1053 http://mtod.tumblr.com/ | http://userpages.umbc.edu/~nohe/GAG/ Education: MFA 1996 University of California, San Diego, Visual Arts, terminal degree BFA 1989 Maryland Institute, College of Art, Photography Research Support: Residencies, Grants and Fellowships: 2012 Artist in Residence, Visual Arts Centre, La Trobe University, invited by Paul Northam, Director, July 9 – August 2, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia Artist in Residence, Centre for Creative Arts, La Trobe University, invited by Norie Neumark, Director, July 5 – 8, and August 3 – 8, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia Individual Artist Award: Music Composition – Non-Classical, $3000, Maryland State Arts Council Research Assistant, 10 hours per week position, “La Trobe University-UMBC Artist Exchange Network,” granted by UMBC Department of Visual Arts, IMDA MFA Program 2011 National Endowment for the Arts, and the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund, “Our Town Project - Creative Placemaking Grant,” Station North Arts & Entertainment District “Think Big” grant. Funding for My Station North, $2,000 Fulbright Alumni Initiative Grant, Australian – American Fulbright Commission, La Trobe University – UMBC Artists Exchange, $10,000 Summer Faculty Fellowship, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University – UMBC Artists Exchange, $5,000, UMBC Timothy Nohe CV, Page 1 July, 2012 Artist in Residence, Visual Arts Centre, La Trobe University, invited by Paul Northam, Director, August 8-21, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia Artist in Residence, Hazelhurst Gallery and Art Centre, invited by Michael Rolfe, Director, August 3-8, Sutherland Shire, Sydney, Australia 2010 Artist in Residence, Hazelhurst Gallery and Art Centre, invited by Michael Rolfe, Director, August 3-21, Sutherland Shire, Sydney, Australia SRAIS Award, Sounding Botany Bay, Sounding Gamay, $7,335, UMBC Individual Artist Award in Visual Arts: Media, $3000, Maryland State Arts Council 2009 Artist in Residence, Hazelhurst Gallery and Art Centre, invited by Michael Rolfe, Director, August 6-21, Sutherland Shire, Sydney, Australia Parks and People Foundation, Neighborhood Greening Grant, $1,000, Gourd Season Undergraduate Research Assistant Student Award, 1 academic year, Gourd Season pilot, Alex Geiger, undergraduate student, Office of the Provost, UMBC IRC Fellows Faculty Course Development Stipend, $2000, Faculty Development, Imaging Research Center, The Crystal Egg, UMBC 2008 Artist in Residence, Hazelhurst Gallery and Art Centre, invited by Michael Rolfe, Director, January 5-25, Sutherland Shire, Sydney, Australia Creative Baltimore Grant, $1,000, Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts 2007 Artist in Residence, University of Wollongong, Faculty of Creative Arts, School of Art & Design, School of Music, invited by Professors Houston Dunleavy and Jacky Redgate, January 1 – July 25, Wollongong, NSW, Australia 2006 Fulbright Senior Scholar award, granted by the Board of the Australian-American Fulbright Commission, $36,000 School of Art & Design, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia 2005 Individual Artist Award in Visual Arts: Installation/Sculpture, $6000, Maryland State Arts Council Artist in Residence, Imaging Research Center, W-47 2004 Individual Artist Award in Visual Arts: New Genre, $1000, Maryland State Arts Council Artist’s Stipend, $1500, Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA, 142 Ways to Mark Time, April 1 - November 15 Artist in Residence, Imaging Research Center, W-47, research assistants Timothy Nohe CV, Page 2 July, 2012 2003 Artists in the National Parks Residency, Caldera, Deschutes National Forest, Sisters, OR, January 6 – 24, 2003, residency and $500 travel stipend IRC Fellows Faculty Course Development Stipend, $2000, Faculty Development, Imaging Research Center, *blink* and body/text, UMBC 2002 Residency, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah Designated Research Initiative Fund, SRIS, $8400, W-47, UMBC Individual Artist Award in Visual Arts: New Genre, $3000, Maryland State Arts Council Cleveland Institute of Art, $1400, Cleveland, OH, artist’s presentation and critiques 2001 Artists in the National Parks Residency, Crater Lake National Park and the Schneider Museum of Art, Crater Lake and Ashland, OR Mayor’s Advisory Council on Art and Culture, Baltimore, $700, Artscape commission, Binary, sculpture Summer Faculty Fellowship, Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, $1500, Program Development, IMDA MFA Program, UMBC 2000 University of Southern California, Digital Art and Digital Animation program, $2500, artist’s presentation and critiques The Contemporary Museum, $500, award, “Video Art 2000” small science, screening Summer Stipend, Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, $1500, Program Development, IMDA MFA Program, UMBC Honors Received: 2012 Governor’s Citation, granted by Governor Martin O’Malley, recipient Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award: Music Composition, Non-Classical 2010 Governor’s Citation, granted by Governor Martin O’Malley, recipient Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award: Media 2006 Fulbright Senior Scholar, granted by the Australian-American Fulbright Commission, Canberra, ACT and the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, Fulbright Commission, Washington, DC 2005 Governor’s Citation, granted by Lt. Governor Michael S. Steele, recipient Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award: Installation/Sculpture 2004 Governor’s Citation, granted by Lt. Governor Michael S. Steele, June 8, recipient Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award: New Genre Timothy Nohe CV, Page 3 July, 2012 2002 Governor’s Citation, granted by Governor Parris N. Glendening, June 4, recipient Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award: New Genre Sound Scores and Video for Dance and Performance: 2011 Candles for Faust and People as Verbs, HD videos with stereo soundscores, at the in/flux gallery, 307 West Baltimore Street, from November 5 – 26 Ashes, Ashes, a classical concert work composed for The National Capital Area Chapter of the Fulbright Association's Commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy: “9/11 Retrospective 10 Years Later; What Does It Mean?” Sunday, September 11, 4:00pm – 5:30pm at Christ Lutheran Church Inner Harbor, 701 S. Charles Street, Baltimore, invited by Hollis Thoms. Ashes, Ashes featured mezzo- soprano Diane Schaming, flutist Lisa Cella, and percussionist Andy Hayleck. Nohe sequenced the score on computer for waterphone, bowed guitar, media samples, and synthesis, and performed waterphone and water instruments. People Who Became Verbs, 38 minute stereo soundscore, Theatre Project, Baltimore, June 10 and 11. Reneé Brozic Barger choreographer. Composed and performed for sampled business machines, waterphone, ebow electric guitar, bowed acoustic guitar, hand-made electronic circuits, wine glasses, friction percussion, and wavetable synthesis. 2011 30 Oaks, Joseph Beuys Sculpture Garden, UMBC, Baltimore. Choreographed by /10 Meghan Flanigan. Nohe: musical direction for baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, percussion. Nohe made percussion instruments fashioned from recycled university rubbish. Performed April 28, 2011 and October 21, 2010 Bend, Oxfringe Festival, Burton Taylor Theatre, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK. Choreographed by Renée Brozic-Barger. Electro-acoustic sound composition, Nohe. Performed March 31 – April 4, 2010 2009 The Crystal Egg, December 2-5, 10-13, electro-acoustic sound score for an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “The Crystal Egg,” directed by Colette Searls. The Crystal Egg featured 3 computer graphic creatures designed at UMBC’s Imaging Research Center that came to life and engaged puppets in real time. Nohe: CGI director and composer, sequencing, and performance on wavetable synthesizer, organ pipes, wine glasses, e- bowed guitar, waterphone, granular synthesis processing, field recordings. Presented at the UMBC Theater AREA 405 Circuit, June 26 & 27, AREA 405, Quad Ruled, debut, choreographed by Renée Brozic Barger. Nohe: prepared electric bass, prepared acoustic guitar, e-bow, waterphone, percussion. Liquid Measure, debut, choreographed by Carol Hess. Nohe: Sequencing and varations on music by J.S. Bach. Rd E3, choreographed by Lauren Withhart. Nohe: ebowed electric guitar, samples, AM radio, waterphone, Nick Prevas: percussion, guitar, and toys Timothy Nohe CV, Page 4 July, 2012 2008 Baltimore Dance Project, February 7, 8 and 9, Echoes, electro-acoustic dance score for Doug Hamby's work of choreography. Nohe: computer granular synthesis, acoustic instruments, samples 2007 Sounding Botany Bay an electro-acoustic score interweaving documentary elements and live instruments was curated by Jamie Allen, and presented at "Tranzducer," LEMURplex, Brooklyn, July 27 Incised Lines, a visual score for Percy Grainger's "Electric Eye Tone Tool" live concert recording broadcast Saturday June 23, 2007, Australian Broadcast Corporation,
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