CURRICULUM VITAE Jan Piribeck Associate Professor of Art/Chair Art Department University of Southern Maine College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences/Art PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION: Years Institutions Field Degree 1983 Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL Art (Painting/Drawing) MFA 1981 Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL Art (Painting/Drawing) MA 1973 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL Art BA APPOINTMENTS: Years Employers Positions 2007-2011 University of Southern Maine Chair, USM Art Department 2003-Present University of Southern Maine Associate Professor – Art 2000-2003 University of Southern Maine Assistant Professor – Art 1993-2000 University of Maine at Farmington Associate Professor – Art 1989-1993 University of Maine at Farmington Assistant Professor – Art Gallery Director 1988-1989 University of Maine at Farmington Art Instructor/Gallery Director 1986-1988 Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL Curator Education and Exhibitions 1985-1986 Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL Curator of Education 1983-1985 Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL Education Coordinator RESIDENCIES AND EXCHANGES: Years Location Positions 2007 École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Le Mans, France Exchange Professor – 5 weeks Fachhochschule Schwäbisch Hall, SH, Germany Exchange Professor – semester 2006 Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum, Sabile, Latvia Artist Residency – 2 mos. 1994 Watershed Center for Ceramics, Edgecomb, ME Artist Residency – 3 wks. 1992 Beijing Polytechnic University Exchange Professor – semester BIOGRAPHY: For the past decade my work as an artist has been based upon establishing new relationships between the Arts, Humanities and the field of Geographic Information Science. My work blends personal expression with objective views of natural and built environments. Often, I work collaboratively in the capacity of directing cultural projects for varied communities. The projects include components such as: exhibitions, displays, interventions, performances and other public presentations. Key words: information design, public art, digital mapping, integrative research, teaching and creative practice. PROJECTS: 2012 Blue Wrap Wave A chain link fence mural commissioned by the city of Portland’s Art At Work/Meeting Place program, funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts Installation: Bayside Trail, Portland Articles: Portland Press Herald and The Forecaster 2012/ (EN)CODED LANDSCAPES: Walking-in-Timespace 11 A project about psycho-geographic meanderings and the connections between different locations across time and space Solo-Exhibitions: Talsi Regional Museum, Talsi, Latvia; Mayo Street Arts Center, Portland, Maine Gallery Talks: Talsi Regional Museum; Mayo Street Arts Center Presentation: She Died for Love, Maine Women Writers Collection/Maine Women’s Studies Consortium/NEWSA Conference on Identity-Memory-Testimony at the University of New England, Portland, Maine Weblog: Encoded Landscapes Article: Portland Phoenix 2010 (in)UNDATION A public awareness campaign about climate change, done in collaboration with students and faculty at the University of Southern Maine Installation: Bayside Trail and Marginal Way, East Bayside Neighborhood, Portland, ME Display: Zero Station Gallery Oral Presentation with Students: Civic Matters Symposium, USM Articles: Tomorrrow, USM Faculty Research and Scholarship Publication, Spring 2011 and College Connections, the CAHS (College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) Newsletter. Weblog: inUNDATION 2010/ SHAPING THE TERRAIN: Digital Mapping of Portland Public Art Sites 09 A project with 8 University of Southern Maine Art students to create an inventory of potential public art sites on the peninsula in Portland, Maine. Exhibition: Running with Scissors Gallery, Portland, Maine Paper: Virtual Presentation, ICERI 2009, International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Madrid, Spain Presentation of Deliverables: Portland Public Art Committee Article: Portland Press Herald Facebook: Shaping Terrain Weblog: Shaping Terrain 2008/ ENCODING THE LANDSCAPE: The Lost Sites of Le Mans 07 A project with 7 Art students from École Supérieure des Beaux Arts and 2 engineering students from École Supérieure Des Géomètres et Topographes, an engineering and surveying school, Le Mans, France. Displays/Interventions: École Supérieure Des Géomètres et Topographes and Rue Nationale, Le Mans Papers: Virtual presentation, International Conference on the Arts in Society, Kassel, Germany; published in The International Journal of the Arts in Society, Common Ground Publishing Lectures: NACIS (North American Cartographic Information Society) Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO; Media Design Department, Fachhoschschule Schwaebisch Hall, Germany; MEGUG (Maine Geographic Information Systems Users Group) meeting, Gorham, ME Weblog: Lost Sites of Le Mans 2007/ ENCODING THE LANDSCAPE: The Pedvale Project 06 In Situ works at the Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum in conjunction with a two-month residency, Sabile, Latvia Installation: PEDVALE FIELD DRAWING: Walking the Line, an outdoors GPS (Geo- Positioning System) drawing done on the museum grounds Artist Book/Map: A limited edition produced for the Museum Lectures: The Pedvale Project, Latvian Academy of Fine Art Media Department, Riga, Latvia; Cultural Cartography, École Supérieure des Beaux Arts and École Supérieure Des Géomètres et Topographes, Le Mans, France Web doc.: Walking the Line 2006 ENCODING THE LANDSCAPE: The S.U.B.O.N.E. Urban Murals Project A collaborative ART and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) project endorsed by the Portland Public Art Committee and Portland Parks and Recreation, Portland ME Intervention: SUBONE FIELD DRAWING an outdoors GPS drawing done in East Bayside neighborhood, Portland, ME Lecture: ART AND GISsci: GPS Drawing and Aerial Graffiti, École Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Le Mans, France Panel Discussion: ENCODING THE LANDSCAPE: The SUBONE Urban Murals Project, Twenty-First Annual Conference of Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Portland, ME Weblog: Aerial Graffiti Article: Portland Press Herald 2007/ THE EAST BAYSIDE PROJECT 05 A cultural cartography project about the social and cultural landscape of a semi- industrial, semi-residential neighborhood in Portland, Maine. Exhibitions: SIGGRAPH ART GALLERY: THREADING TIME, a group-show presented in conjunction with, the 32nd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Los Angeles, CA; ACM SIGGRAPH TRAVELLING ART SHOW, selections from the 2005 Art Gallery show scheduled to travel for two years at the Hong Kong Cyberport; the City University of Hong Kong; the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education; the Hong Kong Polytechnic University; and the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center; TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER, a group show at Zero Station, Portland, ME; TECHART, a group show presented in conjunction with the Boston Cyberarts Festival, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA Panel Discussion: REMAPPING THE LANDSCAPE, at SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA Lecture: THE EAST BAYSIDE PROJECT: SUSTAINING CREATIVE COMMUNITIES, presented for the Summer Research Seminar Series sponsored by USM Research Initiatives, Portland, ME Slideshow: Presented in poster session environment at the Blaine House Conference on the Creative Economy at Bates Mill, Lewiston, ME Publications: SIGGRAPH Art and Animation Catalogue; Words and Images, published by the USM College of Arts and Sciences Weblog: The East Bayside Project 2001/ THE BACK COVE PROJECT 03 A collaborative project that utilized digital technologies including GIS and GPS to explore the ways in which artists and scientists record and interpret the landscape. Exhibitions: BACK COVE HEART OF PORTLAND, an interdisciplinary exhibition focusing on the Back Cove, a mile-wide tidal basin on the Portland peninsula, Area Gallery, Univeristy of Southern Maine, Portland, ME; WATERSHED VIEWS, ecological and aesthetic explorations of local waters by teams of artists and scientists, USM Art Gallery, Gorham, ME; DRAWING THE NEW MILLENIUM: THE CHALLENGE OF MEDIA AND IDEAS TO THE NATURE OF DRAWING (Co-curated by Elizabeth Finch of the Drawing Center, New York and John Murchie, Independent Curator within the Maritimes and Canada); Paper: THE BACK COVE PROJECT, presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, University of Hawaii, Hawaii Articles: Reviews of DRAWING THE NEW MILLENIUM in The Portland Phoenix and the Maine Times 2000/ THE NEW PORTLAND PROJECT 98 A series of large-scale digital montages that layer GPS drawings with other data related to a ten-acre parcel of land in New Portland, ME Exhibition: POLYALTERITY: NEW CYBERWORKS BY RON HUTT, JOSEPH NECHVATAL and JAN PIRIBECK, University of Maine at Farmington Art Gallery, Farmington, ME Lectures: PHOTOGRAPHY, IDENTITY AND WOMEN, a paper presented for the Women’s Interventions in Science, Art and Technology Symposium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; THE NEW PORTLAND PROJECT: BOUNDARIES, LAYERS AND PROJECTIONS, a paper presented at (En)Gendering Technologies, the Maine Women Studies Conference, University of Maine at Augusta and NESTVAL and ACAG Geographer Conference, University of Maine at Farmington Publications: POLYALTERITY catalogue, University of Maine at Farmington with funds from the Maine Arts Commission GRANTS: 2012 GOOD IDEA GRANT, Maine Arts Commission award in support of META DIVERS, a multimedia installation (work in progress) PUBLICATIONS: 2012 COLLABORATION AND CONNECTIVITY In the Education