Silverlight: Microsoft’s answer to Flash/Director/After Effects/Final Cut

It’s microsoft, yay! Not gonna be open source, but neither is anything in the Adobe/Macromedia bundle? Processing and Pure Data still take the cake when your talking open source, but if you can get a freeware/beta version of Silverlight you can decide for yourselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEUrQEj6Sd4

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/default_ns.aspx

Video of Washboard Leo at Texelectronica 2006

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=6845512

Invited to Participate on Panel discussing FAST FORWARD at the DMA April 26th 7PM at Horchow Auditorium

Coordinator and DMA Curatorial Director Suzanne Weaver of the Dallas Museum of Art has invited me to participate on a panel in May covering the topics mentioned in the recent Yale University Press publication “Fast Forward” which celebrates three remarkable private collections of contemporary art that were donated in 2005, presenting them in context with masterworks already owned by the museum. Featuring over two hundred works, many previously unpublished, by such major artists as Matthew Barney, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, Vija Celmins, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Naumann, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Richard Tuttle, and many others, this volume provides a stunning visual history of the critical art movements that have shaped––and continue to shape––contemporary art since the 1940s.

Essays by distinguished scholars discuss the works, which range from sculpture and painting to photography, installation art, and video and electronic media, and address the importance, history, and evolution of Dallas’s collection.

María de Corral is an independent curator who co-directed the 2005 Venice Biennale will also be present to participate in the discussion. Other participants may include:

John R. Lane is The Eugene McDermott Director at the Dallas Museum of Art. Frances Colpitt is The Deedie Potter Rose Chair of Art History at Texas Christian University. Mark Rosenthal is Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art at the Norton Museum of Art. Allan Schwartzman is Director of the Rachofsky Collection and, formerly, a curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Charles Wylie is The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Solo Exhibition at Collin County College Gallery

Max Kazemzadeh: express & local
[Exhibition run Jan. 16-Feb. 10th, 2007 : Opening performance Thurs. Jan 25th, 6 PM]
Express & Local is an interactive installation with projection and sound revolving around the decision and experience of choosing and traveling on the express or local subway lines in transit. Max will put on an interactive software/hardware performance at the opening reception as part of the exhibition, with the help of two of his students Jon Snyder and Matthieu Brookes who formed their own hacker band “Toybox,” and performed at Texelectronica ’06 at The Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth.

http://www.ccccd.edu/theartsgallery/1_Calendar/index.htm

http://www.ccccd.edu/THEARTSgallery/

Invited to Serve as CAA Chair for Electronic Media Art Session

I’ve been invited to serve as a Chair for an open session on Electronic Media for the CAA College Art Association Conference in Dallas, Texas, 2008

http://conference.collegeart.org/2008/
http://www.collegeart.org/

Invited to be a SIGGRAPH 2007 Juror

Invited to Serve as a Juror – SIGGRAPH: 34^th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, San Diego, California. August 5-7, 2007
http://www.siggraph.org/s2007/
http://www.siggraph.org/

Donated “i.give” to Glasstire.org Benefit Auction/Gala Event

I submitted I.Give to be auctioned off at the Glasstire.org Benefit Auction in Houston in November.

Gave Artist Talk, Workshop and Performance at Medialab Madrid

Medialab Madrid which is made up of an amazing creative group of electronic media artists, intellects, and movers & shakers, invited me to give a presentation on my work and research in a talk called “Low Cost Phyical Computing,” a workshop, and a performance in the AV Lab (Audio Visual Synthesis Lab). The group includes Marcos Garcia, Laura, Gustavo, Kike, Sonia, Paqui, Monica, Miquel, Raul, Antia, Jorge, Azucena, Daniel, Angela, and Leonor, who made my stay there enjoyable and my presentations successful. Medialab Madrid is located in the huge beautiful government office compound of the Conde Duque (Count Duke) located in the center of Madrid. The Medialab Madrid will be going through some changes soon, forming a larger group called Intermedia.
My friend Zachary Lieberman presented and gave workshops there in the past.

http://www.medialabmadrid.es/jueves16nov.html
http://www.medialabmadrid.es
http://newmediafix.net/daily/?cat=26
http://newmediafix.net/daily/?p=1041
http://www.mediateletipos.net/archives/4944

Exhibited/Spoke/Gave-Workshop in Microwave Festival in Hong Kong October-December 2006

I was invited by New York curator Nicole Wong to participate in the 10 year running Microwave Festival which has seen well known electronic media artist participants like Stellarc, Casey Reas, Camille Utterback, and more. This year included a short list of very established new media artists like Camille Utterback, Jin Yo Mok, Alvaro Cassinelli, Philip Worthington, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Daniel Shiffman, and a few others. It was an honor to be a part of this group.
Each of the artists also gave talks and short workshops.

http://www.microwavefest.net

Youtube video during installation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhCtjRKRF4U&mode=related&search=

Invited to Give an Artist Talk and Workshop at Texas Sculpture Symposium

I was invited to give an Artist Talk and Workshop at Texas Techs Annual Texas Sculpture Symposium which is a great reimergent retreat of sculptors and other artists from around Texas that gather in Junction, Texas. Two of my prize students Christos Polemenakos (BFA) and John Losey (MFA) gave the talk and workshop for me, since I had to be in Hong Kong to install Spin.Flick for the Microwave Festival

http://glasstire.com/ReviewsDetail.asp?id=333