Andrea Williams Visiting Artist VCU Arts Richmond, VA 212-300-7970 www.listeninglistening.com ms.andreawilliams***AT****gmail***DOT********com
EDUCATION 2018 PhD in Electronic Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 2011 MFA Electronic Music and Recording Media, Mills College, Oakland, CA 2001 BA Liberal Arts/Interactive Media, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT
UNIVERSITY TEACHING/COURSES TAUGHT 2020 Visiting Artist Adjunct Faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) for Sound I, Sound II: Listening as Art/Anxiety and the Anthropocene: Taking Small Bites Through Multimedia Engagement and co-teaching Grad Studio with Orla McHardy 2013-2014 Adjunct Faculty in Audio Department for Acoustics, Live Sound, and Production Sound at the Art Institute of California, San Francisco, CA
PUBLICATIONS 2018 Paper published by Invisible Places conference University of the Açores in Ponta Delgada, Portugal 2007 NYSAE in Autumn Leaves: Sound and the Environment in Artistic Practice, Book Edited by Angus Carlyle, Published by CRISAP & Double-Entendre Press.
AWARDS AND HONORS 2015-2016 Teaching Assistant Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY 2014-2015, Rensselaer Graduate Fellowship, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY 2009-2011 Mills College, Center for Contemporary Music Award/Full-Tuition Scholarship, Oakland, CA
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2016 Community Arts Grant/NYSCA for SleepWalks: The Body of Dreams, from The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY 2013-2014 Harvestworks New Works Grant and Artist Residency with Dan Joseph, NYC 2008 Canary Project Grant Soundwalks/Artist Panel for NYSAE, NYC 2007 Solar One, Alternative Powered Sound Garden Grant for NYSAE, NYC 2006 Rhizome/free103point9 Grant for NYSoundmap NYSAE, NYC
INVITED TALKS 2015 Hyperplace Troy Panel at the Rensselaer County Historical Society, Troy, NY 2010 Arts Benicia Gallery; Soundwalk and Lecture, Benicia, CA 2009 Mills College; Soundwalk and Lecture, Oakland, CA 2008 Canary Project’s 40, 73: Works at the Intersection of Art & Ecology; NYSAE, Panel, NYC 2006 Ear to The Earth Symposium for Electronic Music Foundation, NYU, NYSAE, Panel, NYC 2006 SURGE: Participant Inc. Gallery; NYSAE, Presentation/Listening Exercise, NYC
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY/PARTICIPATION 2017 Presentation/Soundwalk Workshop for ISEA Colombia: Bio Creation and Peace 2017 Paper accepted for publication for Invisible Places in Sao Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal 2015 Disruptive Soundwalk Tutorial, August 15th, International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2015: Disruption, Vancouver, Canada 2015 New England Graduate Student Water Symposium @ UMass Amherst, MA 2012 Artist Talk, International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA): Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness, NM
CAMPUS OR DEPARTMENTAL TALKS 2019Artist Talk at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of the Arts, Richmond, VA 2016 Wiring Lake George Panel @ CBIS Auditorium, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 2016 Guest Lecture for Deep Listening course, Summer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Graduate 2012-2013 Graduate Studio Advisor in Sound Art, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2005-2006 Independent Study Advisor in Sound and Ecology for Integrated Media Arts MFA Program at Hunter College (CUNY), NYC Undergraduate/Graduate 2017 Spring Teaching Assistant for Deep Listening: Creative Collaborations with Stephanie Loveless at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (As TA I co-designed curriculum and co-taught the course listed here) 2015-2016 Teaching Assistant for Deep Listening (2015, 2017), PIP, and Performance and Instrumentation with Pauline Oliveros at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (As TA I co-taught some of the Deep Listening course listed here) 2013-2014 Adjunct Faculty in Audio Department for Acoustics, Live Sound, and Production Sound at the Art Institute of California, San Francisco, CA 2009-2011 Teaching Assistant for Sound Techniques with Maggi Payne, Mills College, Oakland, CA
DEPARTMENTAL/UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2012-2013 Invited to be on the committees for evaluating undergraduate audio student presentations and portfolios for their graduation. Art Institute of California, San Francisco, CA COMMISSIONED ART WORK IN COMMUNITIES 2016 Maiden Lane Soundwalk for ReCurrent Uncovered/New Draft Collective, South St. Seaport, NYC. 2013 Through the Golden Gate Soundwalk, MP3 artist audio tour for non-profit P.L.A.C.E., Oakland, CA; Available to the public from 2013-2015.
MEDIA COVERAGE/INTERVIEWS 2016 Interview/article by Tresca Weinstein for Times Union Albany, NY. Sleeping part of dance project in Troy 2016 Essay on my work by Rebecca Uliasz in the printed Resonant Structures Catalog book for SUNY Stonybrook 2014 Radio Interview live-on-air WGXC, NY 2014 Interviewed for article “What Is A Soundwalk?” Soundfly.com 2011 Interviewed for article “Within A Grain of Sand” Sounding Out!.com 2008 Interview by Douglas Singleton for Hotel St. George Press.com
SOLO PROFESSIONAL ARTIST SHOWS 2004 - currentLed various-themed Soundwalks for groups for: Whitney Museum, Central Park Conservatory, Electronic Music Foundation, Issue Project Room’s SoundWalkaThon, Fountain Miami Art Fair, Culture Push, Canary Project, NY Art Book Fair, International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA), California College of the Arts, Mills College and more. 2016 Troy Waterways Project and Riverfront Park Soundwalk, exhibited at Rensselaer County Historical Society, Troy, NY 2015 Awakening the Architectural Body, Composed for self and artists: ludwig technique, Anna Lerchbaumer, and Laura Boob. Instruments from Grassmayr Glockengiesser (Bell Foundry) Museum at Motel artist residency, Innsbruck, Austria 2014 Sound Performance of Leitfarbe at Roulette, Brooklyn, NYC 2013 Sound Performance and Q&A at Musical Ecologies Series, Old Stone House, NYC 2012 Sound Performance and Q&A, Meridian Music: Composers in Performance Series, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED EXHIBITS and PERFORMANCES 2017 Guided By Sound performance with Dan Joseph at NYEAF Festival at Harvestworks, NYC Performance at Bennington College 2016 SleepWalks: The Body of Dreams performance with Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company at the Chapel + Cultural Center, Troy, NY SleepWalks Art Exhibit at the Chapel + Cultural Center, Troy, NY SleepWalks overnight performances with Lee Pembleton and Todd Anderson at the Chapel + Cultural Center, Troy, NY Maiden Lane Soundwalk for ReCurrent Uncovered/New Draft Collective, South St. Seaport, NYC. Resonant Structures Soundwalk as part of group sound artist show Resonant Structures at Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery at SUNY Stonybrook and a sound performance at InterSpace Gallery in NYC for Armory Week. Installation/Performance at Re:Sound Series for the 20th San Francisco Bay FlywayFestival, Vallejo, CA 2015 Dan Joseph and Andrea Williams Duo at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall for the Hyperplace Troy Festival, Troy, NY Dan Joseph and Andrea Williams Duo at the Brooklyn Acoustic Ecology Festival for the Musical Ecologies Series, NYC 2014 Walking piece in OPENSIGNAL’s two-day festival at Brown University’s Granoff Center for the Arts, Providence, RI Performance of Leitfarbe at Eyebeam Annual Showcase/Special edition of CT-SWaM, Eyebeam, Chelsea, NYC 2013 So There Is Some Confusion 16-channel piece at San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2013, ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA 2012 Performance at TEDxPresidio at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater, San Francisco, CA SleepWalks, Mediate Soundwave (5): Humanities, San Francisco Innovative Art and Music Biennial, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Performance and Soundwalk with Andrea Polli, 23five's Activating the Medium Festival XV at San Francisco Art Institute, CA Solo Performance, The Lab, San Francisco, CA 2011 Dan Joseph & Andrea Williams Duo at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA Performed in Pauline Oliveros' Tower Ring at the Ann Hamilton Tower at Oliver Ranch, Geyserville, CA Performed with j.frede ensemble at UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA Urban Sound Ecology, video installation, Children's Creativity Museum's (Zeum); DIY Featured Artist Residency, San Francisco, CA 2010 Performance; College of Architecture and the Arts at Gallery 400, ASAE Conference, Chicago, IL Phantom Power, quad sound performance for portable amplifiers; Soundwave/BASE/Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, San Francisco, CA SleepWalks performance with Lee Pembleton, Diapason Gallery, NYC High Line Soundwalk with NYSAE for the Whitney Museum’s Undercurrents: Experimental Ecosystems in Recent Art 2009 Installation/group show of David Tudor's Rainforest VI, Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA 2008 Sound Performance and Interviews with the Random Public on Their Sound Memories on Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR) at the Whitney Biennial, NYC Open NYC A/V Jam with Jeremy Slater and Edmund Mooney: Ear to the Earth Festival for EMF at Judson Church, NYC Soundbox 2 with Jonny Farrow and Edmund Mooney: Ear to the Earth Festival for EMF at Judson Church, NYC 2007 Oceanic: outdoor interactive, bicycle-powered sound installation for Solar One, CitySol Festival, NYC Curated NYSAE's Soundgarden and Soundwalk for Solar One's CitySol Festival, NYC 2006 NYSAE’s NYSoundmap: Observatori Festival, Spain 2005 Current NYSAE’s NYSoundmap (web) www.nysoundmap.org
ARTIST RESIDENCIES 2017: Soundwalk, Workshop, and Concert on local waterways at the month-long Santa Fe Art Institute/Water Rights Residency, Santa Fe, NM 2015 MOTEL Artist Residency three weeks in Innsbruck, Austria 2013 2014 Harvestworks New Works Residency with Dan Joseph, NYC 2011 Children's Creativity Museum's DIY Featured Artist Program exhibit and workshop, San Francisco, CA 2007 Mamori Sound Art Lab– Amazon Rainforest, Brazil; directed by sound artist/biologist, Francisco Lopez, Mamori Lake, Brazil 2005 free103point9’s WAVE FARM NYSAE’s Giant Ear))) Radio, Acra, NY
DISCOGRAPHY 2010 Live performance with Horaflora on KALX UC Berkeley, recording released on split 12" record with Secret Boyfriend 2009 'Plastic People' Vibrofiles.com Box CD set compilation 2008 Giant Ear))) Inside/Out NYC Compilation CD on free103point9 Audio Dispatch label 2007 Brutal Sound FX Compilation limited cassette release Enterruption label
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS and AFFILIATIONS 2019-current Board Member of Grafton Lakes State Park, NY 2014-2017 Board Member of American Society for Acoustic Ecology (501c3) 2013-Current Advisory Board, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival 2011-2016 Co-Director of 23five, San Francisco, CA 2004-2010 Co-founder of The New York Society for Acoustic Ecology