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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
2019 Artist 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 - current  Led 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 Flyway  Festival, 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


REFERENCES (given upon request)



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