\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0JEFFREY T. RAY<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 4620 Long Branch Avenue, San Diego, CA 921077<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (415) 517-3452 \u2022 rayinsf@gmail.com \u2022 www.jeffrayarts.com<\/p>\n OBJECTIVE<\/strong><\/p>\n Digital Arts Instructor, Artist, Curator, Front End Web Designer and Programmer<\/strong><\/p>\n To teach all levels of digital art, web design, web art, net art, activism and art, mixed media, sound art, video art, digital photography, sound design, as well as other art courses. To continue to develop and design innovative web sites and applications. To continue to learn, develop and update my skills related to all my various jobs and tasks. To continue to support students in their technological and educational needs. To continue developing as an artist professionally and personally.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0EXPERIENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n Art and Technology Lecturer at Cal State University of San Marcos\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n January 2018 \u2013 Present <\/strong><\/p>\n\n Creative Director and Owner of Twin Ray Creative\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n August 2018 - Present<\/strong><\/p>\n\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Technologist for The Realignment Group, Lean California <\/strong><\/p>\n September 2017 - Present<\/strong><\/p>\n\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Creative Director and Co-owner of MAKTA Creative\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n November 2016 \u2013 August 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Digital Media Instructor, University of Nevada, Reno\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n January 2017 \u2013 May 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n\n IT Level 5, Technologist, Digital Media Lab Director at University of Nevada, Reno <\/strong><\/p>\n March 2016 \u2013 March 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Visiting Lecturer at San Francisco State University <\/strong><\/p>\n 2011 \u2013 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Worker\/Owner, Webmaster at Rainbow Grocery Cooperative.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Member of Various Boards of Directors and Festival Founder<\/strong><\/p>\n\n EXPERIENCE, CONT.<\/strong><\/p>\n Working Artist and Musician<\/strong><\/p>\n Please refer to my CV\/Bio for information and artist statement.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n University California San Diego Extension May 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n Certificate in Full Stack Programming<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n San Francisco State University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n Master of Fine Arts: Conceptual Information Arts<\/p>\n\n Virginia Commonwealth University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 1991<\/strong><\/p>\n Bachelor of Arts (BA): English major<\/p>\n SKILLS<\/strong><\/p>\n Computer and Design Skills<\/strong><\/p>\n\n .<\/p>\n\n Financial\/Accounting Skills<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Teaching Skills<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Professional Skills <\/strong><\/p>\n\n JEFFREY T. RAY<\/strong><\/p>\n 4620 Long Branch Avenue, San Diego, CA 921077 \u2022 (415) 517-3452 \u2022 rayinsf@gmail.com \u2022 www.jeffrayarts.com<\/p>\n CURRICULUM VITAE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n 2007 \u2013 2010<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MFA, San Francisco State University<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 2006<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music and art classes, San Francisco Art Institute, City College, San Francisco, CA<\/p>\n 1986 \u2013 1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 BA, English Literature, Virginia Commonwealth University<\/p>\n BIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/p>\n Jeff Ray is a visual and performance artist, musician, sound artist, web designer, filmmaker, curator, festival founder, and activist. He was recently an instructor for the Digital Media Arts program in the Fine Arts and Music Departments for University of Nevada, Reno. He was a frequent visiting lecturer at San Francisco State University, Fine Arts Department, Conceptual Information Arts. In 2010 he received an MFA in Conceptual Information Arts (New Media\/Art and Technology) from San Francisco State University.<\/p>\n He has won numerous awards, including a Murphy Cadagon award from the SF Foundation, and in 2004 was an Artist-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Ray has shown\/performed at various venues and places, such as SF MOMA (San Francisco), Kulturhuset (Stockholm, Sweden), New Langton Arts (San Francisco), and SOMA Arts (San Francisco).<\/p>\n He was the Founder and Executive Director of Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival, which expanded from San Francisco to Oakland, CA in 2006 and Iowa City, IA in 2010. In 2004 he introduced one of the first Bay Area multimedia performance series, Collision. He has been on the Board of Directors, Advisory Board and Programming Committee at The Lab Art Space in San Francisco. He is currently a founding member and was recently the Board President of Adobe Books and Arts Cooperative, where he gathered a group together to save a failing Mission-based bookstore and gallery. He was recently the President of the Board of Directors and programming committee of the Mediate Soundwave Festival. He was the lead curator and resident artist of Soundwave Festival 2013-2014, where he explored the theme of the festival, Water. He continued his lead curatorship as Board President for Soundwave in 2015-2016 with the theme Architecture and Sound. He is currently a Board member of A Ship in The Woods artist residency and gallery in Escondido, CA where he is helping create a summer music and arts festival. .<\/p>\n ARTIST STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n I create sound and video installations, digital photographs, drawings, paintings, and performances. My subject matter often focuses on nonlinear narratives set in and around the landscape in which I live and work, in other words, my home and neighborhood. My work also engages the mythical and fantastic to question what is familiar. To this end, I appropriate narrative and thematic elements from literature and historical record. Elfin spirits, conspiracy theories, mythical civilizations, human attempts at achieving utopia, and post-apocalyptic dystopia are some examples of these themes.<\/p>\n In my current work, I explore the idea that nature engenders architecture, which in turn influences how we see and relate to the natural world. Within this dynamic conversation, I explore the way community structures have been affected by the interfusion of architecture, space, and nature.<\/p>\n RECENT, CURRENT, AND UPCOMING WORK<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n June -2019\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Solo exhibit, Complex\/ Complex. <\/em>Teros Gallery, San Diego. New mixed media work, experimental documentary,\u00a0 and sound art.<\/p>\n May- 2019\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Music performance, Taser Island project, Ship in the Woods Music and Arts Festival, Escondido, CA.<\/p>\n March-2019<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Group Benefit Show, Ship in the Woods, Escondido. New mixed media work, and sound art. Performance.<\/p>\n December -2018<\/strong> Group Benefit Show, Orb Architecture, San Diego. New mixed media work, and sound art.<\/p>\n February -2018<\/strong> The Architecture of Clouds and Mountains II \u00a0<\/em>Group show, and performance at San Diego Community College. Part of the show Contribution II, Urban and Contemporary Art in San Diego<\/em>. \u00a0\u00a0Featuring larger mixed media, sound art, inspired by the architecture and writings of Junya Ishigami and the surrounding mountain landscapes of Reno, NV. Multi media performance with my project Taser Island with San Diego musician\/ composer\u00a0 Kenseth Thibedeu<\/p>\n February -2018<\/strong> The Architecture of Clouds and Mountains<\/em>:. Solo show at Orb Architecture, San Diego. New mixed media work, and sound art inspired by the architecture and writings of Junya Ishigami and the surrounding mountain landscapes of Reno, NV. Also featuring a collection of past work.<\/p>\n January \u2013 2018 \u00a0<\/strong>Lecture on Web, Net, Computer Art. Aesthetics and Activism at Riot Con, in Oakland<\/p>\n August \u2013 2016 <\/strong>Cathedrals<\/em> Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Sound and video installation and performance. Part of Sound Wave\u2019s SonicLabs 7. Exploration of the sounds inside of various cathedrals.<\/p>\n Apr \u2013 Jun 2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cathedrals<\/em>: Solo show at SDSU Downtown Gallery, San Diego, CA. Cathedrals<\/em> was a site-specific, multi-sensory solo-show that continued my exploration of the intersection between nature and architecture. I reimagined familiar surroundings and structures, such as cathedrals and coastal bunkers, as monuments, taking the viewer on a journey from reality to imagination. After the presentation in San Diego, a portion of the work moved to the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco for a subsequent, unique installation and performance as part of SonicLabs 7.<\/p>\n Jan \u2013 Feb 2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Beach Town Anthems<\/em>: Artist-in-Residence at A Ship in the Woods, Del Mar, CA. For this project, I created anthems and soundscapes for the surrounding towns of North County San Diego. These anthems were presented to the local government in hopes of the anthems being official. Accompanying the sound aspect of the project was an installation with both 2D work as well as a performance with projected experimental video exploring town\u2019s architectural and natural elements presented at the opening and closing of the show.<\/p>\n Sep 2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ark and Surroundings<\/em>: Alterspace Gallery and Artist in Residence at Mediate\u2019s Soundwave Festival, San Francisco, CA. Large-scale installation of sculpture, sound sculpture, video, and 2d mixed media. Building on the fear associated with environmental degradation, water pollution, and global warming, Ark and Surroundings<\/em> posits photos, drawings, maps of imagined environments, a boat, and a bridge with post-apocalyptic livable structures and commercial spaces.<\/p>\n I built my version of a post-apocalyptic water structure,The Beacon<\/em>, a custom-built, life-size sailboat. The Beacon<\/em> is turned into a musical instrument, outfitted with pipe organ pipes and a pump organ, acting as a tool to communicate with water dwellers, much like a complex version of a fog horn. Different tones emanating from the boat represent unique messages that include warnings, as well as announcements from a town crier of sorts. An experimental documentary film projects onto the sail of The Beacon<\/em> and features interviews of dockworkers, architects, environmentalists, artists, merchant marines, freighter ship captains, and other experts related to the subject of livable structures and boat life. Interspersed between the video segments are abstract photos and drawings that feature manipulated photos taken from around the waterways of the Bay and revised into imaginary environments, mappings, and structures that service needs pertaining to education, home, community, commerce, and spirituality.<\/p>\n The same spirit of imagined structures is translated onto the framed photos and drawings that surround The Beacon<\/em>. Two of the framed pieces are graphic notations with accompanying compositions, and the viewer is encouraged to listen along. The installation was built using architectural models, metal, designed in CAD, and cut with a CNC machine, and recycled material.<\/p>\n RECENT, CURRENT, AND UPCOMING VISUAL ART SHOWS<\/strong><\/p>\n Apr \u2013 Jun 2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cathedrals<\/em>, Solo show at San Diego State University, San Diego, CA<\/p>\n Jul 2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Together<\/em>, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA<\/p>\n Apr 2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Beach Towns<\/em>, Featured Artist and Artist in Residence for the \u201cMy Name Is\u201d group show, A Ship in the Woods, Del Mar, CA<\/p>\n Nov 2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More Than One Way<\/em>, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA<\/p>\n RECENT, CURRENT, AND UPCOMING VISUAL ART SHOWS, CONT.<\/strong><\/p>\n Jul 2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ark and Surroundings<\/em>, Alterspace Galler, San Francisco, CA<\/p>\n Sep 2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Iowa City Neighborhood<\/em>, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA<\/p>\n Sep 2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cargo Ship from Philippines<\/em>, Rock Paper Scissors, Oakland, CA<\/p>\n Oct 2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From West Oakland to Fairyla<\/em>nd, Magic Lantern group show, Fairyland, Oakland, CA<\/p>\n May 2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ark and Surroundings Phase <\/em>1, Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA<\/p>\n Mar 2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Canyon Oakland #2<\/em>, Root Division, San Francisco, CA<\/p>\n Jul 2011<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Iowa City Office Buil<\/em>ding, We Art Space, Oakland CA<\/p>\n Jul 2011<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Yoga Project<\/em>, Louis V e.s.p. video and composition Gallery, Brooklyn, NY<\/p>\n Dec 2010<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Home,<\/em> Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland, CA<\/p>\n May 2010<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shelters<\/em>, MFA Thesis show, SFSU State Gallery, San Francisco, CA<\/p>\n Mar 2009<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Yoga Project<\/em>, Stillwell Awards, SFSU, San Francisco, CA<\/p>\n Feb 2009<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Heterotopia<\/em>, Murphy Cadogan Fellowship Awards Show, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA<\/p>\n Oct 2007<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mission Football <\/em>Field, Read Read Group Show, Bolinas Library, Bolinas, CA<\/p>\n Sep 2007<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Utopian Visions<\/em>, 868 Space, Bolinas, CA<\/p>\n SELECT PAST PERFORMANCES<\/strong><\/p>\n Jul 2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mission Creek, Audiobus Tour, an experimental sound performance and bus tour through the Mission district, Soundwave Festival, San Francisco, CA<\/p>\n Mar 2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Taser Island, multimedia performance, From Fairyland to Oakland Cemetery, Mission Creek Midwest, Iowa City, IA<\/p>\n Mar 2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Taser Island, multimedia performance, Neighborhoods, Mission Creek Midwest, Iowa City, IA<\/p>\n Aug 2010<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Extraordinary Forest, multimedia performance, Home, Soundwave Festival, The Lab, San Francisco, CA<\/p>\n Mar 2010<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pipe Organ Forest, sound installation and performance, Sound Device show, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco CA<\/p>\n Mar 2010<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pipe Organ Forest, sound installation and performance, at Window Space Gallery, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco CA<\/p>\n Jan 2007<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Southern Ocean, Flags and Anthems, art\/video installation and performance, Keys that Fit Gallery, Oakland CA<\/p>\n Jan 2005<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Extraordinary Forest, Multimedia performance and installation, performing \n \t
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