RESUME

Eric Theise

Commissions/Public Art
  2024
    If Map #5, Midnight Artist Series, Salesforce Tower Top, San Francisco. 

A Synesthete's Atlas: Selected Performances
  2024
    De Bouwput, Amsterdam. w/Edward Schocker, p'iri, shō and found objects
    MING Studios, Boise. w/Krispen Hartung, guitar, and Aaron Davis, piano
    Center for New Music and Associated Technologies, Berkeley. w/Mat Muntz, primorski meh (Croatian bagpipe) & electronics
    West Oakland Sound Series @ Dresher Ensemble Studio, Oakland. w/Unpopular Electronics (Gino Robair & Tom Djll), electronics and prepared piano
    Other Cinema, San Francisco. w/Sean Ocean, DJ

  2023
    Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series, San Francisco. w/John Ingle, saxophones
    Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland. w/Santomieri-Farhadian Duo, electric resonator guitars, spoken word, violin, & electronics
    Red Room, Baltimore. w/Darien Baiza and Paul Neidhardt, drums & percussion, and Maxwell Gong, trumpet & electronics
    Pittsburgh Sound + Image. w/Trē Seguritan Abalos, flutes & electronics
    Rhizome DC, Washington, DC. w/Darien Baiza, drums, and Abe Mamet, French horn
    Fire Museum Presents at The Perch, Philadelphia. w/ArcX Trio, strings
    Russell Hall Theatre, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME. w/The Asthmatic (Sigrid Harmon), vocals & theatrics
    The Apohadion Theater, Portland, ME. w/The Asthmatic (Sigrid Harmon), vocals & theatrics
    Jazz Gallery, Milwaukee. w/Tamarisk (Christina Carter, David Menestres, & Andrew Weathers)
    Block Museum Cinema, Evanston. w/Ben Zucker, winds and electronics
    Mills Folly Microcinema, Madison. w/Ari Smith, upright bass 
    Counterpath, Denver. w/Carl Ritger, prepared lap steel guitar & modular sampler
    Noise Floor 8, Art Lab, Fort Collins, CO. w/Brett Darling (aka Spider Lights), modular synthesizers
    Blo Back Gallery, Pueblo, CO. w/Bob Marsh's Spontaneous Combustion Arts Performance Ensemble
    Wolverine Farm Publick House, Fort Collins, CO. w/Daniel Zamzow, cello & electronics
    Other Cinema, San Francisco. w/Kevin Corcoran, textural percussion & manipulated field recordings
    Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series, San Francisco. w/Headboggle, electronics

  2022
    Mosswood Sound Series, Oakland. w/Krys Bobrowski, Gliss Glass & Sliding Speaker
    Other Cinema, San Francisco. w/Kevin Corcoran, textural percussion & manipulated field recordings
    Mirror Lab, Minneapolis. w/Liz Draper, upright bass
    Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland. w/Kyle Bruckmann, oboe & electronics
    Indexical, Santa Cruz. w/Carl Stone, laptop
    Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn. w/Ned Rothenberg, saxophone & clarinet
    Mass Audubon Magazine Beach Park Nature Center, Cambridge. w/Ken Field, saxophone
    Hangar: Centro de Investigação Artística, Lisbon. w/Helena Espvall, cello

Selected 16mm Film Festival Screenings
  Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film & Video, Victoria, BC
  Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque
  Festival Tous Courts, Aix-en-Provence, FR
  Mono No Aware X Festival, Brooklyn

Selected Presentations
  Eight Stories High, Comically Lo-Res, Visible for Twenty Miles: Spiraling Maps Atop Salesforce Tower
    Sep 2024 EuroCarto, Vienna
    Aug 2024 Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society, London
    Jul 2024 State of the Map/Europe, Łódź, Poland
    Jul 2024 State of the Map/US, Salt Lake City
    Mar 2024 Center for New Music and Associated Technologies, Berkeley
    Feb 2024 David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford
   
  A Synesthete’s Atlas: Performing Cartography 
    Oct 2023 Annual Meeting of the North American Cartographic Society, Pittsburgh
    Apr 2023 American Geographical Society Library, Milwaukee
    Mar 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Denver

Selected Awards and Honors
  2025
    Artist in Residence, Jupiterfab, Guadalajara

  2024
    Artist in Residence, AGA LAB, Amsterdam

  2022
    International Residency, Hangar Centro de Investigação Artística, Lisbon

  2019
    Toolmaker in Residence, Signal Culture, Owego, NY
    Lightpress Grant, Interbay Cinema Society, Seattle

  2018
    Toolmaker in Residence, Signal Culture, Owego, NY
    Preservation Access Program, Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco

Education
  Ph.D, M.S., Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University
  B.B.A., Loyola University Chicago