Vita Berezina-Blackburn Animation Specialist ACCAD, 1224 Kinnear Rd Columbus, OH 614.688.8260 vberezin@accad.osu.edu www.accad.osu.edu/~vberezin ARTISTIC INTERESTS Exploration of movement and movement generated form through recorded and real-time 3d animation. Additional interests are painterly space, nonrealistic stylization, multimedia performance and installation, short film, learning objects for education, experimental time-based media. SELECTED SCREENINGS OF ANIMATIONS AS PART OF LIVE PERFORMANCES Necessary Beauty (3d animation for multimedia performance with director and choreographer Bebe Miller) Selected locations of 2008-2009 US tour of multimedia performance by the Bebe Miller Company: o o o o The Wexner Center for the Arts,Columbus, OH Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY Krannert Center, Urbana, IL Myrna Loy Center, Helena, MT
Landing/Place (motion capture based animation for multimedia performance with director and choreographer Bebe Miller) Selected locations of 2005-2007 US tour of multimedia performance by the Bebe Miller Company: o o o o o o o o o Clarice Smith Performing Arts, College Park, MD The Wexner Center for the Arts,Columbus, OH The Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago, IL Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY Red Cat Los Angeles, CA Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Dance Cleveland, Cleveland, OH PICA, Portland, OR World Music/Crash Arts, Boston, MA.
When I am Little Again (motion capture based animations for multimedia performance with director and choreographer Kareen Balsam) Selected performances by Kareen Balsam: o o Judson Church, New York, NY, 2003 Joe’s Pub, New York, NY, 2003
SELECTED SCREENINGS OF ANIMATIONS AS SHORT FILMS Visible Movement (animated sketches for Landing/Place) “Body+” group video exhibition of performance pieces that use technology as an artistic tool, MIT Museum, Boston, MA, 2005 “Visible Movement” solo exhibition, Dance Theater Workshop Gallery, New York, NY,2004 When I am Little Again “Digital Memory” exhibition, Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 2005 KINODANCE film festival, St. Petersburgh, Moscow, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 2004 PBS. Thirteen/WNET: Reel New York 9 Festival, 2004. Cinedans, Amsterdam, Netherlands,2004 Dance on Camera Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, 2004 Benign Beings Interferenza Festival, San Martino, Italy, 2006, IDEAS Festival, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2003 Wexner Center For the Arts, Columbus, OH,2002 Kalamazoo Animation Festival International, Kalamazoo, MI,2002 Memory of Hope VisionFest, Indianapolis, IN, 2005 Columbus International Film Festival, Columbus, OH,2004 Cineme International Animation Festival, Chicago IL, 2004 Anima Mundi:12th International Animation Festival of Brazil, Sao Paolo, Brazil,2004 The 34th Annual USA Film Festival, National Short Film and Video Competition, Dallas, TX, 2004 The Society of Composers, Inc. Region VI 2004 Conference, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas, 2004 Ohio Short Film/Video Showcase, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH,2004 ANIMATIONS FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING CONTEXTS DNA to Chromosome, a sequence for “Bio Unbound” interactive installation for exploration of DNA complimentary base pairing and chromosome formation, with Susan Fisher, Alan Price, Norah Zuniga-Shaw, ACCAD graduate students, Columbus Museum of Science and Industry. Dance and Biology Animation and Video projects for Biology 101 with Dr. Susan Fisher, Dept of Entomology, Rachel Boggia Dept of Dance, Keith Kelley, Sucheta Bhatawadekar, GRAs, Dept of Design, OSU, 2004-2005 PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS Kalamazoo International Animation Festival Educators Conference “Animation at the Center for Multidisciplinary Collaborations” (panel with Maria Palazzi and Iuri Lioi), Kalamazoo, MI, 2009 SIGGRAPH 2007 “Multi-User Interaction on the DNA Workbench”, (with Alan Price),San Diego, CA, 2007 Women in Animation Symposium, CCAD, Columbus, OH, “Landing Place: an Animator’s Perspective”, 2007 Ohio Dance Festival, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH. “Landing Place: an Animator’s Perspective”, 2007.
SIGGRAPH 2005 “Landing Place: Remapping Motion Capture of Dance Movement to Objects and Environments”, (with Bebe Miller and Brian Windsor),Los Angeles, CA, 2005 “Ideas in Motion” Symposium at Boston CyberArts Festival. MIT, Boston, MA. “Motion Capture in Dance and Animation Collaborative Project”. 2005 Guest lecture in "New Media Survey" undergraduate class "Animation Art",Dennison University, Granville, OH, 2004 Dance On Camera Festival, “Muybridge to McLaren to motion capture” lecture/screening, Puffin Room, New York, NY, 2004 EXHIBITIONS OF STILL 3D ARTWORKS: “Tracing” (with Norah Zuniga-Shaw) Dragonfly Neo Gallery, Columbus, OH, 2007 Women Artists Exhibition at Dragonfly Neo Gallery, Columbus, OH, 2002 Spring Art and Technology Student Show at the Ohio State University, 2002 Annual Graduate Student Show at the Ohio State University, 2002 Student Computer Art Shows at West Texas A&M University, 1996-1998 PROJECT INVOLVEMENT Thurber Dogs animation production, ACCAD, OSU, 2008. Managed a team of nine graduate students to produce a 20 min long animation in six parts for screening during live performance of the Thurber Dog’s Suite for Orchestra by the Promusica Chamber Orchestra at Southern Theatre, Columbus OH. Necessary Beauty animation production, ACCAD, OSU, 2008. Art direction of animation development, supervision of two graduate research associates. BioUnbound interactive installations, ACCAD, OSU, 2007. Coordinated concept and technology development for interactive installations at the Columbus Museum of Science and Industry (COSI). Worked closely with a team of three faculty and four graduate students. TEACHING Motion Capture Production, graduate course on traditional and experimental motion capture techniques. ACCAD, Ohio State University, 2009 Form Visualization, graduate course in 3d modeling (Maya), ACCAD, Ohio State University, 2004-2009 Form, Light and Motion, graduate course, an overview of animation production pipeline, Ohio State University, 2006-2009 Animation Production, graduate course focused on the production of Thurber Dogs animation. ACCAD, Ohio State University, 2008. Advanced Modeling, graduate course on advanced polygon, NURBS, Sub-d, texturing and rigging techniques. ACCAD, Ohio State University, 2006 Women and Technology, Summer Camp for high school girls, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2005, 2004, 2001 3d Modeling Workshop for Women in Science Day at the Ohio State University, 2005, 2004, 2009
GRANTS Ohio State University Arts and Humanities Multidisciplinary Grant, Bebe Miller, Vita Berezina-Blackburn ($40,000), 2007. BETHA, Susan Fisher(Entomology), Vita Berezina-Blackburn (ACCAD). BETHA grant, "The Art, Technology and Dance of Teaching Science to Informal Learners". $57,938 Ohio State University, Outreach and Engagement Grant for "Art in the Service of Science- Enhancing Sceince Education in K-12 Classrooms Through Arts Integration". Susan Fisher, Rachel Boggia, Vita Berezina-Blackburn, ($14,600) Ohio State University Arts and Humanities Multidisciplinary Grant, Bebe Miller, Vita Berezina-Blackburn ($25,000), Columbus, OH, 2004 Staff Professional Development Grant, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 2003 AWARDS AND HONORS Bessie (New York Performance and Dance Award), Choreographer/Creator category with Bebe Miller and other collaborators of “Landing/Place” 2005-2006 show season Bronze Plaque, Columbus International Film Festival, Columbus, Ohio, 2004 Honorable Mention, Cinedance, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2004 Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society Membership, 2003 Best of Show Award in 3d Gesture category, IDEAS festival, Bloomington, Indiana, 2003 High Honor, Kalamazoo Animation Festival International, Kalamazoo, MI, 2002 EDUCATION: 2000-2003 1996-1998 1994–1996 Ohio State University/ACCAD, MFA Art and Technology West Texas A&M University , MA in Computer Art West Texas A&M University, BBA Marketing