OCCUPATIONAL RESUMÉ - AL RAZUTISContact: alrazutis@yahoo.com Curriculum Vitae - Art Bio Advanced Skills Index of Web Demos Available for contract, freelance, or full-time work on cutting-edge projects in focused environment, preferably located on the west-coast of US or Canada. (US, Canadian citizen) PRODUCER - DIRECTOR - PROJECT LEAD:
SUMMARIZED HISTORY OF PIONEERING WORK IN MEDIA ARTS:Media artist and innovator in the motion-picture, VR and stereoscopic 3D arts. Samples of these works can be accessed online at Alchemists.com with recent web demo examples available at Index of demo visuals. As a film - video artist, responsible for all aspects (writing, producing, directing, cinematography, sound, editing, FX) of the production process. Films and videos have received a number of international awards, including a 1988 Los Angeles Film Critics Award, and the films - videotapes are found in a number of international collections. The media art work has been exhibited internationally, including a 1977 stereoscopic 3D video showing at the Louvre, a 2002 film-video retrospective at the Electronic Media Arts Festival in Osnabruck, Germany, and a 2004 film-video-3D video exhibition at SeNef, Seoul, Korea. Extensive background as a teacher in film production / film studies, and a past publisher of two periodicals on film and holography. Author and inventor / developer of a number of film, holographic and 3D imaging techniques which have been incorporated in the art works. In 2000 the Head of 2D/3D Graphics for the Mission Corporation (Bellevue, WA) in developments of speech-interactive (avatar-based) user interfaces for next-generation 'set-top box' environments. Continues to create independent works in interactive motion-picture, 3D web graphics and environments. Extensive background as film/video and holographic arts project designer and lead artist. Published contributor to a critical understanding of media as a critic, historian, writer, and as a teacher and cultural activist for avant-garde media. Currently working as a internet site designer, web media designer Speech-interactive Avatar UI designer and HTML and VRML programmer-creator, virtual reality and internet graphics artist are represented / extracted online. A writer of screenplays, prose, and prose-poetry. Complete lists of published works in all medias related to the arts and art history can be found at Curriculum Vitae - Art Bio. Examples of commercial (freelance and contract) works can be found at Index of Demo Visuals. A selection of historical and contemporary examples are distributed on the web. For a textual history of the Visual Alchemy Studio linked to photo galleries please refer to the history of Visual Alchemy Studio. EDUCATION:University:California Western Univ. - undergraduate; Majors: Physics, Chemistry - Minors: Mathematics, Biology (Cum Laude); Univ. of California, Davis - graduate fellowship - PhD program, not completed): nuclear physics / nuclear chemistry. PROFESSIONAL:Recent Chronology - Previous Work: · 1996-2009 -- Documentary Video and 3D Video Producer-Director, Los Angeles, CA Received four awards from the Shearwater foundation to produce and direct a series of video and DVD documentaries on west-coast holographic artists (final series scheduled for release 2010). Produced and directed innovative and award-winning Stereoscopic-3D videotapes (descriptions and awards: http://www.alchemists.com/visual_alchemy/stereo.html) which continue to be internationally exhibited. Presented film - video - VR works at invited international exhibitions of media art (SENEF - Korea 2004, EMAF - Germany 2002, previously in Paris (Louvre, National Cinematheque), Vancouver, Portland, Los Angeles. Video production credits include producing, directing, production management, screenplay, videography and all aspects of video post-production. Created and managed web sites for corporate, foundation, scientific, cultural clients with client-driven designs (eg. Durfee Foundation, CA; SACOR 3D, CA; Anne Popperwell - Fine Art, BC; Jane Fontana, CA; American Museum of Beat Art, CA; Hi-Q Products, CA;Lithuanian Folk Dance Group, CA; Los Zacatitos Community, Mexico; Visual Alchemy, CA and Canada). Create all graphics elements, e-commerce, 3D displays, HTML and VRML design-programming, audio and video displays, interactive PDF forms, quick-time VR and Ipix walk-throughs, biographic libraries and resources. Domain registration, server configuration, file update management. · 1995-2003 -- Internet Web-Graphics Artist (HTML - VRML), Saturna, BC Producer-creator of internet web sites featuring experimental use of video and dynamic content, Virtual Reality (VRML 2.0) as created in various locations (Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta, and Saturna Island, B.C.). Commissioned sites include VRML elements for 6DOS: The Library (Bell Northern - Nancy Paterson) and Uroboros VRML 2.0 for Banff Center, Alberta. See commissioned site list / links at Demo - Index and art sites at : http://www.alchemists.com/visual_alchemy/index.html · 2000-2001 -- Mission Corporation, Bellevue, WA Created and headed cutting-edge Web Graphics - 3D Animation - Virtual Reality Department at Bellevue WA. start-up company conducting R&D and product development in speech-recognition VR set-top box technologies. Headed a department that produced the groundwork for next-generation user interfaces and speech-recognition internet appliances. Successfully managed a staff of 2D graphics artists, Flash animators, web-designers, 3D (Max and Maya) modelers and animators, virtual reality and speech-recognition artists. Successfully managed department hiring, production, quality control, and schedules for creation of prototype interfaces and demonstration displays. Supervised demo development and presentations. · 1978-1987 -- Professor - Educator, Film-Media Studies, Simon Fraser University, B.C. Associate Professor (Tenured) and Head of Film-Video Program at Simon Fraser University, B.C. Canada. Created and oversaw film / video production and film studies curriculum at the undergraduate level as senior member of academic department. Responsible for hiring, budgets, curriculum and administration, and teaching of selected courses (film production, video production, screenwriting, critical studies, special topics workshops) in four-year undergraduate program. Acting producer in over 200 student film projects (many of which garnered awards). Resigned in 1987 to pursue independent production. Award winning films, videotapes, holographic art works are represented on the Art Bio. page. · 1967 - present -- Historical Chronology Independent research and art projects are summarized at: Studio History page. References: Available upon request. Demo CD-Rom (Web graphics, Multi-media design/applications, Virtual Reality, Speech-Recognition UI): Available upon request RESUME CONTACT: e-mail:arazutis@hotmail.com websites: Visual Alchemy - Home (North American server) Visual Alchemy - Holonet (Germany server)
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