Jennifer Parker Curriculum Vitae
Jennifer (no.e) Parker Curriculum Vitae
Education and Qualificiations
2007 MFA Digital Art and New Media, University of California Santa Cruz, Thesis: Gamelan Plesetan: Multimedia Non-Ideomatic Improvisation.
2003-2005 Darmasiswa Grant, Practice-based Ethnomusicology: Balinese and Javanese Gamelan Musics, Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.
1994 Electronic Arts Internship, Center for Electronic Art, San Francisco, California.
1991 BS Apparel and Textile Design, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
1990- 1991 Millinery Course, Kensington and Chelsea Adult Institute, London, England.
1989- 1990 Study Abroad Fashion Design, Middlesex University, London, England.
Teaching Experience
August 2008 :: Electronic Music Workshop Instructor, BOPKRI Middle School, Yogyakarta, Java.
Fall 2005-Spring 2008 :: Teaching Assistant/ Course Assistant, University of California, Santa Cruz.
January-April 2008 Lead Teaching Assistant, HAVC 10e: Art and Visual Culture of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, History of Art and Visual Culture Department.
- Assist Professor Elisabeth Cameron in the management, organization and evaluation of five co-Teaching Assistants.
Additonal Duties
- Lead and moderate large undergraduate discussion sections in subject areas ranging from Japanese, North Indian, and Indonesian theater, the history of Puppet theater, the history of traditional and digital animation, to the History of Art and Visual Cultures of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
- Grading papers and exams, assist students in critical thinking and analytical writing, development of end of quarter narrative evaluations for each student.
September 2007-Present :: Private Instructor, Indonesian Language and Macintosh Digital Art Skills, Santa Cruz, California.
May 2007 :: Guest Lecturer, Textiles of the Pacific: 
Javanese Batik, Department of History of Art and Visual Culture, Univeristy of California, Santa Cruz.
Winter 2006 :: Arts Bridge Digital Arts Initiative, Designed and Lead a seven week Digital Animation Course for art students grades 6-8, Mission Hill Middle School, Santa Cruz, CA.
Arts Groups
1992-Present Semi Permanent Autonomous Zone Collective, Founding Member, Music and Art Event Production, San Francisco Bay Area, California.
1995-2005 Nascent Project, Inc., Founding Member, Community Arts Education, Berkeley, California.
1995-1997 Food Not Bombs, Arts Event Programming and Execution, San Francisco, California.
1992-1995 Jerry Abrams Headlights, 1960s Psychedelic Lightshow, San Francisco, California.
1992-1994 Your Sister's House, Co-Founder, Bay Area Women's Dance Event Production, San Franciso, California.
Grants and Awards
Florence French Scholarship, Digital Arts and New Media Department, UCSC 2007.
Benjamin Porter College Graduate Arts Research Committee Grant, UCSC 2007.
Porter College Artist/Lecturer Grant, UCSC 2007.
ArtsBridge Digital Arts Initiative Grant, UCSC 2006.
Darmasiswa Republic Indonesia Grant, Practical Ethnomusicology, Intitiut Seni Indonesia, Yogyakarta 2003-04.
Council for Creative and Performing Arts Grant, Textiles and Apparel Department, Cornell University, 1990.
Conferences Attended
University of California State of the Arts Conference (UCIRA) 2008: UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, November 6-9, 2008.
cellsbutton 02: 2008 Yogyakarta International New Media Festival, Sponsored by the House of Natural Fiber, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, August 15-29, 2008.
_UC Art Intervention Festival, UC Santa Cruz, CA, May 15-17, 2008.
_epicenter 2007:: UC Digital Art Research Network Symposium_, UC Riverside, January 26-27, 2007.
Exhibitions
2009
_VIDEO:WRK_, International Video Exhibition and Festival. Gallery Surabaya, Surabaya, Java, Indonesia, June 11-16.
2008
Cellsbutton 02, Interactive video installation at LIP Gallery, Lembaga Indonesia Perancis, Yogyakarta, August 19.
Emerging Illusions Fashion Show, New Media Textile Work, DNA Lounge, San Francisco, CA, May 8.
This Show Needs You!, an exhibition of the Love Art Lab's video documentation of the Red, Yellow and Orange Weddings with music by saKAna, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, March 28 to May 16.
2007
_emergence 2007, "Closing the Circle", 360 degree Audio Visual Interactive Environment, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Digital Media Factory, Santa Cruz, CA, June 8-17.
The Hudson River Bonsai Project, Curator and Aesthetics of Group Installation, UCSC Open Studios, UCSC, March 16.
2006
UCSC Spring Open Studios, "Semar's Dream", New Media Performance Installation. Baskin School of Visual Arts, University of California Santa Cruz, March 17.
Postcard Art Group Exhibition, Gallery Surabaya, Surabaya, Java.
2005
Gelas-Cankir Group Exhibition, Exhibition of 2-Dimensional Collage Work. Parkir Space, Yogyakarta, Java.
2003
23 Artists & Filmakers, Exhibition of 2-Dimensional Collage Work. Xenodrome, San Francisco, California, May 23.
2002
Mutasia Fashion Show and Textile Art Exhibition, Organizer, Exhibitor, Designer. Spazport, Berkeley California, April 25.
Digital Media Design
2007
Before Becoming Buddha, Media Design Using MAX/MSP/Jitter Software. Directed by Kathy Foley. University of California Santa Cruz Main Stage.
Incarnations of Vishnu, Media Design Using MAX/MSP/Jitter Software. Directed by Kathy Foley. 2D Animation and Media Design Using MAX/MSP/Jitter. UCSC Theater Division's Second Stage.
2006
Damar Wulan: the Grasscutter Who Would be King, Directed by Kathy Foley. 2D Animation and Media Design Using MAX/MSP/Jitter. UCSC Theater Division's Second Stage.
Scores, Soundtracks
2009
A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Rehane Abrahams for the 5th Annual Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Ubud, Bali.
Selected Performances
2009
Sosrowijayan Street Festival, Red District Project, Yogyakarta Java, July 25th.
14th Annual Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Improvisational Audio Performance: Live looping and audio processing of Gamelan with Members of the UC Riverside Gamelan Ensemble, Yogyakarta Java.
2008
University of California State of the Arts Conference (UCIRA) 2008: Gamelan Plesetan Performance with Director and members of the UC Riverside Gamelan Ensemble, and the Director of the UCR Improvisation Ensemble, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, November 7.
cellsonic! at cellsbutton 02: 2008 Yogyakarta International New Media Festival, Electronic Improv performance of GANGAN, directed by Tengal from SABAW Media Art Manilla, Yogyakarta, Java, August 17.
13th Annual Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Improvisational Audio Performance: Live looping and audio processing of Gamelan, Yogyakarta Java, July 9.
A Night of Satori Curry: saKAna Welcome Party, 30 minute Improvisational Music Performance with Mayuri at Gamuso Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, May 29.
UC Art Intervention Festival, Love Art Laboratory Green Wedding #4, Musical Performance for the Wedding of Annie Sprinkle and Professor Beth Sephens, UCSC Shakespeare Glen, Santa Cruz, CA, May 17.
2007
Y2K7 International Live Looping Festival, 30 Minute Improvisational Musical Performance with Hunab Krewe, Pearl Alley Studios, Santa Cruz, CA, October 20.
Plug07 Global Headphone Festival, 30 Minute Solo Musical Performance, The Lab Gallery, San Francisco, October 14.
saKAna's Wonder-Room at the Semi Permananent Autonomous Zone, 8 Hour Interactive Video and Electronic Music Improvisation, October 6.
Emergence 2007 DANM MFA Thesis Exihibition, Improvisational Music Performances in "Closing the Circle", 360 degree Audio-Video Installation, Santa Cruz Digital Media Factory, June 8, 15.
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Gamelan Controlled Video and Improvisational Audio Performance, June 14.
Gamelan Plesetan at the UCSC Recital Hall, Electronic and Gamelan Music Improvisational Performance Using Gamelan Controlled Video Projections, May 20th.
epicenter 2007:: UC Digital Art Research Network Symposium, Electronic and Gamelan Music Improvisational Performance Using Gamelan Controlled Video Projections, UC Riverside, January 26.
2006
Meeting Across the Airwaves :: Online Improv Music Performance based in Santa Cruz, CA/Riverside, CA/Marseilles, France/Yogyakarta Java, October 7.
Gamelan Across Nations Festival, debut of "GayaM16saKAnangel Softly", Yogyakarta Java, September 9.
11th Annual Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Gamelan Controlled Video and Improvisational Audio Performance, Yogyakarta Java, July 8.
Love Art Laboratory, Orange Wedding Two, Composed and Performed Music for the wedding of Annie Sprinkle and Professor Elizabeth Stephens, Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, California, July 2.
Univeristy of California at Riverside Spring Gamelan Concert, Electronic and Gamelan Music Improvisation, June 9.
BLINK :: UCSC Digital Art and New Media Festival, Gamelan Plesetan Performance/Installation in a Ring of Redwoods, University of California at Santa Cruz, May 16.
2005
Kedai Kebun Forum, "Wayang Hip Hop", Music and Shadow Puppet Performance, Yogyakarta, Java.
10th Annual Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Improvisational Gamelan and Electronic Music Performance, Yogyakarta Java.
2004
Hitam Putih World Music Festival, Electronic Music Performance, Riau, Sumatera, Indonesia.
9th Annual Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Improvisational Gamelan and Electronic Music Performance, Yogyakarta Java.
First Annual Digital Art Festival, "Lumenation", Multi-Media Performance, Indonesian Institute of the Arts Graduate School, Yogyakarta, Java.
2003
Malioboro Fair, New Year's Eve Street Festival, Solo Music Performance, Yogyakarta, Java.
2002
Unchained Reaction, Three Day Nonstop Sound System Peace Encampment at the Nevada Test Site.
Harukaze Festival, Solo Music Performance in the Small Dome, Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, Japan.
Third Culture 2002, Solo Music Performance in the OVA Lounge, Yokohama Bay Hall, Yokohama, Japan.
2001
Uplink, Solo Music Performance at OVA, Tokyo, Japan.
2000
MS Stubnitz, Solo Music Performance, Rostock River, Hamburg Germany.
SPaZ Collective Soundsystem Euorpean Tour, Participated in a Two Month Tour of France, Germany, and Czech Republic (Czech Tek), July-August.
Digi Dub Records German Tour, Participated as a Solo Artist in a Weeklong Performance Tour of Berlin.
Liquidroom, Solo Music Performance, Tokyo, Japan.
Bullet's Nightclub, Solo Music Performance, Tokyo, Japan.
Discography
Independently Released CDs
2009 namelessKandha (forthcoming)
2008 Gamelan Plesetan ...for Sapto, saKAna Audio, Oakland, CA.
2007 Gamelan Plesetan, saKAna Audio, Santa Cruz, CA.
2003 Actsyllabells, saKAna vISions Audio, SF, CA.
2000 Psychotropic Playground, with Spukkin Faceship, SPaZ Recordings, SF, CA.
CD Compilations
2000 Bay Area Electronic Underground, Vol 1, Track 5, ARTSF, SF, CA.
1998 The Golems of Digidub, Remixed CD, Digidub Records, London.
1996 Touched By Mojo released on "Mr. C presents: X-MIX The Electronic Storm", X-Mix, Volume Six, London, England.
Vinyl
2000 Groove Station #3, 7" Locked Groove EP, SPaZ Recordings, SF, CA.
1999 Groove Station #2, 7" Locked Groove EP, SPaZ Recordings, SF, CA.
1998 Groove Station #1, 7" Locked Groove EP, SPaZ Recordings, SF, CA.
--- The Five Bar Remix, 4 Golems 12", Digidub Records, London.
1997 Planet 6 on Liquid Acrobat, Weird Dream Records, Holland.
1995 Planet 6 Space Music For Fluffheads, 12" EP, Visible Records, SF, CA.
Music Ensembles
Liquid Concrete Air Band, Open Improvisation Group, Performing Every Leap Year Day. 1996-Present.
Gamelan Plesetan, Electronic Music, New Media and Gamelan Improvisation. 2004-Present.
Pondok Pekak International Women's Gamelan, Traditional Gamelan Gong Kebyar. 2008-Present.
Gamelan Anak Swarasanti, Traditional Gamelan Angklung. 2005-Present.
UCSC West Javanese Gamelan Group, Traditional and Contemporary West Javanese Gamelan. 2005-2007.
Publications
2007 Open Studios Press, "Tourism and Contemporary Art in Bali", UCSC.
1991 American Clothing: Identity in Mass Culture, 1840–1990, Catalog of the Works, Illustrator, Cornell University Herbert F. Johnson Museum.
References Available Upon Request
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