cavil dot com | Vivian Selbo's chronological list of web presence
[ an apology in advance for any link-rot... ]

  recent  a c t i v i t y

web site design and  production

• Design Director for Slate Magazine, SlateV, and The Root; 2006 - 2015: some highlights:
  • Charlie Powell illustrations for author headshots, as seen on Slate's Facebook page, Twitter, Outward, Slate Political Gabfest. 
  • Podcasts and Panoply, the iPad app
  • Frescas, "The Nazii Anatomists," "The Self-Made Man," "Risk," "The Mouse Trap," "The Year of Outrage"
  • Behold, The Year's Best Illustrations & Best Covers slide shows, "Choose the Right Apple," "Mormon Hierarchy," The Root 100
• Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen, moved Randy's site from the 92nd St Y to Wordpress on his own domain, and updated the design, 7.2015
• The Geography Trilogy: 123 Remix, a web reprise of source and performance documentation material surrounding Ralph Lemon's dances, commissioned by the Walker Art Center, 4.06
• site development and information architecture for UCSD Visual Arts Dept., with back-end development by clem and co. This site uses Drupal to handle the content, which grants all department members and staff their own content editing privileges
• Juggernaut Theatre redesign, l00k.org — the site for Laura Kurgan Design using Textpattern as a content management system for easy updates and editing via a web browser, Melissa Shiff Matzo Ball Activist Store and artist's web site, and LenoraChampagne.com
• Viralnet site design, a new online journal from Cal Arts, 02.2005; Flash navigation built on code by Jared Tarbell, and the amazing Doug Goodwin handled site implementation
• PERFORMA, 11.2004; Website designed using Textpattern as a content management system
• information architecture, Noguchi Catalogue raisoneé, forthcoming
• Before and After Geography, relocates, moving from BAM's server to the Walker Art Center's, 9.04
• Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP) new site design, with back-end development by The Glyph Media Group, 2.04
• Enemy Aliens site for the new book by David Cole, in which he shows how 9/11 has been used to undermine the legal rights of immigrants.
• "Distributed Creativity" 11.12 - 12.19.03, an online forum designed for Eyebeam and The University of Maine, with Yun Joo Shin
• purl Soho gorgeous yarn, a new site design with back-end development by suzerain studios, 10.03
• Crossfade update: Laurent Dailleau: 33rpm ~ 10 Hours of Sound from France, 09.06.03
• netomat site redesign [since revised], 04.01.03
• "Art and Culture" redesign
• "Restructured Screen" 11.11 - 12.13.02, an online forum designed for Eyebeam and The Integrated Media Program at CalArts.
• "Borders" 10.08.02, an episodic virtual series for PBS/POV
• Crossfade update: 09.02, Philip Samartzis' "Variable Resistance", and "Indigenous to the Net", essay by C. Brown and J. Bischoff
• "Borders" promo, for PBS/P.O.V., New York, archived
• Crossfade, interface for online audio essays and projects, a joint endeavor by SFMOMA, The Walker Art Center, ZKM, and the Goethe Institut -- Flash4+5, frames interface; with Cavil design for
  Atau Tanaka's "Ju-jikan: 10 Hours of Sound from Japan," 9.24.01
  Stephen Vitiello's "sound archive 07.01-07.31.01"
  Josephine Bosma's "Music and the Net: Musaic," 4.15.01
  Golo Föllmer's "Soft Music," 3.01.01
• Visual Thinking Strategies for Kids, online teaching site for 3 - 5th grade students; we developed the existing prototype design into a dynamic XML site with David Frackman
• "Day Without Art banner", Creative Time web action, New York
• "Before & After Geography", a digital assemblage surrounding the creation and performance of Tree: Part 2 of the Geography Trilogy for the 2000 Next Wave Festival, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY (relocated to the Walker Art Center, 09.2004)
• PAL (Performing Arts Labs Ltd) April 2000 Lit Lab, Kent, England
• artistsonline-warhol.org, and Richard Hawkins' "Squirreled-Away: Meandering Amongst the Time Capsules" The Andy Warhol Museum "open-studio", Philadelphia
• "15 minutes of Fame poll", Warhol Foundation, Pittsburgh
• "art entertainment network", for Gallery 9, The Walker Art Center, Mppls. MN
• "16 Objects, Ready or Not", for Michael Craig-Martin and The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Gladwell dot com
• KausFiles dot com
• Weil Studio
• Intro to the Classics, sub-site restructuring for its second season, Carnegie Hall
• "Conversations with Contemporary Artists", The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• "Requiem for a Young Poet" concert sub-site and requiem animation project for Carnegie Hall, NYC
• graphical user interface and logo for PalTalk!, a Windows telephony application
• portion of "Predictive Engineering.2," by Julia Scher for The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
• ~Trans, "Amnesia" symposium
• "InterNyet", The Museum of Modern Art, New York

• äda'web interface director: 6.1996-3.98; producer, designer: 5.1995-3.98 (now part of the Walker Art Center, Mppls)
  
• "In the Balance" , by Spalding Gray, Digital City New York (no longer online)

 elsewhere: .speaking   .showing   .writing

Teaching & Speaking

• 2015 NYU Summer Publishing Institute design launch review for students in the NYU School of Professional Studies.
• 2014 MediaNext speaker, on "Why Design Matters More Than Ever," panel with New York Magazine Director of Digital Design and User Experience, Steve Motzenbecker. [slideshare]
• 2013 Society for News Design's 35th Annual Workshop speaker, gave talk on Slate's redesign entitled "Responsive to What?"
• from 2002 - 2007, taught Information Systems for the Visual Arts, a core course in New York University Graduate Dept. of Art and Art Professions
• spring 2005 taught Interface Design for the Graduate Program in Computer Arts at the School of Visual Arts, NY
• "Ten Steps to a Website" talk, part of the "Meeting Artists' Needs" series at the CUE Art Foundation, NYC, Nov. 3, 2005
• International Association for Professional Art Advisors in NYC, "Establishing A Successful Web Presence" talk, Nov. 7, 2003
• International Society for the Performing Arts Annual Conference in NYC, "Workshop of New Media" panel with Sara Diamond, Dec. 9, 2002
• New York Women In Film and Television DigiDay Panel, The End: Creative Approaches to Non-Linear Storytelling, May 18, 2002
• The Upgrade, a discussion and presentation of "Before and After Geography" and "Blindspot", April 24, 2002
• Painting the News, conference and workshop, Minneapolis, MN, Feb. 15-16, 2002
• Thundergulch, a discussion and presentation of "Before and After Geography" and "Under_score", produced as part of BAM/Brooklyn Academy of Music's New Media Initiative, at BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture's new performance space, Nov. 29, 2001
• Cultural Capital/Cultural Labor, Conference On Cultural Work, New York University, New York City, Dec. 1-2, 2000
• cAT, Art and Technology Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, July 6-7, 2000
• Advanced Design for Multimedia, workshop in Banff, June 24-29, 2000
• Performing Arts Labs, 'Pilot' Lit Lab, UK, April 25 - May 4, 2000
• Thundergulch sponsored AEN presentation at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab, 4.13.00
• Advanced Design for Multimedia, workshop in Banff, June 26-30, 1999
  brainwave artist for Web Seance's Without Words performance
• Jan Van Eyck Akademie Maastricht project: security conference online discussion 5.22.99
• "archiving net.art" panel, Institute of Contemporary Art New Media Centre, London 2.13.99
• killer @pp ~ it's all t@lk presentation, Institute of Contemporary Art New Media Centre, London 12.14.99
• ART DIRT interview 10.15.97
• ThunderGulch Lunchtime @ the Wall 9.18.97
• UNM Cyberculture Explored in Gale Memorial Lectures

Showing

• Subverting the Market, Central Michigan University 2.2000
• Open Source, 2.2001
• Net_Condition, ZKM, Karlsruhe, (travelling to Graz, Barcelona, Tokyo) 9.23.1999
• inducted in hell, 5.1999 now called no-such.com
• "Emerging Artists/Emergent Medium", Jerome Foundation/ Walker Art Center grant for "open_source", coming in 04.2000
• killer @pp ~ it's all t@lk, originally commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art New Media Centre, London
• "Map the Gap" exhibition, artincontext
• Vertical Blanking Interval, adaweb, 12.1996
• adaweb context
• Enclosed Caption Viewing, Slate Gallery, 7.16.1996
• Blast 4: Bioinformatica
• The Art Mall: A Social Space @ The New Museum, NY
• The Computer in the Visual Arts by Anne Morgan Spalter
• The Internet Design Project: The Best of Graphic Art on the Web by Patrick Burgoyne, Liz Faber, Lewis Blackwell
• Graphis Web Design Now, 1 by Ken Coupland and Robert Appleton
• Mastering Photoshop 5 for the Web by Matt Straznitskas, Photoshop Master

Writing

• 2014 Foliomag.com, a quick riposte for"Face Up: Out"
• "Working the Network", in the Dec. edition of degrees feet inches, 12.1999
• "ah, 'da process", Gallery 9 essay, Walker Art Center, 05.1999
• Walker Art Center : The Shock of the View : Performance respondent, 01.1999
• Smug, Mystery Date, 5.1998
• Stating the Obvious, "The One to One Future:
  Michael, Are You Serious?" 4.06.1998
• Slate Diary, Sunday -Thursday, 12.7-11.1997

  some  r e v i e w s

• Slate's "The Year of Outrage" wins The Digiday Publishing Awards Best Use of Multimedia for Storytelling in 2014, an ASME 2015 Award for Multimedia and Emily Yoffe's "The Campus Rape Overcorrection" wins an ASME for Public Interest.
• ASME 2011 Award for Multimedia for The Slate Culture Gabfest.
• Out-of-Print: The Vanishing of a Category, by Diane Greco, PIF Magazine
• EXPLOGLO.BE, curated links for Brussels' EXPO 2000
• 'Web Work, A History of Internet Art', by Rachel Green, Artforum.com, 05.2000 *free, but requires registration
• 'a website designer gone mad', in "Use and Abuse" by Vixel Pixen, Suck.com, 03.21.2000
• "Art Entertainment Network", by Jason Spingarn-Koff, Rhizome, 3.22.00
• "On This Network, Nothing but Internet Art", by Matt Mirapaul, NYT CyberTimes, 02.10.2000
• "Museum Puts Internet Art on the Wall", by Matt Mirapaul, NYT CyberTimes, 09.16.1998
• "HYPERLINKS" Commentary by Remo Campopiano
• "Lessons Learned: Case Studies moma.org: The Evolution of a Museum Web Site" by Ryan Deussing 4-Apr-2000
• 'Dada Photomontage and net.art Sitemaps', by George L. Dillon, University of Washington 8.1999
• "Carnegie Hall's Digital Requiem" Wired News 4.20.1999
• "Carnegie Hall Site Shines Spotlight on New Production" NYT Cybertimes 4.15.1999
• Cool Sitings Netscape 4.13.99, Zimmermann's Requiem for a Young Poet
• killer @pp ~ it's all t@lk selected as a 1999 SXSW Interactive finalist in the best art-related site category
• "Putting a Price Tag on Digital Art", by Matt Mirapaul, NYT CyberTimes, 11.19.1998
• "Cool Sitings" Netscape 9.9.1998
• "Daily Picks" Yahoo 7.13.1998
• "Seeking Digital Art in Siberia and Beyond" NYT CyberTimes, 7.2.1998
• "From Siberia to Cyberia" Wired 7.3.1998
• "Machine Age", by Austin Bunn, Village Voice, 7.7.1998
• "Leading Art Site Suspended" NYT Cybertimes, 3.3.1998
• "Art History" The Netly News: Afternoon Line 3.3.1998
• "Internet startups crash..." artnetweb & Intelligent Agent 3.03.1998
• Webby Awards 1998, arts category nominee
• Webby Awards 1997, arts category nominee
• Graphis, "Web Design Now"
• "Web Design Now" links
• Best of the Web 1997 NetGuide
• "Finding China's Radical Artists" Wired News, 10.3.1997
• "...Museum Pieces" zdnet Dot.Dot.Dot.Com, 5.1997
• "Catch the Wind: Web Design as Collectible Art" NYT CyberTimes, 3.7.1997
• "SFMOMA To Acquire Online Art", artnetnews, 3.27.1997
• "Multimedia Art Catches Whitney's Eye" Wired News, 3.18.1997
• "The Arts Go Digital, A Special Report" atnewyork, 1.31.1997
• "Sites That Push the Envelope" Web Developer, 1.6.1997
• IndieNet 96
• more in adaweb, reach

• WWWAC Members Page

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