CONTACT		Dawn Pendergast spoon@clockwatching.net
	OBJECTIVE		Seeking creative project-oriented opportunities in communications and new media.
	EDUCATION		University of Arizona, (8/03 - 05/05) MFA Creative Writing New York University, (6/02 - 5/03) MA Performance Studies GPA: 3.733 Georgia Institute of Technology, (6/98 - 5/02) BS Science in Science, Technology, and Culture. Double Minor: Public Policy and Performance Studies GPA 3.54
	HONORS & AWARDS		• President’s Scholar (4-year merit scholarship) • Fleet Scholar (travel grant) • Ivan Allen Research Grant (travel grant) • James Dean Young department award (thesis: Performative Liveness: The Cinematic Gaze and Performance Art) • Graduate Student Scholarship/Tuition Waiver • Academy of American Poets Award • Will Inman Award
	TEACHING EXPERIENCE		Poetic Ancestry as Traced through the Animal Poem (to be 6/05-7/05) Poetry Center University of Arizona Will co-teach a 6-week evening class geared toward the Tucson community, create all curriculum, and organize student poems and analyses into an ‘encyclopedia’ of animal poems online and in print. English 209 Honors Instructor (1/05-5/05) University of Arizona Taught a 3-credit semester-long course in creative writing, designed all curriculum and organized student writing for small publication. (click here for class website) Teaching Assistant Georgia Institute of Technology Video Production (1/01 – 5/01): taught two classes in video editing applications, provided tech support for DV/SVHS decks, mini-DV cameras, and other video equipment, responsible for checking out video equipment to students Poetry and Poetics (1/02 – 5/02): organized student projects and presentations, & class mailing list.
	OTHER EXPERIENCE		Video Editor/Writer (05/05-01/06) NewsTarget.com shot/editted health news interviews, shot/editted Health Ranger Recipes DVD, co-wrote articles and books including The Real Safety Guide to Pet Health Technical Assistant (8/04-5/05) Poetry Center University of Arizona Provided technical audio/video assistance , designed DVDs and VHS for reading archive, poster and broadside design, curatorial assistance in displays, office duties Videographer (10/04-11/04) Poetry Center University of Arizona Designed, shot, and edited a 10-minute video promotional video/DVD for UA’s new Poetry Center building. Student Assistant (1/99-6/02) Georgia Institute of Technology Assisted faculty and staff with graduate admissions special events & programs, and provided assistance to visiting faculty and students Video Editor (3/02-4/02) Georgia Institute of Technology Edited hour-long interview between Philip Auslander and Willem Defoe: "Task and Vision Revisited: Two Conversations with Willem Dafoe (1984/2002)" to be published in The Wooster Group and Its Traditions ed. Johan Callens. Bern: Peter Lang/Presses Interuniversitaires Européennes, forthcoming. Video Producer (8/01-12/01) GTCN Georgia Tech Cable Network Responsible for video conceptualization, production, and editing for Georgia Tech’s The Buzz, a look at how political issues inform the student body
	PROJECTS		Graduate Research (06/02–present) RECONSTRUCTIONS (01/04-present) University of Arizona Director/creator of a video installation that personal and collective explores memory in relation to the Alan Resnais film: Hiroshima, mon amour. ** Installation presented at War Studies Conference: War and the Body, July 25, London (click here for website || need Flash Player) Untitled Sleep (08/03-present) University of Arizona Director/creator of a video installation investigating physical, emotional, and phenomenological states of sleep. **Installation presented at Biblio Bookstore November 22 & University of Arizona, November 23. (click here for website) Epithelium (11/02-07/03) New York University Co-director/creator of Epithelium, a live performance that investigates the intersections between screenal, virtual, and live performance. http://www.epithelium.org Undergraduate Research (1/00 –6/02) Georgia Institute of Technology Technopoetry Conference: (12/02-6/02) organized video/internet installations, artist exhibits, created promotional video, documented the conference for archival purposes. http://www.technopoetryfestival.com/ Biomorphic Text (8/01 – 11/01): an interactive biofeedback art project, responsible for conceptual research and promotional video. The Meditation Chamber (6/01 – 8/01) : a new virtual reality application presented at SIGGRAPH, responsible for conceptual research, promotional video, poster designs, logistics, operating the installation at convention. http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/gvu/meditation/ LCC Promotion (1/01 – 5/01): Responsible for conceptualization, construction, and rendering of videos for the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech.