2007-Present. Director, Berkeley Center for New Media

Ken Goldberg

Employment

·  2002-present. Professor. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), College of Engineering, with secondary appointments in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and the School of Information (iSchool). The University of California at Berkeley.

·  2007-present. Director, Berkeley Center for New Media.

·  1997-2002. Associate Professor. IEOR Dept., University of California at Berkeley.

·  2000. Visiting Professor. MIT Media Lab.

·  1999. Lecturer. San Francisco Art Institute.

·  1995-97. Assistant Professor. IEOR Dept., University of California at Berkeley.

·  1991-95. Assistant Professor. Computer Science. University of Southern California.

Education

·  1984-1990, MS., PhD. School of Computer Science. Carnegie Mellon University.

·  1979-1984, Dual degree: BSE Electrical Engineering, Moore School of Engineering; BS Economics, Wharton. University of Pennsylvania. summa cum laude.

Selected Honors and Awards

·  2009, Plenary Speaker. Performing Presence Conference, Exeter University, UK.

·  2008, Plenary Speaker. 2nd Israel Conference on Robotics (ICR), Tel Aviv.

·  2008, Artist Residency. Headlands Center for the Arts, CA.

·  2008, Plenary Speaker. AAAI Spring Symposium on Creative Intelligent Systems, Stanford University.

·  2007, Plenary Speaker. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Rome.

·  2007, Banquet Speaker. Robotics Science and Systems Conference (RSS), Atlanta, GA.

·  2007, Isadora Duncan Award (Izzie) for Ballet Mori for Music / Score / Text. Bay Area Dance Awards and Voice of Dance.

·  2006, Official Selection for Film Festivals: Rotterdam, Sundance, Zurich, Tribeca, Nashville (Best Short Documentary), Black Maria (Director's Choice Award), United Nations. The Tribe. (co-writer).

·  2005, Plenary Speaker. ACM Conference on Multi-Media (MM), Santa Barbara, CA.

·  2005, Elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), "for contributions to networked telerobotics and geometric algorithms for automation."

· 1995, Presidential Faculty Fellowship, The White House and the National Science Foundation

· 1995, Kobe Prize, Interactive Media Festival. Los Angeles.

· 1995, First Prize, Festival for Independent Visual Arts Interactive. Montreal.

· 1995, Finalist, National Information Infrastructure Award.

Selected Professional Activities

2007-present Director, Berkeley Center for New Media.

2008-present Vice President of Technical Activities (second term), IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.

1997-present Director, The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium, UC Berkeley.

2009-present Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, UC Berkeley Townsend Center for the Humanities.

2002-present Editorial Advisory Board, Springer-Verlag Book Series: Advanced Robotics.
2004-present Chair, Academic Advisory Committee, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive.

Solo Exhibitions

·  Catharine Clark Gallery. May-June 2009.

·  San Francisco Ballet at SF Opera House. Performed by Muriel Maffre. April 2006.

·  Arlington Arts Center. Curated by Carol Lukitsch. Arlington, VA. Nov 2005 - Jan 2006.

·  Whitney Museum of American Art: Artport. Curated by Christiane Paul. September 2004.

·  The Kitchen. Curated by Christina Yang. New York City. March-April, 2003.

·  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Matrix Series (186), Berkeley, CA. 2000.

·  Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria. 1995-2004.

·  Fisher Gallery, The Los Angeles Biennial. 1992.

·  Forbes Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. 1990.

Selected Juried Group Exhibitions

2008

·  Contemporary Art in the Post-Biological Age, Ministry of Culture and Mass Communication, Russian Federation. National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kaliningrad, Russia. Curated by Dmitry Bulatov.

·  Cartes Centre for Art and Technology, Tapiola, Finland, Curated by Maria Tjader-Knight.

2007

·  Fastforward: Robots. PAN | Palazzo delle Arti, Napoli, Italy. Curated by Laura Bardier. Nov.

·  RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA. Berkeley Museum of Art. Curated by Richard Rinehart. Oct-Nov.

·  Territoires Invisibles. Maison Europienne de la Photographie. Paris. Curated by Henry Chapier and Jean-Luc Soret. Sept-Oct.

·  Performing Presence: From the Live to the Simulated. Curated by Nick Kaye (Exeter UK), Gabriella Giannachi (Exeter UK), Mel Slater (London), and Michael Shanks (Stanford).

2006

·  Edge Conditions. San Jose Art Museum. Curated by Steve Dietz.

·  NextNew. San Jose Art Institute for Contemporary Art. Curated by Cathy Kimball.

·  A Measure of Time: American Art 1900 to the Present. Berkeley Art Museum. Curated by Lucinda Barnes.

·  Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Arts. ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge. Curated by Steve Dietz and Joel Slayton.

·  Revolutionary Tides. The Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach, FL. Curated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp.

2005

·  Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology and the Paranormal. Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC. Baltimore, MD. Curated by Mark Alice Durant and Jane Marsching. Oct-Dec.

·  Making Things Public. ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. Curated by Steve Dietz.

·  Techno-Sublime. University of Colorado Museum of Art. Boulder. CO. Curated by Lisa Tamiris Becker.

2004

·  Cambridge Arts Council. Cambridge, MA. Self-Sufficient. Curated by Barbara O'Brien. Sept-Nov.

2003:

·  Williamson Gallery, Pasadena Art Center. Curated by Stephen Nowlin. April-May.

·  San Francisco Cameraworks. Curated by Marisa Olsen. February.

2002:

·  Buenos Aires Biennial. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Argentina. Nov-Dec 2002.

·  In the Making. Curated by Adi Shamir and Marina McDougall. California College of Art, Wattis Institute Gallery. San Francisco. Nov 2002 - Jan 2003.

·  Oklahoma City Museum of Art. September 5, 2002 - November 3, 2002.

·  Infotecture. Curated by Jenelle Porter. Artists Space. New York, NY. May 2002 - July 2002

2001:

·  Atlanta College of Art Gallery. Oct - Nov.

·  Austin Museum of Art. July - Sept.

·  Re: Duchamp: A Travelling Exhibition. Curated by Cristine Wang. Venice Biennale. June.

·  Pasadena Art Center College of Design. May - June.

·  Telematic Connections. Curated by Steve Dietz, Independent Curators International (ICI). San Francisco Art Institute. Feb - March.

2000:

·  Dystopia and Identity in the Age of Global Communications, Tribes Gallery, New York, NY. December.

·  F I L E: Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletronica, MIS, Museu da Imagem e do Som, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Aug-Nov.

·  Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY. Mar-Jun.

·  Kwangju Biennial, South Korea, Mar-July.

1999:

·  ICC Biennale, Tokyo. Oct-Nov.

·  The Net Condition, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. Sep - Jan.

Ken Goldberg has published over 150 refereed papers on topics relating to robotics and media arts. Details on technical work are available on the Technical CV below. Details on exhibitions, reviews are available on the Art CV below. Ken is represented by the Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, CA.

Born: Ibadan, Nigeria, 1961
Residence: Mill Valley, CA, USA

Artworks: http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/art/

Full Art CV: http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/art/cv-art.html
Full Technical CV: http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/cv.html