Charles Woodman
175 Glen Ave
Oakland CA 94611
(513) 290-7191
charles.woodman@uc.edu
www.videosavant.net
Education
| MFA | Design Film/Video, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 1982. |
| BA | Art/Communications, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, 1979. |
Selected Exhibitions
| 2021 | Shadowbox, Experiments In Television, Festival, Albuquerque NM. viDEO sAVant with duo B @ 12, a virtual audio/visual playground, SEAMUS, Stanford CA. The City and the Stars, Internet performance with PHI 4, Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland CA. |
| 2020 | Pulse Generator Pastry, Drifting Checks, Shadowbox, Los Angles Film Forum w/ LA MoCA. Shadowbox w/ Rachel Germond Dance, Settlement House, New York, NY, Performance |
| 2019 | duo B vs viDEO sAVant, San Francisco Cinematheque & Center for New Music, SF, CA, Performance. La Citta e le Stelle, viDEO sAVant with PHI 4, Spettro, Brescia, Italy, Performance. viDEO sAVant w/ Elegant Birds, Ellen Webb Studio, Oakland CA, Performance. Drifting Checks, Then What If Fest, New Media New Music NE, Hartford, CN. viDEO sAVant w/ Phil Perkis, Studio Grand, Oakland CA, Performance. viDEO sAVant w/ lama llama, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA, Performance. viDEO sAVant/ Lisa Mezzacappa Trio, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA, Performance. Light Box, w/ Rachel Thorne Germond Dance, Settlement House, New York, NY, Performance. duo b vs viDEO sAvant, Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland CA, Performance. |
| 2018 | viDEO sAVant with duo b, Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA, Performance. viDEO sAVant, Lateral Thinking, Vox Popoli, Philadelphia, PA, Performance. Betty Woodman: Thinking Out Loud & Pulse Generator Pastry, Jingdezhen International Ceramics Art Film Week, Taoxichuan-jaea International Art Center, Jingdezhen, China, Group show. |
| 2017 | viDEO sAVant, The Live Show, Oakland Asian Cultural Assn, Oakland CA, Performance. Charles Woodman, Three Prompts, Fringe Festival, Cincinnati, OH, Group show. viDEO sAVant, x6, The Mockbee, Cincinnati, OH, Performance. Pulse Generator Pastry, Transient Visions Festival, Spool Maufacuring Johnson City, NY, Group show. Pulse Generator Pastry, Nasty Women, Stour Space, London, UK, Group show. |
| 2016 | viDEO sAVant, Pattern Logic, Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA, Performance. Pulse Generator Pastry, Elate Memories, Palazzo dei Congressi, Lavagna Italy, Group show. viDEO sAVant, Pattern Logic, Modern Makers, Cincinnati OH, Performance. Pulse Generator Pastry, Salon 94 Gallery, New York, NY, Window Installation. viDEO sAVant and Friends, Spool Manufacturing, Johnson City, NY, Performance. |
| 2015 | viDEO sAVant, Wavelength 12.3, Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland , CA, Performance. viDEO sAVant, Great Ring Road, Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy, Performance. Megurs Ehd Ffleweh Bq Nsolst, Were the Eye Not Sunlike, ACRE TV, Chicago, Il, Broadcast. ViDEO sAVant presents Lateral Thinking, SF Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA, Performance. Cowboy Romance, Future and Behind, Contemporary 5 Gallery, Venice, Italy. Dharma Pops, Jump the Cut Film Festival, Singapore. ViDEO sAVant presents Terminal Beach, Peoples Liberty, Cincinnati, OH, Performance. |
| 2014 | Table of Elements, Family Surgery Waiting Room, University Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, Permanent installation. viDEO sAVant, The Drowned World, International Symposium on Electronic Art 2014, Dubai, UAR, Performance. ViDEO sAVant, The Drowned World, Penn State University, State College, PA, Performance. ViDEO sAVant and Friends, Live Cinema, Audio Visual Improvisation, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, Performance. ViDEO sAVant and Friends, Live Cinema, Audio Visual Improvisation, Villa Douce, Riems France, Performance. Charles Woodman, Passages, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, One person exhibition. viDEO sAVant presents Lateral Thinking, 21C Museum/Hotel, Cincinnati, OH, Performance. Dharma Pops, It will Shake your Teeth, College Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, OH, Video with live music and recitation. viDEO sAVant with Geishafold, The Drowned World, Optronica, Other Cinema, SF, CA, Performance. |
| 2013 | Megurs Ehd Ffleweh Bq Nsolst, Intl. Computer Music Conference, Perth, Australia. viDEO sAVant w/ Ubdis Quartet, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Performance. viDEO sAVant presents Lateral Thinking, Autumedia, the Rakes End, Cincinnati, OH, Performance. Megurs Ehd Ffleweh, w/ Chris Bailey and the Meitar Ensemble, MATA Festival, Roulette, New York, NY, Video projection w/ live music. St Vrains Woods, Four Woodmans, Nina Fruedenhiem Gallery, Buffalo NY. BOOM! LIVE CINEMA & SOUND, The Coup, Clarksville TN, Performance. Terminal Physical Space, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville TN, One Person Show. Snow Mountain Ranch, Fotofocus, Clay Street Gallery, Cincinnati, OH. Bloom, Lloyd Library, Cincinnati, OH. viDEO sAVant presents Lateral Thinking, Autumedia, The Rakes End, Cincinnati, OH, Performance. |
| 2012 | viDEO sAVant and Friends, WaVe Currents Series, International House, Philadelphia, PA, Performance. viDEO sAVant and Friends, Devotions Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Performance. Table of Elements, The Wodmans, Diet Gallery, Miami, FL, Installation. Live Cinema Dance, viDEO sAVant and Friends, New Genres Festival, Living Arts of Tulsa. Tulsa, OK, Performance. viDEO sAVant presents Lateral Thinking, Autumedia, Third Party Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, Performance. |
| 2011 | viDEO sAVant with Collide-O-Scope Music, Intersections New American Performing Arts Festival, Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, DC, Performance. HEAVEN, Wall Drawings, Samson Projects, Boston MA. viDEO sAVant with Collide-O-Scope Music, Aspect Project Room, Brooklyn, NY, Performance. viDEO sAVant with Discerning Crane, Center for Contemporary Arts, Cininnati OH, Performance. |
| 2010 | viDEO sAVant and Friends, The Herron School of Art, Indianapolis IN, Performance. PI Squared with Collide-O-Scope Music, Roulette, New York NY, Screening w/ live music. American Diorama, The Road, Light Factory Museum, Charlotte NC, Installation. American Diorama, El Camino Medical Center, Mountain View CA, Permanent Installation. viDEO sAVant w/NWEAMO All Stars, NOTACON, Cleveland OH, Performance. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons w/Shellie Cash, Balanchine and Beyond, College Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati OH, Performance. viDEO sAVant w/ Discerning Crane, CS13, Cincinnati OH, Performance. |
| 2009 | John Cage: Sonata and Interludes, viDEO sAVant w/ Adam Tendler, piano. Living Arts of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, Performance. The Desire Line w/ Deborah Slater Dance Company, Joyce Theatre, New York, NY, Performance. American Diorama, St John’s Medical Center, Santa Monica, CA, Permanent Installation. Springs’ Mix, Sansouci Festival of Dance/Cinema, Boulder, CO, Installation. Playing with Light w/Anthony Luensman and Concert Nova, cnGarden, Cincinnati OH, Screening w/ live music. |
| 2008 | viDEO sAVant, Sonic Explorations, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, Performance. The Desire Line w/ Deborah Slater Dance Company, Cowell Theater, New York, NY, Performance. viDEO sAVant w/ Three Speed, Sitwells Nightclub, Cincinnati, OH, Performance. |
| 2007 | Burner, Palimpsest, The Woodman Family Show, Progetti Arte Biagiotti, Florence, Italy. AIvin Curran; Inner Cities XIII, w/ Kathleen Supove, piano, The Stone, New York, NY, Performance. The Desire Line w/ Deborah Slater Dance Company, Dance Mission, New York, NY, Performance. Horse Farm Mixer, Terra Incognita, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, Installation. American Diorama, A Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Installation. |
| 2006 | Springs Mix, American Diorama, Shirley Jones Gallery, Yellow Springs, OH, Installation. Springs’ Mix, American Diorama, Gallery Two Ton, Providence, RI, Installation.viDEO sAVant w/ WHY, Slims Nightclub, San Francisco CA, Performance. viDEO sAVant w/ WHY, Slims Nightclub, San Francisco CA, Performance. viDEO sAVant and Friends, Live Cinema Nights, SF Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA Performance. Betty Woodman: Thinking Out Loud, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. |
| 2005 | Nightingale Floor, NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference), Vancouver, BC, Performance. Nightingale Floor, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, Performance. Wall Drawings, Ideas into Objects, Weston Art Galley, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH, Installation. Nightingale Floor, International Design Media Arts Assn. Conference, Orlando, FL, Performance. Horse Farm Mixer, Cal Arts Festival of New Media, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, Installation. |
| 2004 | Nightingale Floor, Sino-Nordic Art Space, Beijing, China, Performance. American Diorama, Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Installation. viDEO sAVant w/ Nicholas Economos, InterMedia Series IV, Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH, Performance. Nightingale Floor, International Computer Music Assn. Conference, Miami, FL, Performance. viDEO SAVant w/ Steven Severyd and players, New Music Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Performance. |
| 2003 | Horse Farm Mixer, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell IA, Installation. Plumb Job, Jarson Kaplan Theater, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH Performance. Candle Dancer, Ohio River Grasses, Cincinnati, OH, Installation. Candle Dancer, Autumedia, Cincinnati, OH, Installation. |
| 2002 | Palimpsest, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Edison, NJ. Palimpsest, Dancing for the Camera, American Dance Festival, Raleigh, NC. Palimpsest, NY International Independent Film and Video Festival, New York, NY. I MORTI, Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH, Installation. Personal Jesus, Museo del Louvre, Rome, Italy, Installation. |
| 2001 | Landscape/Book, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, Installation. Making Believe, w/ Tony Pellegrino and Company, SOMAR Theatre, San Francisco CA, Performance. Palimpsest, Choreographers without Companies, Jarson Kaplan Theatre, Cincinnati OH, Performance. |
| 2000 | Baltimore Overpass, Artist’s Television Access, San Francisco, CA. Installation. Under The Bridge, Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center, Cincinnati OH. Installation. viDEO sAVant, w/ Reaching Quiet, V.O.L.K, Cincinnati, OH, Performance. Gothic Faces, Focus 2000, Read Gallery of Art, Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. Gothic Faces, Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH. |
| 1999 | Gothic Faces, Art Resource Transfer Gallery, New York, NY. Quique, Honorable Mention, Thomas Edison Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Edison, NJ, and traveling program. Quique, Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX. Quique, Thaw Festival of Digital Media, Iowa City, Iowa. |
| 1998 | I MORTI, Art Resource Transfer Gallery, New York, NY, Installation. Personal Jesus, New Genres Festival, Living Arts of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, Installation. Under the Bridge, Independent Artists Of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Installation. Bake Sale, with Kenn Watt & Fifth Floor Theatre Company, SOMAR Theatre, San Francisco, CA, Performance. Video Jazz Enviro, with viDEO sAVant &Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Living Arts of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, Performance. |
| 1997 | Baltimore Overpass, Janus Exhibition, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA, Installation. viDEO sAVant w/ Slurr, Innovators Series, Gunston Hall, Arlington, VA, Performance. Cowboy Romance, Blender Bender and drift, Art Resource Transfer, New York, NY. Betty Woodman Thinking Out Loud, Musee d’Arte Contemporaine, Dunkerque, France. Betty Woodman Thinking Out Loud, Golbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 1996 | Station, Plunder Squad and Cowboy Romance, Twenty Years of Experimental Television, Art in General, New York, NY. Personal Jesus, Video Collections, Gallery 4C, New York, NY, Installation. Inaugural Ball w/ viDEO sAVant and the B52’s, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Performance. Self Organizing System, Central Armature Gallery, Washington DC, Performance. Plunder Squad, New Arts Program Video Festival travelling program: Kutztown, PA, TZ’Art, New York, NY and the Center for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA. Plunder Squad, Hostile Witness, Central Armature Gallery, Washington, DC, Installation. Plunder Squad, Faculty Exhibition, Hemicycle Gallery, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC, Installation. Betty Woodman Thinking Out Loud, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. |
| 1995 | Cowboy Romance, Monologue/Dialogue, Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada. Selected Work, Teatro II Parter, Florence, Italy. Cowboy Romance, Northwest Film Study Center, Portland, OR. Blender Bender, Nude Descending, The Density Show, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA, Installation. viDEO sAVant with the Martinis, The Black Cat Nightclub, Washington DC, Performance. ReImagining the Reel, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Performance. Nude Descending, Cowboy Romance, Glamour Stretcher Time, Thicket Gallery, New York, NY. Selected Work, Mr. Dynamite Comes to Edge City, Reston Art Center, Reston, VA. The Digital Image, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD. Betty Woodman Thinking Out Loud, Union Centrale des Artes Decoratifs, Palais Du Louvre, Paris, France. |
| 1994 | Baltimore Overpass, Art Sites Six, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC, Installation. The Window Project, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington DC, Installation. drift, The Ecstatic Garden of Sublime Delirium, ArtScape ‘94, Baltimore, MD, Installation. Mixed Fish w/ Clouds, Video Space x 3, Millersville State University, Millersville, PA, Installation. Third Rock, viDEO sAVant with Slurr, The Innovators Series, Arlington Planetarium, Arlington, VA, Performance. WHFS Festival, viDEO sAVant with Hole, Primus, Henry Rollins Band & others, RFK Stadium, Washington DC, Performance. viDEO sAVant w/ Slurr, Art in the Parks, Lubber Run Amphitheater, Arlington, VA, Performance. viDEO sAVant Spotlight on the Arts Festival, Old Town Hall, Fairfax, VA, Performance. viDEO sAVant w/ Excelsior Percussion Ensemble, Frederick Community College, Frederick, MD, Performance. Seis Amigas, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC. True Phallacies, The Myth of Male Power, Clark and Co, Washington DC. University of Maryland Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD. Frostburg State College, Frostburg, MD. |
| 1993 | Cowboy Romance, Between Word and Image, Museum of Modem Art, New York, NY. drift, Re Visions, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA, Installation. Cowboy Romance, The September Show, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA. drift, Water Ways, Boulder Public Library, Boulder, CO, Installation. Personal Jesus, Family Values, In Time Art Salon, Washington DC, Installation. viDEO sAVant with Rest Area, Walk the Goddess Walk, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington DC, Performance. viDEO sAVant, Blagden Alley Art/Science Warehouse, Washington DC, Performance. viDEO sAVant w/ Alberto Gaitan, The Pajama Party, Arlington Cable Television, Arlington, VA, Performance. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Cowboy Romance, Photography and New Genres, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA. |
| 1992 | drift, Exhibition Space Gallery, New York, NY, Installation. viDEO sAVant w/ DJ Slow, Cabaret Re/Voltaire, Washington Project For the Arts, Washington DC, Performance. Betty Woodman Thinking Out Loud, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT. Betty Woodman Thinking Out Loud, Center for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA. |
| 1991 | Station, San Mateo Drive, Florence Film Festival, Florence, Italy. Under the Bridge, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM, Installation. viDEO sAVant w/ DJ Mitch Parker, Fifth Column Nightclub, Washington DC, Performance. |
| 1990 | Nude Descending, 911 Contemporary Arts, Seattle, WA, Installation. viDEO sAVant w/ DJ Mohawk Adam, 15 Minutes Nightclub, Washington DC, Performance. Cowboy Romance, Through The Lens, WYBE TV PBS, Philadelphia, PA. Virtual Space, Festival of Independents, International House, Philadelphia, PA, Installation. Station, DC Space, Washington DC. |
| 1989 | Virtual Space, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, Installation. Lotta’ Burger, San Mateo Drive, Station, Neighborhood Film Project, Philadelphia, PA. Lotta’ Burger, New American Makers, San Francisco, CA. Lotta’ Burger, San Mateo Drive, Salso Film and Video Festival, Salso Maggiore, Italy. |
| 1988 | Pixim 88, La Villette, Paris, France. Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY. Festival di Video Arte, Locamo, Switzerland, Festa Nazionale del’Unita, Florence, Italy. Selected Work, New Mexico Film & Video Makers Forum, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM. Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA. Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA. |
| 1987 | Coyote Tracks, Directors Choice, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Edison, NJ. Station, Independent Acquisition Fund Purchase, WHYY-TV, Philadelphia, PA. Selected Work, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA. |
| 1986 | Coyote Tracks, Jean Cocteau Cinema, Santa Fe, NM. Game Show, Partida, National Association of Artists Associations, Houston, TX. Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH. |
| 1985 | Game Show, Tokyo Video Festival, Tokyo, Japan. Los Alamos Public Access Television, Los Alamos, NM. Remnants, A Sound Film, Six Childhood Memories, SF Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA. Six Childhood Memories, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Game Show, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. |
| 1984 | Six Childhood Memories, Collective for Living Cinema, New York, NY. Selected Work, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. Game Show, Magnetic Image Festival, Atlanta, GA. Game Show, Texpo Video Festival, Houston TX. |
Grants and Fellowships
Third Century Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, 2015
Artist in Residence, Marin Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito CA, 2015
Signal Culture, Residency Award, Corning NY, 2014
Artists Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus OH 2011
Artist’s Residency Fellowship, Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY, 2006, 2002, 2001, 1997, 1994, 1993, 1991, 1990,1989, 1987
Artist in Residence, Sino-Nordic Art Space, Beijing, China, 2004
Individual Artist’s Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH, 2003
Faculty Research Grants, University of Cincinnati, 2011, 2009, 2002, 2001,1999
Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, University of Cincinnati, 2002
Faculty Research Grants, University of Oklahoma, 1998, 1997
NEA New Forms Regional Grant Program, Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA, 1994
Grant for Individual Artists, D.C. Arts Commission, Washington, DC, 1993
NEA Regional Media Arts Fellowship, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA, 1991
Media Arts Production Award, Intermedia Arts Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1990
Media Arts Production Grant, New Mexico Arts Division, Santa Fe, NM, 1988, 1985, 1984
Artists Subsidy Grant, Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Assn, Philadelphia, PA, 1987
NEA Regional Media Arts Fellowship, Southwest Alternate Media Project, Houston, TX, 1982.