Stewart Dickson
60 Chestnut Court
Champaign, IL  61822 USA
(828)423-7140 (cell)
(217)333-3923 / (217)244-1827 (FAX)

<mathart(a)emsh.calarts.edu> (e-mail)

<http://emsh.calarts.edu/~mathart>

Resume

• Born:
  • 16 July, 1956, Cooperstown, New York

• Education:
  • University of Delaware; May, 1977-June, 1981
  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville Ph.D Program in Computer Science; January, 2003-June, 2005;
  • University of North Carolina, Charlotte Ph.D Program in Computer Science; May, 2006-Present;

• Studied With:
  • Joe Moss, Roy Wilson (Sculpture)
  • Hilton Brown (Visual Design)
  • Frederick Hofstetter (Electronic Music)

• Degree:
  • Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, June, 1981

• Honors:
  • Four Semesters Dean's List
  • Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu

• Employment:
  • July 5, 2005 - Present National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center, Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Research Associate.
  • September 1, 2005 - December 14, 2006 NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Principal Scientific Subject Matter Expert in Visualization, Office of the Director.
  • July 15, 2002 - June 30, 2005 Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6367 (865)241-3748 Visualisation Researcher, Network and Cluster Computing Group.
  • July 1, 1996 - July 1, 2002 Walt Disney Feature Animation 500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, CA 91521-8962 (818)526-3597, Technical Director, Production Software and Character Finaling, " Walt Disney's 'Dinosaur'", "Wild Life", "Mickey's Philharmagic".
  • 1 November, 1993-15 May, 1995, ReZ.n8 Productions, Inc. , 6430 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 1000, Hollywood, CA 90028, (213)957-2161, Systems Manager.
  • 4 January, 1988-31 October, 1993 The Post Group, Inc., 6335 Homewood Avenue, Hollywood, CA 90028, (213)462-2300 X810. 3D Graphics Programmer, Digital Center.
  • 29 April, 1990-Present Wolfram Research, Inc., 100 Trade Center Drive, P.O. Box 6059, Champaign, IL 61826-6059, Freelance Computer Graphics Artist.
  • January, 1989-1994 Film and Video School, California Institute of the Arts, 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355, (805)255-1050 X2427. Technical Consultant, Computer Graphics Laboratory.
  • 1 November, 1984-23 December, 1987 Goldsholl Design and Film, Inc., 420 Frontage Road, Northfield, IL 60093, (312)446-8300. Direction, Production and Technical Support of Computer-Generated Imagery and Animation. Founded the Goldsholl Design and Film Computer Graphics Department.
  • 11 February, 1981-30 October, 1984 AT&T Technologies, Inc., 1200 Warrenville Road, Naperville, IL 60566. Development Engineer, Diagnostic Development 5ESS, on permanent assignment to AT&T Bell Laboratories Department 55618.

• Residencies:
  • 13 August, 1 September, 1992 Computer graphics programmer, project: A Topological Slide, Art and Virtual Environments Program, Media Arts Department, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada. Project concept and collaborator: Michael Scroggins, Film and Video School, California Institute of the Arts,

• Grants:
  • 23 May, 2006, Daniel Delaverne Media Arts Advantage Fund Grant, Three Dimensional Zoetropes, amount: $1,000.
  • 20 December, 1990, ACM/SIGGRAPH Special Project Grant, "Stereolithography Experiment", amount: $8,000.

• Film Credits:
  • Ghost (1990), Freejack (1992), The Lawnmower Man (1992), Warlock II: The Armageddon (1993), Dinosaur (1999), Reign of Fire (2002)

• Summary of Publications:
  • Who's Who in the West (USA), Grolier Encyclopaedia (USA), Science News (USA), NOV'Art (France), Science & Vie (France), Science and Technology Lettres (UK), LEONARDO (USA), Newton (Japan), The Mathematica(R) Journal (USA), TISEA Catalogue (Australia), Computer Graphics World (USA), Print Magazine/IDEA Computer Art and Design Annual #1 (USA), Perspectives of New Music (USA), United States Patents (2). The artwork and writing of Stewart Dickson has appeared in books by Stephen Wolfram (USA), Clifford Pickover (USA), Michele Emmer (Italy), Morris Firebaugh (USA) and others.

• Summary of Exhibitions of Computer-Assisted Fine Art:
  • Wilmington, Delaware (1982), Dubuque, Iowa (1983), Chicago, Illinois (1983-87), Budapest, Hungary (1987), San Francisco, California (1991), Monte-Carlo, Monaco (1991), Los Angeles, California (1991, 1998), Zuerich, Switzerland (1991), Punkaharju, Finland (1991), Princeton, New Jersey (1992), Sydney, Australia (1992), Paris, France (1993, 1995, 1999), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1995), New Orleans, Louisana (2000), Phoenix, Arizona (1999, 2000).

• Summary of Lectures:
  • MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies (1984), California Institute of the Arts (1988-1991), IMAGINA/Monte-Carlo, Monaco (1991), SIGGRAPH, Las Vegas (1991), International Sculpture Conference, Philadelphia (1992), San Francisco (1994), Interdisciplinary Conference on Art and Mathematics, Albany, New York (1992, 1993) Maubeuge, France (2000), Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada (1992), Inter-Symposium on the Electronic Arts, Sydney, Australia (1992), Minneapolis (1993), Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco (1994), TeleSculpture 1999, Tempe, Arizona; INTERSCULPT 2003, Paris, France.

• Affiliations:
  • American Mensa Ltd.
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Graphics Special Interest Group (SIGGRAPH)
  • International Sculpture Center
  • YLEM
  • International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology