MITCHELL BILLS Art
BOOKS PUBLISHED:
Zero through One: Poems and Drawings 1969 - 1984. Elkins Park: Moonlight Express, 1984. Book, 3/C letterpress, 52 pp., case binding, edition of one hundred. Designed, illustrated, printed and bound by hand.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
SCSU Art Department website (ongoing since Fall 1997.)
Alpha prototype disc of VersionCD (Interactive CD-ROM, late spring 1998.)
Website for Version Media Design (ongoing since 1997.)
EXHIBITS/SHOWS/PERFORMANCES OF CREATIVE WORKS:
"Consortium Faculty Show", ARTSPACE Gallery, New Haven, CT. April 1998.
"CSU System Faculty Art Exhibition", Lyman Gallery, SCSU, New Haven, CT. April 1997.
"Craftsmanship - High Tech, Low Tech", Birke Art Gallery, Marshall College, Huntington, WV. March-April 1997.
CSU Faculty Art Exhibition (interactive computer installation) invitational, Samuel S. T. Chen Fine Arts Center Gallery, New Britain, CT, April-May 1995.
"About Face" (digital print from video). Juried, regional. Real Art Ways Gallery, Hartford, CT, May-June 1994.
Electronic Media Exhibition (videotapes). Invitational, national. Isaac Lincoln Art Gallery of Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD, January-February 1993.
L. A. Freewave--3rd Celebration of Independent Video (videotape). Invitational, national. Cyberspace Gallery at EZTV, West Hollywood, CA, September 1992.
Electronic Theater, ACM SIGGRAPH '92: 19th International Conference on Computer Graphics & Interactive Techniques (videotape). Juried, international. Chicago, July 1992.
Video 12, Connecticut Screening Room 1992 (videotape). Juried, regional. Quinnipiac College, 2nd place award, professional/experimental category, Hamden, CT, July 1992.
RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:
CSU Research Grant recipient, for work in progress, "Design and Production of an Interactive Compact Disc (CD-ROM)." Awarded April 1995.
RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:
Hypermedia; Interactive Media; New Media; Digital Animation; Digital Video; Experimental Video; Graphic Design; Typography; Electronic Publishing; Internet broadcasting; DVD-ROM.
CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Final production of version CD, interactive CD-ROM (Spring 1997)
Development of an animated World Wide Web site (Summer 1997)
Interactive CD-ROM, for Macintosh. Four works, including two experimental video projects digitized from 3/4" U-matic SP; one video project designed and produced in digital video format, from Hi-8 tape; and an interactive project developed from a range of source materials. Digital files of all artist's statements, and related electronic publications. To be released Spring 1997.
Development of an interactive animation title for release on DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) format within the next 3 years (1999).