Michelle Higa
higa at slanted dot org
http://www.slanted.org

EDUCATION

Brown University, Providence, RI
B.A., Art: Semiotics with Honors

WORK EXPERIENCE

Animator/Partner, Mixtape Club, Brooklyn, NY, 02/05 - present

Editor-in-Chief, CHAISE Magazine, Brooklyn, NY, 12/03 - present
  • Co-founder and producer of a 501(c)(3) non-profit CD/DVD publication highlighting emerging artists.
  • Worked with a team of artists to curate over fifty works including films, videos, music, radio plays, artists' books, photography, animation, drawings, interactive artwork, and PDF sticker/poster memes.
  • Fundraised and distributed over 5,000 CD/DVD issues.
Artist Assistant, Camille Utterback/Creative Nerve Inc., New York, NY, 06/03 - 03/05
  • Assisted in electronics assembly and on-site installation of interactive video installations and sculptures.
  • Illustrated and animated mock ups for future installations.
  • Completed video and photo documentation, editing, and authoring of DVD portfolio.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

After Effects for Artists, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY, Summer 2006
  • An introductory course that covered topics including keyframes, masks, parenting, blending modes, Photopshop/Illustrator/Final Cut Pro integration, simple keying/color correction, and rendering/compression.
Foundation Media, Brown University, Providence, RI, Fall 2002 - Fall 2003
  • As teaching assistant, assisted in the development of a new foundation course combining fine arts and digital media. Designed and presented technical portion, including use of scanners, DV equipment, digital cameras and copystands, Photoshop, ImageReady, and iMovie.
Intermediate Digital Media Production, Brown University, Providence, RI, Spring 2002
  • As teaching assistant, designed and presented tutorials in Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, QuicktimeVR and iMovie.

SKILLS

Computers
Operating Systems:   PC, Mac
Software:   HTML/CSS
Dreamweaver
FTP		   Photoshop
Illustrator
After Effects		   Final Cut Pro
DVD Studio Pro
Cinema 4D
   ProTools
Director
MAX/MSP + Jitter

Languages
Spanish, basic Japanese


SELECTED HONORS/EXHIBITIONS

2007 Me-I, Ottawa 2007 International Animation Festival
Me-I, Animation Block Party 2007 Summerfest
Regional Historical and Futurological Society and Kinetoscope, Fast Forward: Flushing in 2107, Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY, 05/04/07 - 06/17/07
Loquacious Eyesicle Wild-Bites, Psst! Pass It On/Stash DVD, Vol. 30
Kinetoscope, It's Such a Small World, AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 01/05/07 - 02/04/07
2006 Kinetoscope, BAPLab 2006, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY, 07/22/06
Regional Historical and Futurological Society, OPOLIS: A Comic Fluxture, Flux Factory, Queens, NY, 06/24/05 - 08/05/06
2005Kinetoscope, Pixilerations v.2, The Space at Alice Gallery, Providence, RI, 09/29/05 - 10/15/05
Kinetoscope, Comix ex Machina, Flux Factory, Queens, NY, 06/18/05 - 07/23/05
2004Weston Fine Arts Award for Film/Video, Brown University
Joslin Award for Excellence in Art, Brown University
Screen, Aspect DVD, Vol. 4 [ROLE: EDITOR]
The Chocolateer, NYC Midnight Movie Making Madness Short Film Competition Finalist [ROLE: EDITOR]
2003Weston Fine Arts Award for Film/Video, Brown University
Undergraduate Research Assistantship, Cave Writing with Robert Coover
Hypertable and Falling, Boston Cyberarts Festival, 4/26/03 - 5/3/03