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KRISTIE ALSHAIBI - CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
- MFA; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (full scholarship); Film & Video Department; December 2001
- BFA; Kansas City Art Institute; Kansas City, Missouri; Major:Video and New Media; May 1999
- Zoetrope Short Story Writers’ Workshop; Francis Ford Coppola’s Blancaneaux Lodge; Belize, Central America; June 1998
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Owner/Producer; Artvamp, LLC; May 2000 to present
- Digital Video Editing Instructor; Mac University; February 2002 to 2004
- Gallery Assistant; Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago; March 2002 to October 2002
- Audio Archiving Consultant; Chicago Historical Society;
Studs Terkel’s National Gallery of Spoken Word Project;
December 2001 to August 2002 - Teaching Assistant; SAIC; Sound For Film; January 2000 to May 2000
- Internship to Contract Employment: Editor; Video Lab, Shawnee, Kansas;
April 1996 to present - Video Editing Instructor; Kansas City Art Institute Media Center Workshops; September 1996 to May 1997
- Digital Imaging; CD Factory, Kansas City, Kansas; April to August 1996
- Production Assistant; Pro Video, Merriam, Kansas; July 1992 to April 1996
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
- Festival Director; 72 Hour Feature Project; Chicago, IL; 2003
- Program Director; Z Film Festival; Chicago, IL; 2001 to 2005
- Curator; P.L.U.G.; Uptown Theater; Kansas City, MO; May 1999
- Curator; Inebreality Student Film Festival; Angles; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; March 1998
- Co-director; The 29th Frame Video Festival; Cantata 211 Coffeehouse; Kansas City, MO; February 1997
- Curator; Sister Secret Sandwich Presents; Film Series at KCAI; September 1996 - April 1997
SKILLS
- Non-Linear Video Editing (Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer)
- Audio Editing (Pro-Tools, Logic)
- Off-Line Video Editing
- Digital Image Editing and Manipulation (Adobe Photoshop)
- Web Design (XHTML, CSS, WordPress, Dreamweaver, Flash)
- Black and White Film Processing; Color and Black and White Printing
- 16mm Film Production and Projection
- Cyanotype and Vandyke Printmaking
- Hand Book-Binding
- Database Management (ArtSystems Gallery Pro)
- Grant Writing
SELECTED AWARDS/HONORS
- The Grand Marnier Video Fellowship - Film Society of Lincoln Center; 2000
- The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Trustee Scholarship; 1999 to present
- The 1998 Princess Grace Undergraduate Film Scholarship
- The Clark Grant for the Arts; 1998
- KCAI Alumni Circle Scholarship (Competitive); 1995 -1999
- First Place for Photography; Second International Youth Festival; Athens, Greece; September 1996
EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS/PERFORMANCES
2007
- The Second Festival of Queer Cinema; Paris, France; March 2007
2006
- Cinekink; Anthology Film Archives; New York, NY; October 2006
- The Aphrodite Project; Eyebeam; New York, NY; May 2006
- The Horse Hospital; London; April 2006
- Sex Worker Visions; New York, NY; March 2006
2005
- R4wb1t5, Alterspace; Chicago, IL; August 2005
- The Lucky Cat; New York, NY; April 2005
2004
- Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival; Switzerland
- Channel 83 festival of media; Florence, Italy
- Camp Film Festival; U.S.A
- Cucalorus Annual Festival of Independent Film; North Carolina
2003
- It’s Not the Bullet that Thrills, It’s the Hole; FIN Gallery, New York City
- Chicago Underground Showcase, Hinterzimmer, Austria
- Movieside; Chicago
- Exploding Cinema; London, England
- WORM; Rotterdam, Netherands
- Light Plays Tricks Film Festival; Kingston, Ontario
- eKsperim[E]nt3 Film Festival; Manila, Philippines
2002
- Microcinema International; New York, Paris, San Francisco, Chicago
- The 3rd Annual Melbourne Underground Film Festival; Australia
- Magic is Küntmaster; Empty Bottle, Chicago; Live Performance
- Light Plays Tricks Short Film Festival; Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Magic is Küntmaster; Prodigal Son, Chicago; Live Performance
- MTV; Sex2K; Televised Performance/Interview
2001
- Deep Dish Film Extravaganza; Chamber of Pop Culture; London
- Coney Island Underground Short Film Festival; New York
- Chicago Underground Film Festival; Chicago, IL
- San Francisco Independent Film Festival: Digital Underground; San Francisco, CA
- The Dirty Dozen; Chicago, IL
- Independents Night, Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York
- Projections in Heaven, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000
- Z-Film Festival; Chicago
- Euro Underground Film Festival
- Museum of Contemporary Art, DC
- The Kansas City Filmmaker’s Jubilee; Tivoli Theater; Kansas City, Mo
- Radiolab n¡6 - Collective Radio - Resistances; Brussels
1999
- Up Against the Wall; Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
- The Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee; University of Missouri
- Culture Under Fire Film Festival; Fine Arts Theater, Mission, Kansas
- The Big Muddy Film Festival; Carbondale, Illinois
1998
- Up Against The Wall; Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
- Collage Jukebox(collaborative travelling installation); Austria
- KAN Film Festival; Lawrence, Kansas
- Culture Under Fire Film Festival; Fine Arts Theater; Mission, Kansas
- An Evening of Video, Sound and Performance; Irving Amphitheater, KCAI
- Bodyscapes (performance); Epperson Auditorium; KCAI
1997
- This Audible Earth (radio program); KCUR-FM, Kansas City, MO
- Worldmix Montreal/Kansas City (radio broadcast);
CIBL-FM, Montreal & KCUR-FM, Kansas City; October 1997 - Society for Contemporary Photography Members’ Exhibition; Kansas City, MO
- Collage TV(collaborative television broadcast); Bregenz, Austria
- Bandits Mages International Festival; Bourges, France
- Art and Propaganda; KCAI Gallery
- The Old Post Office Gallery; Art Trek 1997; Kansas City, MO
- Culture Under Fire Film Festival; Fine Arts Theater; Mission, Kansas
- The ATA Cable Show; San Francisco, CA
- Maskerade; Gallery Ten; Rockford, Illinois
1996 and earlier
- Solo Exhibition: Mortality Unframed; KCAI Gallery
- Habitation (collaborative installation and web site); Nice, France
- Hellenic Action Against Cancer; Athens, Greece
- Body of Work; Artists 30 and Under in Kansas City; 1331 Union Gallery
- Circle of Hope (collaborative installation); Latchwood, Iowa
- Collage: Apartments Musics; Nice, France
- Kansas City Artists’ Coalition Student Exhibition
- Solo Exhibition: Come and See; Unitarian Gallery, Kansas City, MO
- The Female Gaze: Nudes By Women; WomanMade Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
- Expo’ 92; Kansas City Pavilion; Seville, Spain
PUBLICATIONS
2005
- “Beautiful Grotesque,’ $pread Magazine; Vol. 1 issue 4, Winter 2005
- “Honest John: Caveh Zahedi’s I am A Sex Addict ,” film review, $pread Magazine, Fall 2005 issue
2000
- “The Kitchen Sink,” critical essay on Peter Greenaway’s Drowning By Numbers, F-Newsmagazine; April 2000 issue.
- “A Crack-Up at the Race Riots,” book review; F-Newsmagazine; April 2000 issue.
1999
- “Digital Democracy,” article on the Res Film Festival; F-Newsmagazine; Nov. 1999 issue.
- “Object Lessons,” brochure for exhibition at 1926 Exhibition Studies Space, Rodger Brown Collection; Chicago, Illinois; October 22 - November 12.
- “Better Than Chocolate,” film review; F-Newsmagazine; October 1999 issue.