“a digital renaissance man…”
—Michael Saunders The Boston Globe
“ …every time someone sees one of these pieces it brings a smile to their face…”
--- Playgrounds for the Mind Newsweek Magazine

Multimedia Artist, Digital imagist, filmmaker, sculptor, painter, designer, musician

experience highlights:
PORTFOLIO

•Director of independent film OIL IN THE FAMILY

•Field Producer for Discovery Channel's History of the Video Game, including organizing and independently producing two interviews: featuring Professor James Der Derian, of the Watson Institute of International Studies, Brown University, on his book , Virtuous War
•Producer/Director LAYERS OF LASAGNA a documentary of comedic performer and socio/political satirist., David Lasagna. ( Kate Davis, Senior Editor)
• Co- produced SWIM a short film for WGBHLAB and NBCP ( National Black Producer’s Consortium)
•Producer/Director WILMA’S WARNING for PEOPLE AND POWER, for Al Jazeera International --a documentary on Wilma Subra, an environmental chemist in post Katrina Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi.
•Co-produced XWHAVES: as part of the 2005 and 2006 Woods Hole Film Festival,as a vblogged forum on the changing nature of film distribution due to the dramatic changes in the way the internet functions and delivers media. As a producer, arranged the programming format, the content and organized and procured the moderator and several of the panelists, including Kidlat Tahimik from Bagiuo, Philippines. Moderated by Tony Kahn, WGBH and featured on the WGBH Forum Network and podcasted from Odeo.com
• For 2006 Woods Hole Film Festival, produced the honored guest series featuring Jon Jost, Les Blank and Ricky Leacock, for both tributes and workshops.
•Designed and supervised the installations of large scale inflatable sculptures ( as well as all collateral/marketing materials) throughout the US, Japan, Korea and Thailand for fifteen years. Disney , Trump, abc-tv, Nickelodeon, Samsung, PARCO (Japan)
• Built the first interactive inflatable sculpture under an NEA New MEDIA grant
• Designed and built the urchin lamp an inflatable lamp currently in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum (Smithsonian Museums)
• Circumnavigated the earth on an eight-month family trip in an attempt to educate my children about the world and to generate new sources of inspiration and artwork including 10.000 images, 35 hours of digital video, four sketchbooks forty paintings a massive web site of the 70,000 mile journey.
•Successfully taught and exhibited at numerous institutions, museums throughout the US and Asia.
•Designed inflatable costumes as artworks initially for First Night Boston, then developed the brand “airwear®” sold to the largest costume company in the world.

selected exhibitions/collections

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Smithsonian Institution
(permanent collection)/NY urchin lamp(inflatable lamp)
Laurie Anderson, Moby Dick, Nerve Bible Tour
(inflatable chair, inflatable projection surfaces)
Elmira College, Elmira, NY cyberflora and other digital images
"Digital Smart" University of Bridgeport, CT Digital Paintings
Boston CyberArts Festival, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton MA Digital Paintings
Rockefeller Center/Tishman/Speyer Properties/ New York, NY
40ft window inflatable window washer on Rockefeller Center
Port Discovery Center, Baltimore, MD Airwear: the inflatable artwork of Jon Goldman
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Suspended Inflatable Urchin
Gallery 128,New York,NY four up Digital and Egg temperaPaintings
Ridge Street Gallery /New York, NY Paintings
Phoenix Park/ (north of) Seoul, Korea 60’ foot Santa Claus Climbs into disco.
Kingdom Fine Arts, Boston, MA Egg tempera Paintings
Nickelodeon/Viacom/Orlando FL Various pieces
DisneyWorld/Orlando FL Aladdin’s Genie’s dancing hands costumes and other large inflatables
The Beal Companies/Boston, MA Laser refraction Transparencies.
Stux Gallery/Boston, MA Summer Invitational Video and Photographs : Flight of the Woods Hole Squid
Joy Horwich Gallery, Chicago, IL Jon Goldman New Work
Chapel Gallery/Newton, MA hysterical architectures interactive inflatables and documentation (early Interactive inflatable sculpture)+ large paintings, early computer drawings( late 80’s)
Boston Arts Festival Esplanade, Charles River 110-foot inflatable sculpture: hydra
Trump Taj Mahal / Atlantic City, NJ Grand Opening: 40ft by 25ft ribbon and 300’ Ribbon opens when a laser beam hits it.
Parco/Tokyo, Japan 60’ bright yellow Sea Urchin, 15’ Fugu Fish
Philadelphia Art Alliance/Philadelphia, PA 45’ inflatable sculpture nudibranch
Exploratorium/San Francisco, CA Dreaming seas of Wheat (helium-filled inflatable sculpture)
Boston Children's Museum, Boston, MA Airplay: The art of Jon Goldman
First Night (Numerous Cities) Inflatable Costumes/ Inflatable circus
MIT Museum—The Woods Hole Inflatable Performance Sculpture
Connecticut College New London, CT Art And Technology Symposium blue field
Brown University, Providence, RI Chrome, Chroma, Chromosomes ( large scale inflatable performance sculpture joining Departments of Art/ Music and Molecular biology; Richard Fishman, Art Department Head)
Boston Center for the Arts “Within” red field interactive music–producing inflatable sculpture( large –scale triggers and sound loops
Real Art Ways Hartford, CT In a Lamprey’s Mouth computer–controlled interactive inflatable sculpture using PIR sensors Amiga computer, sound system

Filmmaking

OIL IN THE FAMILY ( Director, Jon Goldman)a documentary about the oil industry, using LOUISIANA STORY and the filmmakers own family as a springboard for a discussion on oil.

LAYERS OF LASAGNA (Director Co-Editor, Jon Goldman) a documentary chronicling the work of comedic performer/political commentarian David Lasagna by the characters of his own personal UNIVERSITY OF DAVE. Kate Davis, Emmy-award director of Southern Comfort and Jockey Executive Producer/Senior Editor.

SPIRAL JOURNEY (in production) a documentary following an artist and his family as they spend eight months traveling through eighteen countries in an attempt to find new inspiration following a change in career.

Homeland (work in progress) combining vintage footage from the 1920’s and the 1960’s as well as oil, tempera and watercolor paintings,and footage from New Zealand this is an experimental look into the idea of flight, dream and Superman.

Teaching

Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park
Getting your Artwork online: Introductory seminar in Artists’ marketing
Lecturer, Fall 2004

University of Massachusetts/Boston
Adjunct Professor in Art Spring/Fall 1999-2003
Multimedia—taught—Director, Flash, Dreamweaver, Final Cut Pro, sound Edit 16, Photoshop, Quark, Digital Performer (MIDI sequencing), Painter,

National Theatre Institute
Guest Lecturer 2001 airwear® Inflatable Costumes

Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
Adjunct Professor in Art 2000
Multimedia- Intro to Director

Elmira College, Elmira, NY
Guest Lecturer 2000

Rhode Island School of Design
Industrial Design Seminar with Michael Sand
Guest Lecture 1993

Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts
Concord, MA 2003
Guest Lecture Spiral Journey a multimedia presentation

Design Management Institute
Lecture Into the Aether 1995

Visiting Artist,
Brown University
1987 teaching interdisciplinarily with departments of Music, Sculpture, Dance and Biology on a Celebrations performance called Chrome/Chmoma/Chromosomes

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Teaching Assitant
Video Animation 1984

publications(selected)

New York Times Currents by Patricia Leigh Brown : inflatable nudibranch hits midtown Manhattan
Wall Street Journal 11.2.90 Form+Function by John Pierson Furniture Blows Up to Create Air of Levity
The Boston Globe Installations Steal Show at Festival: Christine Temin 9/7/85 “ Jon Goldman’s hydra seems to make time stand still. It possible to get hooked on watching them…move as gracefully as giant seaweed that has managed to escape it watery confines.”
Dallas Morning News
Art New England 6.86 Brown University Green: An Environmental Performance; by Jan Swearer
Technology Review 7. 84: The Center for Advanced Visual Studies Where Art Comes of the Wall; Marty Carlock
South China Post (HK) 6.13.93 Spectrum Sunday “Just when You thought it was Safe…”
Newsweek 6.12.89 Playgrounds for the Mind “ A prototype for the “wind Water Wall” always leaves them laughing.” By Mark Starr
DigitalOutputMagazine; Mining for Digital Gold
How Magazine, 1995 GoldmanArts Inflates Communication; by Heather L. Allen
Identity Spring 92 Unsigned
New Art Examiner Magazine,
The Boston Phoenix The Boston Arts Festival 9.17.85
Elle Décor, Arbitare,(Italy) Domus ( Italy)
books: 50 Lights Innovations in Design and Materials by Mel Byars
Environmental Graphics ed. by Wayne Hunt
Encyclopaedia of Design:Design in Depth; byDK Holland, William Drentel, Michael Beirut
The Look of the Century by Michael Tambini in Association with Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

awards

NEA/Rockefeller grant for New Media
WBZ Fund for the Arts Grants Recipient
Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grant Recipient
Best of Show:Sculpture "Within"BCA; curator:Carl Belz
Industrial Fabrics Association International Design Excellence
Bronze Award, with IDSA Society for Environmental Graphic Design

broadcast

The Today Show, with inflatable costumes from Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade
Lifetime Channel's "Attitudes" segment on Jon Goldman's designs
ABC-TV's Aloha Parade 1995

other:
board member: Member of Societe’ pour Promouvoir les art Gigantesques (Montreal) As active Woods Hole Film Festival Board Member/Advisory Board I am helping to implement a Filmmakers in the Schools Program as well as a new category for this seventeen year old festival: a children’s filmmakers division, Former Concord Youth Theatre Board Member.

education:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
M.S. Visual Studies 1985 Center for Advanced Visual Studies
Thesis: Towards Large-scale Environmental Performance Advisors: Lowry Burgess, Otto Piene

Connecticut College, New London, CT
BA Theatre 1980

Middlesex Polytechnic School for Performing Arts (Middlesex University)
London, England1978-79 Designed and Directed two shows: HITTING TOWN by Stephen Poliakoff (Resident Playwright National Theatre/London) about incest during the Birmingham Bombings; TO STEPHEN LOVE DOROTHY an original Musical Revue based on the writings and wit of Dorothy Parker and the songs and music of Stephen Sondheim.

National Theatre Institute \ Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center Waterford, CT` 1979
Studied Set Design under David Hays, Costume Design under Fred Voelpel, Acting under Estelle Parsons and Morris Carnovsky,co-directed touring show Fulltime Pastime

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art,Philadelphia, PA 1981-1982
Frudakis Academy of Art Philadelphia, PA 1981-1982 Studied Formal approaches to figurative painting and sculpture; studied anatomical approaches (using cadavers)to figurative and portrait sculpture as well as mould-making and casting techniques for bronze casting

References:

Jennifer Hall
Professor and Coordinator
Graduate Program, Art, Education and New Media
Art Education Department
Massachusetts College of Art
621 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts USA 02115
jenhall@massart.edu

Angelo Fertitta
Dean of Academic Affairs
The Art Institute of Boston
700 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 585-6600
fertitta@aiboston.edu

Trisha Brown
Trisha Brown Dance Company
625 West 55th 2nd floor
NY NY 10019
212 582 0040
Assistant to the Artistic Director: Rebecca Davis
r.davis@trishabrowncompany.org

Digital Portfolio available on request or visit http://thoughtballoonmedia.com/portf.mov

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