Dmitry (Dima) Strakovsky --> [resume]

Education
'99 to 2001 MFA, Art and Technology, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
'98 to 1999 BFA, Art and Technology, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
'94 to 1998 BFA, Painting, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL

Selected Residencies and Awards
2004 Residency award, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Japan
2000 "Sony's Heart" Sony Europe Art Awards, nomination and inclusion in the international show catalog

Selected Group and Solo Shows / Projects
2008 ETSU Slocumb Art Gallery, Positive/Negative 23, Johnson City, TN
2008 Downtown Arts Center, "...as if a forest", Lexington, KY
2007 INPORT 2007, "Top 10 Asian Brands" (screening), Tallinn, Estonia
2007 Kwanhoon Gallery, "Rhythm and Ritual," Seoul, South Korea
2007 &ArtLab, "Rhythm and Ritual," Beijing, China
2007 Lexington Art League, "Generation Next," Lexington, KY
2007 Oakland University Art Gallery, "Tergloba," Rochester, MI
2006 Swanson Reed Gallery, "Current," Louisville, KY
2006 The Nova Young Art Fair, "LiveBox," Chicago, IL
2006 Beverly Arts Center, "Interactive Playground: Sight Unseen," Chicago IL
2006 Art Interactive, "New Media / New Work," Boston, MA
2004 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, "Voice of Site," Tokyo Japan
2004 Deadtech, "Power Series and Effective Computation," Chicago IL
2003 Phoenix Gallery, "Shiftingplanes No.1," Bloomington IL
2003 Artboat 2003, Deadtech, Chicago IL
2002 Lightology, "Rays of Light," Chicago IL
2002 Art Space for Alternative Projects, "Assoc.|able," Chicago IL
2002 IMMEDIA 2002, "The senses," AnnArbor MI
2001 Fassbender VanStraaten Gallery, "Interface:: Discovering Possibilities," Chicago IL
2001 Project Room, "Brutwurst," Philadelphia PA
2001 1926 Gallery, "Haunted Landscape," Chicago IL
2000 Deadtech, untitled, Chicago IL

Selected Collaborative Shows / Projects
2006 ITP, Tisch School of the Arts, Projecting Off the Wall, with Ben Chang and Silvia Ruzanka, New York NY
2005 The Nova Young Art Fair, with Ben Chang and Silvia Ruzanka, Chicago IL
2004 Art Interactive, "Intimachine: The Art of Intimacy, Expectation, and Behavior," with Ben Chang and Silvia Ruzanka, Boston MA.
2004 New Forms Festival 2004, "TECHNOGRAPHY," with Ben Chang and Silvia Ruzanka, Vancouver Canada
2004 Storefront Theater, "The Alchemy of Tulips," Chicago IL
2003 Boston CyberArts Festival, "Jackal Project," Tangentlab collaborative, Boston MA
2003 OpenEnd Art, "Inter-Act," with Ben Chang and Silvia Ruzanka, Chicago IL
2003 Deadtech, "Decomposure series," with Woody Sullander, Chicago IL
2002 Siggraph 2002 Art Gallery, "Jackal Project," Tangentlab collaborative, San Antonio TX
2002 Artswatch, "Plug'n Play", Tangentlab collaborative with Chris Sorg, Louisville KY
2002 Museum of Contemporary Art, "Summer Solstice," Tangentlab collaborative, Chicago IL
2002 Museum of Contemporary Art, Version02 Festival, Tangentlab collaborative, Chicago IL
2002 The Nervous Center, The Nervous Center Experimental Music Festival, with Woody Sullander, Chicago IL
2001 G2 webspace, "Paradise Lost," LFMI collaborative, Chicago IL
2000 1926 Gallery, "Last, First, MI," LFMI collaborative, Chicago IL
1998 Gulp! Gallery, with Heather Butler, Chicago USA / Reykjavik Iceland

Selected Reviews and Media
Strecker, Zoe. "Nature sounds; some assembly required", Herald-Leader. Friday, March 2, 2008
"Center for Visualization at University of Kentucky: Arts and Media", Research Channel, 2007
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rID=19631&fID=345
"Interview: Kwanhoon Gallery Director Dohyoung Kwon and Exhibition Planner David Parker", Wolganmisool (Korean). September 2007
Silver, Joanne. "Intimachine explores intimacy and human behavior", Boston Herald. Friday, January 7 2005
http://theedge.bostonherald.com/artsNews/view.bg"articleid=62230&format=
Neural "(In)Security Camera, una tipica relazione sociale."
http://www.neural.it/nnews/insecuritycamera.htm
Polvo Magazine Spring 2004 p.5
Online version: http://www.subaltern.org/magcover.htm
Watson, Della. "Robot Act: Robots that Touch, Whisper Sweet Nothings and Turn Away," Dossier. Issue2:Volume1, p.18-19, 2003.
BBC News - Aug 14, 2002 "In pictures: Hi-tech art attack"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2180415.stm
Event covered: Siggraph 2002
BBCi - Aug 5, 2002 "Go Digital Radio/Webcast"
Event covered: Siggraph 2002
Wired News - July 27, 2002 "Interact With Art at Siggraph"
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,54123,00.html
Event covered: Siggraph 2002
WTTW 11 Chicago - April, 2002 "Artbeat"
Event covered: MCA Version 2.0
Hawkins, Margaret. "Gallery Glance," Chicago Sun Times, August 10, 2001