Greg Jalbert: Artist History

2003 New photography, paintings, drawings and digital paintings, published in the Wind Flower CD-ROM and video. Web gallery updated at http://www.imaja.com/artwork/. Classical guitar improvisation and composition development.

2002 Classical guitar improvisation and composition development.

2000-2002 Pen and ink drawings, paintings, digital painting and composites, video works.

2001 Produced September video (60 minutes), an anthology of video and animation, drawings, paintings and music improvisations and compositions.

1999 Video and computer animation performance with Big City Orchestra, Univac, David Tristram, Dan Doerner, and other Omnimedia musicians, at TransCinema '99 at Blasthaus gallery in San Francisco.

1999 Video and computer animation performance with Brain Science and Univac at Worlds Collide.

1999 Video and computer animation performance with Omnimicro musicians at Artist's Theater Workshop in Oakland, California.

1999 Composed music for Glenn McKay's February-May 1999 projected light art installation, Altered States, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

1998-1999 Ongoing display of artwork on the internet at http://www.imaja.com/Artwork.html.

1998 Published Rainwater, a slide show of recent computer-generated, photographic and painted images with music, on CD-ROM.

1998 Live computer animation performance with David Tristram and others at CELL's OmniMedia 0.04 electronic music show in San Francisco.

1998 Contributed Glass Evolution animation to Evolution 2.0, Limited Edition Generative Arts CD Rom, published by Liverpool Art School and presented at the 9th International Symposium on Electronic Art(ISEA98).

1997 Live computer animation performance with electronic musicians Charles Uzzell Edwards and Kim Cascone at New Age Rennaisance Faire, San Jose, California.

1997 Live computer animation performance at COMA '97 Festival, a benefit for the San Francisco Computer Musuem, electronic music show in San Francisco.

1997 Released Spaced Garden Meditations package of computer animations, a collaboration with Sara Frucht.

1997 U2 rock group uses Bliss Paint and custom animations by Brian Eno on world tour.

1997 Featured interview on MSNBC cable television program The Site, a segment about Generative Art. Showed Bliss Paint animation software and live performance.

1996-1997 Albany Arts Committee member. Produced Albany Arts artist biography and interview videos for cable television with Dane Olsen.

1995 Pro Arts Open Studios, Albany, California.

1995 Watercolor painting exhibit at Albany Community Center, Albany, California.

1994 Live animation/lightshow with Grateful Dead at Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, California. Four shows.

1994 Performances of live animated computer paintings with music at Fort Mason, San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Hyatt Regency SF, Gift Center SF, Moscone Center SF. Animations and Bliss Paint software used by Grateful Dead on summer 1994 tour, D'Cuckoo music/dance, Lollapalooza/Electric Carnival, the Shamen from the UK, and musician/producer Brian Eno.

1994 Live animated computer painting performances for ACM Multimedia '94 and Multimedia Expo 1994/Creativity Cafe in San Francisco.

1994 Released Bliss Gallery folio, 200 animated computer paintings.

1993 Released Bliss Saver folio, 130 animated computer paintings.

1992-1993 Pro Arts Open Studios, Albany/Oakland, California.

1992 Works on paper show at Albany Arts Gallery.

1991 Twenty-two works in Pro Arts Open Studios, Oakland, California.

1991 Eight works in a group show at Art Here gallery, Albany, California.

1990-Present Study of South Indian Classical Carnatic vocal performance with Kala Iyer.

1989-1990 Studied mbira trance/dance music of Zimbabwe with Eric Kundidzora.

1989-Present Initiated second major wave of artwork, utilizing brushwork, ink glyphs, layers, and field patterns.

1989 Performed with the Beat Freaks, an eight-piece world-beat dance band, at such places as Carnival in San Francisco and La Pena in Berkeley, California.

1985-Present Founded Imaja, a music, graphics, and education software development and publishing company, in Middletown, Connecticut, presently in Albany, California.

1987-Present Composed a large body of music for guitar, synthesizers, piano. Styles include chamber music, electronic music, ambient, Afro-beat dance, and eclectic.

1987-1989 Co-founded Resonate, Inc., a music software company, in Menlo Park, California. Developed professional and consumer MIDI music sequencers.

1984 Studied composition and guitar with Tom Ross in Middletown, Connecticut.

1981 Won first place music composition award for Barrage (guitar and electronic tape) presented by MENC/Central Connecticut State University

1979-1983 B.S. Computer Science at Central Connecticut State University. Minor in music, studying music theory, composition, electronic music and classical guitar.

1977-1978 Studied jazz guitar and music theory with Tom Majesky and Bob Kobus in Connecticut.

1977-1979 Studied drawing with David Noyes at the University of Hartford, and at the Wethersfield Art League, both in Connecticut.

1976-1978 Exhibited drawings and watercolors in various Connecticut group exhibits, including the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts show in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Norwich Free Academy, Essex Art Gallery, and the Milford Public Library.

Greg Jalbert
1244 Hearst Ave. #7
Berkeley, CA 94702 USA
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