Stewart Dickson
110 N. Whipple St.
Fort Bragg, CA 95437 USA
(707)815-0385 (home/cell)
Stewart.Dickson@mathart.org (e-mail)
<http://mathart,org>
Resume
(updated 6 February, 2020)
- Education:
- University of Delaware, Newark; May, 1977-June, 1981
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville; January, 2003-June, 2005
- Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa;
Feb, 2015-June, 2018
- Studied With:
- Joe Moss, Roy Wilson (Sculpture)
- Hilton Brown (Visual Design)
- Frederick Hofstetter (Electronic Music)
- Degrees:
- Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, June, 1981
- Masters of Science, Computer Science, June, 2018
- Honors:
- Four Semesters Dean's List
- Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu
- Employment:
- 29 April, 1990-1994, August 22, 2011-Present Wolfram Research, Inc.,
100 Trade Center Drive, Champaign, IL 61826 Freelance Computer
Graphics Artist, Technical Staff Member.
- November 1, 2010-July 31,
2011 The HDF Group
-
1 July, 2007 - December 31, 2009, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- September 1, 2005 - December 24, 2006, STG Inc., Contractor for
NOAA
National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC
- July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2007, University of North Carolina-Asheville
- July 1, 2002 - June 30, 2005, UT-Battelle LLC, contractor for
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- July 1, 1996 - June 30, 2002,
Walt Disney Feature Animation
500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, CA 91521-8962
(818)526-3597, Technical Director, Production Software and
Character Finaling, "Disney's 'Dinosaur'", "Wild Life" and
"Mickey's Philharmagic" (Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom).
- 1 November, 1993-15 May, 1995,
ReZ.n8 Productions, Inc. ,
6430 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 1000, Hollywood, CA 90028,
(213)957-2161, Systems Manager.
- 4 January, 1988-31 October, 1993 The Post Group, Inc.,
6335 Homewood Avenue, Hollywood, CA 90028,
(213)462-2300 X810. 3D Graphics Programmer,
Digital Center.
- January, 1989-1994 Film and Video School,
California Institute of the Arts,
24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355,
(805)255-1050 X2427. Technical Consultant,
Computer Graphics Laboratory.
- 1 November, 1984-23 December, 1987 Goldsholl
Design and Film, Inc., 420 Frontage Road, Northfield, IL 60093,
(312)446-8300. Direction, Production and
Technical Support of Computer-Generated
Imagery and Animation. Founded the Goldsholl
Design and Film Computer Graphics Department.
- 11 February, 1981-30 October, 1984 AT&T Technologies, Inc., 1200 Warrenville
Road, Naperville, IL 60566. Development
Engineer, Diagnostic Development 5ESS, on
permanent assignment to AT&T Bell Laboratories
Department 55618.
- Residencies:
- 13 August, 1 September, 1992 Computer graphics programmer, project:
A Topological Slide,
Art and Virtual Environments Program, Media Arts Department,
Banff Centre for the Arts,
Alberta, Canada. Project concept and collaborator:
Michael Scroggins,
Film and Video School, California Institute of the Arts,
- Grants:
- 2005-2006 Media Arts Grant, amount: $1,500.
- 20 December, 1990, ACM/SIGGRAPH
Special Project Grant, "Stereolithography Experiment", amount: $8,000.
- Collaborations:
- 1996 Digital foundryman for W. Daniel Hillis, Long Now Foundation
-
1994 Digital foundryman for Carl Cheng/John Doe Co. LA Metro Rail Percent
for Art Green Line Marine Avenue, El Segundo commuter station installation.
- Summary of Publications:
- Who's Who in the West (USA),
Grolier Encyclopaedia (USA), Science News (USA),
NOV'Art (France),
Science & Vie
(France),
Science and Technology Lettres
(UK),
LEONARDO
(USA),
Newton
(Japan),
The Mathematica(R) Journal
(USA),
TISEA
Catalogue
(Australia),
Computer Graphics World
(USA),
Print Magazine/IDEA Computer Art and Design Annual #1
(USA),
Perspectives of New Music
(USA), United States Patents (2). The artwork and writing of Stewart
Dickson has appeared in books by Stephen Wolfram (USA),
Clifford Pickover
(USA), Michele Emmer (Italy), Morris Firebaugh (USA) and others.
- Summary of Exhibitions of Computer-Assisted Fine Art:
- Wilmington, Delaware (1982), Dubuque, Iowa (1983), Chicago, Illinois
(1983-87), Budapest, Hungary (1987), San Francisco, California (1991),
Monte-Carlo, Monaco (1991), Los Angeles, California (1991,
1998),
Zuerich, Switzerland (1991), Punkaharju, Finland (1991),
Princeton, New Jersey (1992),
Sydney, Australia (1992),
Paris, France (1993, 1995, 1999),
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1995),
New Orleans, Louisana (2000),
Phoenix, Arizona (1999, 2000).
- Summary of Lectures:
- MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies (1984),
California Institute of the Arts (1988-1991),
IMAGINA/Monte-Carlo, Monaco (1991),
SIGGRAPH, Las Vegas (1991),
International Sculpture Conference, Philadelphia (1992), San Francisco
(1994), Interdisciplinary Conference on Art and Mathematics, Albany, New York
(1992, 1993)
Maubeuge, France (2000),
Banff Centre for the
Arts, Alberta, Canada (1992),
Inter-Symposium on the Electronic Arts,
Sydney, Australia (1992),
Minneapolis (1993), Annual Meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, San Francisco (1994),
TeleSculpture 1999, Tempe, Arizona.