Tana Sprague | Lissom

CV

*Born in Mountain View, CA. Currently lives and works in Oakland, CA.

Education
2007 M.F.A. Mills College | Electronic Music & Recording Arts
2004 B.A. University of California at San Diego. | Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts (Computer Music Focus)

Selected Performances & Installations
2011 Live performance | Sound and Shape @ Guerrero Gallery
2011 Live performance | Fingerling’s Grotto
2011 Sound installation | From one side to the other, I’ve dreamed that too @ 323Projects
2010 Live soundtrack performance | Electronic Cinema @ ATA
2010 Live A/V performance | Intereferenze Festival
2010 Live A/V performance | Soundwave Festival, Ground Shift in the Illuminated Forest @ The Lab
2010 Live A/V performance | Biennial of The Americas
2010 Live A/V performance | Gray Area Foundation
2010 Live A/V performance | Communikey Festival, Mutek A/Vision Showcase
2009 Live cinema w/ The Sight Below | Decibel Festival, Ghostly International Showcase
2009 Live A/V performance | Decibel Festival
2009 Live cinema w/ The Sight Below | Mutek Festival
2009 ”117 Cars of Prosperity” a/v installation | Park Life Gallery, Move 18 (Curated by Rich Jacobs)
2008 Live cinema w/ Deaf Center | Decibel Festival
2008 Live cinema w/ Eluvium | Decibel Festival
2007 Live performance | Decibel Festival
2007 Live performance | Signal Flow, Mills College
2006 “Biofeedback” installation | Signal Flow, Mills College
2005 “Biome” installation | CCA
2004 Live A/V performance | Best of ICAM, UCSD
2000 Live – keyboards w/ Album Leaf | US Tour

Awards/Scholarships/Commissions
2010 Click’n Food Commission (Interferenze, Italy)
2010 Electronic Cinema (Volume Projects/Alternative Exposure)
2007 Frog Peak Collective Experimental Music Award
2006-2007 Mills College Graduate Study Assistantship
2005-2006 Mills College Graduate Study Assistantship
2004 ICAM Artistic Achievement Award (UCSD)
Cal-IT2 Research Scholarship
2003 Cal-IT2 Research Scholarship

Organizational Development & Direction (full resume available upon request)
2009 – 2010 Gray Area Foundation | Director of Operations
2004 – 2010 Recombinant Media Labs | Associate Director
2005 – 2007 Asphodel Records | Production, Distribution, Project Management
2001 – 2005 Independent Consultant & Contractor (project/organizational development, production, sound design, web development, graphic design)

Production Direction
2009 Recombinant Media Labs (RML) Cinechamber prototype installation/debut exhibition @UCSD
2007 Alva Noto & Blixa Bargeld (ANBB) project development and premiere A/V performance @RML
2007 Kangding Ray Live A/V performance
2007 Biosphere & Egbert Mittelstädt Live A/V performance
2007 Speedy J & Scott Pagano Live A/V performance
2007 Jean Jacques Perrey Live audio performance
2007 Morton Subotnick & Sue C. Live A/V performance
2006 Pan Sonic Live A/V performance
2006 Ryoichi Kurokawa, Live A/V performance and “Parallel Heads” project development
2006 Skoltz Kolgen Live A/V performance
2006 Florian Hecker Live audio performance
2006 Yasunao Tone Live A/V performance
2006 Ryoji Ikeda Live A/V performance
2006 Thomas Köner Live A/V performance
2006 Semiconductor Live A/V performance
2006 Deadbeat live audio performance
2006 Trevor Wishart Live spatial audio diffusion
2006 Richard Devine Live spatial audio performance

Speaking engagements
2010 Technology Art & Media Seminar | University of Colorado at Boulder
2009 Keynote Speaker, 2009 Best of Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts | Cal-It2 @ UCSD
2009 Panel: Creating Adaptive Organizational Structures in a Complex World | Club Transmediale Berlin (ICAS/ECAS)

Press

“Nest of Iterations” Reviews:
Textura (http://www NULL.textura NULL.org/archives/l/lissom NULL.htm)
XLR8R (http://www NULL.xlr8r NULL.com/reviews/lissom/nest-iterations)
Headphone Commute 2009 (http://reviews NULL.headphonecommute NULL.com/2009/04/03/lissom-nest-of-iterations-dragons-eye/)
White_Line (http://whiteline1 NULL.wordpress NULL.com/2009/03/17/411/)
Dronea, Dronea (http://dronea NULL.blogspot NULL.com/2009/10/lissom-nest-of-iterations NULL.html)
Best of 2009 – Music for Bending Light & Stopping Time (http://reviews NULL.headphonecommute NULL.com/2009/12/22/headphone-commute%E2%80%99s-best-of-2009-music-for-bending-light-and-stopping-time/)
Cyclic Defrost (http://www NULL.cyclicdefrost NULL.com/blog/2009/06/23/lissom-%E2%80%93-nest-of-iterations-dragon%E2%80%99s-eye/)
Interviews:
Two and a Half Questions, Headphone Commute 2009 (http://reviews NULL.headphonecommute NULL.com/2009/04/03/two-and-a-half-questions-with-lissom/)