Born in Los Angeles Lives and works in San Francisco
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS >
2021 Both Ways Will Take You There, two-person exhibition, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA, USA
2007 Emergence, solo exhibition, curated by Clark Buckner, Mission 17, San Francisco, CA, USA Terminus, solo exhibition, Jack Straw New Media Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS >
2021 Through the Looking Glass, curated by Guido Winkler and Iemke van Dyke, EST Art Foundation, Leiden, Netherlands
2018 Skinnable Shadows, collaboration with Sarah Klein, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA Kala Artists’ Annual, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
2017 Festival Tweetakt, collaboration with Sarah Klein, Fort Ruigenhoek, Utrecht, Netherlands
2014 Doppler Shift, curated by Mary Birmingham, collaboration with Sarah Klein, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, USA (catalog) Doppler Shift: Extended Play, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, USA (DVD)
2013 Drawing More, curated by Anne Beck and Dietmar Krumrey, collaboration with Sarah Klein, New Image Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA (portfolio)
2012 Keeping Time, curated by Lauren Davies, collaboration with Sarah Klein, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA Stop & Go 3-D, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia Island of Order in a Sea of Chaos, curated by Ruth van Veenen, collaboration with Sarah Klein, de Vishal, Haarlem, Netherlands
2011 Breaking Ranks: Human/Nature, curated by Brian Karl, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, USA
2010 Solaris Quartet, e4c, 4Culture, Seattle, WA, USA Pictures for Paik, curated by Darren Jenkins, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA, USA
2009 Resonant Forms, curated by Robert Crouch, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Hollywood, CA, USA
2008 Interplay, curated by Taro Hattori, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA Systems of Decay, curated by Mark Garrett, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA, USA Piece to Piece: Works from the Kala Art Institute, curated by Mayumi Hamanaka, Downtown Restaurant, Berkeley, CA, USA Liquid Architecture: Festival of Sound Arts, The Factory Theatre, Sydney, Australia
2004 Discrete Palettes, curated by Aurora Josephson, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA, USA
SELECTED SCREENINGS >
2019 Indie Street Film Festival, curated by Sarah Bex Rice, Detour Art Gallery, Red Bank, NJ, US
2018 Media Arts Film Screening, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
2017 Stop & Go 3-D, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA Fort Nights: Magic, curated by GAZE/ATA, Fort Mason Center for Art & Culture, San Francisco, CA, USA
2016 Drone Cinema Film Festival, curated by Kim Cascone, Vrijplaats Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands Drone Cinema Film Festival, Grand Illusion Cinema, Seattle, WA, USA Drone Cinema Film Festival, Zan-A-Key Art Space, Battambang, Cambodia
2015 Festival of Color & Light, curated by Ismael Calderon, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, USA Stop & Go: Made from Scratch, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA Stop & Go: Made from Scratch, Second Act Marketplace and Events, San Francisco, CA, USA
2014 Stop & Go: Made from Scratch, The Flicks, Boise, ID, USA Stop & Go: Made from Scratch, Kino Mediteran, Hvar, Croatia Stop & Go: Made from Scratch, trenutak.39, Zagreb, Croatia Stop & Go: Made from Scratch, Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Amsterdam, Netherlands SWAP FEST, Subterranean Art House at The MilkBar, Oakland, CA, USA Sound Flick, curated by Marije Vermeulen and Guido Nieuwendijk, TADA Projects at Gigant, Apeldoorn, Netherlands Drawing More, curated by Anne Beck and Dietmar Krumrey, The Niche, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA Stop & Go 3-D, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, USA Stop & Go 3-D, Minifestival StadsOase, Gigant, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
2013 Gaze #6: Luminous Impulse, Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CA, USA Pupf-Phew!, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, CA, USA Pupf-Phew!, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, USA Pupf-Phew!, Galeriji Scheier, Centar za Kulturu, Čakovec, Croatia Stop & Go 3-D, QUAD, Derby, United Kingdom Stop & Go 3-D, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX, USA Stop & Go 3-D, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA Stop & Go 3-D, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX, USA Stop & Go 3-D, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA, USA Stop & Go 3-D, Inner Circle, Sheridan Fulmer Library, Sheridan, WY, USA Stop & Go 3-D, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA, USA Stop & Go 3-D, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA, USA
2012 Art Monastery Short Film Festival, Art Monastery Italia, Labro, Italy Stop & Go 3-D, Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Amsterdam, Netherlands Stop & Go 3-D, Kunst & Complex, Rotterdam, Netherlands Stop & Go 3-D, IS-projects, Leiden, Netherlands Stop & Go 3-D, Fluctuating Images at General Public, Berlin, Germany Stop & Go 3-D, Pula Film Factory, Pula, Croatia Stop & Go 3-D, trenutak.39, Zagreb, Croatia Stop & Go 3-D, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, USA Stop & Go 3-D, Studio Quercus, Oakland, CA, USA
2008 Listen/Vision 04, curated by VOLUME and Overlap.org, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY, USA Listen/Vision 02, curated by VOLUME and Overlap.org, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA The Intergalactic Discourse, curated by The Women’s Science Fiction Book Club of Greater Los Angeles, Ahmanson Auditorium at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
2005 Illuminated Corridor, Jack London Square, Oakland, CA, USA
VISUAL DESIGN >
2022 Arcades, album artwork, music by Anthony Coleman and Brian Chase, Chalkin Records, New York, NY, USA
2014 Doppler Shift: Extended Play, DVD authoring and production, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, USA
SOUND DESIGN | SOUNDTRACKS >
2021 Earth Day Special: 24 Hours of Nature Sounds From Around the Bay Area, producer and editor, KALW, San Francisco, CA, USA
2020 Dean Santomieri & Thea Farhadian: A New Sense of Place multi-channel sound installation, mix and spatialization, Art on the Plaza, Downtown Berkeley BART Plaza, Berkeley, CA, USA
2017 You Are Here, production and soundtrack, collaboration with Sarah Klein, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, USA
2014 Add Extract React, soundtrack, collaboration with Sarah Klein and Jefferson Arts Academy students, Elizabeth, NJ, USA
2012 Between the Lines, soundtrack, collaboration with Sarah Klein
2010 Housecoat, sound design, collaboration with Sarah Klein
2008 Wanderlust, sound design, collaboration with Sarah Klein
2007 Meany, sound design, collaboration with Sarah Klein
2004 Escape Episode, soundtrack, collaboration with Sarah Klein
2002 Bread Winner, soundtrack, collaboration with Sarah Klein
1991 The Raven, sound design, collaboration with Kate Goodnight
DISCOGRAPHY >
2016 Drone Cinema Film Festival: Selected Works, Volume 1, curated by Kim Cascone, digital audio album compilation, Unspace Records Peripheral, collaboration with Xopher Davidson, digital audio album
2015 Terminus, digital audio album Waveshaper, digital audio single Year of the Quiet Sun, digital audio album RAJAR, with RAJAR, digital audio album
2014 Doppler Shift: Extended Play, DVD compilation, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
2013 Lone Star, digital audio single
2011 Spektralanalyse, digital audio single Activating the Medium XIV : Radio Transmissions : Chapter Three, collaboration with RAJAR, audio CD-R compilation, 23five
2007 Power/Field, curated by Bob Bellerue, audio CD-R compilation, Anarchymoon Recordings
2002 Pixel Dust, collaboration with Xopher Davidson, audio CD-R Lost and Found, collaboration with Dean Santomieri, audio CD compilation, Foundry Records
2000 The Boy Beneath the Sea, collaboration with Dean Santomieri, audio CD, Foundry Records Miss Placid 2000, audio CD-R compilation, Antimatter Productions
1996 Storm of Drones, audio CD compilation, Asphodel Records Oxide, with Circular Firing Squad, audio CD, Artifact Records
SELECTED PERFORMANCES >
2007 Sonarchy, hosted by Doug Haire, KEXP, Seattle, WA, USA
2004 The Way We Work, collaboration with Neighborhood Public Radio and RAJAR, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, USA Fe-mail / Zbigniew Karkowski / RAJAR, with RAJAR, Recombinant Media Labs Compound, San Francisco, CA, USA RAJAR / Fluorescent Grey, with RAJAR, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA No Other Radio, hosted by dAS, with RAJAR, KPFA, Berkeley, CA, USA
2003 CEAIT Festival, collaboration with Xopher Davidson, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA, USA David Kwan + Xopher Davidson, Meridian Music: Composers in Performance Series, curated by Phil Gelb, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, USA Obsolete, collaboration with Xopher Davidson and Michael Gendreau, Dead Media series, curated by Craig Baldwin, Other Cinema at Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CA, USA Meet Your Home Stereo, with RAJAR, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA, USA Field Effects 14, curated by Aaron Ximm, with RAJAR, 964 Natoma, San Francisco, CA, USA Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age, with RAJAR, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA, USA Detritus.net Night, with RAJAR, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA Crack O’Dawn, hosted by Barbara Golden, collaboration with Xopher Davidson, KPFK, Berkeley, CA, USA
2002 David Kwan + Xopher Davidson, LiveArt series, curated by John Ingle, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, USA The Boy Beneath the Sea, collaboration with Dean Santomieri, Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA, USA
2001 Peripheral: Constructed + Elapsed Spaces, collaboration with Xopher Davidson, Mills College Concert Series, Oakland, CA, USA David Kwan + Xopher Davidson, ACME Observatory Music Series, curated by Matt Ingalls, Tuva Space, Berkeley, CA, USA
2000 Videola, collaboration with Dean Santomieri, Videospace: National Center for Experiments in Television 1967-75, curated by Steve Seid and Maria Troy, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, USA
1999 The Boy Beneath the Sea, collaboration with Dean Santomieri, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, USA The Boy Beneath the Sea, collaboration with Dean Santomieri, Venue 9, San Francisco, CA, USA
1998 Artifact, collaboration with Xopher Davidson, The Lab, San Francisco, CA, USA The Boy Beneath the Sea / Yasuhiro Otani / Wetgate, collaboration with Dean Santomieri, Beanbender’s, Berkeley, CA, USA Sound Unwound Festival, with Vorticella, The Lab, San Francisco, CA, USA Cultural Labyrinth, with Vorticella, 2779, San Francisco, CA, USA Robyn Schulkowsky / Vorticella, with Vorticella, Baracke Theater, Berlin, Germany Vorticella, with Vorticella, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
1997 Opus415 Festival No. 2, with Vorticella, ODC Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
1996 Artifact Night, with Circular Firing Squad, Beanbender’s, Berkeley, CA, USA Opus415 Festival No. 1, with Circular Firing Squad, ODC Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA Cultural Labyrinth, with Circular Firing Squad, 2779, San Francisco, CA, USA Day of Noise, with Circular Firing Squad, KZSU, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA 2nd Annual Olympia Experimental Music Festival, with Circular Firing Squad, Olympia, WA, USA
1995 Here Comes Everybody: The Music, Poetry & Art of John Cage, Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA Autumn Equinox, with Circular Firing Squad, California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC), Oakland, CA, USA 1st Annual Olympia Experimental Music Festival, with Circular Firing Squad, Olympia, WA, USA Mr. Hate, with Circular Firing Squad, hosted by Russ Kent, KFJC, Foothill College, Los Altos, CA, USA Citizen Band / Circular Firing Squad / Crawling With Tarts, with Circular Firing Squad, Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA, USA Richie West + David Kwan, Beanbender’s, Berkeley, CA, USA Richie West + David Kwan, Hotel Utah, San Francisco, CA, USA Richie West + David Kwan, Moving & Storage Performance Company, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
1993 John Cage Memorial Concert Series, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA, USA AVE ’93: internationaal audiovisueel experimenteel festival, Arnhem, Netherlands
AWARDS | HONORS | RESIDENCIES >
2017–2018 Media Arts Fellowship, co-recipient with Sarah Klein, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
2015–2016 Review Panelist, Artist-in-Residence Program, Surel’s Place, Boise, ID, USA
2014 Artist-in-Residence, Surel’s Place, Boise, ID, USA
2008 Honorable Mention, Fellowship Program, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
2007 Artist-in-Residence, StoneLake Farm, Bridgeville, CA, USA Alternate for Artist-in-Residence, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA, USA
2006 Artist-in-Residence, Jack Straw Audio Arts Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA Artist-in-Residence, Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY, USA
2000 Irvine Technology Development Grant, co-recipient with Ron Nagle, Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA Irvine Technology Development Grant, co-recipient with Anna Valentina Murch, Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA
1993 Paul Merritt Henry Prize for Excellence in Composition, Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA
PUBLICATIONS >
2014 Doppler Shift, exhibition catalog with DVD, essays by Thomas Micchelli and curator Mary Birmingham, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
2010 Mission 17: 2004-2009, introduction by Clark Buckner and foreword by Glen Helfand, M17 Books
BIBLIOGRAPHY >
2016 Sam Whiting, “Seek and Ye Shall Peep: Size Matters at Peephole Cinema,” San Francisco Chronicle, 7 April 2016 Dave Segal, “Terminal Dread Got You Down? Let the Drone Cinema Festival Soothe Your Fear of Death,” The Stranger, 6 April 2016
2014 Joanne Mattera, "A Walk Through Doppler Shift," Joanne Mattera Art Blog, 2 October 2014
2013 Vera Robić-Škarica and Edo Lukman, 20 International Film Workshops in Čakovec 1986-2013, Croatian Film Association
2008 Eva Chiang, “Systems of Decay,” The Inquirer, 11 September 2008 Jennifer Modenessi, “Systems of Decay Takes Smart Look at Man and Nature,” Contra Costa Times, 5 September 2008 Yasmine Van Pee, “Interplay,” Modern Painters, July/August 2008
2007 Kathleen Donovan, “Mission 17 Gallery Exhibits Edgy Avant-Garde Art,” The Mills Campenil, 3 December 2007 Christopher Delaurenti, “The Score: Terminus,” The Stranger, 4 April 2007 Claire Fant, “Media Artist Alters Aural and Visual Norms,” International Examiner, Volume 34, No. 6, March 2007 Rachel Shimp, “The Weekly Wire: Sound & Vision,” Seattle Weekly, 7-13 February 2007 Marc Weidenbaum, “David Kwan’s Emergence at Mission 17,” Disquiet, 2 November 2007
2004 Peter Nyboer, “If This Made a Sound, It Would Sound Cool,” TapeOp, November/December 2004 Elizabeth Biddlecome, “Boomboxes Are Hip Again,” Wired, 27 October 2004
1998 Tim Perkis, “OXIDE,” Computer Music Journal, Volume 22, No. 3, Fall 1998 Martina Zick, “Ungewohnte Klänge entstehen auf neuartigen Instrumenten,” Leonberger Uretszeitung, 9 June 1998
1997 Brian Duguid, “Outer Limits,” The Wire, Volume 165, November 1997
1993 Joshua Kosman, “A Time and Motion Cage Event,” San Francisco Chronicle, 6 September 1993
MEDIA >
2014 Radio Boise, interview, KRBX, Boise, ID, USA HomeTowne Television, interview, Summit, NJ, USA
PRESENTATIONS >
2018 Skinnable Shadows, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
2016 Music Studio, California College of the Arts (CCA), Oakland, CA, USA
2014 Surel’s Place, Boise, ID, USA
2009 Resonant Forms, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Hollywood, CA, USA
2008 Interplay, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA Electronic Music, Music Department, College of San Mateo, San Mateo, CA, USA Audio for Visual Media, Music Department, College of San Mateo, San Mateo, CA, USA
2007 Jack Straw Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA
2006 The MFA Experience, di Rosa Peserve, Napa, CA, USA
2002 Arts on the Green Festival, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, USA
PROGRAMMING >
2017 Precious Infinite, co-curator, Peephole Cinema, San Francisco, CA, USA
2015 Stop & Go: Made from Scratch animation festival, co-producer, USA (touring)
2014 Doppler Shift: Extended Play video exhibition, co-producer, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, USA Stop & Go: Made from Scratch animation festival, co-producer; USA, Netherlands and Croatia (touring)
2013 Pupf-Phew! animation festival, co-curator, USA and Croatia (touring) Stop & Go 3-D animation festival, co-producer, USA (touring)
2012 Croatian Animation Cultural Exchange, co-director, San Francisco, CA, USA (2012-14) Stop & Go 3-D animation festival, co-producer; Netherlands, Germany and Croatia (touring)
2011 Stop & Go Rides Again animation festival, co-producer; Netherlands and Germany (touring)
2010 Stop & Go animation festival, co-producer; Netherlands, Germany and Croatia (touring)
2000 It Works video screening, curator and producer, Fine Arts Cinema, Berkeley, CA, USA
1999 Luminaires video screening, curator and producer, Artist Theater Workshop, Oakland, CA, USA
1996 Artifact music concert, curator, Beanbender’s, Berkeley, CA, USA
1993 John Cage Memorial Concert, technical director, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
ACADEMIC >
2013–2014 Visiting Assistant Professor, Music Department, Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA
2008 Visiting Assistant Professor, Music Department, Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA
2004–2006 Visiting Assistant Professor, Art Department, Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA
2003–2005 Program Head and Visiting Assistant Professor, Intermedia Arts Program, Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA
EDUCATION >
MFA, Electronic Music and Recording Media, Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA
BA, Practice of Art, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
