James Gladman
Motion media design professor
Education
- M.F.A., fine art, San Francisco Art Institute
- B.F.A., design, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Credentials
- Professor, motion media design, Sept. 2002–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
- Art director, 2007–2008, Jagged Edge, Inc., Minneapolis MN
- Adjunct professor, design department, 2007, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
- Creative director, 2000–2002, Sarkissian Mason, New York
- Instructor, digital technologies in art and design, 1997–2000, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
- Designer, 1999–2000, Words and Pictures for Business and Culture, Bloomfield Hills, MI
- Art director, 1996–1999, Media Loft, Minneapolis, MN
Professoinal experience
- Commercial client list: Nettwerk Records, Harder-Fuller Films, Target, Sony, Ford Motor Company, Mazda, Filmmaker Atom Egoyan, Rollerblade, Ameriprise, Wells Fargo, Transamerica, Filmmaker David Fincher (Title sequence for Fight Club), ESPN Magazine, Ginkgo Press/Makela Studio, Cranbrook Science Museum, Polaris Industries, MasterCard, Armenian Genocide Project, Best Buy, Polaroid, and Smirnoff Vodka
Publications and presentations
- Presenter/panelist, The Academy of the Spectacle: Art Education in the Age of Perpetual Apocalypse, SECAC (Southern College Art Conference), Richmond, Va., 2010
Exhibitions
- Typographic Monuments, Digital Print Series, Telfair Museum, Savannah, Ga., 2012
- Prayer Flags Series, McMurdo Base Station, Antarctica, 2009; Iceland, 2010; Tibet, 2010; Iraq, 2010
- Solo exhibition, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, 2008
- Segrelicious, Shoebox Gallery, Minneapolis, 2007
- Video installation, Digital Barcelona Film Festival, Barcelona, 2007
- Sisyphean Desires, traveling group exhibition, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta; Sarai Media Lab, New Delhi, 2007
- Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit, 2006
- Monster, Starland Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2006
- Negativlandland (traveling exhibition), Gigantic Art Space, New York, 2005
- Consolidated works, Seattle, 2005
- Creative Electric Studios, Minneapolis, 2006
- Fusion/Diffusion, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, 2004
- Tantra (video installation), The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, 2004
- Tool Set: Post\American Reality, Orleans Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2004
- Nuove Modalita Esressive Nell'Era Del Digatale, Villa Aragona Cuto, Palermo, Italy, 2004
Solo performances
- Salon Saloon, Minneapolis, 2010
- Art of This Gallery, Minneapolis, 2008
- 2 Car Garage Contemporary Art, Savannah, Ga., 2007
- Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, Ga., 2007
- Heliotrope Music Festival, Franklin Artworks, Minneapolis, 2006
- First Avenue, Minneapolis, 2005
- The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, 2004
- V Nightclub, Savannah, Ga., 2004
- Video performances, Apres Nightclub, Savannah, Ga., 2004
Performances with The Medeology Collective
- Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, Ga., 2017
- Shimmer Art Festival, Chapel Hill, N.C., 2016
- Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, Ga., 2015
- InLight Art Festival, Richmond, Va., 2015
- LX Factory, Lisbon, Portugal, 2014
- Lecture, Plymouth University, Plymouth, England, 2014
- Die Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany, 2014
- Die Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Leipzig, Germany, 2014
- Lecture, Plymouth University, Plymouth, England, 2014
- Indigo Sky Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2014
- InLight Art Festival, via 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Va., 2014
- Creative City Project, Atlanta, 2013
- InLight Art Festival, via 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Va., 2013
- Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, Ga., 2013
- Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, Ga., 2012
- SECAC, closing reception, Savannah, Ga., 2011
- Elevate Atlanta, Atlanta, 2011
- InLight Art Festival, via 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Va., 2011
- FLUX ATLANTA, Atlanta, 2011
- The Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, Ga., 2011
- InLight Art Festival, via 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Va., 2010
- The Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, Ga., 2010
- Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, 2009
- ARTery, Sculpt Miami, Art Basel Miami, Miami, 2009
- LeFlash Art Festival, Atlanta, 2009
- PSI 15 (Performance International Conference), Zagreb, Croatia, 2009
Screenings and film festivals
- The Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California at Irvine, 2010
- Other Cinema, San Francisco, 2010
- Rhizome, New York, 2010
- Soundasaurus Festival, Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts, Calgary, Alberta, 2010
- Plunderfest, Bloor Cinema, Toronto, 2010
- Video Dada Exhibition, UC Irvine Art Gallery, Irvine, Calif., 2009
- MGFest09, Chicago; Cambridge, Mass.; Atlanta; and Washington, D.C., 2009.
- Other Cinema, San Francisco, 2007
- ZXZW Film Festival, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2007
- Symposium on Time and Catastrophe, The Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Minnesota, 2007
- Season SESC of Arts, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2006
- Piksel 06 Exhibition, Bergen, Norway, 2006
- Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, Calif., 2006
- Version>04: InvisibleNetworks Chicago, 2004
Music videos
- Director/editor/animator, The Bottom Line, music video for performance group Negativland, 2006
- Director/editor/animator, No Business, music video for Negativland, 2005
- Director/animator, Yellow, Black and Rectangular, music video for Negativland, 1998
Speaking engagements
- Lecture, Die Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany, 2014
- Lecture and workshop, Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Leipzig, Germany, 2014
- Lecture, Plymouth University, Plymouth, England, 2014
- Speaker/performance, Which Is Better, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, 2010
- Speaker and panelist, Segrelicious artist panel, Shoebox Gallery, Minneapolis, 2007
- Speaker and panelist, Symposium on Time and Catastrophe, The Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Minnesota, 2007
- Speaker, Adobe Partners in Design Conference, San Jose, Calif., 2005
- Speaker, Nuove Modalita Esressive Nell'Era Del Digatale, Villa Aragona Cuto, Palermo, Italy, 2004
Publications
- Series of 3D typographic monuments, published on Geotypografika.com (design blog), 2010.
- Rip! A Remix Manifesto (two DVD videos), EyeSteelFilm, 2008.
- Negativland's Our Favorite Things (DVD), Other Cinema, 2007.
- Big Magazine, two-page graphic spread, September 2001.
- "Where Is Here," illustration, Ginkgo Press, Makela/Blackwell, 1998.
- ESPN Magazine, "Sports of the Future," (illustrations), 1999.