John (Craig)
Freeman
120 Boylston Street
Boston, Ma 02116-4624
(617) 824-8862 Phone
(617) 824-8803 Fax
Home:
15 New Castle Drive #10
Nashua, Nh 03060
(603) 897-1272
john_craig_freeman@emerson.edu
http://pages.emerson.edu/faculty/john_craig_freeman
EDUCATION
December 22, 1990,Master of Fine Arts, Creative Arts,
University of Colorado, Boulder, GPA 4.0.
June 14, 1986, Bachelor of Art, Visual Art Studio,
University of California, San Diego, Summa Cum Laude, GPA 3.943.
EMPLOYMENT
September 2002 - Present, Associate Professor, Emerson
College, Department of Visual and Media Arts.
September 1999 - September 2002, Associate Professor,
University of Massachusetts Lowell, Art Department.
September 1994 - September 1999, Assistant Professor,
University of Florida, School of Art and Art History.
September 1990 - June 1994, Lecturer, University of
California, San Diego, Visual Arts Department.
September 1990 - June 1994, Adjunct Faculty, Southwestern
CC, Palomar CC, and UCSD Extension.
September 1991 - September 1992 Executive Director,
Installation, and alternative art exhibition space.
February 15 - May 16, 2004, Memories, Salina Art Center.
Salina KS.
April 25 - May 11, 2003,escapes; Rendering the Landscape,
Studio Soto. Boston, MA.
April 25, 2003, Imaging Place, Boston CyberArts Festival
opening reception. Boston, MA.
February 8 - 22, 2003 Americana, The School of Visual Arts,
Westside Gallery. New York, NY.
June 10 - July 10, 2002, Paisajes Toxicos: Artistas
Examinan el Ambiente La Biblioteca National JosŽ Marti, La Habana, Cuba.
January 23 - March 23, 2002, Paradise in search of a
Future, Imaging Place, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. Atlanta, GA.
January 23 - March 2, 2002, Toxic Landscapes: Artists
Examine the Environment, Puffin Cultural Forum. Teaneck, NJ.
October 26 - December 6, 2001, Contact Zones: The Art of
CD-ROM, Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary. Calgary, Canada.
October 5 - December 11, 2001, Toxic Landscapes, Associated
Artists of Pittsburgh Gallery. Pittsburgh, PA.
October 25 - December 5, 2001, Imaging Place, Nancy Lincoln
Gallery. Brookline, MA.
September 21 - December 22, 2001, Paradise in search of a
Future; Imaging Niagara, CEPA Gallery. Buffalo, NY.
April 25 - May 12, 2001, Imaging New England, Mobius,
Boston CyberArt Festival. Boston, MA.
April 15 - May 30, 2000. Art Alumni/Faculty 2000, Dugan
Gallery, Faculty exhibition. University of Massachusetts, Lowell MA.
December 7 - 10, 2000, Contact Zones: The Art of CD-ROM,
The 10th ISEA, Forum des Images, Paris, France.
December 7, 1999 - March 26, 2000, Imaging Appalachia, a
Virtual View, William King Regional Arts Center. Abingdon VA.
June 24 - July 31, 1999, Zonas de Cotacto: El Arte en
CD-ROM, Centro de la Imagen. Mexico City, Mexico.
May 14 - May 28, 1999, Contact Zones: The Art of CD-ROM,
Hobart & William Smith Colleges. Geneva, NY.
March 9 - April 16, 1999, Contact Zones: The Art of CD-ROM,
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University. Ithaca, NY.
January 15 - February 26, 1999, The 34th Annual Art Faculty
Exhibition, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
October 30 - November 21, 1998, Southeast College Art
Conference, Ambrosino Gallery. Miami, FL.
September 26 - 27, 1998, Digital Americana, Orlando Museum
of Art. Orlando, FL.
January 16 - February 28, 1998, The 33rd Annual Art Faculty
Exhibition, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
January 1 - February 15, 1998, Imaging Florida, The New
Gallery. Miami, FL.
January 12 - April 2, 1998, Forging the New Aesthetic,
Contemporary Printmaking, William King Arts Center, Abingdon, VA.
June 15 - July 30, 1998, Imaging Florida, University
Gallery. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
January 10 - March 7, 1997, The 32nd Annual Art Faculty
Exhibition, University Gallery University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
October 4 - November 10, 1996, Dominion Is 2.0 Public art
installation, Santa Fe Gallery below, NW 83rd Street, Gainesville, FL.
October 4 - November 10, 1996, Dominion Is, version 2.0,
Santa Fe Gallery, solo Exhibition. Gainesville, FL.
March 12 - June 4, 1995, Dominion Is, version 1.0, public
art installation, Harn Museum of Art. Museum Road, Gainesville, FL.
January 12 - February 21, 1996, The 31st Annual Art Faculty
Exhibition, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
January 1995, Maximum Exposure, The National Museum of
Science and Industry. Manchester, England.
August 23 - 28, 1994, Media Lounge, ISEA. Helsinki,
Finland.
June 1994, Maximum Exposure, The Photographers Gallery.
London, England.
May 1991, Virtual Memories, The Friends of Photography at
The Ansel Adams Center. San Francisco, CA.
April 1991, Out of the Ether, Film in the Cities. St. Paul,
MN.
November 1990 - April, 1991, Operation Greenrun II, public
art installation. Highway 93, Rocky Flats, CO.
October 6 - 8, 1989, The Political Landscape, public art
installation and performance. Snowmass, CO.
June - August 1989, Sculpture in the Park, Boulder Center
for the Visual Arts, public art installation. Civic Park, Boulder, CO.
May 1989, Aesthetiphobia, 2C Gallery / Pirate. Denver, CO.
February 1989, From This Day Forward Photography is Dead,
University Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
March 1986, On Shore, Off Shore, Annex Gallery. La Jolla,
CA.
June 1982, Photo Abstraction, Darkroom Etc. San Diego, CA.
FESTIVALS
April
23-30, 2004, Ciber@r Bilbao. Bilbao, Spain.
November 13-15, 2003, Video and Digital Arts International
Festival (VAD), Girona, Spain.
October 21 - 24, 1999, Contact Zones: The Art of CD-ROM,
Virginia Film Festival. Charlottesville, VA.
2003, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Carl A.
Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
August 2001, Center for Experimental and Perceptual Art
(CEPA Gallery). Buffalo NY.
August 1999, William King Regional Arts Center. Abingdon
VA.
December 2002, Faculty Advancement Funds Grant, Emerson
College, Boston, MA.
April 4, 2003, Academic Affairs Research Grant, Emerson
College, Boston, MA.
November 1, 2002, Academic Affairs Travel Funds, Emerson
College, Boston, MA.
December 2002, Faculty Advancement Funds Grant, Emerson
College, Boston, MA.
May 2002, Artists Grant, Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ.
November 2001, Grants for Public Art Project, GUNK
Foundation, CEPA Gallery (fiscal agent), Buffalo, NY.
November 2000, General Fund Grant, LEF Foundation,
Cambridge MA.
September 2000, Funding for Arts Organizations, Virginia
Commission for the Arts, William King Arts Center, Abingdon VA.
November 1999, Collaborative Research Seed Grant,
University of Massachusetts Lowell, Research Foundation, Lowell MA.
June 1998, Opportunity Fund, University of Florida, Office
of Research, Technology and Graduate Education, Gainesville FL.
February 1995, Research Development Award, University of
Florida, Division of Sponsored Research, Gainesville, FL.
November 1994, Research Support for New Faculty, University
of Florida, Division of sponsored Research, Gainesville FL.
March 1993, Curriculum Development Grant, Southwestern
College, Chula Vista, CA.
October 1993, Fund for Instructional Improvement,
California Community Colleges, Co PI Elizabeth Sisco, Sacramento, CA.
May 1989, Advanced Allocation Award, University of
Colorado, Boulder CO.
September 1988, Fine Art Benefit Auction Award, University
of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
December 1989, DeanÕs Small Grant, University of Colorado,
Boulder, CO.
July 1988, Graduate Research Grant, University of Colorado,
Boulder, CO.
May 1986, Undergraduate Student Grant, University of
California, San Diego, CA.
PRINT PUBLICATIONS
July 2003, Ulmer, Revelle, Tilson, Freeman, ÒImage
EmergencyÓ Prague Literary Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, p 17.
2003, Ulmer, Revelle, Tilson, Freeman, ÒImage Emergency: A
Psychogeography of Miami,Ó Leonardo, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 197 - 198.
2002, Ulmer, Tilson, Freeman, Revelle, Pappenheimer, ÒMiami
MiatreÓ Journal of Visual Culture, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 341 - 357.
1999, Ulmer, Revelle, Bleach, Freeman, ÒImaging FloridaÓ,
Exposure, Vol. 32, No. 1. pp. 35 - 43.
1999, Freeman, ÒPostliteracyÓ, Abstracts, College Art
Association, pp. 344 - 345.
1994, John Craig Freeman, Elizabeth Sisco Model Curriculum
Guide for Digital Photography, California Community Colleges.
2002, Florida Research Ensemble: Ulmer, Revelle, Tilson,
Freeman, ÒMiami MiautreÓ, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Vol. 9, No. 2.
1998, Margot Lovejoy, Postmodern Currents, Art and Artists
in the Age of Electronic Media, Prentice Hall, New Jersey p. 91.
1998, Jason Salzman, Making the News, Westview, Boulder,
CO, p. 133.
1997, Lucy R. Lippard, The Lure of the Local, The New
Press, New York, NY, p. 184.
1995, Mark Siprut, Adobe Photoshop Handbook, Random House,
New York, NY p. 548.
WORK CITED IN
PERIODICALS AND MAGAZINES
September 1998, Gregory L. Ulmer, Artforum, Òhot.listÓ. New
York, NY. p. 22.
July 1997, Blair S. Sands, Art Papers, Ò32nd Annual Art
Faculty ExhibitionÓ, Atlanta, GA. Vol. 21 No. 4 p. 36.
October 1996, Gregory L. Ulmer, Gallery Journal, ÒGuest
EssayÓ, Santa Fe Gallery, Gainesville, FL. p. 4.
October 1996, Mallory OÕConner, Gallery Journal, ÒInterview
With the ArtistÓ, Santa Fe Gallery, Gainesville, FL. pp. 1 - 3.
May 1994, Blaise Tobia and Virginia Maksymowicz, The
Witness, ÒBringing the cost to lightÓ, Detroit, MI, p.21, Vol. 77 No. 5.
October 1992, Andy Cameron, TEN.8, ÒDigital Dialogues,
Street DigitalÓ, Birmingham, England, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 32 - 39.
December 1991, Albright, Gray, Zamora, The Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists, ÒRetire Rocky FlatsÓ Vol. 47, No. 10.
October 1991, Lucy R. Lippard, Z Magazine, ÒSniperÕs NestÓ,
Boston, MA, pp. 58 - 59.
August 12, 1991, Avalos, Freeman, Hock, Sisco, Small, NAAO,
ÒAmericaÕs Finest?Ó, Washington, DC.
May - June 1991, David Featherstone, Friends of Photography
Review, ÒVirtual MemoriesÓ, San Francisco, CA. p. 3.
May 1991, Henry Brimmer, Photometro, Cover Story, San
Francisco, CA, pp. Cover, 14.
May - June 1991, Andre Carothers, Greenpeace Magazine,
ÒGreenpeace LogÓ, Washington DC. p. 25.
March 1991, Joseph E. Daniel, Buzzworm, ÒBombs AwayÓ, New
York, NY, p. 96.
March 1991, Patrick Frank, Afterimage, ÒNuclear ReactionsÓ,
Rochester, NY, p. 7.
March 1991, Lewis H. Lapham, Harpers, ÒReadingsÓ New York,
NY.
February 1991, Patrick Frank, New Art Examiner, ÒCraig
Freeman, Ten BillboardsÓ, Chicago, IL. p. 46.
February 1991, Paul Lin, Photo District News, ÒGreenpeace
Day-Glo BillboardsÓ, New York, NY.
December 12, 1990, Bill Stamets, In These Times, ÒBillboard
debate: eyesores vs. tumorsÓ, Chicago, IL. p. 18.
December 10, 1990, Alison Fahey, Advertising Age, ÒBattle
over boardsÓ, New York, NY.
December 10, 1990, Shelly Garcia, Adweek, ÒBillboards Make
Strange BedfellowsÓ, New York, NY.
December 3, 1990, Rudolf Augustein, Der Spiegel,
ÒPersonalienÓ, Hamburg, West Germany.
November 26, 1990, Ed Ellis, Rocky Flats, The Paper,
ÒDay-glo signs backfireÓ Rocky Flats, CO. p. 5
November 26, 1990, Henry Muller, Time, ÒNuclear
ConfrontationÓ New York, NY.
October 1988, Jim Hall, Sticks and Stones, ÒEnvironmental
voice: Craig FreemanÓ Boulder, CO, p. 6.
October 1992, National Endowment for the Arts, Individual
Artist Fellowship.
ARTIST HONORARIUM
October 4, 1996, Santa Fe Gallery, Artist Honorarium.
Gainesville, FL.
June 1994, Photographers Gallery, Artist Honorarium, London
England.
April 1991, Film in the Cities, Artist Honorarium, St.
Paul, MN.
June 1991, The Friends of Photography, Artist Honorarium,
San Francisco, CA.
June 1989, Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Artist
Honorarium, Boulder, CO.
May 1982, Society of Magazine Photographers, Award of Excellence.