Curriculum Vitae

Film Festivals

2018 Official Selection, “Meta-Gaze”, Los Angeles Fashion Film Festival

Exhibitions

2019 Nouveau Bouge, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
2019 3rd Annual Photographic Exhibition and Competition, LA Art Core Gallery at the Brewery Annex, Los angeles, CA
2019 LA Open, TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Interstices, University of California, Santa Cruz
2018 Life Art Science Technology Art Exhibition, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA

Education

2018 MFA, Digital Arts and New Media, University of California, Santa Cruz
2016 BA (Honors), Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz

Awards

2018 Top Rated Abstracts, “Gaze Relations: Looking as Power”, Leonardo Abstracts Service
2018 Finalist, Graduate Research Slam, University of California, Santa Cruz

Publications

2019 “Fashion October”, Surreal Magazine
2019 Cover, “Fashion July”, PICTON Magazine
2018 “Gaze Relations: Looking as Power”, Leonardo Abstracts Service

Grants

2018 Florence French Fund for the Arts Scholarship, University of California, Santa Cruz

Teaching

2019 STEAM Specialist, Genesis at Marciano Art Foundation
2019 Educator, Art and Tech, Genesis at Marciano Art Foundation
-2018
2017 Teaching Assistant, 3D Foundations, University of California, Santa Cruz
2017 Teaching Assistant, Computer Programming for Artists, University of California, Santa Cruz
2017 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz
2016 Teaching Assistant, History of Electronic Music, University of California, Santa Cruz

Research

2018 Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Santa Cruz
2017 Digital Arts and New Media, Performative Technology, University of California, Santa Cruz
2016 Digital Arts and New Media, Mechatronics, University of California, Santa Cruz

Press

2017 Aaron Carnes, “Love Your Local Band: Psychic Astro Club”, Good Times Santa Cruz
2015 Dustin Hollywood, “Franny Verdugo {Artist to Watch/New Music Fridays/ Exclusive Interview}”, Nakid Magazine
2015 “Franny Verdugo”, Glitter Mob Mag
2015 Remy Dixon, “‘This Pleasant Purgatory’”, City on a Hill Press