Steve Bull
Greenport + New York
Mobile: 917 - 912 - 4132
steve.bull[at]gmail.com · @steve_bull

2020
Activist Artist designing/developing "Artificial Sea Ice" demonstration and sound installation.
Maker DIY Hackathon https://hackaday.com/2020/03/12/ultimate-medical-hackathon-how-fastcan- we-design-and-deploy-an-open-source-ventilator/ Covid-19 Arduino coding + off-the-shelf components from Amazon.

2019
Co-Author with Dr. Lawson Brigham USPTO Provisional Patent Application "Artificial SeaIce and Retrieval of Icebergs for Freshwater."
Design Lead Sentinel Healthcare, 180-Alert response system for Remote Patient Monitoring of patients with high blood pressure.
Sound Artist "Dead Birds," artificial re-creations of extinct bird calls on Tweensy.
Entrepreneur Nex Cubed selects PREMINDER for Spring 2019 Digital Health Accelerator Program

2018
Sound Artist Cellphonia: LEO50 celebrates the sonification of Leonardo Journal with karaoke call-in mixed by a single server.
Sound Artist 50th anniversary of the Musical HAIR audio performance with Musical Chair v2 at SPECTRUM, Brooklyn.
Maker "Musical Chair v2" at Maker Faire NYC, audio oscillators sonifying trombone-style the opening and closing of a folding chair.
Sound Artist SKAZZ, an open source wireless network music/noise device with optical sensor to measure skin color.
Delegate Open Government Partnership OGP Global Summit 2018 Tbilisi, Georgia

2017
Maker "Musical Chair v1" NYC Maker Faire.
Sound Artist Thermini performance @ Burnt Coat Lighthouse, Maine.
Maker Meet the Artists Opening for THE TEAM Lab: Artworks and Experiences "Our Town Selfie", cellphone play remotely combining performances on server. Governors Island.
Multi-Media Artist "Our Town Selfie" Creative Tech Week with Harvestworks.
Sound artist Ultrasonics Performing with John Driscoll with David Tudor sonification, Stony Brook.

2016
Sound Artist "Dada Digits Dis" Performance, 100th anniversary of Dada, group performance curated by Hans Tammen @ Spectrum.
Sound Artist Computers Inside Electronics performance @ Stonybook of David Tudor sonifications.

2015
Sound Artist Computers Inside Electronics performance with John Driscoll and PhilEdelstein at Spectrum as part of the Dark Circuits Series hosted by Hans Tammen.
Maker Columbia's Forward Slash Storytelling Lab @ Costa Rica
Sound Artist Saturday Night Special: 60x60 Wave Farm Mix listen to Cellphonia: Wavefarm 60 sound performance on WGXC 90.7-FM or stream
AR "Digital Dawdle" AR digital storytelling with Kathleen Hulser at THATCamp AHA2015, American Historical Association, New School

2014
Sound Artist, Performance Rainforest IV, Granoff Center Studio 1, Brown University.
AR, 9 Ghosts, director, interactive AR story @ Amateur Comedy Club.
AR installation, Olana State Historic Park, Wave Farm.
Maker, "Cosmic Treadmill" at Hack the Universe, AMNH, github release.
Sound Artist, Computer Inside Electronics installation/performance @ Caramoor Rainforest Workshop, Garden of Sonic Delights.
Sound Artist, Site specific installation Framing the Viewshed: Groundswell, Olana State Historic Site.
Sound Artist, Artists Residency: Transmission Arts, Wave Farm.
Sound Artist, Concert Cellphonia: Wave Farm, WGXC (90.7-FM).

2013
Maker/Hacker: Anti-Drone Drone, ITP:NYU Drone Hackathon.
Maker, Cutlass Treasure Hunt interactive campus game @ Flagstaff.
Sound Artist, Live Video: Salle multimédia, Conservatoire de musique du Québec, Montréal, "Sharp Splinter."
AR, "Hot Ephemerates" AR installation @ "Hack the Barbican".
AR War of 1812 @ Governor's Island, NY Electronic Arts Festival, Castle Clinton Parks Dept., funded by NY Council for the Humanities.
AR for dancers at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with choreographer Victoria Marks.
Maker, Presentation of work for residents @ Wassaic Project.
Maker, Workshop: Annotating the World - - We Need Help! Faculty workshop on using web & social media to post urban observation/research, New School.
Sound Art, Cellphonia: Toronto SONicGeo. New Adventures in Sound Art. AR, "Please Use Other Door," AR installation "Swell Sound & Vision" @ Firehouse Space
Sound Art, Cellphonia: Our Voice installation. Contemplative Practices. Sound Art, Cellphonia installation, Birmingham UK @ Network Music Festival.
Maker, Kara-boothie proposal with AR model for NYC Reinventing Payphones Design Challenge

2012
AR, MANOA LO'I The Common presents Bull AR installation at U of Hawaii. AR, Bogliasco Invisible Presence 50 bust commission for Villa Dei Pini.
AR, Albion AR Art Walk group show, Reiger and Victory Parks @ Albion, Michigan.

2011 Sound Art, Cellphonia 9/11 opening composition in Music After 10 year memorial marathon. AR, After Delvaux AR 3D object in group show Decollage: Torn Exteriors.

2010 Maker, Cellphone Guides at Museums, Mobile Devices and Social Media conference @ Liberty Science Center, Sound Art, Cellphonia: Blues ICMC 2010: Analogous Interactions (AI) - Installation Opening and Performative Social Activities.

Affiliations: NYU:ITP, Directors Guild of America, Junaio, Interval Research

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2016
Meet the Artists Opening for THE TEAM Lab: Artworks and Experiences on Saturday June 25th from 5 - 6:30 pm of installation Our Town Selfie with homage script to this American classic written by long-time partner Terese Svoboda, Governors Island May 28 - July 25
Our Town Selfie Creative Tech Week April 29 - May8
Dada Digits Dis 100th anniversary of Dada, group performance curated by Hans Tammen at Spectrum February 12, 7pm
Ultrasonics Performing with John Driscoll, Stony Brook, February 4

2015
Performing with John Driscoll and Phil Edelstein at Spectrum as part of the Dark Circuits Series hosted by Hans Tammen. 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd floor, New York NY, November 21, 9pm
10 Principles, a neophyte's recall of Burning Man Floyd Memorial Library, Greenport NY, November 8, 3pm
Citizen of Black Rock City with Community Improvement Association, Burning Man, Aug 28 - Sep 8
Forward Slash Story with Matt Costello and others, Costa Rica, May 15-18
Saturday Night Special: 60x60 Wave Farm Mix listen to Cellphonia: Wavefarm 60 second performance on WGXC 90.7-FM or stream, Saturday March 7, 8-10p
Virtual Regatta racing 3rd leg parallel to 'wet' Volvo Ocean Race, Sanya to Auckland, start February 8
Digital Dawdle with Kathleen Hulser at THATCamp AHA2015, American Historical Association, New School NYC, January 6

2014
Interactive play reading 9 Ghosts: Love and Death, co-written and co-directed by Steve Bull and Matt Costello, Sniffen Court Theater of the ACC, New York City, December 21
Performance Rainforest IV, Granoff Center Studio 1, Brown University, December 11/12, 3-9pm
"Pet Pals" at ITP Code Poetry Slam, NYU, November 14, 6:30pm
"Cosmic Treadmill" at Hack the Universe, AMNH, github release, November 7-8
Site specific installation Framing the Viewshed: Groundswell, Olana State Historic Site, September 13, 2 - 6pm
Caramoor Rainforest Workshop, Garden of Sonic Delights, July 21-22
Bull sells his beef!, Ogallala Natural Beef Company, Farmers Market, Nebraska, July - October (Bull sold his 1/2 to partner 2017)
Artists Residency: Transmission Arts, Wave Farm, June 6 - 15
Concert Cellphonia: Wave Farm, WGXC (90.7-FM), June 14

2013
Hack: Anti-Drone Drone, ITP:NYU Drone Hackathon, October 13
Live Video: Salle multimédia, Conservatoire de musique du Québec, Montréal, Sharp Splinter, October 11
Tech Wizard/MC: Cutlass Treasure Hunt, Northern Arizona University, October 4
Hack The Barbican residency: Hot Ephemerates, London, #HTB2013, Last week of August
Associate Artist to Master Artist Choreographer Victoria Marks, Atlantic Center for the Arts, June-July
AR War of 1812 - Governors Island NYC , New York Electronic Arts Festival (NYEAF), June-July
Roundtable on Determining the Value of Healthcare – Fordham University, GHIMC, May
Workshop: Annotating the World - - We Need Help! Faculty workshop on using web & social media to post urban observation/research that also serves communities. New School, NYC, April 30
AR installation Please Use Other Door, Swell Sound & Vision at The Firehouse Space, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, April 6
MANOA LO'I The Common presents Bull AR installation at UH to its readers, April 5
Pilot launch Cutter v. Smuggler, Castle Clinton, Battery Park, NYC, April 6
Cellphonia: OurVoice for Contemplative Practices for a Technological Society Conference, April
Cellphonia: Toronto commissoned two month installation for New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), April - May
Kara-boothie proposal with AR model for Reinventing Payphones Design Challenge NYC
Cellphonia: HUB retool the 4'33 server in support of Scot's performance at Network Music Festival Birmingham UK
Cutter v. Smuggler AR channel funded in part by The New York Council for the Humanities

2012
Manoa Logic - Interactive sculpture, found materials activated by code of Arduino computer, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Oahu
Junaio certified augmented reality developer
Bogliasco Invisible Presence 50 bust commission for Villa Dei Pini augmented reality installation
Albion AR Art Walk group, show, Reiger and Victory Parks - Albion, Michigan

2011
AZZA prints for sale in group juried show Art from the iPad Austin Details gallery
WELL? Saturday, Oct. 15 in Show Me Justice Film Festival
Cellphonia 9/11 opening composition in Music After 10 year memorial marathon concert: 9.11.11
PreMinder selected for Fordham Accelerator for Business (FAB) pre-incubation practicum
Bohemian Girl AR promotion with QR code at Jacob Javits at BEA Expo
Athens Film Festival screens WELL? co-directed with Terese Svoboda
After Delvaux AR 3D object in group show Decollage: Torn Exteriors
Pro Android Media: Developing Graphics, Music, Video, and Rich Media Apps for Smartphones and Tablets Technical Reviewer
Click History: Wherever, Whenever co-author chapter in Creativity and Technology: Social Media, Mobiles and Museums

2010
Sanctioned Array at WhiteBox presents WELL? co-directed with Terese Svoboda
aZza for iPhone/iPad in iTunes store
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park wireless tour feasibility study.
Cellphone Guides at Museums, Mobile Devices and Social Media conference, Liberty Science Center
Cellphonia: Blues ICMC 2010: Analogous Interactions (AI) - Installation Opening and Performative Social Activities
Citizen FYI is audience favorite at Where 2.0
SuperCollider! performance at ITP
Citizen FYI finalist at 2010 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge®

2009
aZza - Playhouse animation plays exterior Liberty Hall, Dublin
aZza - Airtel cellphone art release in India
Cellphonia: 4'3" at NIME 2009
Harvestworks Deconstructing the TARGET performance
Hollywood-USA GPS Version Launch
chant4PEACE a social network for activists
iTunes University distributes The New-York Historical Society podcast and vodcast series

2008
Teen Vogue Fashion University 2008 closing show sponsored by TARGET, cellphone interactive performance
DRENCH video at Urban Screens Melbourne 08 festival, collaborator
Frederick Douglass and Underground Railroad in New York Cellphone/iPhone GPS video series for New-York Historical Society
NCPH 2008 Outstanding Public History Project Award for "Slavery in New York" series
Cellphonia: Tempo Variabile installation/performance at Steven's Institute of Technology
NAVTEQ LBS Global Challenge Game Park at CTIA Las Vegas
IGDA-NYC: Game Park at Demo Night VII
Treasure Hunt Performances: University of Dubuque, Lafayette College, Delta State University, Fashion Institute of Technology, Stevens Institute of Technology
"Cellphonia: In The News" Creative Interactions The Mobile Music Workshops 2004-2008, University of Applied Arts Vienna, 2008, p. 89

2007
Hollywood USA - GPS Version TeleAtlas finalist CTIA San Francisco
NIME Installation 2007 Cellphonia: WET, Eyebeam
Finalist for a Cellphonia: Rhizome 2007-2008 commission
Mobilized! Conference at Brooklyn Tech presenting Cellphonia Asterisk code
Top Ten Best Museum and Cultural Podcast 2007 for Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, New-York Historical Society
Cellphone tour engine for Cross/Walks: Weaving Fabric Row
Treasure Hunt Performances: Jacksonville University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Lafayette College
Neighborhood Narratives, Instructor at Temple University
Cameraphone Activism Course and Workbook commissioned by Witness.org for Video Advocacy Institute in Montreal

2006
Cellphonia: San Jose, World premier of Cellphonia opera at ISEA - ZeroOne Festival
Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost, Telephone tours in NYC festival
HOT-n-COLD - Finalist locative game in NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge
Hidden Scenes of Slavery and Freedom - Locative multi-media wireless tour for New-York Historical Society
Experimental Television Center, Finishing funds for Cellphonia
Mobile Music International, Presents Cellphonia: In The News as Work-in-Progress in Brighton, England
SLEUTH Cellphone GPS Game at Come Out & Play Festival, Eyebeam
Neighborhood Narratives, Instructor at Temple University
"Creating Interactive Fiction" guest lecture at Fordham University
GeoCommunity SpatialNews, Innovative ArcIMS Application Wins LBS Award, April 26, 2006
NYArts Magazine, A Phone is a Phone is a... by Molly Kleiman, January / February 2007
Leonardo eJournal, Locative Media Issue, Volume 4, Issue 03, "Neighorhood Narratives" co-author with Hana Iverson, edited by Drew Hemment, ISSN No: 1071-4391
New York Times, Art review "ISEA ZeroOne in San Jose" by Jori Finkel, August 6, 2006, about Cellphonia: In The News "This will pull people back into the community, as they sing the community story and hear their voice in the community chorus."

2005
Cellphonia: In The News grant from New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA)
Creative Capital Foundation Finalist, Cellphonia
WET The Opera 2 hour performance video background for opera at REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater), Los Angeles
Monty Python's Spamalot Treasure Hunt author/coder of national first person performance game played on cell phone and cross platform
Bellagio, Italy retreat of Rockefeller Foundation, artist opera team
Institute For The Future Seminar, Future of Pervasive Gaming, Expert Panelist, Palo Alto
Life After Graduation, Speaker, APCA Leadership Workshop
Neighborhood Narratives, Instructor at Temple University
CalArts, School of Film/Video, Visiting Artist / Guest Lecturer
Parsons School of Design and Technology, Seminar Instructor
Pace University, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Visiting Artist
Digital Storytelling Conference presenting "Storytelling in Pervasive Game Space", San Francisco

2004
Pet-Pals, Cameraphone photo album for all animal lovers to share their pictures on cell phones as well as computer on Verizon Wireless
Franklin Street Locative media real/virtual installation for "Personal Space" exhibition at Gigantic Art Space, New York
Azza, Cellphone Modrian-inspired interactive art generated by algorithms distributed O2 Network in UK, and Handango, Sony Ericsson
Farmwork, Videomaker of time-lapse video at Experimental Media Festival at Tonic, NYC.
Cellphonia, Adjunct Professor, new media course at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)
"Bridging Digital Divide" Chinatown Technology Center, After school program for Asian Americans for Equality, Curriculum Designer and Instructor
Building a Mobile Revolution, article, Finn Air BlueWings inflight magazine, February 2004

2003
Hollywood USA, 1st Edition, Cell phone location-based interactive tour of movie locations
Margaret Sanger: A Public Nuisance, Co-Director, Experimental film screened at J. Paul Getty Museum as one of two best examples of experimental biography in the last decade. Video funded by ITVS and distributed by Women Make Movies and the MacArthur Foundation.
Rat Race USA, 1st personalized traffic report sent to your cell phone or wireless PDA
HP Bazaar, Helsinki, presents Cutlass "1st person performance gaming"
Montreal Mirror, review of TouchToneTours, "Our world and others"
CBS Market Watch, review of Rat Race USA, "Real-Time Traffic Reporting"
IT, Location-based interactive first person performance game based on the classic Tag, United States Patent No. 6,530,841

2002
CUTLASS Inc. formally created
Cutlass release of TouchToneTours, Instant personal guide self-guided tour guide to connect a traveler via cellphone to the hidden world surrounding them. Adapted as Quirky World for Great Britain and Canada
New York Times coverage "A Guided Audio Tour of Greenport via Cellphone" Sunday, July 28, 2002, Greenport Cellphone Tour with 88 sites.
Suffolk Times "In TouchTone with Greenport," article in weekly newspaper

2001
01.01.01 Cutlass Treasure Hunt, Extreme tech treasure hunt, internet-driven cellphone street theater for visitors to Times Square where teams hunt the hidden past to find treasure using multiple interactive interfaces. Expanded to college campuses across the U.S.

2000
CUTLASS, Founder; private think tank and mobile product development company
UBUBU, Creative Director for personalized browser interface taking the form of 3D avatars.

1999
Experience Museum User Interaction Designer for Paul Allen's Vulcan Northwest
Story Island IoT Interaction/Prototype Design, interactive storybook developed and built as consultant for Paul Allen's Interval Research
Senior User Experience Architect and prototype designer/developer on network music project with Laurie Anderson and Peter Gabriel
Pocket Watch, Artist's personal repurposed watch exhibited as part of "Individual Technology" exhibit in Tech Museum, San Jose.

1998
You-In-A-Movie, Movie-Booth/Story/Interaction Designer, built and designed prototype of arcade method to insert a visitor into a feature film, consultant for for Paul Allen's Interval Research
Venus - Game Designer of a digital game engine with reward structure based on human behavior research.
Cinematographer: EPA Poisons EPA wins Award of Merit at SUPERFEST XVIII International Disability Film Festival

1997
Contract Entertainment User Experience Designer Interval Research Pala Alto CA starting June
Master Degree Graduate NYU:ITP Interactive Telecommunication Program, May
Virtual Parlor "Yesterday's Parlor Tricks/Tomorrow's Technology" - 5 physical interface prototypes in a Victorian parlor with DSP network connectivity presenting an alternative computer mediated audio chat and "real" parlor tricks without traditional PC computer, monitor, keyboard and mouse as Thesis NYU:ITP
SOS, Titanic biography on surviving crew member of the historical sea disaster with Shockwave interactive "Practice Morse Code" in which visitors use "dots" and "dash" mouse-click-downs to send "SOS" and other Morse code messages.
Salome's Revenge, collaborator on a Palace (Warner) site and interactive multi-node narrative where Yorb TV viewers using their touch-tone phones and internet web surfers choose their avatar characters re-enact the classic Salome story in a contemporary setting.

1996
Summer Job at for Paul Allen's Interval Research while NYU:ITP Grad Student
World, My Heart's Journey, Line Producer of 60 minute documentary on Seiji Ozawa in Tanglewood for Japanese TV.

1995
Sculpture Bones, Cinematographer for documentary on Mary Ann Unger's sculpture, described by NY Times as "visceral, chilling." 30 minutes
EPA Poisons EPA, Cinematographer for independent documentary screened at MoMA, Free Speech TV, and Superfest.

1994
Margaret Sanger: A Public Nuisance - Co-Director and Cinematographer of documentary in ITVS first round production. MoMA, Berlin Film Fest, AFI, World Wide Video Fest, New TV/PBS, Getty, Distributed by Women Make Movies and MacArthur Fund.
Rogue Transmissions, Cinematographer for experimental video on media dislocation. Selected for AFI, World Wide Video Festival, Long Beach Museum of Art, Ars Electronica, WNYC "Poetry Spot."

1993
Experimental Television Center - Artist In Residence
Haiku Vision, Video Artist of 5 video haiku shot in northern Japan. Grand Prize winner, Bucks County Film Festival, experimental prize winner, Atlanta Film Festival. Screened at MoMA, Athens Film Fest, Cork Film Fest, Cleveland Film Fest, Humboldt Film Fest. National tour, tour of NY State and 10 city tour of Brazil. Also Creative Time 42nd St. feature for six months

1992
Kidnap, Mediamaker. Using family 16mm found footage, documents the story of his mother stealing her two boys from their father at Xmas. Staten Island Museum and The Kitchen. C.A.G.E (1988). Cast Iron TV (1984).

1990
Hilo Fish Market, Filmmaker, Documentary. A lyrical examination of the daily acivity at the Suisan Fish Market in Hilo cut to the music of Raymond Kane. Hawaii International Film Festival.

1989
Edward Sylvester Morse, Producer for 90 minute special on American scientist who created the Peabody Museum in Salem. NHK Japanese TV.

1988
Excavating Harlem in 2290, Co-Director with William Kelly. Sci-Fi Documentary. 28 min. Cast Iron TV.
Horse Trailer UFO, Documentary. 7 min. Cast Iron TV.

1987
Low Earth Orbit Space Farm, Space Manufacturing 6|National Space Society, Conference May 6-9, Princeton

1986
United States Patent No. 4,792,108, Single Launch Artificial Gravity Space Station
WHAM! in China, 2nd unit Director/lst AD for Lindsay Anderson's five camera rockumentary feature of first rock concert in mainland China.
Komodo, Cinematographer for video on survival of a lizard that eats people. Honorable Mention, American Film/Video Festival, VOICE CHOICE, World Wide Video Festival, L.A.C.E., Artists Space, "Meet the Maker" series at Donnell, Pasadena Art Center, L.A. Freewaves, Belgian Cultural Center and NC Film/Video Festival

1985
FARMWORK, Filmmaker. 28 min. Evanston Art Center and C.A.G.E. The Kitchen (1987). Cast Iron TV and Palladium (1985).
Three Cities in China, Filmmmaker. Pixilated documentary of the new communist China, 15 min. Palladium. Cast Iron TV (1984)

1984
Dont' Believe Them, Anarachist video with Sleeping Dog band includes interview with Gary Gimore and post-nuclear bathroom, 28 min. Rough Trade, Dutch East and Cast Iron TV.