2012
VIDEOFEST2K12, Baja California, Mexico
Images Against Darkness: Video Art from the Archive of IMAI, KIT - Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany
Twice - Told Tales, O'Born Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Videonale: Dialogue in Contemporary Video Art, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
2011
28th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Mass Distractions & Cultural Decay, Mason Gross Galleries/Rutgers University, New Jersey
Videonale at GoMA, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Timecoloured Place, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Black Sound White Cube, Kunstquartier Bethanien/Studio 1, Berlin, Germany
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Madrid/Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Louie Louie, Cneai de Paris, Paris, France
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Filmoteca Española, Madrid, Spain
Videonale at Video Re:View Festival, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, Poland
Videonale 13, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
A Purpose On Image, Beton 7, Athens, Greece
LIVRET II, Galerie Art:Concept, Paris, France
I Like The Art World And The Art World Likes Me, EFA Project Space, New York
2010
21st Century Outlook, FRAC Ile de France/Le Plateau, Paris, France
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Hard to Sell, Good to Have, Palais Sturany, Vienna, Austria
CopyClash, ROT(T)TERDAM project space, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
VLA Art & Law Residency
Exhibition, Maccarone, New York
Home and Garden, The Museum of Jurrasic Technology, Los Angeles
Dub Shop, Kleio Priojects, New York
The Amen Break, Galerie Thomas Flor, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009
Mostra Kino Beat, Usina do Gasômetro, Porto Alegre, Brazil
After All, Everything Is Different In The End, Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium
Roughler TV at Portobello Film Festival, The Tabernacle, London
2008
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California (as ESL)
Floteson: Sonic Sources, Courses and Rearrangements, KHM Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
HollyWould, Freewaves 11th Festival of New Media Arts, Los Angeles
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid 2008, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Anna Kournivkova Deleted by Memeright Trusted System, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany
Gevonden/Found/Trouvé, Voorkamer VZW, Lier, Belgium
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid 2008, Auditorio del Ministerio
de Cultura, Madrid, Spain
Medium Cool, 10th Annual Video Marathon, Art in General, New York
2007
6 Sessions (with Axel Stockburger), Secession, Vienna, Austria
Victory Virtual, Galerie Sara Guedj, Paris, France
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid 2007, Cinema l'Entrepôt, Paris, France
Rhythm From Wreckage, DIVA Center, Eugene, Oregon
Copy Your Idols!, Periferiak07 / Arteleku Audiolab, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
Rainer Ganahl, Mario Garcia Torres, Nate Harrison, Hugo Hopping and John Menick have agreed to participate in an exhibition organized by __________ at Sandroni Rey, April 14 through May 19, 2007, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles
Rokolectiv Festival, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
Our Distance From Things, TELIC Arts Exchange, Los Angeles
Building Space, Club Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
2006
Eat the Market, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (as ESL)
Royal Alumni, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Music on Screen - Musikmaschinen und Videomusik, Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin, Germany
Project 101, Paris, France
Picturing Free Knowledge, TESLA Media Arts Laboratory, Berlin, Germany
Drei Geschäfte: Mode, Musik & Bücher, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
EASTInternational 06, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, United Kingdom
Bring the War Home, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York / QED, Los Angeles
RIP IT! - Reappropriate Popular Culture, International Video and Music Festival, 103 Club, Berlin, Germany
Object Lessons, Gigantic Art Space, New York
Spark Festival, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2005
Fluctuating Images, Stuttgart, Germany
Hands On, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
no heroics please, REDCAT, Los Angeles
TELIC Arts Exchange, Los Angeles
Sweet Substitute, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virgina
Festa di Cane Bastardo, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
2004
STATION, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Festa di Cane Bastardo, Timbrespace, Los Angeles
Digitally Propelled Ideas, CalPoly, Pomona, California
2003
A:D:A:P:T Festival, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado
BIAS Sound Collective, Taiwan
Audio Nimbus, KUCI, Irvine, California
2002
Halcyon, Brooklyn, New York
Soundcheck, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Tribeca Film Festival, New York
2001
Rhizome/SoundLab Open Mouse, FUN, New York
Bitstreams, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Genomic Revolution, American Museum of Natural History, New York (sound design for exhibit)
2000
SIN Festival, Walker Stage, New York
Invisible Cities, Knitting Factory, New York
SoundLab/Jam Session III, DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York
1999
Artist and Computer, Collective Unconscious, New York
Invisible Cities, Brownies, New York
2010
"Fared Use: A Political Economy of the Digitally Empowered Subject," in The Sound of Downloading Makes Me Want to Upload (The Institute of Social Hypocrisy, Paris)
2012
Fair Use & Contemporary Art, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey
Copyright Law and the Pictures Generation, The Gray Chair, Brooklyn, New York
INNOVATE/ACTIVATE, University of California, Berkeley
Histories of Now: Art, Digital Media, & Contemporary Social Movements, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
2011
Aura Dies Hard, 28th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
NO RULES: Negotiating Art and Deregulation, Cooper Union, New York
Whitney ISP Critical Studies Symposium, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Can I Get An Amen? A Political Economy Of Music Sampling, Adult Ed, The Union, Brooklyn, New York
Video Art As Mass Medium?, Radical Art Caucus/College Art Association Annual Conference, New York (panel chair)
2010
Visiting artist lecture, Center for Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, Calfornia
VLA Art & Law Residency
Symposium, Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York
Reused, Recycled, and Re-Viewed, University of California, Santa Barbara
2009
Thievery: The Anxiety of Influence and Appropriation, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Artist's Talk, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Distributed Creativities, University of California, San Diego
Art on the Edge, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
2008
Creative Societies/Cultural Industries/New Humanities?, University of California, Irvine
2007
The Future of the Archive, University of Rochester, New York
2006
The Look of Law (curated by Simon Leung), University of California, Irvine
Alternative Universes, UCSD Department of Art, Tijuana, Mexico
2005
Music as Masquerade, Experience Music Project, Seattle, Washington
2004
The Culture of Travel, University of Glasgow, Scotland
2001
Youth 2 Youth Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2011-2012
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts:
A History of Sonic Art
The Practice of Everyday Listening
Introduction to Sound
Appropriation Art: Duchamp to Digital Disobedience
Painting Sound
Summer 2011
SOMA, Mexico City:
Modes of Appropriation in Contemporary Art
2010-2011
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts:
A History of Sonic Art
The Practice of Everyday Listening
Introduction to Sound
Appropriation Art: Duchamp to Digital Disobedience
Independent Study
Summer 2010
SOMA, Mexico City:
Modes of Appropriation in Contemporary Art
2009-2010
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
A History of Sonic Art
The Practice of Everyday Listening
Introduction to Sound
Appropriation Art: Duchamp to Digital Disobedience
Graduate Critique
2008-2009
Sixth College, University of California San Diego:
Practicum Writing - Fall
Practicum Writing - Winter
Practicum Writing - Spring
2007-2008
Sixth College, University of California San Diego:
Technology, Medicine and Ethics
Practicum Writing - Winter
Practicum Writing - Spring
2006-2007
Visual Arts Department, University of California San Diego:
History of Art and Technology
Sixth College, University of California San Diego:
Culture, Art and Technology
Cognitive Science Department, University of California San Diego:
Cognitive Psychology
2006
Los Angeles Mission College, Sylmar, CA:
Introduction to Digital Video
2003-2005
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA:
DVD Authoring Workshop
1995-1996
Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan:
Desktop Publishing and Imaging
1997-2002
töshöklabs, New York, Founding Member
www.toshoklabs.com
2007
Russell Grant, Russell Foundation
Audi Art Award, "Progress Imperative," DC Art Fair, Düsseldorf, Germany (as ESL)
2011
frieze, Issue 142 (October)
Volume: Contemporary Art Journal About Sound, no. 3 (France)
Videonale 13 (exhibition catalog)
2010
beef/Art DIrector's Club of Germany
Beat Magazine (Germany)
Black Sound White Cube (exhibition catalog)
Trailer Magazine/Copyclash (exhibition catalog)
2008
Lana Turner: A journal of Poetry and Opinion, No. 1, Fall
Groove Magazine, July/August (Germany)
Anna Kournivkova Deleted by Memeright Trusted System (exhibition catalog)
2006
Artnet (Germany) (12/7/06)
Télérama (9/27/06)
Art Monthly (9/06)
EASTinternational 2006 (exhibition catalog)
Frankfurter Rundschau (7/25/06)
2005
Cuemix Magazine (Germany)
2001
XLR8R
Alternative Press
2000
College Music Journal
Grooves
Print Magazine 2000 Interactive Design Annual