Peter Chamberlain
Art Department,
University
of Hawaii,
Honolulu, HI 96822
cpeter@hawaii.edu
(808)-738-5645
1976 - 77
Post Graduate Study -
Sculpture and Performance, Vancouver School
of Art
1975 - 76
M.A. Sculpture, State
University
of New York at Albany
1973
- 75
M.F.A. Metals, State
University
College, New Paltz, New
York
1969 - 73
B.A. Art, Minor - Electronic
Music, State University
of New York
at Albany
Professional
1991- 05
Professor of Art,
Expanded/Electronic Arts Art Department,
University of Hawaii
at Manoa, Honolulu,
Hawaii.
1977
- 91
Associate professor of Art, Sculpture,
Electronic Arts Elmira College, Elmira, NY
1983 - 86
Guest Curator/Technical
Director for G.R.I.D. Exhibition
(Generic-Realtime-Interactive-Digital),
Arnot Art
Museum, Elmira,
1980 - 81
Consultant/Technical
Director, National Performance Art
Festival H.F. Johnson
Museum,
Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY
Amplified
Poetry
Performances with the Mokaki Band and Others
2005
Domino
Buzz, produced, directed, engineered, performed and composed sound
for 12
new works of amplified poetry
on CD of/by Joe Balaz. Scheduled for release Fall 2005
2004
Aug. Joe
Balaz, readings with pre-recorded music.
Provided digital compositions for poems read live
at Max
Bax, Cleveland, OH
Jul.
Imaikalani Kalahele,
Independence Day reading for opening of his exhibition. Performed
with Mokaki Band, incorporated
pre-recorded <>military
songs by the USAF Band, and
installed version of “Talking Heads/War
End Peace” for the duration of exhibition.
2003
Feb. Joe
Balaz,
reading with prerecorded music, group reading by poets published in
Kamaina Magazine, Feb. 18 Supplied soundtrack
for
Beneath the Underground. Doris
Duke Theatre, Honolulu
Art
Academy, Honolulu, HI
Choreopoems,
Ishmael Reed, Kathryn Takara, Adela Chu, Balaz, Hamasaki, and invited
poets and
musicians.
Performed music tracks
for
K.Takara and Carla Brundage, Produced soundtracks for poems presented
by Joe
Balaz
<>
Feb.
7 Set I: at Amin Conference
Hall, East-West Center,
Honolulu
Feb.
8 Set II: at Kaponos, Aloha
Tower, Honolulu
2002
Dec. Imaikalani Kalahele at Peabody Institute
- Produced digital video and
soundtrack CD for
use in
live performance, Peabody Institute, Boston, MA
Joe Balaz, readings with prerecorded music - Provided compositions
for The Other Side and Expandable You
The Coffee Factory, Honolulu,
HI
Nov. Joe
Balaz, readings before
Yellow Rage performance - Supplied
pre-recorded compositions for
Naked Man Club Zanzibar, Waikiki, HI
Joe
Balaz, readings
by Hybolics Magazine Writers - Provided
pre-recorded composition for Naked Man , Filipino
Cultural Center,
Waipahu, HI
Joe Balaz, music-poetry -
Provided pre-recorded composition for Naked Man KTUH Radio, University
of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
Oct. Imaikalani
Kalahele and Calvin Ho -Technical Director for amplified poetry
reading
Native
Books, Ward Center,
Honolulu, HI
Sep.
Four New Acoustic Works -
Imaikalani Kalahele, Peter Chamberlain and Kalani Alejo,
Acoustic performance,
word/sound, at
Hale Noa, Waikiki,
HI
Aug. Mokaki
Band in Concert - Acted as Technical Director and Performer Bishop Museum Pavilion, Honolulu, HI
May
Joe Balaz, Works From the Mokaki
Lounge - Technical Director, Art Director and Performer with
Mokaki at UHM Art Auditorium, Honolulu, HI
Apr. Fort Street:
Kalahele and Mokaki -w/ R. Hamasaki,
K. Takara, John Pule’,
Technical
Director and Performer with Mokaki,
Louis Pohl Gallery, Fort Street
Mall, Honolulu,
Mar. Kalahele
and Mokakiw/ Mahealani Kamauu and others, Technical
Director and
Performer
Native Books, Ward Warehouse, Honolulu, HI
2001
Dec. Bob
Freitas
Exhibition - Imaikalani Kalahele w/Mokaki Band, Native Books,
Kapalama
Readings: Hawai’ian
Poets
- Dr. Haunani Kay Trask, Joe Balaz w/Mokaki Band, Imaikalani Kalahele
w/Mokaki
Band,
and Mahealani Kamauu.
Technical
Director and Performer, Native Books at Ward
Center, Honolulu, HI
Nov. Contemporary
Hawai’ian Poetry -
Joe Balaz w/Mokaki Band, Imaikalani Kalahele w/Mokaki Band, Mahealani
Kamauu,
Dr. Haunani Kay Trask.
Hawaiian Civic
Club Convention, Kalakaua
Tower, Honolulu, HI
Oct.
Leisure- A Kathryn Takara
spoken word production of amplified poetry and dance by Adela Chu
with
percussionist Ivan Krillzarin and synthesist Peter Chamberlain at
Mark's Garage,
Honolulu, HI
Readings by Tinfish Writers -Electric Piano
accompaniment to two works by Joe Balaz, Native Books, Kapalama,
Sept. Prosthetic
Devices for the Rapidly
Aging Activist Poet - Performance.
Joe Balaz, Imaikalani Kalahele, the Mokaki Band.
Art@theUnderground
Gallery, Honolulu,
HI
Aug.
Ho'ailona
Nai Hiamoe I Ka Wa Pono- Nalani Minton
production;
readings by Nalani, Imaikalani Kalaheli,
Joe Balaz,
all with the Mokaki Band, Native
Books, Kapalama, HI
Fort
Street Underground - Readings by Joe Balaz and
Imaikalani
Kalahele with the Mokaki Band.
Art@theUnderground Gallery, Honolulu, HI
June Kalahele
- An Imaikalani Kalahele
production including readings by Imaikalani Kalahele, Joe Balaz, and
Nalani
Minton,
all with Mokaki Band
Native
Books, Kapalama, HI
May Cementus
- E Pili Kakou - A
Joe Balaz production including readings by Joe Balaz, Imaikalani
Kalahele,
Nalani Minton,
Kathryn Takara, Richard Hamasaki, all in
collaboration with the
Mokaki Band. Native Books, Kapalama, HI
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2001
Parts
Is Parts
Solo exhibition of over 30 works; audio-kinetic sculpture, digital
prints, guitars,amplification
devices,
functional performance props. Art@theUnderground Gallery, Honolulu,
HI
1999
Great Snowy - Interactive sound
sculpture installed at 171 Cedar
Art Center, Corning, NY from July, 98 to August 99
1998
Owled Frog -Interactive electronic
sound sculpture installed as centerpiece for National
Photography exhibition
at Old
Forge Art
Center, Old Forge,
NY
1998
Nature Preserve II - Interactive
electronic sound installation, devices and digital prints,
Adirondack
Lakes Center
for the Arts, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
1997
Domestic Ad Hoc Sub Committee Blues -
Two-week interactive sound sculpture
installed on patio of the ECIAD Gallery,
Vancouver, BC,
Canada
1997
Cedar Street Suitcase Dantz - Dance-based
performance/collaboration
with Lois Welk and friends
At 171 Cedar Arts Center,
Corning, NY
1997
Reverse Flow Paradox - inter-media
works; four interactive sound sculptures, digital prints, interactive
plastic frogs,
at 171 Cedar Arts
Center, Corning,
NY
1996
Looney
Tunes at the Buffalo
Beaver Birch Bark Honky Tonk - One-year public-interactive
installation using natural and
cultural debris and sounds from the Adirondack Region at 171 Cedar
Arts Center, Corning,
NY
Recent Group Exhibitions (selected)
2005
Instruments – kinetic sculpture in invitational
exhibition at Hui
No’eau, Maui, HI
2000
Sonic
Residues 02 - International invited/juried experimental sound arts
exhibition representing 7 countries.
Exhibited 3 interactive
electronic sound
sculptures at Australian Center for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne,
AUS,
1999
In Search of the Century - 3
interactive electronic Sound sculptures at Iolani Gallery,
Kaneohe, HI
1997
EARART Sound Media Exhibit -
International juried sound art exhibition at 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA
1997
The Sixth International Shoebox Sculpture
Exhibition, Cell Phones to God (Post-Contact),
international juried exhibition,
University Art Gallery, Honolulu
1996
Phantom Limb Mutations
in the Botanical Garden - six digital prints, Ho'omaluhia
XII, invitational,
Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden,
Kaneohe, HI.