Nicholas Lesley
nicklesley@gmail.com
(510) 459-6224
416 Franklin Ave. #2
Brooklyn, NY 11238
www.nicklesley.com
Experience:
Administrative correspondence with museums, galleries, and universities regarding screening and exhibition of video artworks. Invoice database management and bank deposit monitoring for non-profit arts organization. Liaison to artists and musicians for screening events, panel discussions, and performances. Curator and staff manager at guerrilla music venue. Technical production and supervision for many musical, theatrical and dance performances involving interactive media. Software programming, operation, hardware wiring, and stage management of technical resources in performances. Audio and video engineering with both analog and digital equipment. Performing musician, interactive media artist, and video artist. Retail music sales, management, stock and pricing experience.Education:
2005 – 2008
Brooklyn College, City University of New York: Master of Fine Arts
Performance and Interactive Media Arts www.interactivearts.org
1997 - 2001
University of California, San Diego: Bachelor of the Arts
Media Arts (film/video), minor in Music Technology
Provost’s Honors: Winter 1998, Fall 1998, Fall 2000
Work:
2007 - current
Electronic Arts Intermix: Distribution Associate, Technical Projects
Process and invoice purchase and rental requests for video artworks to universities, galleries and museums; correspondence with artists regarding screenings and exhibitions; video still capturing and processing; providing video still images for publications and promotional use; events production and technical engineer; video digitization; bank deposit monitoring; shipping.
535 W. 22nd St. 5th floor, New York, NY (212) 337-0680 www.eai.org
2009, September - November
Rubin Museum of Art: Audio/Visual Assistant
sound engineer, projectionist, lighting design
150 W.17th St. New York, NY www.rmanyc.org
2009, February - June
Production Assistant to video artist Kalup Linzy
video shooting, editing, DVD formatting/burning, website update
Brooklyn, NY www.kaluplinzy.net
2005 - 2007
Cake Shop: cafe supervisor, sound engineer
152 Ludlow St. New York, NY (212) 253-0036 www.cake-shop.com
2005 - 2007
Issue Project Room: Production Technician, Sound Engineer, Assistant Curator
Installed and operated sound system based on performers’ requirements. Scheduled and organized performances.
400 Carroll St. Brooklyn, NY www.issueprojectroom.org
2001 - 2004
Amoeba Music: Used-Rock Section Leader
Sales-person, pricing, stocking, cashier
2455 Telegraph Ave. Berkeley, CA (510) 549-1125 www.amoeba.com
2001
TriCoast Studios: Assistant Sound Engineer
Installed post-production sound editing suites, edited DVD commentary and sound effects.
1547 10th St. Santa Monica, CA (310) 458-7707 www.tricoast.com
References:
Lori Zippay: Executive Director of Electronic Arts Intermix; lzippay@eai.org (212) 337-0680
David Grubbs: musician, professor; bluesea@dragcity.com (718) 314-2807
Galen Joseph-Hunter: Executive Director of free103point9, Special Projects Consultant at EAI; ghunter@eai.org