ULYSSES JENKINS
Associate Professor (MFA 1979, Intermedia-Video/Performance,
Otis College of Art), teaches video art production and performance
and is an affiliate professor with the African-American
Studies program. He has also taught video production
at the University of California San Diego, Otis College of Art, and
performance art at California State University Dominguez Hills.

He received the National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist
Fellowships for Video Art in 1980, 1982 & New Genre 1995; was inducted
into the Black Filmmaker's Hall of Fame in 1990 and in 1992 received
First Place Award in the Experimental Video Category. The California
Arts Council has awarded him Artist-In-Residency Grants in Southern
and Northern California 1986-89 & 1990-93. He has received the CAC
Artist Fellowship Grant in Video Art (1992), the Long Beach Museum of
Art's Open Channels Grant (1991), and the Film Art Foundation of San
Francisco Video Production Grant (1993). The San Francisco Foundation
gave him a Lifetime Award, the James De Phelan Award in Video Art, in
acknowledgment of his achievements in video art in 1993.

As director of Othervisions Studio, an interdisciplinary media arts
production group, he received the California Arts Council's
Multicultural Entry Grant in 1987-89, 1993-97 and 1999-2001. In 1989
he completed a manuscript, Doggerel Period, chronicling the past
decade of his career and the history of Othervisions Studio. He was
selected for the CAC funded Arts Leadership Fellowship Grant Program
in 1994-95. He was selected to participate in the Artist-In Residency
programs at The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, where he produced a
two-day videophone telecommunications performance art event, "Bay
Window" which explored ecological dialogues in multiple sites. He also
completed residency projects at the Headlands Center for the Arts,
Sausalito, CA 1993-94; and the Banff Center for the Arts, where he
produced a videophone telecommunications lecture from Banff to
University of California, Irvine with Daniel Martinez in 1994.
His career highlights include exhibitions and screenings at the MIT
List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Studio Museum in Harlem, NY;
Spellman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA; the Tenth
VideoBrasil International Festival of Electronic Art, Sao Paulo & Rio
de Janeiro; Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria; The Museum
of Modern Art, NY; the Independent Eye KCET (PBS) Channel 28, Los
Angeles, CA; and Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA.

His on-going video-performance art activities with the Othervisions
Studio multi-media project works of the Othervisions Art Band include
the CD projects: find a hap.e.meal 1997; Audio Files-Soundtracks of
the Othervisions Art Band 1999; Serendipity 1999; Through A Black
Hole Unreluctantly: Othervisions (9 CD box set) 1999-2000, Turquoise
Blue 2001 and a video soundtrack CD recording from the DVD Bequest
2002.

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