Education
Cooper Union, BFA California College of Art, MFA Social Practice Hackbright Academy, Prep Coding Bootcamp
Relevant Skills
• Event promotion and presentation: Eventbrite, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Prezi, Keynote, Powerpoint • Clerical: Google Survey, Google Docs, Word, Excel, Google Spreadsheet • Professional use of social media via Hootsuite • Research tools such as JStor, Google Scholar, ARTstor • Cloud storage: Dropbox, Vimeo, Flickr, Google Drive, WeTransfer • Documentation: A/V equipment, Adobe Premier, Final Cut Pro, iMovie • Online travel booking and cost comparison. • Workday time approvals and purchasing • Vault uploading • EMS room and event scheduling • Webadvisor class search and budget access • Moodle • Dreamweaver, HTML and CSS • Python, Processing, Arduino IDE, Unity • Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator) • Rhino, CNC, MakerBot, SolidWorks, Laser Cutters
Event Coordinator
Marwen Foundation, Loft3A, Cabaret Voltaire, etc.
2009-2014
Booked performance at Cabaret Voltaire and recruited choreographer, musician, scenographers, and illustrators to create event, Zurich. Identified PR target list serve, wrote invitations, and created press release for Social Practice Convention at California College of the Arts, an all day convention which attracted 200+ participants from five partner institutions. Wrote proposal and lesson plan for multi-day teen workshop in DIY publishing for 30 students at Marwen Foundation of the Arts, Chicago. Booked 30 acts and created web and social media PR for eight events at 5,000 square foot music, writing, and art event space in Chicago that attracted 90-650 persons each event. Produced documentary of 750 year Anniversary of the City of Winterthur for the City of Wintherhur, Switzerland.
Assistant Manager SF Media Center
California College of Art
2014- Current
Manage all events that require technician, videographer, or advanced AV needs. Daily duties include scheduling, hiring, billing, troubleshooting equipment, and coordination with Program Mangers campus wide.
NextGen Game Code Design Teacher
Bay Area Video Coalition
2016-Current
Design and teach curriculum that encourages youth to explore social justice themes while learning the basics of programming through an advancement of code lessons in Scratch, Twine, Livecodelab, Processing, Arduino IDE, and finally Unity (C#).
International Program Coordinator
Locurativo Artist Residency
2006-2009
Lead program coordinator for artist residency program out of NYC with primary roles involving fundraising, overseeing projects and event coordination. Categorized lists of donors and wrote newsletter updates and project correspondence to 200+. Coordinated with web designer and graphic designer to create newly branded website. Created online content on a quarterly basis (locurativo.net and unvagonhermoso.net) Scouted sites for workshops internationally to discuss strategies for community enrollment.
Social Practice Artist with Focus on AI and Cognition
PRESS/PUBLICATIONS
Sci Art in America
Straight Talk with Zoe McCloskey
Cover Story, 2014
NYTimes Design Blog
Who Made That Dummy Text
Hilary Greenbaum, 2011
Arte Urbe
Mr. Fly and Dr. Rabias, eds
La Gunilla Editores, 2009
Urbanartcore
Zoe McCloskey's Lorem Ipsum Art
urbanartcore.eu 2009
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Firelei Baez and Zoe McCloskey
Good Morning East 2009
East Bay Express
Third Party: Arts and Culture Pick
Sarah Burke, 2016
Digital Artifact Magazine
Issue 3
2009
Purple Journal
Lo Pequeno es Hermoso
Guiermo Ueno, 2008
Asi Esta la Cosa
Notes on Asi Esta la Cosa
ed. Arielle Bielak, 2010
PERFORMANCES/EXHIBITIONS
Cabaret Voltaire
Interrrational
Zurich, Switzerland
Cyberpunk Apocalypse
Intro to Interstellar Travel
Pittsburgh, PA
Corner College
Intro to Interstellar Travel
Zurich, Switzerland
Time Travel Museum
Hallow Earth Radio
Seattle, WA
Bridgette Mayer Gallery
I Don't Want to be Misappropriated
Philadelphia, PA
ION
Dream Money
Zurich, Switzerland
CTRL+SHFT
Third Party
Oakland, CA
University of Iowa Gallery
We Began There...
Iowa City, IA
Itcus Gallery
Beauty Salon
San Francisco, CA
LECTURES/Residencies
Stanford University
Visiting Artist : Internet Art Class
Palo Alto, CA
Columbia College of Art
On Contemporary Graffiti
CC3 Gallery, Chicago
College Art Association
Big Data:Broken Algorithms
Hilton Midtown Manhattan, NYC
AICAD Symposium
Embodied Research
California College of Art, SF
Lacapacidad
Artist Residency
Dangriga, Belize
Contra Costa College
Media Maker Workshop
Contra Costa, CA
Gray Area
Incubator Program
San Fransisco, CA
Refugee Resource
Puppet Workshop
Detainee Center, PA
Beam Camp
Artist in Residence
New Hampshire