| Steven Churchill |
Producer |
| Greg Flores |
Director of Business Development |
| Mark Barry |
Webmaster / Programmer / Database Mgr. |
| Lisa Smith |
Associate Producer / Graphic Designer |
| Eunice Noh |
Executive Assistant / Research |
| Linda Noh |
Executive Assistant / Research |
| Crystal Pinson |
Research |
| Kevin Armento |
Video Editor / Graphic Artist |
| Diane Ly |
Research |
Steven Churchill has been exhibiting the work of digital artists since 1986, when he
produced the world's first computer animation film festival, screened to capacity
attendances at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla, California. In 1987 Steven
arranged national distribution of the festival through the Landmark Theatre chain, which
also had great success. Subsequently Steven produced Future Visions, premiering at
the Reuben H. Fleet OmniMax Theatre in San Diego, then touring thereafter at several other
large screen venues around the country. In 1988 Steven released the world's first computer
animation video, entitled State of the Art of Computer Animation, which the
American Film Institute gave their Best Video Art award that year.
In 1990 Steven produced the first in a series of videos called "The Mind's Eye". These videos featured the best computer animation from around the globe with original scores created by notable music artists James Reynolds, Jan Hammer, Thomas Dolby and Kerry Livgren. The second video in this series, "Beyond The Mind's Eye," reached #8 on Billboard Magazine's home video sales chart in the fall of 1992, being qualified "Multi-Platinum" by the RIAA. Among the four "Mind's Eye" videos that were produced, total sales exceeded two million units. Several of the Mind's Eye video clips can be viewed here.
In the fall of 2006 Steven and his team produced
The Art of Digital Show, an international exhibition of digital art which took place
October 6 - November 19, 2006 at the Lyceum Theatre Gallery. The Show was
judged by
Hugh
Davies, the Director of the
Museum of
Contemporary Art San Diego. Following the "Call For
Entries", a total of 2730 entries were submitted by artists from 32
countries. 100 spectacular pieces were selected by Dr. Davies to be
exhibited in the gallery. The Show featured all forms of digital art --
digital painting, computer based illustration, digitally manipulated
photography, digital video art, computer animation, and an interactive
video installation. Very unique about The Art of Digital Show was the
combining of fine art images in the gallery along with video art. 16
flat-screen displays in the gallery were continuously exhibiting the
video art pieces which were selected by Dr. Davies. The world class
opening reception occurred on October 7, 2006, and the Show was a huge success.
During the fall of 2007 the team produced the second
Art of Digital
Show.
Neal
Benezra, the Director of the
San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, was the Judge for this exhibit. Out
of entries from 40 countries, he selected 83 framed fine art pieces,
18 video art pieces, a 3D modelled sculpture, a digitally designed
textile piece, and one interactive piece – amazing work! The exhibition
ran October 6 through November 11, 2007.
The CG image within the Art of Digital Show logo was created by a
brilliant digital artist, Richard "Doc" Baily. For more
information about Doc, please click
here.
