Michael Kontopoulos

Past

• Teaching Associate at UCLA
• Graduate Student at UCLA
• TA Consultant at UCLA (Office of Instructional Development)

• Artist in Residence at Barbarian Group
• Teaching Assistant (DMA Summer Institute) at UCLA
• Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University

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Education

• University of California, Los Angeles
• Carnegie Mellon University

Recommended

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Connections

78 connections

Industry

Fine Art

Websites

• My Portfolio

Michael Kontopoulos’s Summary

Michael Kontopoulos’s Specialties:

Teaching, Art Direction, Creative Direction, Research and Development for Interactive Media or Visual Art, Physical Fabrication, Mechanical Sculpture, Physical Computing, Programming (Processing/Java, C, ActionScript, HTML/CSS/PHP), Web Design, Video/Sound Editing.

Michael Kontopoulos’s Experience

• Teaching Associate

  UCLA

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  October 2007 — June 2009 (1 year 9 months)

  Graduate student Teaching Associate.

• Graduate Student

  UCLA

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  September 2007 — June 2009 (1 year 10 months)

• TA Consultant

  UCLA (Office of Instructional Development)

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  October 2008 — December 2008 (3 months)

  Teaching a course on TA methods/training for incoming graduate students.

• Artist in Residence

  Barbarian Group

  (Fine Art industry)

  2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

• Teaching Assistant (DMA Summer Institute)

  UCLA

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  June 2008 — July 2008 (2 months)

  Instructional Assistant for DESMA 2 (Web Design). Part of the Department of Design & Media Arts Summer Institute.

• Regina Gouger Miller Gallery

  Carnegie Mellon University

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2004 — June 2007 (2 years 10 months)

  Docent, Art Handling, Exhibition Installation

Michael Kontopoulos’s Education

• University of California, Los Angeles

  2007 — 2009

• Carnegie Mellon University

  BFA , Electronic and Time-Based Media , 2003 — 2007

Additional Information

Michael Kontopoulos’s Websites:

• My Portfolio

Michael Kontopoulos’s Interests:

Critical Design, Mechanical Sculpture, Interactivity, Physical Computing, Film and Video, Responsive Architecture, Illustration.

Michael Kontopoulos’s Honors:

Rhizome Commission Winner, 2010 Commission Cycle
"Meeting of the Minds" Artistic Excellence Award
Phi Kappa Phi Research Award
Carnegie Mellon Senior Leadership Award
Undergraduate Research Grant (SURG) Recipient
Samuel Rosenberg Art Award (2005, 2007)
John L. Porter Art Award
Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society (2005-Present)
Finalist: World Karakuri Competition (Nagoya, Japan)

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