Tina Blaine

Email: tblaineatgmaildotcom

Interactive Media Specialist –Technologist, Educator, Exhibit Developer, Researcher, Musician and Consultant: Specialize in producing custom site-specific experiences for the public in a variety of settings including theaters, museums, outdoor venues and more with collaborative live performance.

Education

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA: Masters of Entertainment Technology (M.E.T.)

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI: Schools of Engineering and Natural Resources, B.S.

Antioch University, London, England: Urban Planning & Design.

Professional Experience

Executive Director, Educator, Researcher, Project Manager and Multimedia Innovator

Executive Director, Rhythmix Cultural Works:  Oversaw production of hundreds of performances, arts education assemblies, exhibits, fundraising campaigns and advocacy for state and local public art funding. 2010-2022.

Entertainment Technology Consultant: Freelance consultant for various companies and non-profits including The Tech Museum of Innovation, Thinkwell Design, Rapport Inc., Yahoo!, Rhythmix Cultural Works, The Franklin Institute and The Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM), Curator of "Technology for the Benefit of Humanity" for the Tech Museum in San Jose, CA. 2006-present.

Faculty/Lecturer: Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center, Human Computer Interaction Institute and School of Design. Lecturer and Advisor on client-sponsored projects with focus on development of interactive audiovisual experiences, interface design and sound design for a variety of applications. Fall 2000 - 2006.

Adjunct Faculty: California College of Arts & Crafts (CCAC) Introduction to Sound Design. Fall 2002. Served on Media Advisory Board.

Project Manager/Member Research Staff: Interval Research Corporation. Research and development of shared audio media services, products and applications for broadband communication. Responsible for project management, liaisons with outside companies, hiring contractors, coordination of interaction design, user testing, scenario and prototype development. 1999-2000.

Project Manager/Creative Director: Interval Research Corporation. Directed design and production of "Jam-O-Drum" Interactive Music System. Responsible for managing ten person team, coordinating and implementing all phases of audiovisual recording, sound design and hardware/software development for collaborative gaming on custom tabletop device. Jam-O-Drum is on permanent exhibition at the Experience Music Project Museum, Seattle, WA. 1998-1999.

Vice-President and Creative Director, D’CuCKOO International, Inc. Co-invented, designed and implemented building of custom electronic MIDI controller instruments and digital show-toys for interactive audience participation. Managed recording, sampling, composition, instrument design, event coordination, publicity and production of multimedia performances for Fortune 500 corporate companies, conferences, festivals and international events. 1986 -1997.

Public Art, Conferences and Exhibits

• Island City Waterways Public Art Performances, Alameda, CA 2016, 2018, 2022
• Interactive Water Fountain, Atlantic City Pier, Atlantic City, NJ, 2006
• Animateering Exhibit: Zeum, San Francisco, CA. 2006
• Animateering Exhibit: Give Kids the World, Kissimmee, FL. 2005 - present
• Jam-O-Drum/CircleMaze Exhibit: Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. 2003- present
• Jam-O-World Immersive 3D Game Exhibit: Zeum, San Francisco, CA. 2002-2003
• Jam-O-Drum Exhibit: Experience Music Project Museum, Seattle, WA. 2000-present
• Circle Maze Exhibit: Emerging Technologies, SIGGRAPH 2001, Los Angeles, CA
• Jam-O-Drum Exhibit: Emerging Technologies, SIGGRAPH 2000, New Orleans, LA
• Jam-O-Drum Interactive Music System, Design of Interactive Systems (DIS 2000) ACM

Contributing Writer

• Adobe Design Center Think Tank, Essays on Design, Culture and Technology.
• Journal of New Music Research, Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse, The Netherlands
• Electronic Musician Magazine, Emeryville, CA.
• CNET Technology News, San Francisco, CA.
• The Net Magazine, Burlingame, CA.
• MacUser, Foster City, CA.
• Computer Life Magazine, SF, CA.
• New Media Magazine, San Mateo, CA.
• Outside Magazine, Chicago, IL.

Select Professional Speaking Engagements

• IRCAM: Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris, France 2008
• Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2007
• Stanford HCI Speaker Series, 2007
• PARC Forum Speaker Series, 2007
• Push the Future Conference, Minneapolis, MN
• New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conferences (NIME), Vancouver, Canada, Montreal, Canada, and Dublin, Ireland (2002, 2003, 2005)
• Mosaic Conference, Carnegie Melon University, Pittsburgh, PA "Women in the Virtual World, Gender and Game Creation"
• International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC), Pittsburgh, PA
• American Association of Museums (AAM) Portland, OR "Creating Technology Exhibits that Foster Collaboration"
• New Paradigms for User Computing (NPUC), IBM
• American Institute of Graphics (AIGA), Washington, D.C.
• Banff New Media Institute: Human Voice/Computer Vox & Navigating Intelligence Conferences
• Princeton University
• Organic.com
• Napa Valley Arts & Lecture Series
• Virtuality & Play, CCAC, SF, CA sponsored by Villa Tosca Design Center & SFSU.
• New Minds Festival Fall Lecture Series, Yerba Buena Ctr SF, CA.
• University of California at Santa Cruz, "Technology & World Music"
• Univ. of California at Davis, "Impact of Technology on World Music"
• New Voices, New Visions Jury for Int’l Multimedia Submissions.
• ShowBiz Expo, LA, CA "Interactive Entertainment".
• Virtual Reality Education Foundation, SF, CA. "Interactive Music & V.R."
• Multimedia Expo, San Jose, CA. "Convergence of Science, Art & Technology."
• Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA
• New Music Seminar, NY, NY. "Effects of Virtual Reality on Music".
• University of Vienna, "West Africa to Silicon Valley".

Grants, Honors and Awards

• Artist Residency: Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM), Amsterdam, Netherlands 2006
• Berkman Faculty Grant, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 2005-2006
• Honored for inspiring and innovative work in the sciences by Southwestern Pennsylvania Women and Girls Foundation and the Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA Fall 2005
• California Arts Council Recording Grant awarded to RhythMix Cultural Works 2001-2002
• Richard Saul Wurman's, Who's Really Who: 1000 Most Creative Individuals in the USA 2002

Select Discography, Composition and Sound Design

• "It's My Body", Engineering and composition for ProChoice video and song featuring Carlos Santana, Cindy Blackman Santana, Tracy Blackman, Vicki Randle and Angeline Saris.
• "Maze Daiko" Heart of the Mountain, Chikara, Matsuri MashUp. 
• "Falling in Light", Engineering and composition for Bindi Society CD
• "Like the Dust", XDot25 Records, Haunted by Waters. 
• "Umoja" RGB Records, Asst engineering and composition for D’CuCKOO’s CD.
• "D'CuCKOO", Aisle of Women, D'Kayla, 3-D recording in Virtual Audio.
• "OneWorld" with Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, Elektra Records.
• D'CuCKOO with Brian Eno & the Neville Brothers, Alpha Omega Studios, SF, CA.
• "Fashion Africana", Wabei Siyolwe, SoySos TuffSound Recording
• "Song of the Sea", Sharon Knight, TranceJam Records (percussion)
• RhythMix: "3 Rivers", Asst engineering and composition for CD
• Earth Theater: Carnegie Science Center - Soundtrack for Creataceous Chaos
• "Six Degrees of Freedom", composition for award winning SGI Virtual Reality Documentary
• CD-ROM soundtrack, Medio Multimedia "African Safari" CD.
• Film soundtrack, 20^th Century Fox documentary "The Making of the Abyss".
• Game Soundtracks for SEGA Video games, "Captain Planet," "Little Mermaids".
• TV soundtrack contributor CBS-TV "Peanuts Spring Training Charlie Brown".
• Theme music for National Public Radio (NPR) syndicated shows "Software/Hard Talk with John Dvorak" and "Radio: The Marimba".
• Theme music for Calendar Public Service Announcements KPIX-TV.
• Voice-over: CD-ROM production assistance for Computer Life Magazine.
• CD-ROM Quicktime video/audio post-production for Random House Multimedia.

Volunteer Service/Community Outreach

• Marine Conservation Volunteer, Madagascar Research and Conservation Institute, Nosy Komba, 2022.
• Facilitator, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Drum Circles for Children. Spring 2005 – 2006.
• Give Kids the World Resort, advising/collaborating with students on creation of new media experiences for children with life-threatening illnesses. Spring 2005 – 2006
• Co-organizer: DrumTalk at University of Pittsburgh, May 2005. Included Master drummers in MiddleEastern, West African and drumset techniques for workshops and performances with Mamady Keita, Anicent Mundundu, Elie Kihonia, Cheikh and Assane M’Baye, John Chernoff, Tina Blaine and Tim Adams of the Pittsburgh Symphony.
• Bread & Roses: Volunteer performer at numerous venues around the SF Bay area including drug rehabilitation centers, women’s shelters, AIDS hospices, hospitals and detention centers for young people.
• Community outreach with Rhythmix: includes performances for CARAL (California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League), San Quentin State Prison, La Peña Cultural Center, Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Napa State Hospital, and the San Francisco Women's Shelter. Since 1997, Rhythmix has reached thousands of elementary school children with over 170 performances in approximately 80 San Francisco Bay Area schools as a featured ensemble with the San Francisco Symphony’s “Adventures in Music”(AIM), Young Audiences of the Bay Area and Bread and Roses programs.

Educational Travel

• Salvador, Brazil, Intensive study focus on Candomble', the Afro Brazilian spiritual tradition, with frame drum instruction from Layne Redmond, Atabaque with the master drummers from Bale Folclorico, and dance instruction with Rosangela Silvestre.
• Sado Island, Japan, RhythMix Cultural Works Cultural Exchange Study trip: 2 weeks intensive study of Taiko drumming, folkloric song and dance with KODO and Hana-Yui.
• Havana, Cuba, RhythMix Cultural Works Cultural Exchange: Study trip focused on the folkloric drum, dance and song of the Arara and Yoruban cultures in Matanzas and Habana, Cuba with Amelia Pedroso, masters of bata, and Cuban folkloric music.
• Dakar, Senegal: Two months percussion study w/Master drummers Meissa Thiube and Moussa Sylla.
• Dakar, Senegal, Congo/Brazzaville: Two months study with master drummers and dancers from the Senegalese National Ballet and Congolese National Dance Companies.