David R.

Witzling
Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres

(414) 238-3430
drw@frametheweb.com
http://drw.frametheweb.com

Academic Positions
Lecturer, Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres, UW-Milwaukee 2010-present
Teaching responsibilities include introductory courses, studios and electives.
Developed courses incorporating theory, history, and production (“Film as a Modernist Art
Form,” “Sociological Cinema”). Secured school-wide and university-wide committee
approvals for new elective (Film 305: “Digital Cinema and the Computer”) satisfying credit for
literacy (OWC-B) and general education (GER) content requirements.
Program Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Arts & Technology Track, UW-Milwaukee 2012-2016
Coordinator for small, interdepartmental major. Capstone studio instruction, committee
service, student advising, strategic planning, accreditation report, event organizing and
promotions, advisor to student governance body, equipment purchases & budgeting.
Adjunct Instructor, Graphic Communication Program, Carroll University 2009-2010
Digital photography instruction for applied arts students.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Film, UW-Milwaukee 2006-2009
Staff, Statistical Computing Lab, College of Animal & Life Sciences, UW-Madison 1999-2001
Computer equipment maintenance, assisted lab users with specialized software, worked with
HP UNIX commandline mainframe (vi, SAS, Minitab), spreadsheet consulting for grad students.

Educational Credentials
UW-Milwaukee M.F.A., Film Production 2006-2009
Work in multiple video formats, 16mm film, programmable new media,
experimental web art.
Undergraduate courses in Film Production, no degree 2004-2006
Dean's list. Helped produce print volume of student writing & film/video.
UW-Madison B.A., Double-Major in English & Philosophy 1997-2001
Reader and layout editor for Canvas, UW-Madison's undergraduate literary
and arts magazine, produced in the College of Letters and Science; worked
with UW Print Services to print and bind magazine; Dean's list.

Software Expertise
Linux Mint (Open Source Desktop OS based on Ubuntu/Debian LTS, Linux Kernel, GNU tools)
Mac OS X, Windows NT
Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat Professional, Media Encoder, Bridge
WordPress (Open Source PHP-Based Content Management System: Development, Coding, Administration)
LibreOffice (Open Source Productivity Suite based on Apache OpenOffice)
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Troubleshooting Code & Compatibility Testing, Network Troubleshooting
Apple Final Cut Pro 4/5/6/7, DVD Studio Pro, Compressor
Various Open Source Utilities (Handbrake, VirtualBox, ffmpeg, Audacity, VLC)
Esoteric Creative Software (Hyperupic, FScape, ARSS, JES Deinterlacer, MPEG Streamclip)
Technical Expertise
Videography, Video Editing, Video Compositing, Technical Knowledge of Video File Formats, Encoding
Sound Design, Sound Collage, Experimental and Beat-Based Music Composition, Tape & Digital
Photography, Photomanipulation, Color Correction, Digital Printing
Document Layout, Design, Printing & Binding
Web Development, Security, Web Video, Technical Knowledge of Internet Protocols, Linux Commandline
HTML, CSS, PHP, Wordpress API, DNS, PASCAL, BASIC, can read/hack BASH, etc.
Administration, Budgeting, Interdepartmental Communications, Committee Service
Event Coordinating, Curating, Marketing, Promotions
Spreadsheet Development (Visual Formatting, Formulae, Linked Worksheets, Macro Scripting)
Computer Troubleshooting (Hardware/Software Issues, Compatibility Issues, Virtualization)
Technical Writing, Copyediting, Grant Writing

Selected Screenings of Cinema Art

February 2019, Experimental and Expanded Animation Conference, University for the Creative Arts
Animation Research Centre (UK): Estranged Melody for a Holographic Empire, Echoes of Information in
an N-Dimensional Hilbert Space.
May 2018, PXL THIS 27: To the Inland Ocean.
March 2017, Ann Arbor Film Festival: Estranged Melody for a Holographic Empire.
April 2016, Wisconsin Film Festival: To the Inland Ocean.
May 2015, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival: Broadcast Eschatology Warpaint Cantata.
September 2014, Oakland Underground Film Festival (California): Everything is Normal.
June 2014, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (Canada): Everything is Normal.
May 2014, Festival de Cannes (France) Short Film Corner: To the Inland Ocean.
May 2014, Montreal Underground Film Festival (Canada): Caelvengula (editor, co-writer: collaborative work).
May 2014, EFF Experimental Film Festival (Portland): Everything is Normal.
May 2014, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival Juror's Presentation: selected work.
April 2014, Optique Main Film (Montreal), The Pond (editor, sound design, co-writer: collaborative work)
May 2013, Montreal Underground Film Festival, Canada: The Pond (editor, co-writer: collaborative work).
November 2012, Festival of New American Music (UC-Sacramento), screening by the Society for Electro-
Acoustic Music in the United States: Echoes of Information in an N-Dimensional Hilbert Space.
May 2012, EFF Experimental Film Festival (Portland): ABQ.
May 2012, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival: Echoes of Information in an N-Dimensional Hilbert Space.
February 2010, Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (Illinois): ABQ and On Seeking Levity.
July 2007, 24-Hour Make-a-Film Competition at Milwaukee Art Museum: The First Time Space Girl on the
Farm (editor, score, co-writer, b-roll: collaborative work with LHO). Awarded Best Experimental Film.
November 2006, Visible Verse, Pacific Cinémathèque (Vancouver): Rhapsody to Orpheus, on Pomegranate
Wine. Text-based narrative film screened at festival dedicated to text in cinema.
May 2006, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival: Antediluvian Nightmare Cinema. Audience Choice Award
April 2005, Times Cinema (Milwaukee), Tsunami Television Disaster. Collaboration with Cullen Bosworth,
screening with Mark Borchardt (American Movie) and Frankie Latina (Modus Operandi).
October 2004, Clone Digital Film Festival, Hameenlinna (Finland): Dreamlife of Androids. Distributed by
Microcinema International as part of April Showers 2004 program.
April 2004, Axiom Theatre (Houston), Dreamlife of Androids. Distributed by Microcinema International.
April 2004, Clinton Street Theatre (Portland): Dreamlife of Androids. Distributed by Microcinema
International as part of April Showers 2004 program.

Selected Gallery Exhibitions

January 2018 VAR Gallery, “Art and Tech” group show dedicated to digital media arts: Estranged
Melody for a Holographic Empire.
November 2015 Lucky Cat Gallery (Milwaukee), community event coordinated with Milwaukee Zine
Fest (see below, Service). Five untitled digital collages, source material
from Renaissance etchings, high resolution digital laser prints on “aged”
 paper stock, with ornate frames from local Goodwill (approx. 5” x 7” each).
March 2012 Present Music at Historic Turner Hall (Milwaukee), “Around 30” group show:
Interference for Television with Metaphysical Re-Runs. New media object.

August 2010 INOVA Gallery (Milwaukee), “Psychotrope” group show: Antediluvian

Nightmare Cinema. Show included Bruce Conner retrospective with
16mm projections, printed etchings, and personal items (letters, notebooks).
October 2006 Elastic Arts (Chicago), “Is it a Bird, Is it a Plane?” group show: Lo-Fi
Propaganda Front. Screening during gallery opening.
October 2005 Riverwest Artwalk (Milwaukee), video projection with Cullen Bosworth.
July 2005 Milwaukee Art Museum, Think/Newsbreak, part of remix retrospective including 24-
Hour Psycho.
July 2005 Living Room Gallery (Milwaukee), Paranoid Landscapes.
January 2005 OneTen Gallery (Madison), Dreamlife of Androids, Distributed by Microcinema
International as part of April Showers 2004 program
December 2004 +(ad) Nauseam (Herzog Zound, Milwaukee), Apocalypse Broadcasting.
April 2004 111 Minna Gallery (San Francisco): Dreamlife of Androids. Distributed by
Microcinema International as part of April Showers 2004 program.
April 2004 Project 101 (Paris): Dreamlife of Androids. Distributed by Microcinema
International as part of April Showers 2004 program.
November 2003 Bucketworks (Milwaukee). “Hypnagogic” group show: 2D work.
June 2003 Donnerstg Interdisciplinary Arts Spectacle at Historic Turner Hall (Milwaukee),
immersive environment installation with Dmitry Myaskovsky.
March 2003 Barnstorm group show (Milwaukee): Dreamlife of Androids. Helped organize
multidisciplinary show, single-night attendance around 600 patrons.
April 2003 Guerilla Gallery at the Dye House, 2D and video work with Dmitry Myaskovsky.
November 2002 Barnstorm group show (Milwaukee): Death of an Automaton.
May 2002 Gallery Night at Brewed Awakenings Coffee Shop, Death of an Automaton.

Recent Publications and Presentations

2016, "Exercises in Secular Heresy: Technological Determinism, Civil Liberties, and the Taboo of Diminishing
Returns." Peer-reviewed conference presentation on technology policy and diminishing returns
delivered to the Centre for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Arts and Sciences, Nipissing
University, Ontario (Canada).
2016, “Financial Complexity: Accounting for Fraud.” Science, 15 April 2016 (print, vol. 352, issue 6283).
2015, “Torture's Inefficiency Long Established.” Science, 4 December 2015 (print, vol. 350, issue 6265).
2014, Echoes of Information in an N-Dimensional Hilbert Space. Short video published by the Journal of
Short Film, Volume 31, a peer-reviewed, DVD-based publication from the Ohio State University Film
Studies Department. The publication's peer review processes is modeled on that of literary journals.
2013, Visual work, halftone photographs, collages. Printed in Canyon Cinemazine #2, a grant-funded
publication issued by San Francisco's 16mm art film distributor, Canyon Cinema.
2011, "Piracy and the Captains of Industry." Greek online journal Re-Public. Analysis of contemporary
copyright issues. Translated into Greek for bi-lingual publication.
2011, Letter to the Editor about diminishing returns, Scientific American, print issue, October 2011.
2010, "The Illustrated Howl." Published online in Snap Milwaukee. Review of the film Howl.

Honors and Awards

2007 Best Experimental Film, Milwaukee Art Museum, The First Time Space Girl on the Farm.
Experimental narrative for 24-hour film race. Lead editor, co-writer, score.
2006 Audience Choice Award, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Antediluvian Nightmare Cinema.
2005 First Place in Artistic Achievement, Caelvengula (see Screenings, 2014 above), 24-hour film race,
Milwaukee Art Museum. Experimental narrative, lead editor and co-writer, set design team.
2000 Second Place, Therese Muller Memorial Award in Short Fiction, UW-Madison.
Professional Employment
Graphic Designer, Planning & Design Institute, Inc. (acquired by Graef in 2008), 2001-2005
Corporate identity design package including web page, logo, business cards, print marketing
materials, letterhead, report covers; document design and layout, copyediting, printing and binding of
planning documents for municipal clients; bulk digitization and color correction of 35mm slide
library, images used in publications and presentations; high volume printer and network maintenance;
document design work on high-profile projects, firm was main planning consultant for World Trade
Center Memorial design competition in New York City, Village of Glenview Comprehensive Land
Use Plan (Illinois), Park East Freeway Corridor Demolition and Redevelopment (Milwaukee)
Freelance Consultant, 1996-present
Technical consulting for artist installation at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (2012)
Event videography and photography for UW-Extension Local Foods Conference, Madison (2010)
Web design, media-rich web site for Beatrice Manley's acting, teaching work, and publications (2006)
Audio restoration for “Carter” Dobiecki's recordings in Concertina Hall of Fame archive (2005)
Videography & editor, “Zombie Sock Hop” Halloween show at Club Anything, w/LHO (2004)
Municipal webpage, Township of Erin, Wisconsin (1996)

Teaching History
Spring 2018 Film 231: Concept Development for Short Film Practice, UWM.
Film 305: Digital Cinema and the Computer, UWM.
Film 301: Film as a Modernist Art Form, UWM.
Fall 2017 Film 301/341: Sociological Cinema, UWM
Film 116: Listening and Recording, UWM
Film 117: Filmmaking Technologies and Techniques, UWM
Spring 2017 Film 231: Concept Development for Short Film Practice, UWM
Film 305: Digital Cinema and the Computer (GER-Art & OWC-B)
Film 301: Film as a Modernist Art Form (GER-Art)
Fall 2017 Film 116: Listening and Recording, UWM
Film 301: Sociological Cinema (GER-Art)
Fine Art 410/510: Capstone studio in Interdisciplinary Arts & Technology, UWM
Spring 2016 Film 222: Introduction to Digital Filmmaking, UWM
Film 301/318: Film as a Modernist Art Form, UWM
Film 305: Digital Cinema and the Computer (GER-Art & OWC-B), UWM
Fall 2015 Film 301/318: Sociological Cinema, UWM
Fine Art 410/510: Capstone studio in Interdisciplinary Arts & Technology, UWM
Spring 2015 Film 301/318: Film as a Modernist Art Form, UWM
Film 203/380: Digital Cinema and the Computer, UWM
Fall 2014 Film 301/318: Sociological Cinema, UWM.
Fine Art 410/510: Capstone studio in Interdisciplinary Arts & Technology, UWM
Spring 2014 Film 301/318: Film as a Modernist Art Form, UWM
Fall 2013 Film 301/318: Sociological Cinema, UWM
Fine Art 410: Junior Project. Studio in Interdisciplinary Arts & Technology, UWM
Spring 2013 Film 301/318: Film as a Modernist Art Form, UWM
Fall 2012 Film 301/318: Social Themes in Narrative Cinema, UWM
Fine Art 410: Junior Project. Capstone studio in Interdisciplinary Arts & Technology, UWM
Spring 2012 Fine Art 510: Senior Project. Interdisciplinary Arts & Technology Program, UWM
Fall 2011 Film 301/318: Major Directors, UWM.
Fine Art 410: Junior Project. Team-taught capstone studio course with Nathaniel Stern, UWM
Spring 2011 Fine Art 510: Senior Project. Interdisciplinary Arts & Technology Program, UWM
Fall 2010 Fine Art 410: Junior Project. Team-taught capstone studio course with Nathaniel Stern, UWM

Academic Service
2014 New course approved by University-wide Academic Planning and Curriculum Committee,
 Film 305: Digital Cinema and the Computer. Also satisfies OWC-B & GER-Art
credit for enrolled non-majors, UWM's new upper-level literacy & cultural req's.
2013-2014 Technical writing for NASAD accreditation review, Peck School of the Arts, UWM.
2013-2015 Film Department Curriculum Committee, work on general education requirements, UWM.
2012-2016 Black and Gold Committee (student governance body), Peck School of the Arts, UWM.
2012-2016 Interdisciplinary Arts & Technology Track Advisory Committee, UWM
2012-2016 Organize & convene IAT Portfolio Review Committee, UWM
2012-2016 Design, coding, & administration of WordPress site
Catalog of past student work & promote future Arts+Tech Night shows. Site
involved custom code in HTML, CSS, and PHP computer languages.
2012-present Attendance at Staff Meetings, Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres, UWM.
2012 Authored 5-year strategic plan for Interdisciplinary Arts & Technology Program, UWM
2010-2016 Event organizing for Arts+Tech Night, an end-of-the-semester gallery-style showcase of
student work from across the Peck School of the Arts, UWM. Involved managing
space and equipment needs for dozens of student projects installed across four floors
of exhibition space. Student governance body approved promotions funds
including print posters, oversize print, underwriting spots on three local FM radio
stations, promoted posts on FaceBook, and a cash bar for the evening.
2010, 2011 Technical assistance for LGBT Film Festival movie preview trailer reel, UWM

Community Service
2017-present Volunteer at Riverwest Coop
2016-2017 Hosted visiting filmmakers at Milwaukee Underground Film Festival.
2015, 2016 Participant in poetry marathon for Woodland Pattern Bookstore, a 501c(3) not-for-profit.
2014 Juror for Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, a student-run organization. Hosts several
public screenings of contemporary, international, avant-garde short-form
cinema. Festival typically runs three days, highlighting projections of 16mm prints.
2013 Pro bono web consulting for non-profit Himalayan Yoga & Meditation of Milwaukee.
Helped organization recover from hacked website; provided domain name
registration and web hosting consulting; installed, configured, customized, and
secured a new WordPress site, with event booking system & PayPal integration.
2010-present Independent publisher at Milwaukee Zine Fest (Polish Falcon / Falcon Bowl, Riverwest).
2010 Restorative justice work with inner-city grade school students at 27th Street School
(Milwaukee Public School) participating in and documenting “talking circles” as a
form of collaborative conflict mediation and resolution in lieu of disciplinary action
2007 One-year internship at Lloyd Street School (Milwaukee Public School), working with inner-
city grade school students on short video projects; arranged to show finished projects
at the Wisconsin Film Festival's “Young Visions and Voices” screening (Madison).
2005 Hope House Benefit, fundraiser for transitional housing program, Riverwest Art Bar
(Milwaukee). Dissociative Television, collaborative A/V installation (w/ Andy Wise).
2005 Tsunami relief benefit, fundraising drive. Live video mixing with Cullen Bosworth.

Research Interests
Modernist Theory and Practice
Macroeconomics (Industrial Oligopolies, Planned Obsolescence, Diminishing Returns)
History of Science (Technology, Applied Science, Enlightenment Utopias & Rationalist “Progress” Ideologies)
Open Source Culture, Intellectual Property Rights & Copyright Law
History of Ideas and Comparative Religions

Membership Organizations
2013-present American Association for the Advancement of Science
2013-present Electronic Frontier Foundation