Holland Wilde
Resume - Curriculum Vita (September 2011)
Independent TV/media researcher
Present: After 35 years as a visual rhetorician interpreting logocentric texts (theatre, design,
TV, news), I have shifted my interests from designing to de-signing and now attempt to
talk back to media makers through media -- writing equally with images, sounds and
words by appropriating and remixing TV/media’s language and technique into new kinds
of civic, experimental and ethnographic elicitation for critically engaging our culture(s)...
in short, I am a mediaturg pamphleteer.
Career: Owner and principal designer: Pencilogic (Boston, 1986-2004). Servicing a broad
range of global TV efforts including: Scenery and costume design; graphic and product
design; fine art and print; and environmental design for television’s creative and news-
journalism industries; and receiving numerous acclamations including ten Emmys from
the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. (reel - ideation - branding - art)
Address
2714 Parkdale Blvd. NW
Calgary, AB, Canada t2n-3s7
p: 403.695.0826
n: http://www.culturalfarming.com
Education
PhD Candidate - Queensland University of Technology, Australia 2009-2010
Institute of Creative Industries, Critical Media Ethnography (x)
International Sociological Association Laboratory for Ph.D. Students in Sociology &
XI Fulbright Summer School Moscow State University, Russia 2008
Post-Graduate Studies - University of Calgary, Canada 2006-2008
Faculty of Communication and Culture, Visual Studies
League of Professional Theatre Training Schools Portfolio Review Invitational 1983
The Juilliard School New York, NY
Master of Fine Arts - Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 1983
Scenery/Costume Design, Theatre
Foreign Studies - University of Sarajevo Yugoslavia 1975
Fine Art & Stage Design
Bachelor of Science - Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI 1975
William James College
Fine Arts, Media, Theatre, Environmental Design
Broadcast Television Design
1987 - 2004: Produced on-air scenic design for over 100 television stations and
networks worldwide. (partial list)
IndiaTV (INS) global New Delhi, India
NBC & Telemundo NBC Chicago, IL; San Jose, CA; San Francisco, CA
TBS Superstation cable Atlanta, GA
ESPN; ESPN-Sur global Bristol, CT; Buenos Aires, Argentina
E! Entertainment TV cable Los Angeles, CA
Encore Network cable Denver, CO
WGBH-TV2 PBS Boston, MA
Board of Directors - Broadcast Designers Association 1994-98
Broadcast Designers Association is the seminal international design organization for 3D
design, print, graphics, and animation for the entire media broadcast industry.
Film, Commercial, Industrial Design 1983-1990
Art director, designer, stylist, scenic artist for over 30 productions (partial list)
The Pool: OverPlus Productions 1987
Lip Service: HBO 1988
Lemon Sky: American Playhouse (PBS) 1988
The Trial of Bernard Goetz: American Playhouse (PBS) 1987
Theatre Design
1975 - 1988: Produced scenic and-or costume design for over 50 stage productions
for drama, opera, ballet (partial list)
Premiere: Rap Master Ronnie, Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury) Wash.DC 1984
Resident Design Director - Grand Rapids Civic Theatre 1977-80
Professional Conference Presentations:
Broadcast Designers Association. (partial list)
“Provoking a Plugged Planet”: Los Angeles 1996
Session host, moderator and speaker with guest panelists:
Michael Moore - Filmmaker, Host: Roger and Me, TV Nation, Columbine
Karrie Jacobs - Writer: Metropolis, New York Magazine
Douglas Rushkoff - Author: Cyberia, Media Virus
Bill McKibben - Author: The End of Nature, Age of Missing Information, Hope
Human and Wild
“Teach Your Children”: Los Angeles 1996
“Light and Structure”: Washington D.C. 1995
“TV's Big Lie”: Orlando 1993
“Big Risk Set Design”: Las Vegas 1990
Teaching
Teaching Assistant - Film Studies 200
University of Calgary - 2007 & 2008
Technical Director & Lecturer - Drama Department
Tufts University, Medford, MA 1985-87
Assistant Professor of Drama & Head of Design
Wheaton College, Norton, MA 1983-84
Adjunct Faculty - Spatial Design Curriculum
Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI 1980
Adjunct Faculty - Drama Department
Grand Rapids Community College, Grand Rapids, MI 1980
Educational Lectures
German Design Universities - Invited Lecture Tour: “News Media Visualization”
April 1996
Film Academy - Ludwigsburg
State Academy of Design - Karlsruhe
PictureMedia Center - Mainz
December 1995
Institute for Visual Media - Stuttgart
Academy of Media Arts (HKM) - Cologne
Technical University for Applied Sciences - Augsburg
Papers, Presentations, Events (partial list)
Calgary Stampede, Western Showcase, Creative Arts and Crafts, Calgary, AB
“100 Memories Blanket” 2011
Media Ecology Conference: “Space, Place, and the McLuhan Legacy”, Edmonton, AB
“Cultural Farming: Extensions of McLuhan” / Farewell Address 2011
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA
“Hurricane Katrina” & “British Petroleum” 2011
Contemporary Ethnography Across Disciplines Conference, Univ. of Waikato, NZ
“Critical TV Ethnography and Civic Mediaturgy” 2010
Screens of Terror Conference, London South Bank University, UK
“Representations of War and Terrorism in North American Television” 2010
30th Nordic Anthropological Film Association Festival and Symposium, Aarhus, DK
“Stranger Danger: Infantilization and the Production of Childhood” 2010
Consumer Culture Theory Conference, Univ. of Wisconsin School of Business, WI
“Spilling Communication: Appropriation as Power and Resistance” 2010
Performance Art and Posthumanism Conference, University of Sussex, UK
“(re)Performing the Posthuman: Liminal Thresholds” 2010
14th Annual Webby Awards, International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, NYC
Nominee: Online FIlm & Video “Baudrillards‘ Blender” 2010
American Anthropological Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA
“Cultural Media Ethnography Within Fields of Resistance” 2009
1st International Visual Methods Conference, University of Leeds, UK
“Cultural Farming: Visual Methods, TV, and the Ethics of Failure” 2009
Berkeley Video & Film Festival, Berkeley, CA
“Zapook of the North” Grand Festival Award: Ethnography 2009
Transcultural Montage Conference, Inst. of Anthropology, Aarhus University, DK
“Cultural Farming: Talking Back to Television” 2009
Alberta Printmakers’ Society: Calgary, Alberta, CA
“Engraving Culture” Speaker series and panel discussion 2009
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture - Digital Journal
“Wilde Emerald” in “Avant-Garde as Critical Practice”. Vol. 9, No.2, 2009
Visual Cultures Symposium, George Mason University, DC
6th Annual: "Unthinking Television: Visual Cultures Beyond the Console," 2009
5th Annual: “Provocation: The Art of Social Engagement” 2008
2nd CISSGE Postgraduate Conference, University of Exeter, UK
“Sexuality, Textuality, Image” 2008
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, City University, London, UK
“(re)Performing Television: Pedagogy and Civic Media” 2008
Of Aesthetics and Ethics: Visual Values Conference, USF, St. Petersburg, FL 2008
“Cameras or Guns: How Cable News (re)Massacred Virginia Tech”
Visual Communication: Rhetoric and Technology, RIT, Rochester, NY
“Cameras or Guns: Fighting for Responsible Media” 2008
“Media Nipple: Folk Video” 2006
The Visual Communication Conference #19-21, (western USA)
“Difficult Images” screening 2007
“Cultural Farming: Subsistence Living in a Mediated World” 2006
“Screens: Reality and Representation” 2005
Design Communication Association, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
“MSNBC: The News Channel of Dr. Caligari” 2007
Published: Ball State Press
International Visual Sociology Association, New York University, NYC
“Is Google Smarter Than Sociology?” 2007
11th Annual Western Graduate Communication Conference, Nelson, BC
“Transitioning: Professional TV to Civic TV” 2007
VloggerCon, San Francisco, CA
“Video Blogging and Journalism” 2006
One Minute Film Festival, Toronto, ON
“My Chemical Romance” Selected for screening 2006
Music in the Dark #4 - Soundtracks for silent films, New York City, NY
“Our Body Media” Commissioned video for Michael Whalen 2006
Awards
14th Annual Webby Awards, International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, NYC
Nominee: Online Film & Video “Baudrillards‘ Blender” 2010
Berkeley Video & Film Festival, Berkeley CA 2009
Grand Festival Award - Ethnography: Zapook of the North
5th Annual Visual Cultures Symposium, George Mason University 2008
Best Student Submission Award
The Visual Communication Conference, Salt Lake City 2006
Inaugural Recipient: Bob Tiemens Award
EMMY Awards - National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences: TV news design
WXYZ-TV7 (ABC) 2001
WWGN-TV2 (WB) 2000
KCNC-TV7 (CBS) 1998
C/Net Channel 1998
WXYZ-TV7 (ABC) 1997
WXIX-TV19 (FOX) 1997
KDFW-TV4 (FOX) 1996
KGTV-TV10 (ABC) 1995
KSL-TV5 (CBS) 1994
KUSA-TV9 (ABC) 1992
Broadcast Designer's Association International Competition
Excellence in Design: 4 Gold Awards, 5 Silver Awards, 6 Bronze 1988-2002
Innovative Design Excellence Award - Supon Design Group 1996
Meritorious Achievement – Massachusetts Democratic State Committee 1984
Pedigree
Autoethnography and Reflexive Media Production 2010
#Nine (1962 & 1977)
