User:Mike D


 * Name: Mike D
 * E-mail: floatphotography@yahoo.com
 * Website: www.mfdthree.com
 * Major : NG

Biography
Michael Daddona is a practicing artist living and working in San Francisco, CA  working in the  mediums of  performance, sound, film, photography, installation, and  social  sculpture currently enrolled in the  new  genres  department. daddona's work  geberally deals with  themes such as  construction / destruction,decay, and  puplic/private space, the  facelessness of  the big  city, comedy, and distortion. Daddona has participated in  numerous  exhibitions on the  west and  east  coast  respectivley including, Sweeties Art Bar & Lounge (2006),   RX  Gallery - San Francisco (2005), San Francisco Art  Institute (2004,2005),  New Haven City Wide Open Studies (2003, 2004), and "Australia  Abroad" (2003). Daddona co- curated "Roc Art", an art, film, and music festival in New Haven, in June of 2003 and  October  2004. Daddona studied abroad in  Australia  in the summer of  2003, in a nomadic 400  level  art history  course, and had  work chosen out of the  group to be  exhibited. Daddona's newest projects involve contibuting to a remix project of the  classic film, Night Of The Living Dead, spearheaded by mediaexperiment.org.,  Project  Full circle; a collaborative activist  project  dedicated  to  raising awareness about the dirty needle pollution problem taking over the  streets  due to the HPP  needle exchange program,  around  certain parts  of  San Francisco. daddona is also involved with   DiamondScratch, which is a small collective of  sound  artists who are  continually conducting experiments that  turn  mundane objects into  musical instruments through various  types of  amplification. Daddona is also interested in  creating social  sculptures via the  medium of homemade beer. The first manifestation of this project was titled. "More Than One Beer"  which  brought the homemade beers, into a  very  alternative  context for consumption to create a new social space. Daddona also works as a freelance graphic  design artist, and has  worked for several bands (Wrench In The Works, The  Jeff Brown Duplex, Adam Currie  Band, My First Step Toward  Failure, Red  Scroll Records) as well as  some independent buisnesses (Automated  Services, The Pinball Store, Pinballs.com).

4 SENTANCE BIO
Michael Daddona is a artist practicing in San Francisco at the  San Francisco Art Institute. Daddona's work deals with a numbr of themes including but not limited to destruction/construction, chaos, urban  enviorments and our relation to them, comedy, and distortion (in the most ambogious forms). Daddona woeks in photography, sculpture, video, sound, installation, and performance. daddona has exhibited work on the east Coast and  West coast  respectivly at  places like RX  Gallery in San Francisco and Sweeties Art Bar 7  Lounge in San Francisco, as well as  co  produced/curated  "Roc Art"- an art  film and music  festival    two years ina  row  in  New  Haven, CT. Also plays in a avant  garde rock band, Sabreteeth, and is  interested  in integration homemade  beer into  new   social  enviorments.

2 SENTANCE BIO
Michael Daddona is a multi diciplinary artist studing New  Genres at the  San Francisco  Art Institute. Daddona's work derviews from many different influences and themes, and generally deals with urban issues, construction/destruction,  distortion, and chaos.

2 WORD BIO
social sculpture

1 WORD BIO
sabreteeth

What experience do you have with HTML and the web?
basic html programming (www.mfdthree.com)  Have built  several html based   web sites...

What experience do you have with programming and what kind?
...None really....

What do you know and how interested are you in Free Culture, Open Source, and Programming?
Much more interested then I was before The Intro To Sound Class. I want to learn more about basic  programming...

What type of installations / performances have you done?
Audio-Visual Installation/Performance, Many musical  performances  both planned  and improvised, currently  with  my band, Sabreteeth.

Have you done any public speaking?
Not really.....not  outisde from class...

What do you want to get out of this class?
Learn better how to promote my art, so it will REACH THE RIGHT PEOPLE, as well as meet some new  artists and throw some events/ etc

What field trips would you like?
Kennedy's...no seriouly....................Kennedy's....Artists  studios....

What is your website?
www.mfdthree.com, www.sabreteeth.com ...

What is your myspace account page?
www.myspace.com/sabreteeth