Associate Professor • hahanlin@syr.edu • www.dynakit.org

Education
BFA, Sculpture, University of Iowa, 1995
MFA, Art and Technology, The Ohio State University, 1998

Biography
Heath Hanlin is a wholesome boy from the Midwest who likes to make really weird animations and music. He has been working as a media artist and musician since 1989, when he found a Boss dual-delay pedal, a microphone and a dying cassette recorder in the basement of an abandoned house in Iowa City, Iowa. His animations, virtual realities, interactive media, music, deadly noise, and installations have been shown and performed in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Prague, Tokyo, Kobe and many, many other places that don't sound as cool, like Lexington, KY and Denver, CO. His work can be viewed online at www.dynakit.org.

Current Projects
Hanlin premiered his live cinema performance, How to Steer the Wheel in April of 2007 at the Bristol Omnimax Imax Theater in Syracuse, NY. He will perform this piece at various venues over the next 2 years.

He is currenlty working on a new long-form musical composition with longtime collaborator, Jeff Wagner. So far it is dark and heavy, like an obsidian monolith of doom.

No one is more surprised than Heath that he is co-developing a situation comedy series to be distributed online.

Recent Selected Professional Activity
LUFF 2007, Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, 10/07, Lucid Lunch (2006, score and soundtrack)

ZXZW 2007, Tilburg Netherlands, 9/20/07, Mashin' of the Christ (collaboration with Negativland, 2004)

7th Illinois International Film Festival, St. Charles, IL, USA, Lucid Lunch (2006, score and soundtrack), 9/14/07

Our Favorite Things, Negativland dvd release, distibuted by Other Cinema, Mashin' of the Christ (collaboration with Negativland, 2004)

New Vision/New Sound/Big Screen, 2007 Syracuse Film Festival, 4/21/07, How to Steer the Wheel (2007) premiere of live performance version

SoundImageSound IV, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, How to Steer the Wheel (2006)

MOFFOM Music on Film Festival 2006, 10/06 Prague, Czech Republic, How to Steer the Wheel (2006)

Not Still Art 2006, NY, NY, 10/06, Hell's Prow (2003)

Negativlandland, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA 1/06, Mashin' of the Christ (collaboration with Negativland, 2004)

"Negativland at Gigantic Art Space", review of Negativland show at Gigantic Art Space, NYC, Art in America, February 2006

Screening and lecture, CalArts School of Film and Video, 1/31/06, retrospective

Artist in Residence, CalArts Experimental Animation Department. January to March 2006