Kenneth A. Huff
ken@kennethahuff.com • +1 727 505 3913
www.KennethAHuff.com — 2D artwork, animation
www.KenHuff.com — Photography, poetry, Strange Attractions
Teaching experience
2011–2019 Training Supervisor (2014–2019) and Technical Trainer (2011–2014); Lucasfilm Animation/Industrial Light & Magic Singapore; Creative and technical curriculum and instruction oversight of internal artist training; Junior talent development; External curriculum advisement; Lectures, seminars, course development and classroom instruction; Public outreach; FX artist and apprentice lead on Pacific Rim (2013).
2007–2011 Professor, Visual Effects; School of Film and Digital Media; Savannah College of Art and Design; Savannah, Georgia (Fall 2007 to Spring 2011).
2007 Visual Effects Artist in Residence; School of Film and Digital Media, Savannah College of Art and Design; Savannah, Georgia (Spring 2007).
See also Workshops and courses below.
One-person exhibitions (selected)
2010 Arts and Humanities Commission; Salina, Kansas.
2010 Telfair Museum of Art; Savannah, Georgia.
2009– Ars Electronica Center; Linz, Austria (2009 to present).
2008 Crandall Art Gallery; Mount Union College; Alliance, Ohio.
2007 Suzanne von Liebig Theatre, Halbritter Center for the Performing Arts, Juniata College; Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
2007 Atlanta City Gallery at Chastain Art Center; Atlanta, Georgia.
2005 Pinnacle Gallery; Savannah College of Art and Design; Savannah, Georgia.
2005 Kemper Art Gallery; Illinois Institute of Technology; Chicago, Illinois.
2004 Museum of Science and Industry; Tampa, Florida.
2003 Brevard Museum of Art and Science; Melbourne, Florida.
2000 Winfisky Gallery at Salem State College; Salem, Massachusetts.
1999 The Photonics Center at Boston University; Boston, Massachusetts.
1999 Joan Derryberry Art Gallery at Tennessee Technological University; Cookeville, Tennessee.
Performances
2019 Huff × Ding Yi: A Music and Visual Collaboration, Singapore Night Festival, Ding Yi Music Company. Live full dome visuals to accompany chamber ensemble performances.
2009 Ars Electronic Festival, Vom Streben nach ungehörter Musik Große Konzertnacht (Pursuit of the Unheard, The Big Concert Evening). Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies conducting. Animation to accompany performance of Alan Havhaness’ Lousadzak (Coming of Light) for piano and strings, Op. 48.
Group exhibitions (selected)
2007–2009 Victory Arts Program Premiere Collection; Victory Media Network at Victory Plaza; Dallas, Texas.
various SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, an international group exhibition (ten showings overall; nine consecutive); Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics (ACM SIGGRAPH); Various locations: Orlando 1998; Los Angeles 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2008; New Orleans 2000; San Antonio 2002; San Diego 2003 and Boston 2006 (catalog for each).
2006 TwoNotTen Festival; Bargate Monument Gallery; Southampton, United Kingdom.
2006 “Capturing Time and Space”; Axiom Gallery; Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2006 “Expanded Sculpture”; 119 Gallery; Lowell, Massachusetts.
2005 “State of the Digital Arts”; DeVos Art Museum at University of Northern Michigan; Marquette, Michigan (online catalog).
2004 General Motors Design Center; Featured guest artist; Warren, Michigan.
2004 “Digital Selections”; Schick Art Gallery at Skidmore College (curated); Saratoga Springs, NY.
2001 “Ninth New York Digital Salon”; Visual Arts Museum at School of Visual Arts; New York, NY.
1999 “Seventh New York Digital Salon; Visual Arts Museum at School of Visual Arts; New York, NY.
Bibliography (selected)
2006 Huff, Kenneth A. (Paul Fishwick, Editor); “Visually encoding numbers utilizing prime factors” (book chapter); Aesthetic Computing (book); MIT Press.
2006 Wands, Bruce; Art of the Digital Age (book); Thames and Hudson.
2006 Faure Walker, James; Painting the Digital River: How an Artist Learned to Love the Computer (book); Prentice Hall.
2005 Eber, Dena Elisabeth; “Spacetime in Threading Time: The SIGGRAPH 2005 Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California” (review); intelligent agent; Volume 5, Number 1.
2005 “Final edit: Far-out visions”; National Geographic; May 2005.
2004 Weishar, Peter; CGI: The Art of the 3D Computer-Generated Image (book); Abrams.
2001 Huff, Kenneth A.; “Artist Statements: Kenneth Huff: Prime Number Series: 2000.24”; LEONARDO: Ninth New York Digital Salon (Special issue, catalog of exhibition); Vol. 34, No. 5.
1999 Huff, Kenneth A.; “The application of a non-periodic tiling pattern in the creation of artistic images”; SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Abstracts and Applications; ACM SIGGRAPH.
Workshops and courses (selected)
2020 Jacksonville University; Photo haiku workshop.
2011–2019 Lucasfilm Animation Singapore; Various lectures, seminars, and classroom courses on a wide range of technical and artistic topics (June 2011 to present).
2009 Lucasfilm Animation Singapore; Lectures, seminars and classroom training.
2007–2011 Visual Effects Department, School of Film and Digital Media, Savannah College of Art and Design; Savannah, Georgia; Courses (Spring 2007–Spring 2011; 13 Quarters): “Procedural Modeling and Animation” (VSFX 350, 7 times), “Particles and Procedural Effects” (VSFX 428, 1 time), “Digital Fine Art”* (VSFX 495E, 2 times), “Digital Materials and Textures” (TECH 311, 18 times), “Digital Visual Effects II” (VSFX 424, 2 times), “Advanced Application Scripting”* (TECH 312, 10 times), “Stereoscopic Imaging”* (VSFX 360, 2 times), “Digital Design Aesthetics” (ITGM 130, 2 times), “Advanced Survey of Computer Art Applications” (CMPA 110, 2 times) and “Visual Effects Portfolio” (VSFX 490, 4 times). (* authored course)
various Juniata College; Huntingdon, Pennsylvania; Workshops: 2005 (2) and 2006.
various College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University; State College, Pennsylvania; Workshops: 2005 and 2006.
various Pennsylvania Governor's School for Information Technology; State College, Pennsylvania; Workshops: 2004 and 2005.
2004 General Motors Design Center; Warren, Michigan; Workshop.
Residencies (selected)
2020–2024 New Media Artist in Residence; NOMAD @ SEAN RUSH; West Palm Beach, Florida.
2006 Artist in Residence; Juniata College; Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
2005 Malloy Visiting Fellow (Lecturer and artist in residence); Juniata College; Huntingdon, PA.
2004 Artist in residence; Museum of Science and Industry; Tampa, Florida.
2002 SIGGRAPH 2002 Art Gallery Working Artist Residency; San Antonio, Texas.
Lectures and presentations (selected)
2019 Presentation to Graduate Seminar in New Media; University of California Santa Cruz.
2014 United Nations Internet Governance Forum; Panelist; Istanbul, Turkey.
2013 Lucasfilm/Industrial Light & Magic; The Presidio, San Francisco, California.
2012 Tisch Asia, Singapore.
2011 SIGGRAPH Asia 2011; Presenter (4 events); Hong Kong.
2009 SIGGRAPH 2009; Panelist, “Information Visualization”; New Orleans, Louisiana.
2009 Egg Story Digital Arts School, the Temasek Design School at Temasek Polytechnic, the School of Interactive and Digital Media at Nanyang Polytechnic, the School of Digital Media and Infocomm Technology and the School of Design at Singapore Polytechnic, Intense Animation Academy and SAE Institute Singapore; Lectures: “Kenneth A. Huff: Organic Constructions”.
2009 Telfair Museum of Art’s Jepson Art Center; Savannah, Georgia.
2008 New Jersey School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Newark, New Jersey
2008 Mount Union College; Kershaw Lecture Series; Alliance, Ohio.
2007 SIGGRAPH 2007; Course panelist, “Digital Art Techniques”; San Diego, California.
various Savannah College of Art and Design; Savannah, Georgia, 2004, 2005 and 2007; Atlanta, 2007.
2006 Ringling School of Art and Design Artist Retreat at Wildacres Retreat; Little Switzerland, NC.
2006 University of Massachusetts Lowell; Lowell, Massachusetts.
2006 Boston University; Boston, Massachusetts.
2005 Juniata College; Huntingdon, Pennsylvania; Lectures: “Kenneth A. Huff: Organic Constructions” and “Currents in new media art”.
various Bowling Green State University; Bowling Green, Ohio; 2001 and 2005.
various OZONE at SIGGRAPH; Los Angeles, California; 2004 and 2005.
various SIGGRAPH Art Gallery Artist Talks; Various locations: Orlando, 1998; Los Angeles 1999, 2001, 2004 and 2005.
various Pennsylvania Governor's School for Information Technology; State College, PA; 2000–2005.
2005 Subtle Technologies Festival at University of Toronto; Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
various Digital Arts and Sciences Program at University of Florida; Gainesville, Florida; 2000–2002 and 2005.
2004 General Motors Design Center; Warren, Michigan.
2004 Brevard Museum of Art and Science; Melbourne, Florida.
various School of Visual Arts; New York, New York; 2002 and 2003.
2002 College for Creative Studies; Detroit, Michigan.
Grants, awards and honors (selected)
2007 State of Florida Artist Enhancement Grant.
2004–2007 Technology grant of software and support (three); mental images GmbH; Berlin, Germany.
2006 Individual Artist Grant; Arts Council of Hillsborough County; Florida.
2000–2005 Independent Artists Program Technology Grants (six); Alias Systems, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2005 Technology grant of software; Apple Computer; Cupertino, California.
2005 In-kind grant of computer time for rendering (two); Savannah College of Art and Design, School of Film and Digital Media; Savannah, Georgia.
2004 In-kind grant of rapid prototyping for sculpture; General Motors Design Center; Warren, MI.
2002 Named "Maya Master" by Alias|Wavefront Inc.; Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Related professional activities (selected)
2006 Juror; SIGGRAPH Art Gallery; Boston, Massachusetts.
2006 Juror and judge; Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts; State College, Pennsylvania.
2006 Juror; Broward Community College; “Breakthroughs”, a national exhibition; Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
2002 Juror; MAIN ST. Ft. Worth Arts Festival; Ft. Worth, Texas.
Collections (selected)
AGOSTO, Inc.; Tokyo, Japan.
Alias Systems; Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
AutumnColor Digital Imaging; Worcester, Massachusetts.
Doubletree Hotel; Doheny Beach, California.
Downtown Fort Worth, Inc.; Fort Worth, Texas.
Greater Orlando Aviation Authority; Orlando, Florida.
Juniata College; Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
Illinois Institute of Technology; Chicago, Illinois.
Maplewood Richmond Heights School District; Maplewood, Missouri.
Red Wing Shoe Company, Inc.; Red Wing, Minnesota.
Salina Arts and Humanities Commission; Salina, Kansas.
Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art; Savannah, Georgia.
SunTrust; Orlando, Florida.
Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System; Tampa, Florida.
Professional organizations
Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics
National Association of Independent Artists
Visual Effects Society
Education
Self-taught in artistic and technical practice.
Studied anthropology under the Honors Program at the University of Florida (1987-1989).
Jacksonville University, MFA Visual Arts, (Expected completion, December 2024).
As of April 2024. Complete CV available upon request.