Daniel Durning's Organizations List

SUMMARY
Daniel Durning is a designer, artist, and educator with a broad range of professional experiences in the field of new media design and digital media production. He has many years of experience developing projects in, 3D animation, film, broadcast, interactive media, and print for established industry firms and prestigious clients such as Disney, Sci-Fi Channel, Cineplex Odeon, American Heritage, IBM, and Chase Manhattan. As an artist he has exhibited his work internationally and as an educator he has taught undergraduate and graduate level classes in subjects ranging from broadcast motion graphics, digital video production, web design to fine art sculpture and 3D animation at schools in the NYC area including NYC College of Technology, Stevens Institute of Technology, SVA, Pratt, LIU, and NYIT.

He has extensive managerial and administrative experience organizing events in both the academic and public environments like the MetroCAF Student Animation Festival, RedHook International Film & Video festival and as an Exhibition Chair for the Brooklyn Waterfront Arts Organization in addition to managing campus wide galleries at NYIT. He has served on numerous academic committees,
and serves as a long-standing member of the Board of Directors of the NYC chapter of ACM Siggraph. Additionally he is an active member of the digital arts community who regularly produces and hosts a popular internet radio show, “Art & Technology: Discussions with Visual and Sound Artists”, for Art on The Airwaves and affiliate of MOMA’s internet based radio station, WPS1 art radio.

EDUCATION:
Masters of Fine Arts in Computer Art, 1994.
School of Visual Arts, NY, NY.

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture, 1985.
School of Visual Arts, NY, NY.

TEACHING:

2007- Current
Developed curriculum and taught classes at various NYC area colleges.
Associate Professor, Long Island University, Media Arts Department, Brooklyn Campus.
Assistant Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, Art & Technology Program.
Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, Center for Continuing and Professional Studies.
Assistant Professor, Hofstra University, Department of Radio, Television and Film.
Assistant Professor, New York City College of Technology, Advertising Design and Graphic Arts Department.

2000 -2007
Full-Time Faculty, Assistant Professor, New York Institute of Technology, Fine Arts Department.
Developed curriculum and taught classes at both the Old Westbury and Manhattan Campuses of NYIT, subjects included Motion Graphics and Broadcast Design, Web Design, Computer Graphics Imaging and Design for Print, Digital Video and Compositing, Stop Motion Animation, 3D Modeling and Animation. Advised students on all design, technical and esthetic areas of production for projects, including print, web and animations encouraging them to participate in international and local contests and festivals. Additional responsibilities included managing school wide fine art galleries and exhibitions, serving on numerous academic committees and developing curriculum for MFA in Graphic Design, Computer Graphics and Animation.

2006 Summer
Visiting Professor, New York Institute of Technology, Middle East Programs, Bahrain Campus, Island Kingdom of Bahrain. Developed curriculum and taught foundation level classes in the traditional fine arts methods of Drawing and Sculpture to Freshman level Bahraini and Middle Eastern Computer Graphics students studying at the satellite Middle East Campus of NYIT in Adiliya, Bahrain. Departmental responsibilities in addition to teaching included developing curriculum, student advisement and developing class resources appropriate for local students in addition to representing NYIT in an international environment.

1996 - Current
Associate Professor, Long Island University, Media Arts Department, Brooklyn Campus.
Curriculum Development and teaching for undergraduate classes in Web Design, Desktop Publishing, 3D Animation.

2000 -Present.
Full time Faculty member and Assistant Professor, Fine Arts Department, New York Institute of Technology, classes taught at both the Old Westbury and Manhattan in Animation, 3D Animation, Computer Graphics Imaging, Digital Video and Motion Graphics using the Windows, Macintosh and SGI platforms. Developed curriculum and teaching methodologies for using the lat est computers and software used in Computer Graphics Workshop's in Digital Video, Non-linear Editing, Sound Editing, Animation, 3D animation and a hybrid analog digital mix for Stop Motion Animation. Advised Students on all technical and esthetic areas of production for student projects, including two computer animations accepted into NYC SIGGRAPH's MetroCAF Student Anima tion Festival and one student projects in stop-motion animation accepted in the Coney Island Film Festival.

2006 Summer
Visiting Faculty for Middle East Programs,
New York Institute of Technology, Bahrain Campus, Island Kingdom of Bahrain.
Developed curriculum and taught classes in the traditional fine arts methods of Drawing and Sculp ture as part of the NYIT Computer Graphics Degree Map taught foundation classes in Drawing and Sculpture to entrée level Bahraini and Middle Eastern Fine Arts CG students at the satellite Middle East Campus of NYIT in Adiliya, Bahrain. My Departmental Responsibilities in addition to teach ing included developing curriculum, student advisement and developing class resources appropriate for local students in addition to representing NYIT in an international environment.

1996-1999.
Adjunct Faculty member, Associate Professor, Media Arts Department, Long Island University,
Brooklyn Campus. Curriculum Development and teaching for undergraduate classes in Web
Publishing on the Win NT platform. Teaching for undergraduate Introductory classes in Computer
Graphics and Design using Adobe Photoshop on the MAC and Win NT platforms.

1997 - 2000
Adjunct Faculty member, Computer Arts Department School of Visual Arts
Thesis Group Leader: Animation advisor of senior thesis projects in Computer Art and Animation.
Advising on all technical and esthetic areas of production for student projects, including two
award winning student projects in computer animation. SVA's "Dusty Award" Best Computer
Animation in 1998 & 2000. Curriculum Development & teaching of undergraduate classes in
Thesis Animation and Thesis Pre-Production. Curriculum Development & teaching of undergradu ate Computer Animation Workshop using Softimage 3D visualization software on the SGI platform for both Computer Art Department and the Film and Video Department. Continuing Education workshops in 3D modeling and Animation, Softimage 3D, and Unix Workshops for the SGI
platform.

1998
Adjunct Faculty member, Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, Graduate Department of
Computer Graphics and Interactive Media. Curriculum Development & teaching for
graduate classes in 3D Design and Modeling using MAYA on the SGI platform.

1983
Director of Arts, Ossining Community Day Care Program, Ossining, NY.
Coordinator and Instructor of summer arts program ( Pre - K )

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