Maharishi University of Management

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Gurdy Leete
Gurdy Leete
Ass't Prof. of Art and Communications & Media
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Work Phone: (641) 472-7000 ext. 5035
Home Phone: (641) 472-7782

Education

  • M.F.A. in Film-making, San Francisco Art Institute
  • B.F.A. in Film-making, San Francisco Art Institute

Professional Activities

  • Assistant Professor of Art, Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa, 1992-present.
  • Freelance Designer, Fairfield, Iowa. Web site design (Dharma Foundation, Maharishi School, Microsoft SLP Services, Interlaken Publishers), graphic design (The Ottumwa Courier), 3-D animation (Zebra Productions), information kiosk design (Megacards), and user interface design (Accelerated Learning Foundation, Portfolio Systems), 1992-present.
  • Vice President of Graphics Technology, Vinayak 4D Games, Fairfield, Iowa, 1999-2000.
  • Editor, SGI Animator magazine, a publication for animators using Silicon Graphics computers, 1995-1996.
  • Computer Animator and Software Engineer, Maharishi Veda Land international theme park, under the direction of magician Doug Henning, in Vlodrop, The Netherlands, 1991.
  • Graphics Software Engineer, Fairfield Software, Fairfield, Iowa, 1984-1990. Clients included Mindscape, The Learning Company, Sierra On-line, Scott Foresman, and numerous other software publishers.
  • Production Manager, TransVision Corporation, Greenbrae, California, a manufacturer of video equipment and video production company, 1978-1983.
  • Associate Editor, Bicycling magazine, San Francisco, California, 1968-1973.

Publications

  • Web designer and developer, Dharma Foundation, Fairfield, IA, 2009
  • With Ellen Finkelstein, Flash CS4 For Dummies. New York: Wiley, 2008.
  • Web developer, http://www.blendtips.com, a weblog, 2007.
  • With Mary Leete, Microsoft Expression Blend Bible. New York: Wiley, 2007.
  • With Ellen Finkelstein, Adobe Flash CS3 For Dummies. New York: Wiley, 2007.
  • Contributing author, Linux Smart Homes For Dummies. New York: Wiley, 2006.
  • Editor, Free Software for Art, Music and Personal Creativity, a weblog (2006).
  • With Ellen Finkelstein, Macromedia Flash 8 For Dummies. New York: Wiley, 2005.
  • Technical editor, Free Software For Dummies. New York: Wiley, 2005.
  • With Ellen Finkelstein and Mary Leete, OpenOffice.org For Dummies. New York: Wiley, 2003.
  • With Ellen Finkelstein, Macromedia Flash MX 2004 For Dummies. New York: Wiley, 2003.
  • With Ellen Finkelstein, 50 Fast Flash Techniques. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
  • With Chen Yu, Praveen Mishra, and Nutthawut Chandhaketh, Multitile, a plug-in for generating symmetric imagery in the GIMP, 1999-2002. http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=487
  • With Ellen Finkelstein, Flash MX For Dummies. New York: Hungry Minds, Inc., 2002.
  • With Ellen Finkelstein, Flash 5 For Dummies. New York: Hungry Minds, Inc., 2000.
  • "SIGGRAPH 99: Computer Graphics, SGI’s RealityRoom, and the Dematerialization of Everything," The Iowa Source. Fairfield: The Petrick Company, October, 1999.
  • With Ed Murphy, "The Future of Broadcast: E-Cinema, Video’s Big Future, and the Twilight of the Film Era," The Iowa Source. Fairfield: The Petrick Company, June, 1999.
  • With Anna Bonshek, Ph.D., "Future Present: Reaestheticizing Life Through A New Technology of Consciousness," in Reframing Consciousness: Art, mind and technology, Ascott, Roy, editor. Exeter, England, U.K., Intellect, 1999.
  • "Toy Story: The First Computer-Generated Feature," The Iowa Source. Fairfield: The Petrick Company, September, 1995.
  • "The Newton Vs. Ubiquitous Computing," The Iowa Source. Fairfield: The Petrick Company, July, 1995.
  • With James Karpen, Ph.D., “"The Web Revolution," The Iowa Source. Fairfield: The Petrick Company, April, 1995.
  • With James Karpen, Ph.D., “"3-D ‘Printing’: The Future of Replicators, Robotic Sculptors, and Desktop Factories," The Iowa Source. Fairfield: The Petrick Company, March, 1995.
  • With James Karpen, Ph.D., “"Rambling through the World Wide Web," The Iowa Source. Fairfield: The Petrick Company, February, 1995.
  • With James Karpen, Ph.D., “"Goodbye Paper, Hello Mosaic," The Iowa Source. Fairfield: The Petrick Company, December, 1994.
  • With James Karpen, Ph.D., "Hollywood Meets Cyberspace," The Iowa Source. Fairfield: The Petrick Company, November, 1994.
  • With James Karpen, Ph.D., "Pervasive Computing and the Educational Renaissance," The Iowa Source. Fairfield: The Petrick Company, October, 1994.
  • With James Karpen, Ph.D., "Softimage, Silicon Graphics, and the Future of Computer Graphics," The Iowa Source. Fairfield: The Petrick Company, September, 1994.
  • "Personalized News Wizards," The Iowa Source. Fairfield: The Petrick Company, June, 1994.
  • "Compu-Audio-Video-Fax-Phones," The Iowa Source. Fairfield: The Petrick Company, April, 1994.
  • "Colossal Computing," The Iowa Source. Fairfield: The Petrick Company, March, 1994.
  • "The Geography Lessons of Tomorrow," The Iowa Source. Fairfield: The Petrick Company, February, 1994.
  • "Machines That Create Ideas," The Iowa Source. Fairfield: The Petrick Company, December, 1993.
  • "Interactive TV: Ridiculous and Sublime," The Iowa Source. Fairfield: The Petrick Company, November, 1993.
  • "Diving into Cyberspace: Super-Literacy and the Coming Knowledge Boom," The Iowa Source. Fairfield: The Petrick Company, October, 1993.
  • "Computer Generated Imagery in the Post-Jurassic Era," The Iowa Source. Fairfield: The Petrick Company, September, 1993.
  • Contributor, The Best of Bicycling. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970, and New York: Pocket Books, 1972.

Exhibitions

  • 2000 MUM Faculty Exhibition, Unity Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa. Group exhibition.
  • 1998 MUM Faculty Exhibition, Unity Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa. Group exhibition.
  • 1993 Group for a Government Show, Unity Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa. Group exhibition.

Conference Presentations

  • With Anna Bonshek, Ph.D., “"The Shock of Refinement: Reaestheticizing Life Through a New Technology of Consciousness," 1998 International Society of Electronic Artists conference, Manchester, U.K., October, 1998.
  • With Anna Bonshek, Ph.D., “"Future Present: Reaestheticizing Life Through A New Technology of Consciousness," Consciousness Reframed 98, Newport, U.K., September, 1998.

Awards

  • 1991 MacUser magazine "Eddy” award for Fairfield Software’s ClearAccess (member of user interface design team).
  • 1971-1972 San Francisco Art Institute Honors Program.
  • 1971-1972 San Francisco Art Institute Tiffany Scholarship.

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