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Jordan Saia                                               jordansaia@hotmail.com            
 
Experience
March-August 2004         Space IV Experimental Media Project        Atlanta, GA
Art Director

       -Director of the design and function of a 10,000-sq/ft experimental media space.
       -My duties included setting up the lighting, sound design, film/video projections, booking artists, crew management and full space installation/design.
 
Fall 2002-January 2005   Liberty High School and Beginning With Children                             Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan, NY
Assistant Teacher/Collaborator
     -My duties included assisting instructor Benjamin Patrick with the dialogue, materials, structures and general lesson planning, of the art making process
     -Invited to Vermont Common School to guest teach fine arts programs in January 2005
 
March 2004-Present       Atlanta Underground Film Festival      Atlanta, GA
Programming Director

     -My duties include working as a part of the selection committee and as a curator for the festival.  I also volunteer my technical services as a projectionist and sound engineer during the screenings.

Spring 2000-2003                 Multi Media Service                     Brooklyn, NY
Supervising Audio Visual Employee

        -Tech assistant for special events setup; lights, video and film projectors, microphones, speaker systems, running cables, etc.
 
Education
Pratt Institute   1999-2003 B.F.A. Fine Arts with Honors, GPA 3.7 Major in Fine Arts with focus in Painting
Southern Cross University Feb. 2002-July 2002 participated in exchange program. Lismore, New South Wales, Australia. Studied interactive sculpture.
Skills
-3 years Private and Public teaching experience in the fine arts, sound design and film making with both children and adults.  Brooklyn, San Francisco, and Atlanta.
-Professional experience with 16mm and Super 8mm Film, Video Transfer (Live) Video and Sound Engineering, and Mastering
-Art Direction/Design, Basic Welding and Woodworking, Murals, Portraiture, Landscape, Set Design, Overall knowledge of Fine Arts
-Computer literate, Mac and PC; MSWord, Excel, Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, Reason, DVD Architect, and CuBase VST  

References
Eric Panter. Executive Director, Atlanta Underground Film Festival
(404)-898-0622 or eric@auff.org.
Benjamin W. Patrick. Instructor, Vermont Common School
(413)-519-2060 or soundlessweb@yahoo.com
Ernesto Pujol. Instructor, Pratt Institute.
(718)-636-3634 or ernestopujol@pratt.edu
 

All images copyright Jordan Saia. 1999-2005 Images can be used with permission of the artist by contacting jordansaia@hotmail.com