Resume
  
 helga fassonaki
 
 email: persniks@gmail.com








Education:

2006 Masters of Fine Art Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand
2000
Bachelor of Art, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California

Competition:
2004 EXPOSURE 04’, first place winner in postgraduate competition, Auckland, New Zealand ( [hafez] tracing)

Exhibitions:
2008  The Stage, a World, Pacific Electric Lofts, Los Angeles (New Horizons, As Is, 6/06/08 - 6/21/08)
2008  Spreding Dwarf, Family Arts Day, Orange County Museum of Art, CA (05/04/08)
2008 Duo show w/Erin Trefry, Me & You Variety Candy, Los Angeles (New Horizons, 4/12/08 - 5/4/08)
2007  Maximum of Maximums, Me & You Variety Candy Los Angeles, (Aspiring, 10/11/07-10/31/07)
2006 métal rouge in front of Long Beach Community garden, Long Beach, CA (Soundwalk2006)
2005 End of the Year group show, Maheke Exhibition Galleries Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand (installation: a broken symbiosis-part II)
2005 a broken symbiosis, Rm103 gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (sound installation)
2005
Containing a Symbiotic Sound Field, MFA final show, Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
2005 Bring Your Caddy, Stanbeth House Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (record player/ 7” record, catalogue)
2005 Nothing Doing, Artstation Gallery, Auckland, NZ (interactive piece, fan-tail)
2005
By any means, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland, NZ (film, feed-back control)
2005
Mechanical Growths 00, Soundwalk 2005, Koos Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2005 Mechanical Growths and Assembled Systems, Window gallery, Auckland, NZ (solo, interactive sound installation)
2004 Agitated hz, Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland, New Zealand (solo, interactive sound installaton)
2004
In Parts, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland, NZ (interactive sound and video installation, [hafez] tracing and tracing [hafez]
2004 Screen Test, Film Archive, Auckland, NZ, (film, hafezeh V)
2004 Hafezeh I-V, Space 1325, Long Beach, CA, (solo, series of film screenings)

2003 Inflatable Evolution, White Loadstone, Cal State University, Long Beach, CA
2003 whet, Gallery 5, Cal State Long Beach, CA (video/sound installation with collaborative group haptic)
2003 
Film screenings, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA (Joint Sensation)
2002 Visitor, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (video and sound installation)

2000 Group show, Cal Poly University Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA

Festivals:

2008 Dung Mummy/Post-Asiatic Festival, Zero Point, Los Angeles (Métal Rouge, 4/5/08)
2008 Not Not Fun Festival: Neon Commune, Echo Curio Gallery, Echo Park  (Métal Rouge, 1/25/08)  
2007 
Bottled Smoke Festival, Echo Curio Gallery, Echo Park  (Métal Rouge, 5/26/07)  
2007 S3D EAR&EYE Festival, Auckland, New Zealand (yek koo and cardboard record players, 3/18-3/20)
2006
Recontres Internationales Festival Paris/Berlin, covert loadstones, Paris-Villette Theater, Paris, France
2005
Trans Acoustic Festival, The Professionals, Kenneth Myers Centre, Auckland, NZ (electronic sound and light collaboration with Nicholas Cunningham)
2005 Alleluya Noise Festival, Artspace Gallery, Auckland, NZ  (solo, prepared computer and santur instrument)


 


Sound Performances:
2008
Métal Rouge, Open Bookstore, Long Beach, CA (06/19/08)
2008
Métal Rouge with Pocahaunted, Ooga Booga, Los Angeles (06/13/08)
2008 yek koo, Pacific Electric Lofts, Los Angeles (New Horizons, As Is, 06/12/08)
2008
Métal Rouge, NoisePollination, Echo Curio, Los Angeles (06/08/08)
2008 Métal Rouge, ResBox, Steve Allen Theater, Los Angeles (03/20/08)
2008
Métal Rouge, Totally Intense Fractal Ming Gaze Hut, Oakland (01/02/08)
2007
Métal Rouge,
Valentines, Portland, Oregon (12/30/07)
2007 Métal Rouge, ATA, San Francisco (12/27/07)
2007 Métal Rouge, Echo Curio, Los Angeles (12/22/07)
2007
Métal Rouge, IL Corral, Los Angeles (11/17/07)
2007
Métal Rouge,
The Smell, Los Angeles (10/17/07)
2007
Métal Rouge, Pehrspace, Echo Park, Los Angeles (8/18/07)
2007
Métal Rouge, Dung Mummy, Koos, Long Beach, CA (8/11/07)
2007
yek koo, David Patton Gallery, Highland Park, Los Angeles (8/04/07)
2007 yek koo, Dangerous Curve, Art District, LA
(6/15/07)
2007 Métal Rouge, Edingburg castle, San Francisco
(6/07/07)

2007
Métal Rouge, Echo Curio Gallery, Echo Park (5/18/07)
2007 Métal Rouge with Refrigerator Mothers, Il Corral, Los Angeles (5/05/07)
2007
Métal Rouge, Dung Mummy, Il Corral, Los Angeles (4/28/07)
2007
Yek koo with Nigel Wright and Tim Coster, WIne Cellar, Auckland, New Zealand (3/20/07)
2007 Métal Rouge, Albert Ortega's Place, Los Angeles
(2/25/07)
2006 Métal Rouge, Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles (12/3/06)
2006 Refrigerator Mothers with Métal Rouge, Il Corral, Los Angeles (12/2/06)
2006 yek koo, Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles (11/06)
2006 métal rouge, Lafayette Dome Room, Long Beach, CA (soundwalk2006)
2006
yek koo, Que Sera, Long Beach, CA
2006 yek koo w/pumice, Lost Souls Cafe, Los Angeles
2006 yek koo, Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles, CA
2006 
Métal Rouge, Wine Cellar, Auckland, New Zealand (avant garde collaboration with Andrew Scott)
2006
Audio Pocket #2, Rm. 103 gallery, Auckland, NZ (live collaboration with Adam Willets)
2005
Platform 2, The Professionals, Wine Cellar, Auckland, New Zealand (Live Collaboration with Nich Cunningham)
2005
Little Babylon Rooftop Garden Event, Mount Street, Auckland, NZ (collaborative sound performance)
2005
Exharmonic, Special Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (solo, prepared     computer and manipulated tape machine)
2005 Audio Pocket #1, Canary Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (solo, prepared computer and tape machine)
2004 Sound and Performance Night, Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland, NZ (solo, ‘An Experiment in Hearing as Far as I Could See’, inspired by Bill Fontana)
2004 Live at Elam, Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)

Audio Publications:
2008 storm veil/desert champion,
Métal Rouge tape, Los Angeles (Not Not Fun)
2008 s/t, Métal Rouge 3" CDr, Los Angeles (Not Not Fun)
2008 Ephemeroptera - 02, Métal Rouge CDr, Los Angeles (seymour records)
2007
Hearing Music, 3" CDr compilation, yek koo track:
reality cinderblocks, (Claudia label)
2007 reality cinderblocks, yek koo buisness card CDr (Claudia label)
2007 Compact Listen, compilation, métal rouge track: [untitled from calling winter CDr ] (Claudia label)
2007 Post Asiatic compilation, métal rouge track: [calling winter, apologizing to earth] (URCK Recordings)
2007 eulogy for keeler, Métal Rouge CDr (Phantom Limb Recordings)
2007 Ephemeroptera - 01, Métal Rouge CDr, Los Angeles (seymour records)
2007
a plea for a night desert blue moon storm, yek koo CDr, Los Angeles (seymour records)
2007
calling winter, Métal Rouge CDr, Los Angeles (seymour records)
2007
s/t, Métal Rouge 3" CDr, Auckland, NZ (Claudia label)
2006 
covert Loadstones, 7” lathe-cut, Auckland, NZ (solo, [open audio license] a binary datum)
2006 Auckland Gems, CDr I-V, Crease Container Project, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
2006 Procession-a compilation, 3” CDr, Auckland, New Zealand, track: [a C#/D departure], Claudia
2005 Wire and String Aerobics, CDr, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
2005
Closed-Loop Vibration, 7” lathe-cut record, Auckland, New Zealand (solo, Peter King Records)
2004 Spoken and Field, CDr, Auckland, NZ, track: 551 syllables (compilation) produced by Tim Coster