Julian H. Scaff is an artist, filmmaker, and designer from the Sonoran desert in southern Arizona

Arizona

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He received his BA in Film and Video from Pitzer College

Pitzer College

Pitzer College is a private residential liberal arts college located in Claremont, California, a college town approximately east of downtown Los Angeles. Pitzer College is one of the Claremont Colleges....

, his MA in Film Critical Studies from UCLA, and an MFA in Public Art from the Dutch Art Institute http://www.dutchartinstitute.nl/.

As a user-interface designer he designed many large websites including GoTo.com (now called Overture), PCPortables.com, and JobTrak.com (now called MonsterTrak), in addition to designing online advertising campaigns for clients such as Apple Computers, Honda and Toyota. He has also shown his artwork and short digital movies in various galleries and film festivals around the world, and produced radio programs for ResonanceFM

Resonance FM

Resonance 104.4 FM is a London based non-profit community radio station run by the London Musicians' Collective .The station is staffed by four permanent staff members, including programme controller Ed Baxter and over 300 volunteer technical and production staff.Until September 2007, ResonanceFM...

 in London

London

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, Epsilonia Festival Radiophonique in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, and Voice of the People in Lebanon

Lebanon

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In 1997 Scaff founded and edited Strobe, which according to the UCLA Bruin was the first academic journal published exclusively on the internet. Contributions included articles by the famous film theorists Peter Wollen

Peter Wollen

Peter Wollen is a film theorist and writer. He studied English at Christ Church, Oxford. Both political journalist and film theorist, Wollen's Signs and Meaning in the Cinema , helped to transform the discipline of film studies by incorporating the methodology of structuralism and...

 and Nick Browne.

Scaff also produced the first online version of the famous Walter Benjamin essay The Work of Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction, and Scaff's essay Art and Authenticity in the Age of Digital Reproduction has been widely referenced in cultural and media studies.

His film credits include The Cosmodrome Futuristshttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486753/, Genomaticahttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0772230/, and Piles of DirtPiles of dirt (film). He also starred in the film The Many Faces of Julian H. Scaffhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0772240/ directed by Bob Recon. His recent film Tecopahttp://www.zoopraxiscope.com/tecopa.html which explores the site of a Native American

Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...

 massacre in California is featured at the Zonderling Media Art Festivalhttp://zonderling.bravehost.com/gouda.html in the Netherlands

Netherlands

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 and has been garnering much attention in the media there.

His landscape art/design projects have included "Water, Trees, Path, Cranes" in Enschede

Enschede

Enschede , also known as Eanske in the local dialect of Twents, is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands in the province of Overijssel and in the Twente region...

, Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

, and "Dazzled Windscape," a proposal for making the controversial Cape Wind

Cape Wind

The Cape Wind Project is an approved offshore wind farm, on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound off Cape Cod in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, proposed by a private developer, Cape Wind Associates, the brainchild of Jim Gordon and a Limited Liability Company set up as a joint business venture...

 project in Nantucket Sound

Nantucket Sound

Nantucket Sound is a roughly triangular area of the Atlantic Ocean offshore from the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is long and wide, and is enclosed by Cape Cod on the north, Nantucket on the south, and Martha's Vineyard on the west. Between Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard it is connected to the...

, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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 more environmentally and culturally friendly.

Scaff teaches courses on digital art, media, and filmmaking at Webster University

Webster University

Webster University is an American non-profit private university with its main campus in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Webster University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools...

 in Leiden, the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

, and also gives guest lectures and workshops around the world.

External links

• Julian H. Scaff listing on IMDB
• Scaff's film and media production company Zoopraxiscope
• Scaff's ecological art and design website
• Veiled digital portrait by Julian H. Scaff selected for an exhibition by Tom R. Chambers, curator for the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.
• Journal Strobe
• Interview with Julian H. Scaff about the Journal Strobe in The Daily Bruin
  Daily Bruin
  The Daily Bruin is the student newspaper at the University of California, Los Angeles.-Frequency and governance:When classes are in session, the Bruin is published Monday through Friday during the school year and once a week on Mondays in the summer quarter.It is overseen by the ASUCLA...
  
  

Filmography for Julian H. Scaff

• Breukvlak: Tales of a Highway (2007) http://www.zoopraxiscope.com/breukvlak.html
• Tecopa (2006) http://www.zoopraxiscope.com/tecopa.html
• Piles of Dirt (2006) http://www.zoopraxiscope.com/pilesofdirt.html
• Genomatica (2005) http://www.zoopraxiscope.com/genomatica.html*
• Day of the Dead (2005) http://www.zoopraxiscope.com/dayofdead.html
• The Cosmodrome Futurists (2004) http://www.zoopraxiscope.com/cosmofuturi.html
• Desert Mosaic (2004) http://www.zoopraxiscope.com/desertmosaic.html
• My Daily Commute (1996) http://www.zoopraxiscope.com/mydailycommute.html

Selected publications

• Futureplexity: The Analog/Digital Architecture of Detroit Techno published in Cross-Reference Magazine, The Hague
  The Hague
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• Quietscapes: Noise, Silence, and (Re)Designing the Public Sonosphere published in the journal Open, Rotterdam
  Rotterdam
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• Sonic Notes from a Taipei Noodle Restaurant published in the journal Locus Sentio, Werkplaatstypogrfie, Arnhem
  Arnhem
  Arnhem is a city and municipality, situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of Gelderland and located near the river Nederrijn as well as near the St. Jansbeek, which was the source of the city's development. Arnhem has 146,095 residents as one of the...
  
  , Netherlands
  Netherlands
  The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
  
  
• Art and Authenticity in the Age of Digital Reproduction published by the Digital Arts Institute