EDUCATION
August 20011 – Current: Ph.D. Student, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
May 2011 – M.A., Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
December 2002 – B.F.A., Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
December 2002 – B.A., Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
AWARDS and HONORS
2009 - 2011– Najafi Phoenix Country Day School Fellowship, Najafi Companies, Phoenix, AZ
2009 - 2010 – MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning Initiative grant support for
SMALLab, research fellowships, SMALLab director, D. Birchfield, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2009 – p.a.v.e. The Performing Arts Venture Experience grant, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2008 - 2010 – Doctoral Enrichment Fellowship, Graduate College, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2008 – p.a.v.e. The Performing Arts Venture Experience grant, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2008 – Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, Multi-Arts Production Fund, New York, NY
2008 – Edson Student Entrepreneurship Initiative Grant, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1998 – Arizona Governor’s Spirit of Excellence Award, State of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
1992 – Presidents Medal, Bronze Award, Lattie F. Coor, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
APPOINTMENTS
2011 - Current – Doctoral Student, Rhetoric/Composition/Linguistics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2010 - Current – Artist, Postcommodity Indigenous Art Collective, Phoenix, AZ, Albuquerque, NM
2008 - 2011 – Research Assistant, SMALLab K-12 Embodied and Mediated Learning Group, Tempe, AZ
2008 - Current – Music Composer, Burning Wagon Productions, San Francisco, CA
2008 - 2009 – President, Arts, Media, and Engineering Student Association, Tempe, AZ
2003 - Current – Director, Radio Healer, Performed by Los Humanos, Tempe, AZ
Summer 2009 – Adaptive Experiential Media, School of Arts, Media, and Engineering & Intel Corp., Tempe, AZ
Summer 2008 – Music Composer, data2music, Intel Corporation, Phoenix, AZ
1997 - 2008 – Envtl. Graphic Designer, Envtl. Graphic Design Group, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2001 - 2007 – Artist, XicanIndio Artes Inc., Mesa, AZ
COURSES TAUGHT
Summer 2011 – Instructor, Digital Summer Game Intensive, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Spring 2011 – Mediated XicanIndio Resolana, ELD Classroom, Coronado High School, Scottsdale, AZ
Fall 2010 – Mediated XicanIndio Resolana, ELD Classroom, Coronado High School, Scottsdale, AZ
Fall 2010 – SMALLab High School Technology Course, Phoenix Country Day School, Phoenix, AZ
Fall 2010 – Resolana, Dept. of Transboarder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Summer 2010 – SMALLab Game Design, Phoenix Country Day School (Middle School), Phoenix, AZ
Summer 2010 – Graphic Design, Phoenix Country Day School (Middle School), Phoenix, AZ
Summer 2010 – Digital Sound Art, Phoenix Country Day School (Middle School), Phoenix, AZ
Spring 2010 – SMALLab High School Technology Course, Phoenix Country Day School, Phoenix, AZ
Spring 2010 – SMALLab After School Club for Middle School, Phoenix Country Day School, Phoenix, AZ
Spring 2010 – Mediated XicanIndio Resolana, ELD Classroom, Coronado High School, Scottsdale, AZ
Spring 2010 – Resolana, Dept. of Transboarder Chicana/o and Lat. Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Fall 2009 – SMALLab High School Technology Course, Phoenix Country Day School, Phoenix, AZ
Fall 2009 – SMALLab After School Club for Middle School, Phoenix Country Day School, Phoenix, AZ
Fall 2009 – Mediated XicanIndio Resolana, ELD Classroom, Coronado High School, Scottsdale, AZ
Summer 2009 – Instructor, Digital Summer Game Intensive, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Summer 2008 – Instructor, Digital Summer Game Intensive, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
PRESS COVERAGE
2010 – Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Spotlights, Mobile Technology Transforms Rehearsal Process, Tempe, AZ
2009 – Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts Crosses Boundaries in the Name of Innovation: SMALLab at Phoenix Country Day School, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2008 – NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Our Planet, Systems for Media Complexity Demonstration, Tempe, AZ
2008 – ASU Herberger College of the Arts, Alumni to Watch, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2008 – ASU Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, Creative Interaction: Using interactive technology to enhance our ability to reflect, learn and bridge our differences.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
April 2011 - Ongoing – Pueblo Grande Museum, Radio Healer, Phoenix, AZ
May 2011 – Cycles of Creation, Decay and Renewal in Art and Life, Postcommodity Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
ARTIST TALKS
2011 – Artist on Artist Lecture Series, "Double Spaced," Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2011 – Postcommodity. Half-Life: Patterns of Change, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2011 – Gallup Motel Butchering (Postcommodity), Here, Pennsylvania Academy for the Fine Arts, Philidelphia, PACONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
November 2011 – Martinez, C., Digital Ayoyote Rattle: The Design of a Low-Cost Digital Media System for a Mediated XicanIndio Resolana, IKTC 2011, Indigenous Knowledge Technology Conference, Windhoek, Namibia
March 2011 – Birchfield, D., Johnson-Glenberg, M., Koziupa, T., Martinez, C., Tolentino, L., SMALLab demonstration, DML 2011, Digital Media and Learning Conference, Long Beach, CA
June 2010 – Martinez, C., Kemp, R., Tolentino, L., Esler R., Rajko, S., Mumford, J., Radio Healer, NIME 2010, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Sydney, Australia
April 2010 – Martinez, C., Kemp, R., Tolentino, L., Radio Healer, ACM CHI 2010, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Atlanta, GA
January 2010 – Martinez, C., Kemp, R., Birchfield, D., Campana, E., Ingalls, T., Gkisedtanamoogk, Culturally Sensible Digital Place-Making: Design of the Mediated XicanIndio Resolana, TEI’10 Tangible and Embodied Interaction, MIT, Cambridge, MA
October 2009 – Birchfield, D., Kelliher, A., Martinez, C., Tolentino, L., Campana, E., Johnson-Glenberg, M., Olson L., Savvides, P., Embodied and Mediated Learning in SMALLab: Demonstration, Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age, Hosted by Google Inc., Google Headquarters, Mountain View, CA
August 2009 – Embodied and Mediated Learning in SMALLab: A Student-Centered Mixed-Reality Environment, (K-12 Embodied and Mediated Learning Group), SIGGRAPH 2009, New Orleans, LA
June 2009 – Introduction to GameBot, (K-12 Embodied and Mediated Learning Group), GLS 5.0, Games, Learning, and Society Conference, Madison, WI
January 2009 – Ceremony and Digital Place Making: Culturally Sensible Design for the Mediated Talking Circle, (K-12 Embodied and Mediated Learning Group), National Science Foundation, The Future of Interactive Media: Workshop on Media Arts, Science and Technology (MAST), Santa Barbara, CA
August 2008 – Gaming SMALLab Workshop, (School of Arts, Media and Engineering K-12 Embodied and Mediated Learning Group and the Institute of Play), New York, NY
July 2007 – Radio Healer, (Los Humanos), Connected Knowledge: Collaboration Across Boundaries, Banff New Media Institute, Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
SELECTED POSTERS, DEMONSTRATIONS, AND PUBLICATIONS
Martinez, C., Digital Ayoyote Rattle: The Design of a Low-Cost Digital Media System for a Mediated XicanIndio Resolana, IKTC 2011, Indigenous Knowledge Technology Conference, Windhoek, Namibia, November 2011.
Birchfield, D., Johnson-Glenberg, M., Koziupa, T., Martinez, C., Tolentino, L., SMALLab demonstration, DML 2011, Digital Media and Learning Conference, Long Beach, CA, March 2011.
Martinez, C., Tolentino, L., Birchfield D., Johnson-Glenberg, M., Building an Inclusive, Collaborative Culture Around Game Design for Kids, GLS 6.0, Games, Learning, and Society Conference, Madison, WI, June 2010.
Martinez, C., Kemp, R., Birchfield, D., Campana, E., Ingalls, T., Gkisedtanamoogk, Culturally Sensible Digital Place-Making: Design of the Mediated XicanIndio Resolana, TEI’10 Tangible and Embodied Interaction, MIT, Cambridge, MA, January 2010.
Campana E., Martinez C.,Mumford J., Rajko S., Ingalls T., Thornburg H., Tolentino L. (2010), An Enactive Framework for Collaborative Expression. In G. Stam and M. Ishino (Eds.), Integrating Gestures. Amsterdam, Johns Benjamin.
Birchfield, D., Kelliher, A., Martinez, C., Tolentino, L., Campana, E., Johnson-Glenberg, M., Olson L., Savvides, P., Embodied and Mediated Learning in SMALLab: Demonstration, Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age, Hosted by Google Inc., Google Headquarters, Mountain View, CA, October 2009.
Martinez, C., Mumford, J., Rajko, S., Campana, E., Ingalls, T., Thornburg, H., Tolentino, L., An Enactive Framework for Collaborative Expression, ACM Creativity and Cognition 2009, ACM Press, Berkeley, CA, October 2009.
Birchfield, D., Hatton S., Kelliher, A., Martinez, C., Tolentino, L., Campana, E., Johnson-Glenberg, M., Olson L., Savvides, P., Uysal, S., Embodied and Mediated Learning in SMALLab: a student-centered mixed-reality environment, ACM SIGGRAPH, New Orleans, LA, August 2009.
Birchfield, D., Martinez, C., Edwards, M., Salen K., Introduction to GameBot, GLS 5.0, Games, Learning, and Society Conference, Madison, WI, June 2009.
Martinez, C., Kemp, R., Birchfield, D., Campana, E., Ingalls, T., Ceremony and Digital Place-making Culturally Sensible Design for the Mediated Talking Circle, NSF Media, Arts, Science, and Technology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, January 2009.
Birchfield, D., Campana, E., Hatton, S., Kelliher, A., Martinez, C., Tolentino, L., K-12 Embodied and Mediated Learning: the SMALLab Mixed Reality Learning Environment, NSF Media, Arts, Science, and Technology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, January 2009.
Coleman, G., Ingalls, T., Campana, E., Martinez, C., Mumford, J., Qian, G., Rajko, S., Thornburg, H., Intra-Sense, NSF Media, Arts, Science, and Technology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, January 2009.
Mumford, J., Ingalls, T., Martinez, C., J., Rajko, Campana, E., Mechtley, B., Qian, G., Thornburg, H., Tolentino, L., Nonverbal Communication Analysis for Collaborative Environments, Media, Arts, Science, and Technology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, January 2009.
Birchfield, D., Megowan, C., Tolentino, L., Johnson-Glenberg, M., Kelliher, A., Martinez, C., Teaching and Learning in the Mixed-Reality Science Classroom, Journal of Science Education and Technology, May 2009.
Campana, E., Martinez, C., Mumford, J., Mumford, S., Rajko, P. Sampath, H. Thornburg, HandJabber and Responses, BodyNets 2008, Tempe, AZ, March 2008.
James, J., Mumford, J., Martinez, C., Rajko, S., Improvisatory Practices within Mediated, Interactive Environments, Text, Media, and Improvisation Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2008.
SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT - hybrid physical-digital places.
Fall 2011 – Digital Resolana: A Chicano Ayayote rattle, software, hardware and physical structure designed to facilitate an indigenous media interaction for community dialogues. Its purpose is to provide communities with access to an affordable and mobile augmented reality capable of supporting a Mediated XicanIndio Resolana.
Spring 2011 – Digital Ayoyote Rattle: A Chicano Ayayote rattle embedded with a wireless physical computing system. This Rattle is a cultural implement designed to facilitate an indigenous media interaction for community dialogues. Its purpose is to provide communities with access to an affordable and mobile augmented reality capable of supporting a Mediated XicanIndio Resolana.
Summer 2010 – Postcommodity Audible Display: An application that sonifies data associated to the weapons systems utilized by the pueblo people during the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
Spring 2010 – Chicano Ethno-Mathematics: An indigenous media rhetorical space for collaborative and reflective learning through a social gathering around an interactive Aztec calendar for the purposes of studying mathematics through a culturally responsive framework. This is a tangible, embodied, and embedded social space that uses indigenous cultural protocol as an interface for social computation. Cristóbal Martínez.
Fall 2009 – Mediated XicanIndio Resolana: An indigenous media rhetorical space for collaborative and reflective learning through peaceful discourse. This is a tangible, embodied, and embedded social space that uses indigenous cultural protocol as an interface for social computation. Interaction designed for SMALLab. Cristóbal Martínez, Ellen Campana, Todd Ingalls, David Birchfield.
Spring 2009 – StickBall (GameBot): In GameBot, humans and robots come together for interactive game play that explores the social, technological, and sustainability dimensions of robotics. Teams of artists, tribal elders and youth, game designers, and scientists have collaborated to create three new GameBot games. Players
interact in physical 3D space to collaborate with one another and their robotic partners for an embodied game play experience in the SMALLab mixed-
reality learning environment. In April 2009, GameBot was exhibited in the Arizona Science Center, reaching an audience of over 13,000 visitors.
Stick Ball is the Native American game that Lacrosse derives from. This GameBot version of Stickball is officiated by an interactive robot, and
is designed by indigenous artists as a symbolic expression to encourage discourse around the meaning and cultural implications of technology in the
context of tribal life. Cristóbal Martínez, Gkisedtanamoogk, Randy Kemp, Raven Kemp.
Spring 2008 – HandJabber, Version 3: Implementation of a new interaction design using a probabilistic framework for gesture analysis. Interaction designed for the intelligent stage. Cristóbal Martínez, Jessica Mumford, Stjepan Rajko, Pavithra Sampath, Gordon Wichern, Harvey Thornburg, Todd Ingalls, Ellen Campana.
Fall 2007 thru Spring 2008 – HandJabber, Version 2: Non-verbal Interpersonal Behavior and gesture as an interface for multimedia control. Interaction designed for the intelligent stage. Cristóbal Martínez, Jessica Mumford, Stjepan Rajko, Lisa Tolentino, Todd Ingalls, Ellen Campana, Harvey Thornburg.
Fall 2007 – HandJabber, Version 1: Modeling gesture for Non-verbal Interpersonal Communication between two participants as an interface for multimedia control. Interaction designed for the intelligent stage. Cristóbal Martínez, Jessica Mumford, Stjepan Rajko, Todd Ingalls.
Fall 2007 – Sonic Maze, an artistic study and interpretation of The Labyrinth by Jorge Luis Borges, Interaction is designed for the intelligent stage. Cristóbal Martínez, Todd Ingalls.
SYSTEMS MEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS - hybrid physical-digital places.
Spring 2008 – SMALLab Storyline Scenario: La Llorona & The Fall of the House of Usher. The production of music and narration audio files, Cristóbal Martínez and Lisa Tolentino in collaboration with Sarah Hatton and David Birchfield.
Spring 2008 – SMALLab Chemistry Scenario: Sound design (audible display), Cristóbal Martínez in collaboration with Lisa Tolentino, Colleen Megowan, David Birchfield, and Aisling Kelliher.
SYSTEMS MEDIA DEMONSTRATIONS - hybrid physical-digital places.
Spring 2011 – Demonstration of the Mediated XicanIndio Resolana and Data Presentation, Henry Jenkins, and Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts, USC, Los Angeles
Spring 2010 – SMALLab Demonstration and Data Presentation, Intel Corporation
Spring 2008 – AME, Markos Tamberakis demo. Demonstrating how art is connected to solving problems of social significance at AME. Systems presented include Water Scenario and HandJabber.
Spring 2008 – Enactive Arts, HandJabber: Interpersonal Behavior as a collaborative media controller, performing music and composition with body movement, OSU Faculty
Spring 2008 – Enactive Arts, HandJabber: Embodied interactive environments through gesture communication & data sonification, BodyNets Conference
Spring 2008 – Enactive Arts, HandJabber: Interpersonal relationship in the context of an interactive environment for therapy, presented to a group of experts in Autism
Spring 2008 – Enactive Arts, HandJabber: Interactive music control and composition, shape quality analysis, and the natural communication gesture-field. – Rick Taube, assoc. prof of music composition university of illinois
Spring 2008 – SMALLab learning theories and scenarios, Intel Corporation
Spring 2008 – SMALLab learning theories and scenarios, Phoenix Indian Center
Spring 2008 – SMALLab learning theories and scenarios, Salt River, Pima, Maricopa Indian Community School District
Fall 2007 – Enactive Arts, Enactive Environment, Dean Kim, Herberger College of the Arts, Dean Meldrum, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering Community Support (Giving the community access to AME interaction scenarios.)
COMMUNITY SUPPORT- hybrid physical-digital places.
Fall 2009 – Mediated XicanIndio Resolana. Reflective Cultural Practice Led by Cristobal Martinez and Gary Garcia in the ELD Classroom at Coronado High School.
Spring 2008 – Talking Circle: Native American ceremony in the context of a media-rich environment for social justice awareness. Ceremony led by Randy Kemp (Choctaw Euchee-Creek). Cristóbal Martínez, Ellen Campana, Todd Ingalls, David Birchfield.
Spring 2008 – Enactive Arts, HandJabber: Using the system for collaboration, as well as movement and sonic awareness through dance improvisation, Dance class led by Karen Schupp, Herberger College of the Arts, Arizona State University.
Spring 2008 – Enactive Arts, HandJabber: Dance classes for children, led by Yeong Wen Lee, Herberger College for Kids & at Large, Herberger College of the Arts, Arizona State University.
Fall 2007 – Enactive Arts, HandJabber: Dance classes for children, led by Yeong Wen Lee, Herberger College for Kids & at Large, Herberger College of the Arts, Arizona State University.
Curriculum Vita as a .pdf document.