Oakland, California
macdonal@parc.xerox.com
Affilliations
Member of the Research Staff, Research in Experimental Documents,
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
President, Board of Directors, Asian American Dance Performances
General partner, IS Productions
Member, Society for Environmental Graphic Display
Member, Association for Computing Machinery
Web sites
General Hospital - Crane-MacDonald-Minneman-Winet - 1995
Accommodations - Crane-MacDonald-Minneman-Winet - 1996
Conventional Wisdom - Crane-MacDonald-Minneman-Winet - 1996
Inaugural Ball - Crane-MacDonald-Minneman-Winet - 1997
Sunset - Crane-MacDonald-Minneman-Winet - 1997
Nightfall - Crane-MacDonald-Minneman-Winet – 1998
The Eliza Project - Crane-MacDonald-Minneman-Winet - 1998
Installations
Accommodations – Crane-MacDonald-Minneman-Winet – Santa Barbara 1996, San Jose, 1996
Inaugural Ball – Crane-MacDonald-Minneman-Winet – Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco – 1997
Sunset – Crane-MacDonald-Minneman-Winet – Billboard Live, West Hollywood, Electric Garden SIGGRAPH 1997
Nightfall – Crane-MacDonald-Minneman-Winet – Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 1998
The Eliza Project Phase 1 – Crane-MacDonald-Minneman-Winet – San Francisco Art Institute, 1998
Introductions – Group – Worth-Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, 1999
Genetic Dream Garden – Solo – Worth-Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, 1999
Blind Date, Berkeley – Group – Worth-Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, 1999
Blind Date, Manchester – Group – Manchester University, 1999
Moon Garden – Solo – Worth-Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, 2000
Now – Group – Berkeley Art Museum, 2000
Lighting and Projection Design - Dance and Theater
Independent Choreographers' Network Showcase – ICN – Cowell Theater, San Francisco – 1993
Improvement and eL/Aficianado – Robert Ashley – Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland – 1993
Straight White Guys Only – Mark D. Cooper – YMCA Theater, San Francisco – 1993
Assortments – Ann Mary Ramsey and Mark D. Cooper – Dancers' Group/Footwork,
San Francisco – 1993
Trash – Claudine Ann Naganuma – Dancers' Group/Footwork, San Francisco – 1993
New Winds – Unbound Spirit Dance Co. – Dancers' Group/Footwork, San Francisco – 1993
Ghost Stories – Unbound Spirit Dance Co. – Theater Artaud, San Francisco – 1993
Trade Winds – Unbound Spirit Dance Co. – Theater of Yugen, San Francisco – 1994
Trade Winds 2 – Unbound Spirit Dance Co. – Julian Theater, New College, San Francisco – 1994
Antigone – Mark Cooper/Karen Klein – Mills College Greek Theater – 1994
Altered Tea Leaves – Unbound Spirit Dance Co. – Theater Artaud, San Francisco – 1994
Trade Winds 3 - Unbound Spirit Dance Co. - Theater of Yugen, San Francisco – 1995
Upside, Downside, Inside Out – Unbound Spirit Dance Company – Randall Museum Theater,
San Francisco – 1995
San Francisco Butoh Festival – Cowell Theater, San Francisco – 1995
Michael Peppe's Crab – Zakros Productions – Climate Theater, San Francisco – 1995
Rising From the Ashes – Unbound Spirit Dance Company – Randall Museum Theater,
San Francisco – 1995
Kiyohime – Unbound Spirit Dance Company – Theater Artaud, San Francisco – 1996
San Francisco Butoh Festival – Cowell Theater, San Francisco – 1996
Slaying The Dragon – Unbound Spirit Dance Company – Theater Artaud, San Francisco – 1997
Tradewinds 6 – Unbound Spirit Dance Company – SOMARTS Theater, San Francisco – 1998
Solo Flight – Nancy Ng – Dance Palace, Pt. Reyes Station – 1998
Lerng Been – Claudine Naganuma – Fringe Club, Hong Kong – 1999
Tradewinds 7&8– Unbound Spirit Dance Company – SOMARTS Theater, San Francisco – 1999
Gateway – Unbound Spirit Dance Company – Cowell Theater, San Francisco – 1999
Matters of Life and Death – Ruth Botchan Dance Company & Susan Cherniak – Western Sky Studio, Berkeley –1999
Choreographers’ Workshop – UC Berkeley Dance Dept – Room 7 Zellerbach, Berkeley – 1999
No One Here Gets Out Alive – Rhodessa Jones – Durham Studio Theater, Berkeley – 1999
UDT 2000 (Supervising Designer) – UC Berkeley Dance Dept – Zellerbach Playhouse,
Berkeley – 2000
Choreographers’ Workshop – UC Berkeley Dance Dept – Durham Studio Theater, Berkeley – 2000
Tradewinds 9– Unbound Spirit Dance Company - SOMARTS Theater, San Francisco – 2000
Experiments in the Future of Reading – Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose – 2000
UDT 2001 – UC Berkeley Dance Dept –Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley – 2001
Roots of the Blood Orange Tree – Asian American Dance Performances – SOMARTS Theater,
San Francisco – 2001
Ceremony of Angels – DanceNaganuma – SOMARTS Theater, San Francisco – 2001
The Second Half of Joy – Ruth Botchan Dance Company – Western Sky Studio, Berkeley – 2001
Other amusing bits of art and technology
Video for Choc Mool - Guillermo Galindo – 1994
700 piece Big Picture Puzzle for Earth Day – 1995
Numerous flyer and poster designs for AADP
Eliza Project, Phase 1 – Java version of Eliza with an image track – 1998
What Haven’t You Read Lately – Interactive digital photo montage on text in the landscape part of eXperiments in the Future of Reading - 2000
Sound design/music composition
Lear - University of California, Santa Cruz - 1984 (with Herb Heinz)
On The Ropes - Ruth Solomon - University of California, Santa Cruz - 1985 (with Herb Heinz)
Dracula In The Desert - Antenna Theater - 1986 (with Herb Heinz)
Radio Interference - Antenna Theater - 1987 (with Herb Heinz)
Alcatraz Cellhouse Audio Tour - Antenna Theater - 1987
The Living Room - Jeff Freidman - 1987 (with Herb Heinz, Amy X Neuburg)
Lighting and Projection Design - Bands
The Club Shows, WalkOut, The Point, John Cage Memorial Concerts - MAP - ongoing 1985-???
Amy X Neuburg & Men - ongoing
Hmmm... - Ongoing
Publications
Endless Beginnings – Notes From the Road to Now Where, chapter in Art and Innovation: The Xerox PARC Artist-In-Residence Program, Craig Harris editor, MIT Press, 1999
Group RED – Dr Dobbs Journal, December 2000
Designing Innovative Reading Experiences for a Museum Exhibit – IEEE Computer, January 2001
The What of XFR: eXperiments in the Future of Reading – Interactions, the Association for Computing Machinery
Patents
Public Interactive Documents – Crane-MacDonald-Minneman-Winet – 2000