Curriculum Vitae
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Education
M.F.A. 2008 Interdisciplinary Arts & Media, Columbia College Chicago
B.M. 1985 Music in Composition, Northern Illinois University
M.M. candidate 1986-86 Music in Composition, Northern Illinois University
Professional Experience
2008-Present — Program Chair, Department of Visual Communications, International Academy of Design & Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Promoted in spring 2008 to manage 525-student department comprised of five program tracks: Video & Animation, Graphic Design, Multimedia & Web Design, Advertising Design, and Advertising Communications. Duties include daily departmental management, including class scheduling, full-time and adjunct faculty management (interviewing, hiring and conducting performance appraisal, etc.), maintaining regulatory compliance standards, and managing departmental budget. Long-term projects include committee involvement, community outreach (scholarship, internship, and student contest opportunities) and program development. Academic advising. Undergraduate-level instruction: Graphic Design III, Package Design, and Professional Development for Visual Communications.
2007-2008 —Program Chair, Graphic Design, Advertising Design, Advertising Communications, International Academy of Design & Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Daily management of three program tracks within the Visual Communications Department, including class scheduling, full-time and adjunct faculty management (interviewing, hiring and conducting performance appraisal, etc.), maintaining regulatory compliance standards, curriculum development, and managing departmental budget. Academic advising. Undergraduate-level instruction: Portfolio Development for Visual Communications, Professional Development for Visual Communications and Junior Portfolio.
2006-2007 — Full-time Faculty/Advisor, International Academy of Design & Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Undergraduate-level instruction: Portfolio Development for Visual Communications, Junior Portfolio, Digital Prepress I & II, Web Design I & II, Advertising Design. Academic advising, focusing on retention and scholastic performance.
2003-2006 — Part-time Faculty, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Undergraduate and graduate-level instruction: Advanced Digital Prepress, Interface/Interaction: Designing Experiences, Interface and Structure: Web Design. Six-time graduate critique panelist.
2003-2006 — Adjunct Instructor, International Academy of Design & Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Undergraduate-level instruction: Portfolio Development, Digital Prepress, Web Design, Electronic Illustration, Layout for Electronic Media, Internship Advisor. Active participant in curriculum development.
1985-1986 — Teaching Graduate Assistant, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
Instructor of record, Electronic Music Composition, fall and spring semesters.
Exhibitions, Screenings, Performances
(*solo shows indicated by asterisk)
2008
Breaking Away, Screening, Gallery 37 Center for the Arts—CenterSpace Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, , Media Installation, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2007
Connected Images, , Screening, La Lumiere School, Michigan City, Indiana
2006
*Sculptural Images, , Media Installation, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
IMAGe Unit, Screening and Performance, Hot House, Chicago, Illinois
2005
Dramatic Images, Enriqué Baba, Performance, Prop Theatre, Chicago, Illinois
Movement Images, Performance, Hamlin Park Studio Theater, Chicago, Illinois
2001
*Itchy Pet, , Internet Radio Simulcast, MP3.com/Itchypet.com
1999
Itchy Pet, , ItchyPet.com/UncleBuzz.com
1995
*Every Good Boy, Farewell, Performance, Double Door, Chicago, Illinois
1994
Every Good Boy/Cracker, Performance, Metro, Chicago, Illinois
*Every Good Boy, Radio Simulcast Performance, CFXJ, Toronto, Ontario
*Every Good Boy, Double Door, Performance, Chicago, Illinois
*Every Good Boy, Radio Simulcast Performance, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Every Good Boy/Red Red Meat, Performance, Metro, Chicago, Illinois
1993
Every Good Boy/Uptighty, Performance, Czar Bar, Chicago, Illinois
*Every Good Boy, WHPK Radio Interview and Radio Simulcast Performance, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Every Good Boy/Shrimp Boat, Performance, Empty Bottle, Chicago, Illinois
1992
*Every Good Boy, Performance, Metro, Chicago, Illinois
1987
*Strange Badness 2, Installation and Performance, Punto Cinco, DeKalb, Illinois
1986
*Strange Badness, Installation and Performance, Punto Cinco, DeKalb, Illinois
Bibliography
(Reviews/Articles/Interviews)
1996
Jonathan Brandmeier, Interview, WLUP Radio, Chicago, June 4, 1996
1993
David Rothschild, Home Front, Chicago Tribune, Friday, July 9, 1993
Every Good Boy, Interview, WHPK Radio, University of Chicago, July 31, 1993
1992
L. Basil O’Connor, Alternative Press, July 1992
David Shirly, Option, July 1992
Deborah Orr, Jackpot, College Music Journal, April 10, 1992
1991
Lang Thompson, Reviews, Option, March/April 1991, Page 97
1990
Rudy Vanderlans, Sound Design, Émigré, Issue 16, 1990, pages 22-24
Published Works
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2001
Joshua Tree. Contribution: Music composition, performance (in collaboration). Émigré.
1999
Palm Desert. Contribution: Music composition, performance (in collaboration), audio remixing and mastering. Émigré.
1998
Dreaming Out Louder. Contribution: Music composition, performance (voice, alto saxophone, computers), lyrics, production. Émigré.
1993
Get Your La-La’s Out! Contribution: Music composition, performance (voice, guitars, computers), lyrics, co-production. Minty Fresh.
1992
Baling Wire and Bubble Gum. Contribution: Music composition, performance, lyrics, co-production. Émigré.
1989
Social Graces. Contribution: Music composition and performance, lyrics, co-production. Émigré
Technical Skills
Operation of Standard Definition (SD), and Hi-Definition (HD) video cameras; Linear & non-linear video capture & editing (Final Cut Studio, Adobe Premier); Motion graphics (Adobe After Effects, Motion); DVD Authoring (DVD Studio Pro); Audio recording, production and mastering (Pro Tools, Logic, Soundtrack Pro, Max/MSP, Reason); Highly proficient in Mac & PC graphic design and layout applications, including QuarkXPress, Adobe CS3 Suite. Fluent using (x)HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to design/create web based applications.
Professional Organizations
2001-2008
AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts)
2008
CAA (College Art Association)
2000-2007
Graphic Artists Guild
2004-2006
American Graphics Institute
Professional Service
2008-Present
Founding Member, Portfolio Center Task Force, IADT-Chicago
Outreach Organizer, Navteq/IADT Video Contest and Scholarship, IADT-Chicago
Committee Member, Curriculum Redesign: Game Production, Career Education Corporation
2007-present
Member, Student Success Committee, IADT-Chicago
Reporting Manager, Institutional Effectiveness Plan (IEP), IADT-Chicago
Committee Member, Imagine Fashion Show, IADT-Chicago
Member, Orientation Sub-Committee, IADT-Chicago
2005-present
Portfolio Scholarship Panelist, IADT-Chicago
2001-Present
Publisher & Managing Editor, Burning Word Magazine (www.burningword.com)
2005-2006
IMAGe Unit Student Organization Representative, Columbia College Chicago
Professional Practice
2001-Present
Principal, Deerly Creative, Chicago, Illinois
1999-2001
Senior Web Designer, Newcity Communications, Inc., Chicago, Illinois
1997-1999
Web Designer, Spectrum Communications, Elk Grove Village, Illinois
1992-2001
Art Director, Bapes & Associates, Oak Park, Illinois
1990-1992
Graphic Designer, Northwestern Printing House, Chicago, Illinois
1988-1989
Junior Designer, Kym Abrams Design, Chicago, Illinois
(last updated: 06/08)
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Breaking Away
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Host: Columbia InterArts – UIC Design MFA Candidates 07-08
Location: Gallery 37 Center for the Arts – CenterSpace Gallery 5th flr.
66 E. Randolph, Chicago, IL 60601 US
When: Friday, April 11, 6:00PM
BREAKING AWAY
graduate thesis work from
University of Illinois at Chicago Graphic Design & Columbia College Chicago Arts and Media & Book and Paper MFA candidates
Opening Reception
Friday, April 11th 2008
4 pm. – 11 pm.
runs from March 31st – April 14th
CenterSpace Gallery – 5th Floor
Gallery 37 Center for the Arts
66 E. Randolph
Chicago IL. 60601
Tags: chicago, chicago arts, columbia college chicago, gallery, gallery 37, opening, uic
Lost and Found
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Video narrative It’s All About Time exhibited October 29, 2007 – January 2, 2008. Hours: 9 am – 7 pm Monday – Thursday and 9 am – 5 pm on Friday.
Location: Hoken Annex, Columbia College Chicago, 623 S. Wabash, 1st Floor.
“Like the misplaced mitten or errant earring, each one of us eventually ends up at the lost and found. When we have been abandoned, cast away, forgotten, set free, moved on, we are confronted with a bleak universe. When we lose sight of the path, however, we are suddenly free to go whichever way we choose. Being at the lost and found is a moment of utmost distress, and at the same time, a place to begin again.”Lost and Found is curated by IMAGe Unit, a collective of the Columbia College Chicago Interdisciplinary Arts and Media MFA candidates dedicated to the principles of collaborative and individual creative excellence. IMAGe Unit invited Columbia students of all disciplines to submit works based upon the theme “lost and found.” The exhibition features a broad range of artworks from traditional photography to multimedia installation.
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About
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Erik Deerly has worked as an artist and graphic design professional for over twenty years. He teaches in the School of Design Studies at the International Academy of Design & Technology-Chicago and serves as Program Chair of the Department of Visual Communications. Concurrent positions include Principal, Deerly Creative, a Chicago based design firm; Publisher & Managing Editor, Burning Word Magazine (First place national interactive design awards, 2002, South by Southwest).
Publications include: Émigré, Option, and College Music Journal. Recordings: Joshua Tree; Palm Desert; Dreaming Out Louder; Get Your La-La’s Out!; Baling Wire and Bubble Gum; Social Graces. Prior to joining the IADT-Chicago full time faculty in 2006, he taught visual communications courses for three years each at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the International Academy of Design & Technology-Chicago. Erik holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Media from Columbia College Chicago and a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Northern Illinois University. Erik is a member of CAA and AIGA.
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Ropes & Kisses
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Its a clean sound—the sound of outer space—the sound of absolute silence inside your head—both painful and comfortably familiar. This is injected with doses of a more rollicking bawdiness in some of the piano parts, kind of a late night drunken intelligence evocative of yet another Young fossil, Tonight’s the Night (’75).
CMJ
Sample Track:
01 Ropes & Kisses
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Get Yer La La’s Out!
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Credits: Brian Deck: drums; Randy Henry: bass, vocals; Erik Deerly: vocals, guitars, music and lyrics. Produced by Brian Deck and Erik Deerly. Minty Fresh, 1993
Whoa. This is junked out and startlingly unusual. Lazy, distorted chords are hacked out over a laconic rhythm section, while vocalist Erik Deerly swaggers with sincerity. Kind of frightening how well this is done.
The Splatter Effect
Sample Tracks:
09 Wait ’til Your Father Gets Home
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10 City Life
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Wait / City Life
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Credits: Brian Deck: drums; Randy Henry: bass, vocals; Erik Deerly: vocals, guitars, music and lyrics. Produced by Brian Deck and Erik Deerly. Minty Fresh, 1993
Every Good Boy has completed an infectiously retro single, “Wait ’till Your Father Gets Home” on the Minty Fresh label. The twangy Jagger-Richards vocal interplay between guitarist-songwriter Erik Deerly and bassist Randy Henry gives the new material a slinky swagger. EGB drummer Brian Deck also plays with local band Red Red Meat, which recently signed to Seattle’s Sub Pop label, so it’ a good bet that duty will eventually call him away.
Chicago Tribune
Sample Tracks:
01 Wait ’til Your Father Gets Home
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02 City Life
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Emigre Music No. 1
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Help! Help! The Velvet Underground and Procol Harum were carrying a case of painkillers to a friend’s house when the Residents came barreling through an alley, bodies and drugs flying through the air. The painkillers were promptly consumed by every musician and they soon lost their identities. Fed by bad ’50s sitcoms and late-night cult movies, these dedicated, bleary-eyed musicians developed in their soporific states. A nearby studio was then invaded and the result was Every Good Boy and their comments on SOCIAL GRACES.
Option
Sample Tracks:
03 Judy Climbarrow
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04 Social Graces
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Baling Wire & Bubble Gum
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Credits: Brian Deck: drums; Doug McCombs: bass; Glenn Girard: guitar; Erik Deerly: vocals, saxophone, guitar, music and lyrics. Barry Deck: cover design. Produced by Brian Deck and Erik Deerly. Emigre, 1992
Every Good Boy are anomalous to every decade in recent memory, but the band’s frighteningly well-developed sense of style and panache with arrangements have a fearless ambition, reconciling the late-70s schism between punk/indie raw emotion and grander, more “commercial” productions.
CMJ
Where many a Manchester band has failed, Every Good Boy has derived a perfect archival sense of what the 70s psychedelic sound was all about. Baling Wire & Bubblegum speaks to this 70s dementia without being the least bit nostalgic.
Alternative Press
Sample Tracks:
01 I’ll Find You
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02 Judy Climbarrow
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04 For The Meadowlark
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07 Wild
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08 Three Days in a Spanish Restroom
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Social Graces
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Credits: Brian Deck: drums; Randy Henry: bass, vocals; Erik Deerly: vocals, saxophone, guitars, music and lyrics. Barry Deck, Erik Deerly: design and photography. Produced by Brian Deck with Erik Deerly. Emigre, 1990.
Unlike too many musicians with a point to make, Every Good Boy puts as much, maybe more, faith in their music as in their lyrics, and that makes a big difference. You have to admire a band nobody’s heard of that writes a no-sell-out song; you end up liking them when you discover that you’re singing along.
Option
Every Good Boy takes pop music, slows it down to the pace of the Twin Peaks soundtrack, and ads enough twists to each song to give this CD an almost eerie feeling, almost as if Rod Serling had engineered this CD.
Alternative Press
Sample Tracks:
01 History
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03 Social Graces
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07 ‘Cause I Hate You
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09 What Can I Do?
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10 Through The Woods
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