EDUCATION 

August 2007 – Current: Media, Arts and Sciences Ph.D. Student, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
December 2002 – B.F.A. Painting, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
December 2002 – B.A. Studio Art, 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                     

2008 - Current – Research Assistant, SMALLab K-12 Embodied and Mediated Learning Group, Tempe, AZ
2008 - Current – Board of Directors, urbanSTEW, Arts and Innovation non-profit, Tempe, AZ
2008 - Current – Music Composer, Burning Wagon Art Collective, San Francisco, CA
2008 - Current – President, Arts, Media, and Engineering Student Association, Tempe, AZ
2007 - Current – Doctoral Student, School of Arts, Media, and Engineering, Arizona State University, 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 Corporation, Tempe, AZ
Summer 2008 – Music Composer, data2music, Intel Corporation, Phoenix, AZ
1997 - 2008 – Environmental Graphic Designer, Envtl. Graphic Design Group, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2001 - 2007 – Artist, XicanIndio Artes Inc., Mesa, AZ

COURSES TAUGHT                     

Summer 2008 – Instructor, Digital Summer Game Intensive, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Summer 2009 – Instructor, Digital Summer Game Intensive, 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
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 – Resolana, Department 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

 

PRESS COVERAGE                     

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.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES                     

2010 – Radio Healer (Los Humanos & Zarco Guerrero), NIME 2010 New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Sydney, Australia
2010 – Radio Healer (Los Humanos), ACM CHI Human Factors in Computing Systems, Atlanta, GA
2010 – Radio Healer (Los Humanos), Phoenix Experimental Arts Festival, Phoenix, AZ
2009 – Imperial Silence: Una “pera Muerta, (Burning Wagon Collective),
            Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, San Jose, CA
            El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
2009 – Radio Healer (Los Humanos), Faces, Guest Artist: Zarco Guerrero, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ
2009 – Imperial Silence: Una Opera Muerta (Burning Wagon Collective), Rasquache Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2009 – Radio Healer (Los Humanos), Outsiders Within Exhibition, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ
2009 – GameBot: Stick Ball (Martinez, C., Kemp, R., Gkisedtanamoogk), Arizona Science Center, Phoenix, AZ
2009 – Case Study (urbanSTEW), Digital Arts Ranch, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2008 – Imperial Silence: Una Opera Muerta, (Burning Wagon Collective),
            Mission Cultural Center, Mission District, San Francisco, CA
            Brava Theater, San Francisco, CA
            World Theater, Monterey, CA
2007 – Radio Healer (Los Humanos),
            Connected Knowledge: Collaboration Across Boundaries, Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
            Pueblo Grande Museum, Phoenix, AZ
            The Icehouse, Phoenix, AZ
2007 – Radio Healer Opus, (Los Humanos), Red Rug Studios, Mesa, AZ, SAE Mastering, Phoenix, AZ
2007 – Deadtime Stories with Mariachi Goose and Friends (Burning Wagon Collective),
            Festival de Cannes: Short Film Corner, Cannes, France
            Southside Film Festival, Bethlehem, PA
            San Francisco Indie Festival, San Francisco, CA
            Campacine Film Festival, Thermal, CA
            Reel Rasquache Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
            Silver Lake Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
            Arizona International Film Festival, Tucson, AZ
2007 – Morph (Mumford, J., Martinez, C., Rajko, S., Tolentino, L.), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2007 – Sonic Maze (Martinez C., Ingalls T.), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2007 – HandJabber (Mumford, J., Martinez, C., Rajko, S., Tolentino, L., Ingalls, T.), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2007 – Cache (Piver, H., Martinez, C. (Sound Design)), Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2006 – Flat (Martinez, M., Martinez, C.), Emerging Artists II, Dance Theater, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2006 – El Muertorider (Burning Wagon Collective), Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2006 – Imperial Silence Exhibition of Films (Burning Wagon Collective), Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2006 – Los ABCs: Que Vivan Los Muertos (Burning Wagon Collective),
            Animation Spotlight,Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT
            Toon Town Trouble Makers, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
            Transcending Borders, Museum of Anthropology, Arizona State University, AZ
            Boston Underground Film Festival, Harvard, MA
            Brooklyn Underground Film Festival, Brooklyn Lyceum
            Sin Fronteras Film Festival, Albuquerque, NM
            XicanIndie Film Festival, Denver, CO
            Silver Lake Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
            Arizona International Film Festival, Tucson, AZ
            Jacksonville Film Festival, Telluride, CO
            Mountain Film Festival, Telluride, CO
2005 – Los ABCs: Que Vivan Los Muertos (Burning Wagon Collective),
            Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
            Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ
2005 – Radio Healer (Los Humanos), monOrchid Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2004 – Count (Martinez, M., Martinez, C.), Bonnie Bird Theatre, Laban Centre, London, UK
2003 – Radio Healer Concerto (Los Humanos), Red Rug, Tempe, AZ, Tres Gatos, SAE Mastering, Phoenix, AZ
2001 – Day of the Muertos (Martinez, C.), Step Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2001 – El Oscuro (Martinez, C.), Prizm Theater, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2000 – La Gran Barrera (Martinez, C.), Gammage Auditorium, Tempe, AZ                                          

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS                     

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
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., Tolentino, L., Birchfield D., Johnson-Glenberg, M., Fostering a Student Centered, Collaborative Environment for Game Design, 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 Tanginble and Emoddied 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, Berkley, 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.                     

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 gameplay 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 gameplay 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: Modelling 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 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.