James Koehnline - Resume & Published Work

JAMES KOEHNLINE – ILLUSTRATION AND MULTIMEDIA DESIGN

RESUME · PUBLISHED WORK · LINKS

(206) 783-6846 9014 15th Ave. NW, Seattle WA 98117

RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT

1991-2007: Freelance Illustrator/Designer

(see list of published work)

Book and magazine cover art and text illustration, as well as posters, t-shirts, mousepads, postcards, notecards, bookmarks, signage and advertising art.

1991-2007: Bill Laswell / AXIOM Records

18 CD cover art commissions for groundbreaking producer, composer and musician, and related promotional materials for Axiom label (formerly a division of Island Records). <http://www.axiom-records.com>

1991-2007: Art Director, Autonomedia Publishing Collective, Brooklyn

Mostly book covers and text illustrations. Published over 100 edge-pushing works of fiction, radical politics and philosophy. My own projects include a book of my collage art, an American history anthology (co-edited), and a wall calendar (concept, design, illustration), now in its 15th annual edition. http://www.autonomedia.org/

2002: UWTV Production, University of Washington, Seattle

Animation and motion graphics for permanent public art installation at the new UW campus in Bothell, WA.

1987-1990: Professional Information Assistant, Skokie Public Library

Responsible for all aspects of collection development in the Fine Arts and Popular Arts at public library, Skokie IL.

1985-1988: Co-curator and manager, Axe St. Arena, Chicago

A collectively-run gallery and performance venue.

COMPUTER SKILLS / TRAINING

raster/vector graphics: photoshop · freehand · illustrator

page layout: quark · indesign

digital video: after effects · premiere · final cut pro · cleaner

animation/interactive: director · flash · poser · cinema 4d

digital audio: pro tools · sound forge · vegas · acid

web design/coding: html · css · bbedit · imageready · dreamweaver

general: word · excel · filemaker pro

EDUCATION

October 2000 – SEPTEMBER, 2002: Art Institute of Seattle

Two-year Multimedia and Web Design Program. Graduated with honors.

1979-1990: Harry Bouras

Private studies with well-known Chicago artist, critic, teacher and radio personality, until his death in 1990.

1976 -1980: Minneapolis College of Art & Design

& Columbia College, Chicago

Studied painting, drawing, printmaking, film-making, optical printing, animation, art history, writing and art criticism.

PUBLISHED WORK

ART BOOK

Magpie Reveries: The Iconographic Mandalas of James Koehnline (Autonomedia, 1992)

WALL CALENDAR

Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 editions (Autonomedia): concept, research, illustrations and cover art

CD COVER ART

Bahia Black: Ritual Beating System (Axiom label/Island Records, 1992)

Praxis: Transmutation (Axiom, 1992)

Nicky Skopelitis Ekstasis (Axiom, 1993)

Bernie Worrell: Blacktronic Science (Gramavision, 1993)

Reality Scare: A Game of Damage (Gray Matter, 1993)

Umar Bin Hassan: Be Bop or Be Dead (Axiom, 1993)

Praxis: Sacrifist (Subharmonic, 1994)

Material: Hallucination Engine (Axiom, 1994)

Hakim Bey: TAZ (Axiom, 1994)

Praxis: Metatron (Subharmonic, 1995)

Mysteries of Creation (Axiom, 1996)

Ekstasis: Wake Up and Dream (Cyberoctave, 1998)

Sacred System: Nagual Site (Wicklow, 1998)

Material: Intonarumori (Axiom, 1999)

Praxis: Collection (Douglas, 1999)

Bill Laswell: Emerald Aether/Shape-Shifting (Shanachie, 2000)

Coffeeshop (Coffeeshop, 2000)

JAIA: Blue Energy (Dakini, 2000)

Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell: Radioaxiom: A Dub Transmission (Axiom, 2002)

BOOK COVER ART

Debbie Schwartz-Doppelganger: The Supersoul Honking Blues Looseleaf Bible

(Verlag Golem, 1988)

Hakim Bey: TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone (Autonomedia, 1991)

Thom Metzger: This Is Your Final Warning (Autonomedia, 1992)

Jim Keith (editor): The Gemstone File (Illuminet, 1992)

Lyall Watson: The Nature of Things: The Secret Life of Inanimate Objects

(Destiny Books, 1992)

Peter Lamborn Wilson: Sacred Drift (City Lights Books, 1993). Also text illustrations

James Koehnline & Ron Sakolsky (editors): Gone to Croatan: The Origins of Drop-Out Culture in North-America (Autonomedia, 1993). Also text illustrations

Louis Kaplan: The Damned Universe of Charles Fort (Autonomedia, 1993)

Antero Alli: Letters. Essays & Premonitions (Vigilantero Press, 1993). Also text illustrations

George Andrews: Extraterrestrial Friends & Foes (Illuminet, 1993)

AXIOM: promotional book and cassette (Axiom, 1994)

Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade: Radiosermonettes (Libertarian Book Club, 1994)

John Zerzan: Future Primitive (Autonomedia, 1994)

Bob Black & Tad Kepley (editors): Zerowork, the Anti-Work Anthology (Autonomedia, 1995)

Jacob Rabinowitz: The Unholy Bible (Autonomedia, 1995)

Paul Goodman: Format and Anxiety (Autonomedia, 1995)

John Keel: Disneyland of the Gods (Illuminet, 1995)

Peter Lamborn Wilson: Pirate Utopias (Autonomedia, 1995)

Dana Beal & Paul De Rienzo (editors): The Ibogaine Story, (Autonomedia, 1996)

Peter Lamborn Wilson: Escape From the 19th Century (Autonomedia,1998)

John Zerzan (editor): Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections (Uncivilized, 1998)

Peter Lamborn Wilson: Ploughing the Clouds; The Search for Irish Soma (City Lights, 1999)

Paul Krassner: Sex, Drugs & the Twinkie Murders (Loompanics, 2000)

MAGAZINE FEATURES

Magical Blend, Issue 41, December 1993 - cover art and featured portfolio

Axcess, Volume 1, Number 2, 1994 - "James Koehnline, Prophet of Jubilation: Ecstatic Art, Antinomianism and Alternative History" by D. Whitworth

Semiotext(e), Number 14, The Science Fiction issue - portfolio of collage work

Xerolage, Number 24, 1994 - the James Koehnline issue

Substance Digizine, (CD-ROM magazine) Number 1, 1995 - interactive multimedia gallery of fifty artworks and audio interview

MAGAZINE COVER ART & ILLUSTRATION

Utne Reader, Gnosis, Mondo 2000, Toward 2012, Magical Blend, Neo, Science Fiction Eye, Semiotext(e), Anarchy, Fifth Estate, Talking Raven, Alternative Press Review, Factsheet Five, Axcess, Back Brain Recluse, Griot, Moorish Science Monitor, Mad Farmers' Jubilee Almanac, Sin, Thorazine, Dharma Combat, Brick, World Letter, Drunken Boat, Beyond the Fringe, Freakout U.S.A., Branches, Seattle L.E.T.S., Left Bank Book Collective (catalogs, 1993-1999), Incunabula Press Catalogue 1990/91, International Blacklist, and many others

GALLERY EXHIBITIONS