Steve Bull offers a portfolio of assets from his last seven years as founder of Cutlass, a company which specializes in mobile locative media and art with applications running on 02, Verizon Wireless, TELUS Mobility, and Orange. In 2006 his Hot-n-Cold was a NAVTEQ Lbs Challenge finalist, he launched his New-York Historical Society Slavery Tour on vodcast, podcast and VOIP, and the NY Times reviewed the premiere of his Cellphonia: San Jose, an opera at ISEA ZeroOne Festival. After completing NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, he worked as a senior information architect and prototype designer/developer for Interval Research. He also won many awards for his media productions both national and international and is a member of the Directors Guild of America.
Azza - Cellphone Modrian-inspired interactive art generated by algorithms.
Farmwork - Time-lapse video at Experimental Media Festival at Tonic, NYC.
Cellphonia - Adjunct Professor, new media course at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.
2003
Hollywood USA - Cell phone location-based interactive tour of movie locations.
Margaret Sanger: A Public Nuisance - Experimental film screened at J. Paul Getty Museum as one of two best examples of experimental biography in the last decade. Video funded by ITVS and distributed by Women Make Movies and the MacArthur Foundation.
Rat Race USA - the first personalized traffic report sent to your cell phone or wireless PDA
TouchToneTours - Instant personal guide self-guided tour guide to connect a traveler via cellphone to the hidden world surrounding them. Adapted as Quirky World for Great Britain and Canada.
2001
01.01.01 Cutlass Treasure Hunt - Extreme tech treasure hunt, internet-driven cellphone street theater for visitors to Times Square where teams hunt the hidden past to find treasure using multiple interactive interfaces. Expanded to college campuses across the U.S.
Story Island - Interaction/Prototype Design, interactive storybook developed and built as consultant for Interval Research
Pocket Watch - Artist's repurposed watch exhibited as part of "Individual Technology" exhibit in Tech Museum, San Jose.
1998
You-In-A-Movie - Movie-Booth/Story/Interaction Designer, built and designed prototype of arcade method to insert a visitor into a feature film, consultant for Interval Research.
Venus - Game Designer of a digital game engine with reward structure based on human behavior research.
1997
Virtual Parlor "Yesterday's Parlor Tricks/Tomorrow's Technology" - 5 physical interface prototypes in a Victorian parlor with DSP network connectivity presenting an alternative computer mediated audio chat and "real" parlor tricks without traditional PC computer, monitor, keyboard and mouse as Thesis NYU:ITP
SOS - New Media Artist, Titanic biography on surviving crew member of the historical sea disaster with Shockwave interactive "Practice Morse Code" in which visitors use "dots" and "dash" mouse-click-downs to send "SOS" and other Morse code messages.
Salome's Revenge - New Media Artist collaborator on a Palace (Warner) site and interactive multi-node narrative where Yorb TV viewers using their touch-tone phones and internet web surfers choose their avatar characters re-enact the classic Salome story in a contemporary setting of a Loehman's discount clothing store.
1996
Interval Research - New Media Consultant on network music project with Laurie Anderson and Peter Gabriel
World, My Heart's Journey - Line Producer of 60 minute documentary on Seiji Ozawa in Tanglewood for Japanese TV.
1995
Sculpture Bones - Cinematographer for documentary on Mary Ann Unger's sculpture, described by NY Times as "visceral, chilling." 30 minutes
EPA Poisons EPA - Cinematographer for independent documentary screened at MoMA, Free Speech TV, and Superfest.
1994
Margaret Sanger: A Public Nuisance - Co-Director and Cinematographer of documentary in ITVS first round production. MoMA, Berlin Film Fest, AFI, World Wide Video Fest, New TV/PBS, Getty, Distributed by Women Make Movies and MacArthur Fund.
Rogue Transmissions - Cinematographer for experimental video on media dislocation.
Selected for AFI, World Wide Video Festival, Long Beach Museum of Art, Ars Electronica, WNYC "Poetry Spot."
Haiku Vision - Video Artist of 5 video haiku shot in northern Japan. Grand Prize winner, Bucks County Film Festival, experimental prize winner, Atlanta Film Festival. Screened at MoMA, Athens Film Fest, Cork Film Fest, Cleveland Film Fest, Humboldt Film Fest. National tour, tour of NY State and 10 city tour of Brazil. Also Creative Time 42nd St. feature for six months.
1992
Kidnapped - Video Artist using found footage of mother stealing children from father at Xmas. Staten Island Museum and The Kitchen.
1989
Edward Sylvester Morse - Producer for 90 minute special on American scientist who created the Peabody Museum in Salem. NHK Japanese TV.
WHAM! in China - 2nd unit Director/lst AD for Lindsay Anderson's five camera rockumentary feature of first rock concert in mainland China.
Komodo - Cinematographer/Producer for video on survival of a lizard that eats people. Honorable Mention, American Film/Video Festival, VOICE CHOICE, World Wide Video Festival, L.A.C.E., Artists Space, "Meet the Maker" series at Donnell, Pasadena Art Center, L.A. Freewaves, Belgian Cultural Center and NC Film/Video Fest. 1986.
1956
My neighbor Magda dances with two balloons while I contemplate space flight and my brother Jeff looks on aghast. Circa 1956 - Henry Nelson Bull
