Lesley Duffield | Curriculum Vitae
Collegiate Assistant Professor of Creative Technology
College of Architecture, Arts and Design.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
School of Visual Arts (SOVA)
203 Draper Road NW
Blacksburg, Virginia
contact: duffles@vt.edu
Education
2016 Indiana University, Bloomington
Master of Fine Arts: Digital Art
2008 Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Bachelor of Arts: Communication Studies
Current Facutly Appointment
2016-Present Collegiate Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech, School of Visual Arts
Administrative Assignments
2017- Present: Chair, SOVA Scholarship Committee
2017-2024: Program Chair, Creative Technologies.
2017-2018: Interim Director- MFA in Creative Technologies
2024- 2025 Courses
SP 2025
ART 2704 Intro to 3D Computer Animation
ART 3704/4544/5604 Sound Design
ART 4894 Senior Studio
FA 2024
ART 1604 Principles of 4D Art and Design
ART 3504/4504/5604 Sound Art
ART 4894 Senior Studio
Current MFA Thesis Committee: Benjamin Hornyak
Current Outreach: Open at the Annex: curated monthly student showcase
Past Courses taught at Virginia Tech
3/3 teaching load with courses offered at all levels of currculum from foundations to graduate level.
3xxx-4xxx level courses are stacked with a 5xxx graduate section.
Art 1604 Principles of New Media
Art 1604 Principles of 4D Art and Design
Art 2604 Intro to New Media
Art 2604 Intro to Creative Technologies
Art 2704 Intro to 3D Animation
Art 3604 TS: Sound Art
Art 3604 TS: Video Art
Art 3114 Creative Code w/ Processing
Art 3704 TS: Monsters and Soft Modeling
Art 4854 Professional Studio Practices
Art 4894 Senior Studio
Past MFA Thesis Committees:
Vasia Ambatzi 2022
Tacie Jones 2020
Faculty-Led Experiential Learning Opportunities at Virginia Tech
Faculty Grant Advisor: ICAT Studio Playdate 2024
Bird Box Student Pop Up Exhibition, 2024
New Orleans Film Festival: Featured on-site New Media Installations 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023
Iceland Study Abroad: 2018, 2021
Data Bank IV: Student pop-up exhibition, 2023
Data Bank III: Student pop-up exhibtiion, 2021
Data Bank II: Student pop-up exhibition, 2018
Data Bank I: Student pop-up exhibition, 2017
School of Visual Arts at the Drive in: Student Showcase at the Starlight Drive-in Theatre in Christiansburg VA. 2020, 2021
Academic Conferences
2025 SECAC Panel Chair: Post AI analogue. (forthcoming)
2025 FATE, Presenter, Reaching our students beyond careerism.
2024 SECAC, Altanta GA. Presenter: Artist Residencies Panel “Everything went according to plan and the artist was better for it”.
2023 SECAC, Richmond, VA
2022 June Intangible Heritages Part of the Architecture, Media, and Politics society. (AMPS) Canterbury UK
2019 Heritage Dot Conference Linclon, UK
Residencies
2017 Santa Fe Art Institute - Water Rights Residency, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2017 University of Utah Taft Nicholson Center for Environmental Humanities, Centennial Montana
2017 Textílsetur Íslands, Blönduós Iceland.
Prior Relevant Instututional Experience
Indiana University, Bloomington:
2015- 2016 Associate Instructor D210 Digital Art: Survey + Practice
2014-2015 Associate Instructor P155 Public Oral Communication for Fine Art
2014 Ethnomusicology and New Interfaces Research Assistant: Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities
2013 Teaching Assistant N130 Digital Imaging For Non-Majors.
Forthcoming Exhibitions
2025
SOVA Faculty Triennial Welcome to Dessicant Park: The Forbidden Saltine
Past Exhibitions
2019
Instutute For Creativity Art and Technology: Sea Ice Saga
2018
SOVA Faculty Triennial
2017
Santa Fe Art Institute: High Water/ Low Water : Main Gallery Santa Fe, NM
Santa Fe Art Institute: Improvised Ecologies : Main Gallery Santa Fe, NM
Santa Fe Art Institute: Pathological Confluences: Lumpkins Gallery Santa Fe, NM
2016
Anchorage, AK Aleutian Pribilov Island Association Screening: Belkofski.
Bloomington, IN MFA Thesis Exhibition, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Bloomington, Indiana.
2015
Bloomington, IN
Indiana University Innovation Center 3D virtual environments exhibition. Once, By Mouth
Fuller Projects- Landfall!
Fuller Projects- Family Basement.
Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University: String Theory
Brooklyn, NY
Janet Kurnatowski Gallery. String Theory
2014
Bloomington, IN
Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University “Vesper Hymenoptera” Video Installation-3 minutes, 30 seconds.
2013
Bloomington, IN
Indiana University Student Cinema Showcase: “Vesper Hymenoptera” Video- 3 minutes, 30 seconds.
Indiana University Center for Excellence for Women in Technology Conference: “Bike Thief”- Video- 2 minutes.
2010
Fuller Projects "Remote Memory”- Mixed media sound installation.
Awards & Scholarship
2015 Teaching Assistantship, Indiana University School of Fine art
2015 HASTAC Scholar for the School of Fine Art
2015 Humanities Arts, Sciences, Technology and Research Collaboratory Honorarium
2014 Teaching Assistantship Special Instructor For Public Oral Communication for Fine Art
2014 Friends of Art Bookstore MFA Award in Studio Art
2013 Teaching Assistantship, Indiana University School of Fine art
Service & Academic Affiliations
2015-2016 Indiana University Master of Fine Arts Student Organization- Treasurer
2014-2015 Indiana University HASTAC Scholar
2015 Indiana University Digital Rhetoric Symposium