TRASA urban arts collective's Artist-in-Residence Program presents:

Bill Daniel

TRASA urban arts collective is proud to announce a new artist residency with experimental filmmaker and photographer Bill Daniel. Since 1980, Daniel’s work has reported on the various social margins he finds himself in: bicycle messengers, radical environmentalists, hobo graffiti artists, swap-meet guitar players, and rural drag racers. Drawing from his background in studio photography, experimental media, and construction, Daniel builds site-specific environments to present non-linear documentary work within an allegorical, interactive setting that communicates across socioeconomic boundaries.

Daniel's work has received awards from Creative Capital, Film Arts Foundation, The Pioneer Fund, Texas Filmmaker Production Fund, the R & B Feder Charitable Foundation, and The Western States Media Alliance. He was a Wattis Foundation artist-in-residence at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, where his installation "Souls Harbor" was exhibited in Dec.

In 1999 he was in-residence at The Headlands Center for the Arts where he produced several multi-projection 16mm film installations, including "Trespassing Sign" in collaboration with the late Margaret Kilgallen. In 2001 his hobo campfire installation "The Girl on the Train in the Moon" was included in "Widely Unknown" at Deitch Projects in New York.

A veteran of the touring scene, Daniel has programmed, booked and exhibited several mobile art shows, including the Lucky Bum Film Tour with partner Vanessa Renwick. In 1997-98 he curated a weekly screening series, Funhouse Cinema, in Austin, that also regularly screened in Houston and San Antonio. Daniel is also recognized for his work as cinematographer and editor for filmmaker Craig Baldwin. Other endeavors include publishing two zines--The Western Roundup, a punk fanzine in 1981-82, and Detour, a situationist journal in 1986.