CV
Jared E. Bendis MFA
2473 E 124 Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44120
216-288-6349
jaredx2@gmail.com
www.jaredjared.com
Professional Experience
Case Western Reserve University [CWRU] – Cleveland, Ohio [1994-Present]
- Kelvin Smith Library – Digital Learning & Scholarship [2006 – Present]
- Digitization & New Media Specialist [2025-Present]
- Creative New Media Officer (CNMO) [2011-2025]
- Creative Director of New Media [2006-2011]
- Adjunct Lecturer [2006 – Present]
- Cognitive Sciences [2020 – Present]
- Art Education / Art Studio [2006 – 2021]
- Music / Teacher Licensure [2011 – 2016]
- SAGES [2009 – 2013]
- Information Technology Services [1994 – 2006]
- Creative Director of New Media [2003 – 2006]
- Instructional Multimedia / Virtual Reality Specialist [2000 – 2003]
- Instructional Technologist / Courseware Designer [1994 – 2000]
- The Cleveland Museum of Art [2005 – 2007]
- Virtual Reality Specialist [½ time by special arrangement]
Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts & Sciences [2021 – Present]
- Lecturer – Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies Graduate Program
Cleveland Institute of Art [CIA] – Cleveland, Ohio [2013 – 2024]
- Associate Professor & Chair – Game Design [2021 – 2024]
- Adjunct Faculty – Game Design [2013 – 2021]
Infantest Corporation –Cleveland, Ohio [1990 – 1994]
- Director of Research & Development
ATBOSH Media Limited – Cleveland, Ohio [1988 – Present]
- Owner – Book Publisher & Agency, Media/Web/Game/App Production, Consulting
- Brands owned by ATBOSH Media Ltd. include: Lemming Labs, From Castle to Castle Films, Granola Games, Silly Services, True Love Personals, & Buckeye Country Kennel
Education
Case Western Reserve University
MFA – Masters of Fine Arts in Contemporary Dance [05/2016]
- Focus in Performance Media
M A – Masters of Arts in Art Education [05/2004]
- Joint program with The Cleveland Institute of Art
BA – Bachelor of Arts in Psychology [01/2002]
- Minors in Art Studio and Music
Unfinished PhD in Museum Studies [05/2011]
- Joint program with The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Completed all coursework & internships (22 credits)
- Withdrawn in Good Standing
Jacob Saperstein Mesivta High School
Diploma [05/1989]
- Valedictorian
Awards/Honors
Judges Choice Award – Cast aside into the public domain: The resurrection of an esoteric Jules Verne adventure novel! (Poster & Presentation), The NMC Summer Conference Rochester, NY. 06/2016
The Naomi Wolin Award for Excellence in Collaborations or New Directions in Dance – Department of Dance, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland, Ohio. 05/2016
Judges Choice Award – The Golden Age of Video Games: A New/Old Approach to Video Game Design (Poster & Presentation), The NMC Summer Conference Portland, Oregon. 06/2014
Graduate Research Award – Chroma – Performance Media & Modern Dance: Dancing with Light & Color (Poster & Presentation), Research ShowCASE at CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 04/2015
Outstanding Achievement Award – SimMarch 1812 [Fort Meigs Development team & Lemming Labs] (iPad app), Ohio Local History Alliance. 10/2013
Best of NMC Award – Resurrecting Century Old Virtual Reality: Bringing new life to Rainforth’s Stereoscopic Skin Clinic [with J. Edmonson] (Poster & Presentation), The New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference. 06/2013
Judges Choice Award – Panorama of Yedikule Fortress (Photograph), The New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts. 06/2012
Judges Choice Award – Can I Borrow Your Underwear? Strategies When Lending Personal Technology (Poster), The New Media Consortium Summer (NMC) Conference at University of Wisconsin, Madison. 06/2011
Judges Choice Award – Mandalas (Installation), The New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference at University of Wisconsin, Madison. 06/2011
Peoples Choice Award – Less Filling, Same Great Taste – Comic Books instead of Video for Student Projects [with T. Oestreich] (Poster & Comic Book), The New Media Consortium Summer (NMC) Conference at The University of Southern California, Anaheim, California. 06/2010
Peoples Choice Award – Making Color Theory Palatable (Digital Poster), The New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. 06/2008
2nd Place Award Winner – Ubiquitous Shovel [with Brian Pomerantz] (Short film), 2nd Annual Cleveland Christian Film Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 11/2007
Honorary Title – “Su-fo” (Friend of the King) to the King of Bafounda, Fó Tchio, Western Province of Cameroon. 08/2007
Judges Choice Award – Chromostereoscopy for Use in Visualization (Poster), The New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indiana. 06/2007
Judges Choice Award – Introduction to Multimedia Technology: A New Course for Art Educators [with T. Shuckerow] (Poster), The New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference at CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 06/2006
Award Winner – The Digital Me: Pixel Mask (Collage on Ceramic Mask), 19th Annual Juried Exhibit, National Collage Society. 10/2003
Grants
Artist Grant – Of Castle and Crepes: A Film of French History and Culture The Maison Française de Cleveland. 02/2009
Adobe Atmosphere Curriculum Grant – The Halls of Time Virtual World Project Adobe Inc. & The New Media Consortium (NMC). 06/2004
Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Research Grant – Stereoscopic/3D Images in Education CWRU. 01/2004
Artist in Residence
Ingenuity: Labs – Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland Ohio – Summer 2013
Isparta Archeological Survey – Suleyman Demirel University – Gonen, Turkey – Summers 2010, 2011, & 2012
smART in the City: A Summer of Self-Discovery – CWRU Art Studio Site- Summers 2007, 2008, & 2009
Digital Media Center, Johns Hopkins University –Invited Guest Artist, Public Talk, Workshop, and Student Showcase – on Stereoscopic Photography and Virtual Reality,Intersession 2004
Collections
Driftwood (Piano Sculpture), Kelvin Smith Library at CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio.
Exhibitions
The Great Smell Test: An Aromatic Adventure (Installation), Blue Bash, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 10/2025
All for One Redux “I’m The Captain!” (Game Installation), Blue Bash, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 10/2024
All for One (Game Installation), Blue Bash, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 10/2023
PopcornFun! (App), 2023 Faculty Art Exhibition, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. 8/2023
The Battle (Standalone Game), 2022 Faculty Art Exhibition, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. 11/2022
Return of the Wumpus (Game Installation), Blue Bash, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 10/2022
Return of the Wumpus (Game Installation), The Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2022
Return of the Wumpus (Game Installation), Presidential Inauguration Event, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2022
Scotland: Now and Then (Photgraph) 2021 Faculty Art Exhibition, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2021
Queen of Hearts (Woodcut & Stencil Print) 2020 Faculty Art Exhibition, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2020
Kinetic Controlled Robotic Drawing Machine (Installation), Blue Block Party, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 10/2019
One-Eyed Jack of Spades (Laser-Cut stained wood) 2019 Faculty Art Exhibition, CWRU Art Studio, Cleveland, Ohio. 10/2019
One-Eyed Jack of Spades (Laser-Cut stained wood) 2019 Faculty Art Exhibition, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. 08/2019
Treasure of the Wumpus in The Azimuth Cave Returns! (Game Installation), Blue Block Party, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 10/2018
Three Replica Sculptures from the Tomb Sculpture from the Court of Burgundy – 1) Laser Cut Wood,
2) Laser Cut Acrylic, 3) 3D Printed Plastic/Wood, 2018 Faculty Art Exhibition, CWRU Art Studio, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2018
Treasure of the Wumpus in The Azimuth Cave Returns! (Game Installation), The Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2018
Treasure of the Wumpus in The Azimuth Cave Returns! (Game Installation), FireFish Festival, Lorain, Ohio. 09/2018
The Jabberwocky: Monster & The Jabberwocky: Poem (Laser Engraved Wood), SPACES in Wonderland, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio. 11/2017
CWRU: The Arcade Game Experience (Game Installation), Blue Block Party, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 10/2017
Un Faux Originale: Flammarion Engraving (Laser Engraved Wood), Faculty Art Exhibition, CWRU Art Studio, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2017
Un Faux Originale: Flammarion Engraving (Laser Engraved Wood), 2017 Faculty Art Exhibition, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2017
Un Faux Originale: Flammarion Engraving & Un Faux Originale: Durer’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, SPACES Great Expectations (Laser Engraved Wood), Westward Ho, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio. 11/2016
Inside the Box “Blue Block Party” (Installation), Blue Block Party, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 10/2016
Inside the Box “FireFish” (Installation), FireFish Festival, Lorain, Ohio. 09/2016
Jules Verne’s Noble Game of The United States of America (Board Game), 2016 Faculty Art Exhibition, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2016
Dunskey Castle: Now & Then, Abstraction #79: Fish & Space, & Abstraction #47 (Photograph & Paintings), SPACES’ Guide to the Gallery, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio. 11/2015
Strike a Pose – Under the Sea (Installation), Kaleidoscope, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. 10/2015
Kinetic Mandalas (Installation), Blue Block Party, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 10/2015
Kinetic Mandalas (Installation), The Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 10/2015
Strike a Pose – Under the Sea (Installation), FireFish Festival, Lorain, Ohio. 09/2015
Then & Now: Scotland (3 Photographs paired with 18th Century Engravings), Faculty Art Exhibition, CWRU Art Studio, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2015
HexConnect (Tile Game), Faculty Art Exhibition, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2015
Victorian Television – an “Experimental” Camera Obscura (Installation), Cleveland World Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 08/2015
The Silhouette Project (Installation) Faculty Art Exhibition, CWRU Art Studio, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2014
Treasure of the Wumpus in The Azimuth Cave Redux (Installation), Ingenuity Labs Artist – The Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2014
The Silhouette Project (Installation), Cleveland One World Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2014
Penny Drop (Video Game Installation), Faculty Art Exhibition, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. 08/2014
The Chateau de Pierrefonds & The Blue Mosque (Photographs), SPACES Disco Dada Dreamscape, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio. 11/2013
The Story of Goldilocks & The Three Bears – Told in the Louvre (Video), Faculty Art Exhibition, CWRU Art Studio, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2013
Cut Out Portraits (Installation), Blue Block Party, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2013
Driftwood (Piano Sculpture), Play Me I’m Yours / Street Pianos, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. Summer/2013
The Parthenon Project (Video), An Evening of Archeological Films at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece. 03/2013
The Parthenon Project (Video), The XXIII International Festival of Archaeological Film in Rovereto, Italy. 10/2012
10 Panel Panorama of Istanbul (10 Photographs), Faculty Art Exhibition, CWRU Art Studio, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2012
Treasure of the Wumpus 2.0 in The Azimuth Cave (Game Installation), Featured Artist, The Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2012
Panorama of Yedikule Fortress (Photograph), The NMC Summer Conference at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts. 06/2012
Change the World & While My Guitar Gently Melts (Designs), Guitarmania Juried Art Exhibit, Cleveland, Ohio. 12/2011
Panorama & Mandalas (Stereoscopic Video & Installation), Blue Bash, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 10/2011
One Day in Cappadocia & Mandalas (10 Photographs & Installation), Faculty Art Exhibition, CWRU Art Studio, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2011
Treasure of the Wumpus in The Azimuth Cave (Game Installation), Featured Artist, The Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2011
Mandalas (Installation), The Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2011
Mandalas (Installation), The NMC Summer Conference at University of Wisconsin, Madison. 06/2011
Mandalas (Installation), Rock Your World with STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math), Cleveland Metropolitan School District Department of Art Education, Cleveland Ohio. 5/2011
Mandalas (Installation), Ignition 4.0: Natural | Unnatural, Juried Show (by Invitation), Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, Ohio. 02/2011-04/2011
10 Images from Turkey (Photographs), Faculty Art Exhibition, CWRU Art Studio, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2010
The Digital Kaleidoscopic Mandala Project (Installation), The Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2010
Straight Up (Photo Series), ATBOSH (Photo Series), Teaser Trailer/Bloopers: Of Castles & Crepes (Video), My Cameroon Experience (Video), Faculty Art Exhibition, CWRU Art Studio, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2009
Tell Me A Joke (Installation), Ingenuity Festival Bridge Project, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/200
Hands-Across (Installation), Featured Artist – The Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 07/2009
26 Photographs of Peru (Photographs), Faculty Art Exhibition, CWRU Art Studio, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/200
Hands-Across (Installation), Featured Artist, The Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 07/2008
Gentle-Rat & Op-Rat (Designs), St. Clair Superior Development Corporation, Year of the Rat, Cleveland, Ohio. 02/2008
MDC Dance (Virtual Worlds Design), Mather Dance, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 11/2007 & 02/2008
Ubiquitous Shovel [with Brian Pomerantz] (Short Film), 2nd Annual Cleveland Christian Film Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 11/2007
Found in a Crowd [with Rita Montlack] (Installation), Featured Artist – The Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 07/2007
Recycle Rock [with Rita Montlack] (Sculpture), Guitarmania Guitar Sponsored by Charter One Bank, Cleveland, Ohio. 05/2007
Cubist Guitar, Visual Echo, Distortion, & Recycle Rock [with Rita Montlack] (Designs), Guitarmania Juried Art Exhibit, Cleveland, Ohio. 01/2007
Kaleidoscopic Cleveland [with Rita Montlack] (Installation), Commission for the McKinsey & Company Retreat, Cleveland, Ohio. 08/2006
Recycle Cleveland [with Rita Montlack] (Installation), The Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 07/2006
Parade the Circle 2006 Highlights (Stereoscopic/3D HD Video), The Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 07/2006
Harriet Hosmer’s Sleeping Faun (Stereoscopic/3D 3D HD Video), The Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 07/2006
Tower City & Double Self Portrait (Panoramic Photographs), Northeast Ohio Panoramic Photography Exhibit, Lakeland Community College, Cleveland, Ohio. 05/2006
Four Cubist Color Studies, Spherical Panorama of Downtown Cleveland and The Digital Me: Pixel Mask (Digital Paintings, Photograph, Collage Sculpture), Faculty Art Exhibition, CWRU Art Studio, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2005
The French Writing Desk (Stereoscopic/3D Video), Director of Photography & Technical Director, Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) Pavilion at the Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 08/2005
The Animated Table Fountain (Autostereoscopic Video), Technical Director, Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) Pavilion at the Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 08/2005
The Stargazer Hologram (Hologram), Technical Director, Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) Pavilion at the Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 08/2005
Graduate Thesis Show: It’s All About Me (82 works), The Art Studio Gallery, CWRU Art Studio, Cleveland, Ohio. 04/2004
The Digital Me: Pixel Mask (Collage Sculpture), 19th Annual Juried Exhibit, National Collage Society, Cleveland, Ohio. 10/2003
The Digital Me Series: 1 – Pixel Mask, 2 – Pixel Portrait, 3 – Vector Block (Collage Sculpture, Lithograph, Linoleum Block), ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Art Gallery, Juried Exhibition, San Diego, California. 07/2003
Chateau de Pierrefonds I (Photograph), The Art Show in Russell at the Fairmount Fine Arts Center, Juried Exhibition. 05/2003
Juries
Consumer Electronics Show, (Innovation Awards Judge), Las Vegas, Nevada. 01/2024
Open World Arcade, (Game Reviewer) Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio. 10/2019
SAAM Arcade, (Game Reviewer) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. 08/2019
The Art of Stem, The Kelvin Smith Library, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 04/2016
Study Abroad Photo Contest, Center for International Affairs, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 04/2015
The Art of Stem, The Kelvin Smith Library, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 03/2015
Study Abroad Photo Contest, Center for International Affairs, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 03/2013
Cleveland Institute of Music Exhibit, Cleveland Photographic Society, Cleveland, Ohio. 11/2012
University Hospital Exhibit, Cleveland Photographic Society, Cleveland, Ohio. 11/2012
Study Abroad Photo Contest, Center for International Affairs, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 03/2012
Flip Camera Film Festival, Baker Nord Center for the Humanities & The Freedman Center, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 10/2009
Cell Phone Film Festival, Baker Nord Center for the Humanities, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2008
AAM MUSE Awards for outstanding achievement in museum media: Podcasts & Gaming, American Association of Museums, Denver, Colorado. 04/2008
Cell Phone Film Festival, Baker Nord Center for the Humanities CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 04/2007
Cuyahoga Regional Scholastic Art Awards Exhibition, Video Program, Cuyahoga Community College (East Campus), Cleveland, Ohio. 01/2005
Teaching Experience – Academic Courses
Cleveland Institute of Art
- Tabletop Game Design – Game Design, GAME 215
- 2D Arcade Game Design – Game Design, GAME 216
- Introduction to Game Development – Game Design, GAME 322
- Game Media Production II – Game Design, GAME 321
- Serious Game Design: Theory and Application – Game Design, GAME 308/408
- The Aesthetics of Virtual and Augmented Reality – Game Design, GAME 430
- Special VFX/Simulation & Virtual Reality – Game Design, GAME 430
- BFA Thesis Research Design and Preparation– Game Design, GAME 401
- Introduction to Media Production & Integration in Game Design – Integrated Media, IME 201
Johns Hopkins University
- Shaping Reality: Immersive Technologies in the Museum –Museum Studies, AS.460.649
Case Western Reserve University
- Cognition & Immersion – Cognitive Science, COGS 251
- Cognition & Virtual Reality – Cognitive Science, COGS 301/401
- Cognition & Gaming – Cognitive Science, COGS 301/401
- Introduction to Video Game Design – Art Studio, ARTS 286
- Introduction to Instructional Technology – Music, EDUC 386/486
- Living in the Digital Age (New Media Literacy) – SAGES University Seminar, USSY 285x
- Color and Advanced Color Studio – Art Studio, ARTS 322 & 365E
- Multimedia I – Art Studio, ARTS 350/450
- Multimedia II – Art Studio, ARTS 399
- Introduction to Multimedia Technology – Art Education, ARTS 395/495
- Visualizing Information in a Digital Age – SAGES University Seminar, USSY 212
- Wisdom: An Introduction – SAGES University Seminar, USSO 202
- One Week in the Life of University Circle – Communication Science, COSI 110
- General Psychology – Recitation & Lab: Computers & Psychology, AI & Problem Solving, PSCL 101
Performances
Chroma & Chateau de Reve – Momentum – Graduate Thesis Concert (Choreographer, Cinematographer, & media Designer), Mather Dance Center, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 4 performances – 03/2016
Chroma (Choreographer), Mather Dance Center, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 3 performances – 04/2015
Scandals… And Other Diversions (Dancer #12), MaDaCol 30th Anniversary Performance – Mather Dance Center, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 4 performances – 04/2014
MDC (Photography/VR Design), Milestone – Mather Dance Center Centennial Concert – Mather Dance Center, CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 6 performances – 11/2007
