Education
(Present) Media Arts and Sciences, PhD candidate - AME, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
June 2006 - Contemporary Music Performance, M.A., Percussion - University of California, San Diego
July 2003 - Computer Science, B.S. + Minor in Music - University of California, San Diego
Teaching Experience
Appointments and Instruction
Arizona State University
2010 Summer - STEM Summer College for Kids Situated Multimedia Arts Learning Lab (SMALLab) GameBot - Developed curriculum, facilitated, and mentored middle-school kids in a 2-week program on game design, media literacy, audio-visual media composition, interaction design aesthetics within a mixed-reality environment, computer science concepts, teamwork and critical analysis through studio practice.
2009 Fall - Graduate Seminar, Critical Studies in Special Education - Facilitated 3-hour worskhop on the perspectives towards digital literacy and use of contemporary technologies (virtual worlds, multimodal tools, digital games and audio-visual recorders) for curriculum and instruction in special education classrooms.
2009 Summer - ASU Herberger College for Kids Summer Game Intensive (Summer 2009) - Developed curriculum, facilitated, and mentored high school students in a 3-week program on game design, media creation/development, interaction design for a mixed-reality environment (SMALLab), teamwork and skills for presentation/critique.
University of California, San Diego
2006 March - June - Graduate Researcher, Theater - Maintained and helped configure a sound design studio and DVD authoring lab; provided lab and student support for graduate sound design class. Course: Studio Process/Sound Design
2005 March - June 2006 - Teaching Assistant, Music - Created lectures, developed supplementary lessons, and guided weekly discussions for classes with 40+ students. Maintained course websites and managed course grades. Courses: World Rhythms – A Percussionist’s Perspective; Popular Music: Protest/Culture/Change; The Beatles; Ragtime
2005 January - March - Teaching Assistant, Cognitive Science - Lectured on Boolean logic, object-oriented theory, programming concepts and language features within the JavaScript environment. Assisted undergraduates with labs and conceptual understanding of HTML, JavaScript, Excel, and Adobe Photoshop. Managed course grades. Course: Introduction to Computing
2004 Sept. - 2005 June - Studio Percussion Instructor, Music - Structured and guided weekly lessons for undergraduate percussion students. Course: Percussion Instruction
2003 Jan. - Jun; 2000 July - 2001 June - Teaching Assistant, Computer Science - Assisted computer science majors and non-majors with projects and conceptual understanding in Java, Java Applets, Object-Oriented programming, C programming, and Internet security and awareness. Courses: Introduction to Java Programming; Introduction to C Programming; Fluency in Technology
Workshops / Guest Artist Residencies
2006 August - Guest Artist, Dartmouth College - Coached graduate new music ensemble for a performance of John Zorn’s “Cobra.”
2006 April - Kulintang Music Workshop, University of California, San Diego - Performed and discussed the authenticity of current trends in indigenous Philippine music with college students.
RESEARCH
Presentations/Peer-Reviewed Workshops
Tolentino, L., Savvides, P., and Birchfield, D. (2010) Applying game design principles to social skills learning for students in special education, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, Monterey, CA, June 2010, pp. 252-3.
Quick, J., Tolentino, L., Berry, E., Birchfield, D., Johnson-Glenberg, M., Krause, W., Savenye, W., Savvides, P. (2010) Designing and evaluating innovative learning experiences for K-12 students with autism, Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) - Global Learn Asia Pacific 2010: Global Conference on Learning and Technology, Penang, Malaysia, May 19, 2010.
Martinez, C., Tolentino, L., and Birchfield, D., Johnson-Glenberg, M. (2010) Fostering a student centered, collaborative environment for game design, GLS 6.0 - Games+Learning+Society Conference, Madison, WI, June 2010.
Lin, Y.-R., Tolentino, L. and Kelliher, A. Position Paper - Tweeting Globally, Acting Locally: Booming and sustaining disability awareness through Twitter, CHI 2010 Microblogging Workshop, April 10-15, 2010.
Selected Posters and Demonstrations
Tolentino, L., Savvides, P., Birchfield, D. and Johnson-Glenberg, M. (2010) Mixed-reality games to socially engage students with autism and their peers, GLS 6.0 - Games+Learning+Society Conference, Madison, WI, June 2010.
Birchfield, D., Kelliher, A., Martinez, C., Tolentino, L., Campana, E., Johnson-Glenberg, M., Olson L. and Savvides, P. (2009) Embodied and mediated learning in SMALLab: Demonstration, Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age, Hosted by Google Inc., Google Headquarters, Mountain View, CA, October 2009.
Martinez, C., Mumford, J., Rajko, S., Campana, E., Ingalls, T., Thornburg, H., Tolentino, L. (2009) An Enactive Framework for Collaborative Expression, ACM Creativity and Cognition, ACM Press, Berkley, CA, October 2009.
Birchfield, D., Hatton S., Kelliher, A., Martinez, C., Tolentino, L., Campana, E., Johnson-Glenberg, M., Olson L., Savvides, P., Uysal, S. (2009) Embodied and mediated learning in SMALLab: a student-centered mixed-reality environment, ACM SIGGRAPH, New Orleans, LA, August 2009.
Birchfield, D., Campana, E., Hatton, S., Kelliher, A., Martinez, C., and Tolentino, L. (2009) K-12 embodied and mediated learning: the SMALLab mixed reality learning environment, NSF Media Arts, Science, and Technology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, January 2009.
Tolentino, L., Birchfield, D., and Kelliher, A. (2009) SMALLab for Special Needs: Using a Mixed-Reality Platform to Explore Learning for Children with Autism, NSF Media Arts, Science, and Technology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, January 2009.
Stern, R., Kelliher, A., Burleson, W. and Tolentino, L. (2008) Sharing the Squid: Tangible Workplace Collaboration, Proceedings of the 26th international Conference on Human factors In computing (CHI 2008), Florence, Italy, April 5-10, 2008, pp. 3369-3374.
Tolentino, L., Kelliher, A., Birchfield, D. and Stern, R. (2008) Creativity interventions: physical-digital activities for promoting group creativity, Proceedings of the 26th international Conference on Human factors In computing (CHI 2008), Florence, Italy, April 5-10, 2008, pp. 2841-2846.
Publications
Book Chapters
Campana E., Martinez C.,Mumford J., Rajko S., Ingalls T., Thornburg H., Tolentino L. (2010), An enactive framework for collaborative expression, In G. Stam and M. Ishino (Eds.), Integrating Gestures, Amsterdam, Johns Benjamin.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Tolentino, L., Birchfield, D., Megowan, C., Johnson-Glenberg, M., Kelliher, A., Martinez, C. (2009) Teaching and learning in the mixed-reality science classroom, Journal of Science Education and Technology.
Professional Blog
Tolentino, L. Inclusion as a principle of personal practice, Equity Alliance / NIUSI Leadscape Blog, September 16, 2009, http://www.niusileadscape.org/bl/?p=285
Awards
Grants
2009 Performing Arts Venture Experience (p.a.v.e.) for proposal Different From What? Film Festival - Awarded $5000 seed grant
Scholarships/Fellowships
2009-10 Intel Fellowship
2008-9 MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning Initiative
2007-8 / 2009-10 National Science Foundation IGERT Trainee
PERFORMANCE - PERCUSSION - VOICE
Selected Performances
Solo
2006 April - Masters Percussion Recital, with works by Morton Feldman, John Cage, Roberto Sierra, and Kaija Saariaho.
2005 October - John Cage / Merce Cunningham Tribute Concert, a University Art Gallery event at University of California, San Diego, performing Cage’s “Toy piano suite.”
2003 April - Undergraduate Marimba Recital, with works by Keiko Abe, Minoru Miki, Brett Reed, and Steve Reich.
2005 April - 3er. Festival International: Música Musicología, UABC Escuela de Artes, in Ensenada, Mexico, with performance of Philippe Manory’s vibraphone solo, “Le Livre des Claviers.”
2002 Spring - Mini-Concerts at the Lyceum, featured artist performing Ney Rosauro’s “Marimba Concerto.”
Chamber
2010 April - Radio Healer @ ACM SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction) Conference: Performance Showcase, Atlanta, GA, April 15, 2010.
2010 Feb. - Crossing 32nd Street @ Phoenix Expermiental Arts Festival (Feb. 20, 2010), Center for the Performing Arts at Paradise Valley Community College. Performing "Pleiades" by Iannis Xenakis.
2009 Nov. - Crossing 32nd Street @ ASU Downtown PURL (Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory) (Nov. 7, 2009), "NY School: John Cage". Performance of "Amores" by John Cage.
2009 June/July - Radio Healer @ "Outsiders Within" Art Exhibit, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ.
2009 March - Crossing 32nd Street @ The Ice House (March 8, 2009), Downtown Chamber Series, Phoenix, AZ. Performing "Drumming" by Steve Reich.
2009 March - Crossing 32nd Street @ Phoenix Art Museum (March 6, 2009), First Friday Event, Phoenix, AZ. Performing "Drumming" by Steve Reich.
2009 Feb. - Crossing 32nd Street @ Phoenix Experimental Arts Festival (Feb. 6-7, 2009), Center for the Performing Arts at Paradise Valley Community College. Performing "Drumming" by Steve Reich.
2008 Nov. - Crossing 32nd Street @ Phoenix Art Museum (Nov. 8, 2008), First Friday Event, Phoenix, AZ. Performance of Philippine Kulintang indigenous gong ensmeble from Southern Mindanao.
2008 May - Crossing 32nd Street @ Collision, as guests of CONDER/dance (May 9-10, 2008), Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ. Performing "Moving Target" by Steven Ricks, collaboration w/ CONDER/dance.
2009 Feb. - Crossing 32nd Street @ Phoenix Experimental Arts Festival (Feb. 8, 2009), Center for the Performing Arts at Paradise Valley Community College. Performing "Moving Target" by Steven Ricks, collaboration w/ CONDER/dance.
2006 - present - Dog Star Orchestra (#2-6) (Summer, since 2006), California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA. Performances of collected experimental and contemporary works. Feature vocals for Tombstone song series by composer Michael Pisaro (Co-Chair of Music Composition, California Institute of the Arts).
2006 - 2008 - Robert Esler’s Desert, Forest, Tundra performance project (September 2006, February 2006, June 2008), re-contextualizing and performing music and sound in vast natural environments. Performances of John Luther Adams percussion quartet, "Strange and Sacred Noise". Performances in Anza-Borrego Desert, CA, White Mountains, NH, and MacLaren Trailhead, AK.
2006 May - La Jolla Symphony features red fish blue fish. Performing Tan Dun’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Concerto.
2006 Feb. - Stanford University features red fish blue fish performing works by Stanford graduate composers.
2005 Oct. - Concert with NOISE New Music Ensemble at Athanaeum, La Jolla, performing Rosalind Page’s “Macula Lutea.”
2005 June - Red Fish Blue Fish Goes to the Theater, UCSD, La Jolla. Collaboration between UCSD Music and Theater & Dance Departments; includes pieces by Samuel Beckett and Kenneth Gaburo.
2004 Nov. - Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Nashville, Tennessee. red fish blue fish headlines the convention’s opening concert.
2004 Aug. - La Jolla SummerFest features red fish blue fish performing pieces by Carlos Chavez; conducted by Jeffrey Kahane.
2003 Feb. - Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella Series at Disney Hall, features red fish blue fish performing pieces by Steve Reich, Xenakis, and John Cage.
2003 June - Agora Festival in Paris, features red fish blue fish performing Steve Reich’s “Drumming” w/Centre International de Percussion.
Ensemble / Projects
2007 - present - Crossing 32nd Street, contemporary music ensemble based in Phoenix, AZ.
2007 - present - Radio Healer, an indigenous media concept facilitated through cross-cultural partnerships; a performance art project that expresses multi-ethnic indigenous cultural practices that include music, dance, and electronic media arts expression.
2006 - present - Dog Star Orchestra, an annual summer music festival of contemporary and classic experimental repertoire. Organized at California Institute of the Arts, and hosted by composer Michael Pisaro.
2008 - present - Live Art Platform, experimental lab for performance art, hosted monthly by the Intermedia Program at Herberger Institute for the Arts, Arizona State University.
2002-6 - red fish blue fish percussion group, University of California, San Diego, Internationally renowned percussion ensemble directed by Steven Schick.
2006-8 - Pakaraguian Kulintang Ensemble, San Diego, CA, Performs indigenous kulintang music and dance from the Southern Philippines.
2004-6 - SONOR faculty music ensemble, University of California, San Diego, Consists of faculty and graduate students performing new works by 20th century composers and UCSD graduate composers.
2002-6 - La Jolla Symphony & Chorus, La Jolla, CA, Performed as percussionist and timpanist with the symphony.
Recordings
2010 - forthcoming release 2011 - Vocals, percussion on Michael Pisaro's Tombstones series, Human Ear Music. Vinyl, double album.
2006 - Schick, Steven. The Percussionist’s Art, Rochester University Press. CD insert with red fish blue fish percussion group.
2006 - Iannis Xenakis: Xenakis Percussion Works, Mode Records. Collaboration with red fish blue fish percussion group.