Charlie Athanas
is the Owner and Creative Director for Burning City and a founding
Company Member of
the WildClaw
Theatre Company.
He is an artist, musician, and businessman whose career in the arts began professionally
in 1972.
Highlights include diverse projects that have ranged from working in London
on an interactive, multimedia CD-ROM design for the band, U2 and
leading design teams from IDEO, to pushing
new media boundaries at Paul Allen’s
Palo Alto think tank, Interval Research Corporation.
Charlie’s principal design work has been reviewed and showcased around
the world, including:
• John Madden Football II
•
CyberJudas – a global political simulation
and the first CD-ROM game to be reviewed by The Economist magazine.
• SHATTER - the first computer-generated
comic
book
•
PRINT Magazine’s 1st Computer Graphic Design
Annual
• And the world premiere of the award-winning, stage adaptation of William
Gibson’s
Burning Chrome (the story which first used the term, "cyberspace").
In the business community, Charlie has served in a Creative Director capacity
at three technology startups and as a Strategist at HannaHodge, a pioneering
User Experience firm. He created FTF (Face To Face), an entrepreneurial small
business organization and served as both Program Director and Board Member
with Evanston's Technology Executive Roundtable.
The Chateau
Ramezay Museum in Montreal
Snapshots
from
his
career...
Craig
Elliott's "Damali Richards" painting wins the Gold Award
for
Editorial in the Spectrum 16 Annual as one of the pieces in "Exotic
Contraband: L. A. Banks' Vampire Huntress Legend" concept art book.
[
Art Director: "Exotic Contraband: L. A. Banks' Vampire Huntress
Legend ]
WildClaw
Theatre Company
[ Founding Company Member/Graphics Design/Set
Design/Website ]
The
Devil's Candy Store Virtual Design Studio and Emporium [ Co-founded with Denise Dorman ]
Updated
edition of
"Fire in the Valley" by Paul Frieberger and Michael
Swaine
[ Website Design and Construction/Research ]
The
world premiere stage adaptation of William Gibson's Burning Chrome (Next Theatre) [ Graphics Design/Dramaturg/Cyberspace
Props/Website ]
(implemented with a team from IDEO)
Software: Photoshop/Bryce
Paul
Allen's Interval Research Corporation - think tank consultant
[ Concept Art ]
CONFIDENTIAL
CyberJudas (Merit
Software) - PC simulation game
[ Concept Design/Art/3D Animation (with
Ken McAll)/Sound Design ]
Hardware: SGI Indigo II Extreme; Mac Quadra; PC 486
Software: Wavefront
Tony
Fitzpatrick's World Tattoo Gallery (All-Elvis Art Show)
(Piece in show signed by Elle Macpherson)
"Elvis
and Elle in Hell" (256 colors)
Hardware: Macintosh IIcx
Software: Studio 8
"Ralph
the Punk" Laser Show for 1988 SIGGRAPH Evening Show (Intermission)
[ Concept Design/Storyboard/Animation/Audio
Design ]
Hardware:
An LGRASS (Laser Graphics Symbiosis System) with an 8MHz Z80 and 13 MHz 68010
display processor, an analog image synthesizer, a one watt argon and a six watt
krypton laser, a Rainbow Laser Projection System and a Mac Plus
Software: LGRASS/Fullpaint
SHATTER (First
Comics) - 1st computer generated comic book.
[ Comic Book Artist ]
Ralph
the Punk "Dark Future" video with Johnie Hugh Horn and Brian
Messiah 1985 SIGGRAPH (Art Show/Video Review)
[ Concept Design/Storyboard/Animation ]
Hardware: Video/DataMax
UV-1
Software: ZGRASS
"
Wraparound" with Sally Rosenthal and Copper Giloth 1984 SIGGRAPH Japan Isetan Museum Tour (Animation
Arcade)
[ Concept Design/Animation/Audio Hardware Mods ]
