San Luis Obispo, California, United States
Curiosity is the tension in the spring that moves us forward. Phil Loarie is an independent artist, cinematographer and composer working in California since 1974. 3/1 - 3/24 2024 Juried into the 16th Annual Beacon Art Show in SLO. 9/21- 11/6 “Brushstrokes 2023” The Painters Group Annual Exhibit at the Art Center in Morro Bay, Ca., Phil's digital painting “Wave Canyon Pool” was selected among 46 artworks out of 163 submissions from 77 artists from all over California. 5/23 - 5/27, 2023, Phil's video "Sky Surf" was selected for screening at the 4th annual Cannes Independent Film Festival. CIFF is not connected with the Cannes Film Festival but it does share the same city and time of year. 3/3 - 4/2, 2023. Phil's digital painting “Cherry Blossoms with Fuji on Top” was selected for exhibition at the 15th Annual Beacon Art Show in San Luis Obispo. There were over 180 submissions from which the jurors selected 75 show finalists. 2/6 - 3/16, 2023. Phil was invited to participate in the Pixels, Portals, and Paradigms art show as a member of the SLO Digital Art Group held in the Ann Foxworthy Gallery at Alan Hancock College in Santa Maria. I premiered a sculpture (“Jam Session in a Glass Cloche”) and three video installations: Sky Surf, Traffic Vibes, and Bifurcated Time June, 2021, both “MIXED SIGNALS” and “Quantum Spin” were selected as Finalists at the Lisbon Film Rendezvous Film Festival in Lisbon, Portugal. 6/17, 2021, “Chamber Wave” selected for screening at the 4° VONLINEFILMFEST (Online virtual event). April, 2021, “Quantum Spin” was selected for screening at the 3° VONLINEFILMFEST (Online virtual event) and it was also screened at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, Digital Shorts Film Festival in conjunction with their Digital Art Salon. On May 18th, 2018, "Split Screen Scavenger Hunt" (co-produced with Ryd Cook) placed as a semi-finalist in the an Mauro Film Festival (Turin, Itlay). On September 5th, 2014, his "Walk & Roll" was screened at TUFF (Toronto Urban Film Festival). This was Phil's 3rd year in a row with a screening in the largest commuter film festival in North America with 90 videos from 15 countries which reached an audience of over 1.2 million daily commuters on 63 subway platforms of Toronto's transit system. On July 24th, 2010, his capture of the full moon was selected from 80,000 submissions and 4,500 hours of footage from 192 countries as the opening shot in Ridley Scott's "Life In A Day" which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and released in July for global distribution by National Geographic Films.
SchmueyVision is work by Phil Loarie. "...And there’s a Californian composer, I think he’s quite unbelievable, Phil Loarie. He’s one of the very few people whose managed to make a piece of digital electronics which is really entertaining. I remember us speaking about that before. He made a piece called Digital Lunch and I get consumed with laughter every time, it’s so unbelievable." David Tudor (1926 -1996) From an interview with composer David Tudor by Bruce Duffie at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago on April 7, 1986. Source: http://www.bruceduffie.com/tudor3.html Documents on Digital Lunch: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13TiF3INLWnyK6g5T8UaaARvzX7rUnw3D Phil Loarie's passion for making movies and music is blossoming into a network of opportunities as he returns to making cinema after a 35 year hiatus while balancing this with his former career position as a computer technician and systems administrator for the University of California's Berkeley Campus from 1987 to 2016 and an engineering tech for 10 Silicon Valley startups from 1979 to 1987. With over 40 years professional technical experience, Loarie launches himself into full time artwork in 2017 while relocating to the central coast of California in San Luis Obispo. Phil is posting more work on line than ever before and getting positive feedback from his colleagues. Presently "SchmueyVision" is growing a core audience that prefers engaging content over pixels, original technique over formulas, and artistic innovation over exploiting subjects. Presently, Phil's motion pictures are uniquely influenced by a fusion of 20th Century art movements: Cubism, Surrealism, Color Field, Minimalism and Op to Pop Art.
From 1987 to 2013 Phil Loarie has been serving as an Electronics Technician and System Administrator for the Computer Users Support Group and Technical Consultant to the IRIS Help Desk supporting EECS research professors, graduate students, post-docs, and staff. Duties included technical recommendations on purchasing/replacing hardware, installations, troubleshooting and repairs of servers, desktops, laptops, and hand held devices and assisting the network group in isolating connectivity issues with wireless and wired infrastructure. As of October 10th, 2013 Phil began working with the Campus Shared Services IT group in Zone 1 (Upper Hearst) basically covering the College of Engineering and beyond with many of the same duties but with new tools (TEM, Bomgar, Service Now) and training. "Our goal is to deliver service, support, and satisfaction to promote the best possible end user experience at the University of California's Berkeley Campus." Phil retired from this position on January 25th, 2016 to pursue his art work. Go Bears !
The East-West Blues Band (Don Burgett, Randy Sarton, Robert Silverstone, Dan Kolleng, John Farner). Jams with Paul Hamer, Gary Gand, Mike & Chris Wren, Peter Jaret, Jim Over, and the Notre Dame High School Jazz Ensemble, "The Melodons". SHARE (Leo Gratz and Don Krueger). EAR (Electronic Arts Review, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Campus) Bryce Robbley, Robert Chamberlin, John Stubbs, Will Gay Bottje, W. Alan Oldfield, Moira Logan, Lawrence Jasud (aka Art Gorilla), Lonny Gordon, Katherine Marshall. MILLS College: Megan Roberts, Danny Sofer, Don Cardoza, Bob Davis, Virginia Quesada, Larry Rowe, Edith White, Stacey Hinton, Susan Benjamin, Jon Bowie. The Scientists: Bob Gonsalves (aka Dr. S. O. Teric) & Fast Forward. POST MILLS: Mary Lucile O’Halloran, Ondine Herschelle, Beth Regardz, The Eva Sisters, Jim Horton, Ed Holmes (aka Bishop Joey), Wayne Doba, Pons Maar, Michael Mallory, G. P. Skratz, John Watkins, Terry Delsing, Ed Tannenbaum, Bill Etra, Don Day, Jeffrey Schier, Michael Polatnick, Chuck Kozak, Mike Mages, Tim Fitting, Vic Klee, Melissa Harmon, Jim Pomeroy, Marlin Halverson, Jim Hobart, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Leonard Nimoy, Philip Kaufman, Greg Johnson, Xavier Raya de Zarate, Kenny “Blue” Ray, The Studebaker Blues Band, Thom Opal, Pete Caragher, Joan Jeanrenaud, Alessandro Moruzzi, Ron Davis, Barney Jones, Richard Peter Loarie, John Adams Loarie, James Cahill Loarie, Thomas Merritt Loarie, The Thunderbums, Hal Hughes, Ms. Danille, Karina Epperlein, Ryd Cook, Lowell Darling.
Rhys Chatham "A Secret Rose" and his 100 Electric Guitar "Craneway Volunteer" Orchestra: David Daniell, Toby Summerfield, Seth Olinsky, Jordan Glenn, Lisa Mezzacappa, Grant Acker, Ted Allen, Alejandro Archuleta, Ed Arndt, John Banister, John Binkov, Kurt Brown, Andrew Burnes, Christopher Case, Mitch Cheney, Rob Christiansen, Simon Connor, Mark Cooper, Evan Cordes, Edward Dias, Daniel Echevarria, Nils Erickson, Neel Foon, Leigh Forbes, Kevin Gan Yuen, Arnoldo Garcia, Doug Gillard, Michael Goldman, Brian Good, Daniel Good, Naomi Greene, Wavley Groves III, Samuel Gutterman, Matt Hayes, Kirk Hellie, Cody Hennesy, Adam Holofcener, Yutaka Houlette, Kim Howie, Dale Hoyt, Trevor Hunter, JaMile Jackson, Ryan Jobes, Val Jordan, Forest Juziuk, Carolyn Keddy, Owen Kelley, Chrisian Kiefer, Nick Kuepfer, Paul Ladeira, Henry Larsen, Ethan Lee, David Leonard, Charles Lloyd, Jim Marlowe, Christo McCracken, James McGlinnen, John Melillo, Brent Miles, Michael Miller, Erik Miller, Michael Millett, Robert Milton, Mark Morse, Melne Murphy, Jon Meyers, Al N, Adam Nanaa, Charles Nold, Adria Otte, Ryan Page, Sephen Parris, Adam Payne, Jacob Peck, Ricardo Pignol, Bill Polits, Mark Prather, Derek Prine, Conor Prischmann, Arthur Purvis, Andrew Rahman, Mike Randall, Edward Ricart, Ken Rosser, Victor Salazar, David Satkowski, Roland Sayn, John Scott, Scrote, Marc Sloan, Sean Smith, Rachel Smith, Moe! Staiano, Josh Steinbauer, Camaron Stephens, Konstantinos Stratigos, Mathew Taylor, Brian Tester, Andrew Thomas, Ronald Thompson, Steve Touchton, Aaron Wacks, Becky White, Jonathan Willett, Sam Withrow, Damon Wood.