ABOUT
Jim Olson is an artist, programmer and designer living in Calgary, Canada. He works with digital media including the web, games, animation, video, and interactive environments.
Olson has a background writing, broadcasting and specializes in usability and interaction/interface design for the web.
Olson has exhibited his artwork at the Ministry of Casual Living (Victoria, BC) and screened films and videos at festivals including Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria, BC), Bearded Child (Minneapolis, MA), ZeD (CBC.ca), and FLEXiff (Sydney, Australia).
Olson works with artist Justin Love under the name Love & Olson, perfoming live and interactive visuals in a variety of contexts including music, performance and experimental theatre. Showing works such as Hopelab, Exploding, Plastic & Inevitable, Channel 10 vs. i send data live, and Digital Swara, Love & Olson have exhibited at Digital Art Weeks (Zurich, Switzerland), Interactive Futures (Victoria, Canada), and conferences such as 21st Century Music (2006), ISMIR Computer Music Conference (2005) and Colllision Symposium (2005).
Most recently he collaborated with Steve Gibson and Justin Love on Grand Theft Bicycle, exhibiting in Canada at Open Space (Victoria, B.C.) and Stride Gallery (Calgary, Alberta) and at the Galeria AP Facultad de Artes Plasticas (Xalapa, Mexico).
Olson has a BFA from the University of Victoria, a diploma in Broadcasting from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and is currently Senior Developer at Veratta Technologies.
Web Skills & Experience
- pixel perfect html/css
- custom php/jquery coding
- custom drupal/wordpress templates
- drupal/wordpress development & production
- project planning
- user interface design
- usability/user experience consulting
- user documentation and tutorials
- web training and coaching
- search engine optimization and analytics
- excellent written communication
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