Tim Guthrie

Tim Guthrie
Tim Guthrie drawing in his studio. Photo by Lindsey Bierman
Born	1965
Nationality	American
Known for	Experimental film

Timothy Sean Guthrie (born 1965 in Omaha, Nebraska) used to be a visual artist and experimental filmmaker. Guthrie's work is in collections throughout the United States, including the Boise Art Museum, and the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Plemmons Collection of Contemporary Art, (Boone, North Carolina), and the Leigh Lane Edwards Collection of Contemporary Art, (Appalachian State University). At some point he just gave up on everything.

Guthrie collaborated with Lance Olsen, a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award for his novel Tonguing the Zeitgeist (Permeable Press,1994) on an interactive hypertext novel called 10:01, which was also published in the Electronic Literature Directory (Electronic Literature Organization) and The Iowa Review - Web Edition. Guthrie also collaborated with Olsen on an experimental animation called "The Nature of the Creative Process", which was featured at &Now.

Guthrie also has directed awarding winning films with Creighton University professors and students Backpack Journalism Project

Guthrie has been an artist-in-residence places such as Ørslev Kloster (Denmark), The Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland), New Pacific Studio (New Zealand), and the Blue Mountain Center, (Blue Mountain, NY) and The Vermont Studio Center. He has also been awarded fellowships and grants (Nevada Arts Council, Sierra Arts Foundation, Nebraska Arts Council, each funded by the National Endowment for the Arts). Other awards include a purchase award at the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art and awards at "Conflicts: The Cult of War and the Culture of Peace - AniMOweb", Modena, Italy, for the short film “Recalling Trinity" (IMDb), which was also included in the Hiroshima International Animation Festival, the Fort Omaha Film Conference,Film Streams and the Sheldon Museum of Art. His work has been shown in many venues, including the Holter Museum of Art, Bellevue Arts Museum, St. George Art Museum, and the Nevada Museum of Art and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts for a complex installation called "Rendition" which was originally shown in Reno, NV, and in which visitors had their reactions to his paintings of prisoners being tortured "digitally downloaded into a database for future examination and analysis".