Baker Artist Portfolios

Visual Resume + CV Remix Curatorial Statement: What if you were given an opportunity to re-imagine your professional resume and / or curriculum vitae as not only an online arts exhibition, but also as a personal and dedicated reflection space and series of digital altars? What would that fusion possibly look like beyond those standard formats? After being inspired in part by the The Covid Art Museum, that's what I've attempted to do here with the unique curatorial flexibility and dynamic functionality of the Baker Artist Portfolios. This overall process was also greatly inspired by my 2026 sound art exhibition of "The Sacred Crates of Hip Hop" at the Seay Library of Music & Art @ Colorado College, leading me to realize that as art exhibition spaces often carry a sense of the venerated, reframing my "visual resume" as an online altar space to be curated with great care also empowers the simultaneous function of interpreting a professional resume as a sacred document, just as much as a birth certificate, marriage certificate or citizenship certificate. The other extraordinary inspiration for this portfolio is the overall idea and practice of self-directed research, curation and artistic dissemination, hence the term and concept of the "Altar Dissertation" which was first used in my article as an "Auto Dissertation" in "Breaths Along the Potomac" published by "Northwestern Law Journal des Refusés" in 2025.

"First, what on earth is an “auto – dissertation”? For me it’s the moment in which a largely self-taught scholar outside of academia – such as KRS-ONE, Neely Fuller Jr., or Col John R. Boyd – publishes work or creates dynamic models of creativity that produce an extraordinary effect and contribution to one or more extensive and academic schools of thought and/or oral tradition-based bodies of knowledge." - Dominic Shodekeh Talifero, "Auto Dissertation I, Vol. 1: Breaths Along the Potomac: An Epistolary Art Gallery," Northwestern Law Journal des Refusés.

From vocal arts innovation, musical composition, historical reinterpretation, science communication, archival studies, the legal avant garde to political science, a rich ecosystem of the humanities and research methodologies is fully illuminated within this project, where the phenomenon of the human creative process is centered as opposed to a focus on artistic product. Each of these ten "process collections" focuses on a particular arts methodology or creative worldview, demonstrating my past and ongoing efforts to thrive in a diverse array of challenging and overlapping environments. With the flexible capacity to make improvements, edits and re-install as my career progresses, this online curation encompassing 20 years of professional work and arts-based research serves as my second Auto Dissertation. The challenge of re-imagining the two dimensional limits of a standard resume and curriculum vitae can now be met by transforming such necessary documents into a dynamic, fluid, multi-dimensional, interactive and much more indispensable online arts + humanities exhibition.

Linear Biography: With 39 years of personal, professional and community-based experience, Dominic “Shodekeh” Talifero continues to make creative strides as a professional Breath Artist, Vocal Percussionist and Human Beatboxer who pushes the boundaries of the human voice within and outside the context of Hip Hop culture. After many years of evolving through the complex realms of providing original music for dance technique courses for such esteemed institutions as the American Dance Festival @ Duke University, NYU Tisch School of Dance and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Talifero has also taken on the creative challenges of composing for Meredith Monk & the House Foundation, the One Beat Golden Record Remix Project in collaboration with NASA JPL, Sō Percussion for a commissioned world premiere at Carnegie Hall in 2021 and the 2025 Emmy-nominated documentary King Coal | POV  on PBS.

Cultivating his abilities as an arts-based investigator over the years has led Shodekeh to extraordinary advanced research opportunities as across many fields of inquiry including a "Neuroscience of Art" fellowship at the Salzburg Global Seminar, an on-site 2023 - 2024 fellowship at The George Washington Presidential Library of Mount Vernon, a teaching arts + research residency through the 2024 - 2025 National Endowment for the Humanities Professorship at the office of "Creativity & Innovation" @ Colorado College and the Smithsonian Folkways album Achai by Alash, inspired in part by his musical research and extensive collaborations with the ensemble in the United States and at the Tuvan Cultural Center / Ministry of Culture in Kyzyl, Tuva.

By discovering his passions in recent years for "process art" and the experimental humanities, Talifero has also been able to explore his penchant for dynamic pilot launches as the first "Innovator-in-Residence" and cultural steward of his living archive "Ideations of Potential" at Towson University, serving as the first Artist-in-Residence of the "Voyages" arts + sciences program at the National Aquarium, writing and designing an epistolary "living article" of the legal avant garde for the newly established "Northwestern Law Journal des Refusés" at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and by becoming the first Breath Artist-in-Residence and Anti-Racist Artist-in-Residence at Colorado College from 2024 - 2025.

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