Dennis Báthory-Kitsz

176 Cox Brook Road, Northfield, Vermont 05663
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Arts Homepage: http://maltedmedia.com/bathory/

Dennis Báthory-Kitsz is founder and senior editor for The Transitive Empire. His hundreds of articles and many books have established him as a flexible writer capable of illuminating difficult and diverse topics -- so much so that his computer articles and texts from the 1980's are often reprinted as classic examples in the field.

His writing and editing work in business topics in retail trade, consumer goods, warehousing/distribution, and bleeding-edge technology has included clients such as IBM, DataQuest, Digital, and Category Management Inc. Dennis has written articles for many publications, and he is presently a contributing editor for the stable of trade publications from Edgell Communications.

Outside business technology, Dennis writes about topics in music and the arts, and co-hosts a groundbreaking radio/cyber program and research website on contemporary music.

Selected Past and Present Activities

• Host/Producer, Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar radio show & website (1995-)
• Founder and Partner, The Transitive Empire, Writers & Editors (1993-)
• Co-Founder and Trustee, Peer Associates, Inc. (1988-)
• Founder and Director, Malted/Media Arts Productions (1978-)

• Northfield Community Advisory Board, TDS Telecom, Inc., 1997-98
• Faculty, Making Connections Summer Residential Arts Institute, 1997
• Charter Member, Electronic Music Foundation, 1996
• Independent Study Faculty, Montpelier High School, 1996
• Fellow, Regional Laboratory for Educational Improvement, 1991-92
• Co-Chair, Roxbury Historical Society, 1988-91
• Faculty, Community College of Vermont, 1982-87
• Founder/President, Green Mountain Micro, Inc., 1980-86
• Faculty, New Jersey Artist/Teacher Institute, 1977
• Senior Graphic Designer, New Jersey State Museum, 1976-78
• Co-Director, Kaxpiksu State (New Jersey) Performing Arts Festival, 1975
• Founder and Project Director, Trans/Media, Inc., 1974-78

Books

Authorship/Co-Authorship

• The Middle-Aged Hiker. With David Gunn. 1993, 1995. 320 pp., illus. [Publication being prepared]. Also available on the web at http://maltedmedia.com/books/mah/
• Learning the 6809. Roxbury, Vermont: Green Mountain Micro, Inc., 1984. paper; viii, 336 pp., illus. [loose-leaf in binder; includes 12 cassettes].
• Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, A Chronology and Annotated Bibliography. Chicago: Newberry Library, 1984. 110 pp., illus.
• The Custom TRS-80, and Other Mysteries. Upland, California: IJG, Inc., 1982. paper; 340 pp., illus.
• The Karmora Papers. With David Gunn. Roxbury, Vermont: The Laszlo Toth School of Art, 1982; New edition, [n.p.]: Laszlo Toth School of Art/Westleaf Edition, 1993. paper; 104 pp. Also available on the web at http://maltedmedia.com/books/kpapers/
• A Random Selection from the Marvin Hodge Archive (3 vols.). Roxbury, Vermont: The Laszlo Toth School of Art, 1979,1982,1993. paper; unpaged. [v,106 pp., illus.; v,88 pp., illus.; and v,130pp., illus.]. Limited editions.
• Co-Author and Editor: jkl; Trenton, New Jersey: [privately published], 1977. Unpaged [xx,262 pp]., illus. Edition limited to 15 hand-bound and numbered copies.
• Contributing Author: HTML Unleashed. New York: Sams.net (Macmillan), 1997. paper; xxxvii,1030pp., illus.; incl. CD-ROM.

Editing

• My Little Life: A Girl Growing Up in the Forties. By Jane Bryant. Northfield News & Printery, 1997. paper; [vi],568pp., illus.
• Category Management Systems: The Power of Information in Retailing. By Jerry Singh, et.al. Cincinnati: CMS, Inc., 1998. paper; [pp.], illus. [forthcoming]
• Teaching Composition on the Web: A Teacher Handbook. By Fern Tavalin, Sandi McLeod, et al. Montpelier, Vermont: WebProject, 1998. paper; [pp.], illus. [forthcoming]
• Marching On! John Brown's Ghost from the Civil War to Civil Rights. By Robert Willis Allen. Northfield News & Printer, 1998. paper; [pp.], illus. [forthcoming]. With audio CD, produced by Dennis Báthory-Kitsz and David Gunn.
• Consumer-Driven Supply Chain. by Jay Zavislak and Tim Paydos. IBM, 1998. CD-ROM, illus.

Work with Periodicals

• Contributing Editor: Consumer Goods Manufacturer (1993-)
• Contributing Editor: Retail Info Systems News (1992-)
• Contributing Writer: Convenience Store News (1997)
• Editor: The Northfield Common (1994)
• Contributing Editor: Retail Systems Reseller (1992-96)
• Contributing Editor: Data Capture Reseller (1992-93)
• Guest Editor: Music Arts Supplement, ARTSletter (March/April 1990)
• Editor: Vermont Composers Consortium Consorting Newsletter (1988-91, 1993-97)
• Contributing Editor: ID Systems (1987-89)
• Contributing Editor/Columnist ("Custom Color"): The Rainbow (1985)
• Publisher/Technical Editor/Columnist ("Custom Color"): UnderColor (1984-85)
• Contributing and Technical Editor/Columnist ("Custom Color"): The Color Computer Magazine (1983-84)
• Contributing Editor/Columnist ("Micro/Sonics"): Programmer (1981-82)
• Guest Editor: Kilobaud Microcomputing Electronic Music Issue, December 1980)
• Contributing Editor/Columnist: The Alternate Source (1980-82)
• Technical/Submissions/Contributing Editor/Columnist ("80 Applications", "The Exclusive ORacle"): 80 Micro (1980-82)
• Editor/Publisher: Updates (1979-80)
• Editor/Publisher: A Medium Rare (1974-76)
• Editor (under pseudonym 'Randy Johnson'): Mercer County Almanac (1973)
• Editor/Publisher: Scrap Paper (1970-71)
• Editor: Union List of Serials for Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont (1967-68)

• Technical articles published in Byte, 80 Micro, Kilobaud, Desktop Computing, The Alternate Source, The Color Computer Magazine, Programmer, Opinion-80, Software Critique, Dynamic Color News, The Rainbow, UnderColor, ID Systems, Data Capture Systems Reseller, Consumer Goods Manufacturer, Retail Systems Reseller, Retail Info Systems News, Convenience Store News.
• Special supplements and publications written for Microsoft, Digital Equipment Corporation, Sensormatic, JD Edwards, VI&A, Dun & Bradstreet/DataQuest, Microbilt, and other corporations.
• Book reviews, music articles, opinion pieces, and feature stories published since 1964 in various newspapers and magazines, including Consorting, ARTSLetter, The Northfield Common, Burlington Free Press, Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus, Consorting, MusicWorks, Northfield News, Requiem, Trentonian, Trenton Magazine, Scotch Plains Times, others; numerous web publications (see Internet media, below).
• Co-author of "Composing a New Language", MedArt International World Congress on Arts and Medicine, New York City, 1992. Published in Southern Medical Journal.

Recording, Broadcast and Internet Media

• Detritus of Mating (Malted/Media-Sistrum Records compact disc, 1998)
• zéyu, quânh, & sweeh on "The Frog Peak Collaborations Project" (Frog Peak compact disk, 1998)
• Csárdás on "Alive and Well: Music of Vermont Composers" (cassette and CD, Ursa Minor, 1990)

• Miscellaneous works on a set of limited edition CD reissues of earlier recordings (1997-98):
  • First Burn, Electroacoustic Music (Hypertunes, Baby and eight other works)
  • Voices Past (restorations of Missa da Camera and Plasm over ocean)
  • Inline Llamas (Meditations on the Llama Sutra and Llama Butter)
  • PiaNostrils, Piano Music from 1972-90 (Csárdás, Rough Edges, and ten other works)
  • The Development of a Consciousness of Space in the Child (in five movements, 1975)
  • Antonica Concretia, Early Electronic Works (Six Electronic Constructions plus three other works)
  • Cold Stones, 12 Works for Small Ensemble (Adouane, Architects, Gardens, and nine more)
  • Stringth, Music for Strings (Thièle, Windows on the Moon, Seven Chocolate Eclems, Cat Dances, Hoots & Honks)
  • Symphony No. 4, Movements 1-3 (Y&ecedil;uré, Softening Cries, The Lily and the Thorn. Plus Exequy)
• Miscellaneous works on "Lucid Nightmares" (limited edition cassette, Malted/Media, 1995)
• Four-cassette retrospective collection, "Invisible Performers" (limited edition, Malted/Media, 1994)
• Miscellaneous works on "The Nightmare Continues" (limited edition cassette, Malted/Media, 1992)
• Miscellaneous works on "Dentist's Nightmare" (limited edition cassette, Malted/Media, 1988)

• Producer, Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar, weekly radio program, WGDR-FM, Plainfield, Vermont (1995-)
• Producer, Speaking Personal, computer information series, Vermont Public Radio (1983-4)

• Creator/Designer, Malted/Media, website at http://maltedmedia.com/ (1996-)
• Creator/Designer, Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar, website at http://maltedmedia.com/kalvos/ (1995-)
• Designer of arts websites including Dream.Bot, Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, Vermont Composers Consorium, Madtrax Productions, The Middle-Aged Hiker, The Karmora Papers, etc.
• Designer of commercial/educational websites including Argentum Fugit Farm, The Romulus Project, etc.

Selected Speaking Engagements and Seminars

• Hudebí Akademie Múzických Uméni, Prague (The Creation of Zonule Glaes II)
• Dartmouth College Music Department (Patron Saint of Mediocrities)
• Vermont Folklife Center (Sound and Image Archiving and Internet Access)
• Making Connections Institute, Montpelier, Vermont (Composing with Sequencers)
• The Web Project, Montpelier, Vermont (Web Page Creation with HTML)
• Sixth Last CoCoFest, Chicago, Illinois (History of the Color Computer)
• MedArt International, New York, New York (Composing a New Language)
• Community College of Vermont, Montpelier, Vermont (Introduction to Basic)
• ID Expo, Boston, Massachusetts (Touch Screens and Light Pens)
• PCM/Rainbowfest, Princeton, New Jersey (Microcomputers as Revolutionary Tools)
• Vermont Conference on High Technology, Norwich University (Process Control)
• Color Expo, Pasadena, California (Microcomputers & Electronic Music)
• IEEE, Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont (Bubble Memory)
• IEEE, Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont (Data Acquisition and Control with Microprocessors)
• IEEE, Burlington, Vermont (Microcomputers and the Arts)
• ACM, Rensselaer Polytech, Troy, New York (The Politics of Microcomputers)
• DuBois & King, Inc., Randolph, Vermont (Process Control)

Updated March 25, 1999

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