COLLECTIONS
2023 SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York, NY, Collection of created and designed HTML Websites from 1996 commissioned by Matthew Drutt
2023 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE, Irvine, CA, Acquisition of SEE NO EVIL Volume: Squid
2023 PRIVATE COLLECTION, London, UK, Collection of etching aquatint prints, Corinthian Capital 1, Corinthian Capital 2, Corinthian Capital 3, Corinthian Capital 4
2022 MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, New York, NY, Acquisition of SEE NO EVIL Volume: Morsel
2022 HARVARD UNIVERSITY FINE ARTS LIBRARY ARTISTS’ BOOKS COLLECTION, Boston, MA, Acquisition of SEE NO EVIL Volume: Shark
2022 PRATT INSTITUTE LIBRARIES ARTISTS’ BOOKS COLLECTION, Brooklyn, NY, Acquisition of SEE NO EVIL Volume: Toad
2022 SUSAN WEIL COLLECTION, New York, NY, Acquisition of SEE NO EVIL Volume: Anemone
2022 MICHELLE VAUGHN AND FELIX SALMON COLLECTION, New York, NY, Acquisition of SEE NO EVIL framed original drawing
2017 FRANKLIN FURNACE ARCHIVE OF ARTIST’S BOOKS AT FRANKLIN FURNACE AND MOMA, Brooklyn, NY, Acquisition of SOLACE AND PERPETUITY, a life story
2015 DUKE UNIVERSITY DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY ELECTRONIC LITERATURE COLLECTION, Durham, NC, Acquisition of the electronic and physical manifestations of SOLACE AND PERPETUITY, a life story
2014 DUKE UNIVERSITY DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY ELECTRONIC LITERATURE COLLECTION, Durham, NC, Acquisition of the electronic and physical manifestations of The Electronic Chronicles, 1995 Thesis and Thesis Project for MFA in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts
2013 PRIVATE COLLECTION, USA, Collection of DIORAMAS
2006 THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, ARTPORT, New York, NY, Archive of digital webwork: Veils of Transference
1996 WALKER ART CENTER DIGITAL STUDIES ARCHIVE, Minneapolis, MN, Archive of Audio/Video weekly world wide web broadcast: Pseudo Programs: Art Dirt
1993 MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER, Cambridge, MA
1993 ROGER AND JOAN SONNABEND COLLECTION, Boston, MA
1990 READERS DIGEST COLLECTION, New York, NY
1986 MODERNA MUSEET, Stockholm, Sweden
1986 AMERICAN RESEARCH CENTER IN EGYPT, Cairo, Egypt
1986 TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART, Tucson, AZ
1982 CITY OF LUND, Lund, Sweden, Painting on paper
1980 NEW YORK STATE COLLECTION, Albany, NY
1980 RED GROOMS COLLECTION, New York, NY
1967 ESTATE OF AD REINHARDT, New York, NY
GRANTS, HONORS AND RESIDENCIES
2018–2019 THOUGHTWORKSARTS RESIDENCY, New York, NY, Artist in Residence and Stipend, Development of The Sentient Thespian
2019 MAUSER ECO HOUSE ARTIST’S RESIDENCY, Parrita, Costa Rica, Artist in Residence, Development of drawing and text for SEE NO EVIL
2017 DORA MAAR FOUNDATION RESIDENCY, Menérbes, France, Artist in Residence, The Brown Foundation Fellows Program and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Development of drawings and text for SEE NO EVIL
2015 NEW YORK FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS AWARD IN FICTION, New York, NY, Awardee, SOLACE AND PERPETUITY, a life story
2014 WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL STUDY CENTER, Santa Fe, NM, Scholar in Residence, Research, book and performance production for The Eye of the Storm Has the Warmest Temperature
2014 WILDACRES RESIDENCY PROGRAM, Little Switzerland, NC, Artist in Residence, EX SITU: Colony Relocation for Electronic Detritus
2012 SCIENCE AND ART RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS (SARC), Los Alamos National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico, Los Alamos, NM, Artist in Residence
2011–2012 PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS CUNY RESEARCH GRANT, New York, NY, Awardee, Whirled War
2010–2011 PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS CUNY RESEARCH GRANT, New York, NY, Awardee, Re-enactment of the Battle of the Pyramids
2009 ARLES-SUR-TECH RESIDENCY, Arles, FR, Artist in Residence, Les Visages
2008 EYEBEAM ART AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER, New York, NY, Artist in Residence, Awardee of $7,000 for the Battle of the Pyramids project
2006 GREENWALL FOUNDATION GRANT, New York, NY, Awardee of $10,000, Development of Eliza Redux
2006 NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS (NYSCA), New York, NY, Awardee of $5,000, Postproduction of archipelago.ch
2005–2006 GRADUATE RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE, City University of New York, New York, NY, Awardee of $44,000, Research and Development of Innovative Multi-Use Devices for Telerobotics, Theater and Interactive Performance.
2005 FRANKLIN FURNACE, Brooklyn, NY, Awardee, Declared a Franklin Furnace Inc. “Visionary Artist”
2005 THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: ARTPORT, New York, NY, Awardee, Gate Artist Commission, Veils of Transference
2004 SWISS ARTIST-IN-LAB RESIDENCY AWARD, University of Zurich, Zurich, CH, Awardee, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Department of Informatics
2003 FRANKLIN FURNACE FUND FOR PERFORMANCE ART AWARD, Brooklyn, NY, Awardee, Eliza Redux and The Veils of Transference
2003 GRADUATE RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE, City University of New York, New York, NY, P.I. Awardee of $26,500, Research Lab And Webcasting Studio For Live And In-Demand Streaming Video to Mobile Devices
2002 NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY SCHOLAR ON CAMPUS AWARD, City University of New York, New York, NY, Awardee
2002 GRADUATE RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE, City University of New York, New York, NY, P.I. Awardee of $13,475, Mobile Lab For Dissemination Of Content For Webcasting, Wireless Devices And Display Technologies
2001 CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION FROM THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK ON THE OCCASION OF SALUTE TO SCHOLARS, New York, NY, Awardee, Outstanding scholarly achievements and contributions to the creation and transmittal of knowledge
2004 & 2005 PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS, CUNY RESEARCH GRANTS, New York, NY, Awardee, Eliza Redux
2002 & 2003 PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS, CUNY RESEARCH GRANTS, New York, NY, Awardee, Machine Book
2000 & 2001 PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS, CUNY RESEARCH GRANTS, New York, NY, Awardee, Pangaea • Pangaea
2000–2001 NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION AWARD #9980873, New York, NY, Awardee of $50,000 matching grant, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art - Robotics and Theater, Robotic Renaissance Project
1998 ELECTRONIC MEDIA AND FILM PROGRAM OF THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY, Awardee, Production of Sayonara Diorama
1997 & 1998 POLAR CIRCUIT ARTISTS RESIDENCIES, Tornio School of Media, Lapland, FI, Artist in Residence, Moo Theatre Worldwide: Kalevala
1994 LILA ACHESON FUND: WALLACE FOUNDATION WORKSHOP, Awardee for – Inventiveness In Writing, Workshop lead by Walter Abish, Readers Digest Fund and Cooper Union
1992 ROBERT BLACKBURN PRINT STUDIO, New York, NY, Artist Fellowship to work with master printer Marjorie Van Dyke on etching series, Corinthian Capital, Ba Bird, Ba Ba Black Bird, Rosetta Takes Wing, Ornamental Molding, No Place Like House, Rosetta Spinwheel, Sitting Duck
1990 ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG FOUNDATION CHANGE, INC. GRANT, New York, NY, Awardee
1988 THE PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP, New York, NY, Artist Fellowship
1981 NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS FELLOWSHIP, New York, NY, Artist Fellowship, Graphics
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS and PRESENTATIONS
2023 ACM SIGRRAPH: SPARKS, New York, NY, Artist Presenter, Robotic Art: Social and Aestheic Dimensions, Session 2: Performativity and Otherness, What’s love got to do with it?
2023 PARKBENCH, New York, NY, Panel Participant and Artist Presenter, Celebrating Nina Sobell, Emily Hartzell and Franklin Furnace, Aye Eye and Sayonara Diorama
2022 CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS, New York, NY, Artist Speaker on SEE NO EVIL in conjunction with the exhibition “DAILY RITUAL”, Curated by Amanda McDonald Crowley
2013 THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York, NY, Panel Participant and Presentation, sponsored by Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University and the Institute for Women & Art, Rutgers University, momentum Women/Art/Technology
2013 HOLDEN LUNTZ GALLERY, Palm Beach, FL, Guest Artist Speaker, Diorama Works
2012 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART, New York, NY, Panel Participant, Co-hosted by the Cooper Union student chapters of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Engineering Art
2012 THE BRADBURY MUSEUM, Los Alamos, NM, Presentation in conjunction with SARC at “The Next Big Idea” conference
2012 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF ELECTRONIC ARTISTS (ISEA), Albuquerque, NM, SARC Panel Participant, Scientists/Artists Research Collaborations, Machine Wilderness
2012 LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY, Los Alamos, NM, Science and Art Research Collaborations (SARC) Panel Participant and Presentation
2012 SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, Science and Art Research Collaborations (SARC) Panel Participant and Presentation
2012 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ELECTRONIC ARTS, Istanbul, Turkey, Paper Presentation, Place in Mind: A Dynamic Memory Palace
2006 50TH ANNIVERSARY SUMMIT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, Monte Verita, Switzerland, Keynote Speaker, archipelago.ch: The Dynamic Diorama
2005 CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE AN INTERACTION IN ANIMALS, ROBOTS AND AGENTS, University of Hertfordshire, England, UK, Presentation and Publication: AISB2005, Co-authored with Dr. Daniel Bisig, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Information Technology, University of Zurich, Narrative In Robotic Scenarios For Art Works
2005 MARJORIE L. AND RONALD E. BRANDON ART AND CULTURE TALKS, University Art Museum at SUNY, Albany, NY, Lecturer, Artificial Strife: Differentiation And Otherness In Robotic Entities
2002 COLLABORATING WITH TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE, Union College, Schenectady, NY, Keynote Speaker, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant for Travel/Speakers, Stepping Lively In A World Of Dynamic Cartography
2002 BANFF NEW MEDIA CENTER, Banff, Alberta, BC, Panel Participant and Presentation, Artificial Stupidity/Artificial Intelligence, Presentation On Robotics And Theater: The Robotic Theater At Cooper Union
2002 NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, Brooklyn, NY, Honorary Speaker: Address to Honors Students, Spies, Lies And Remote Control: Will Robots Take Over The World?
2002 CUNY WIRED CONFERENCE, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, Panel Participant and Presentation, Utilizing And/Or Developing New Technologies
2001 SONY WONDER TECHNOLOGY LAB, New York, NY, Panel of artists on the exhibition Data Dynamics at The Whitney Museum of American Art: Camouflagetown
2000 SIGRRAPH NATIONAL CONFERENCE, New Orleans, LA, Panel Participant, Fiction 2000 - Art + Culture Papers Panel
2000 UNIVERSAL CONCEPTS UNLIMITED GALLERY (UCU), New York, NY, Panel Participant, Panel moderated by Joseph Nechvatal with Thyrza Goodeve and D.J. Spooky, The Viractual
2000 COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE, New York, NY, Panel Participant and Presenter, Session Speaker: Co-chairs: Barbara London, Museum of Modern Art, Kathy Rae Huffman, Director-IEAR Program Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Social Simulation In The Digital Domain
1999 MEDIEVAL WORLD MAP CONFERENCE, Hereford Cathedral, UK, Presenter, The Monstrous Races In Sayonara Diorama, The Ideological Mapping Of The World As Theater
1999 THE NEW SCHOOL SPECIAL PROGRAMS, VERA LIST CENTER FOR ART AND POLITICS, New York, NY, Panel Participant, Panel moderated by Robert Atkins, The On-Line Art World: A Work In Progress
1999 ASCI CYBERART99, New York, NY, Panel Participant, Pressing Issues From Field & Industry
1999 5TH PERFORMANCE STUDIES CONFERENCE99, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK, Artist Presenter, Sayonara Diorama
1997 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF ELECTRONIC ARTISTS (ISEA), Chicago, IL, Panel Participant, Panel organized by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Re-Forming Narrative: Performance, Collaboration, Play
1996 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF ELECTRONIC ARTISTS (ISEA), Rotterdam, NL, Lecture and Presentation, Medieval Cartography And The Ideological Mapping Of Cyberspace
JUROR & PEER REVIEWER
2006 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF ELECTRONIC ARTISTS SYMPOSIUM (ISEA), San Jose, CA, Juror, Best Emerging Artwork
2005 STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY, DEPARTMENT OF ART, Albany, NY, Critiques of work of Candidates for the Masters Degree
2004 FIRST PERSON, M.I.T. Press, Respondent Edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan
2004 COMPUTER LIB / DREAM MACHINES: 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, M.I.T. Press, Peer Reviewer, Author: Ted Nelson, Editor: Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2004–2007 LIVE ART AND SCIENCE ON THE INTERNET LEONARDO, M.I.T. Press, Peer Reviewer, Guest Editor: Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace
2001 MAKING WAVES, Hunter College, City University of New York,
New York, NY, Host and Juror, 3rd National Student Festival for Film, Video and New Media,
2001 INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ARTS AND CULTURE CONFEREANCE (DAC2001), Providence, RI, Juror
2000 SIGGRAPH NATIONAL CONFERENCE, New Orleans, LA, Juror, Fiction 2000 – Art + Culture Papers Panel
1999 NYC/ACM SIGGRAPH, New York, NY, Juror and Peer Reviewer, Surfing the Next Wave: Internet and Multimedia
1999 THE FRANKLIN FURNACE FUND FOR PERFORMANCE ART AWARDS, New York, NY, Juror
1999 THE FIRST NYU PRESS PRIZE FOR HYPERFICTION, New York, NY, Co-Juror with Stuart Moulthrop
CATALOGUES
2003 AREALE99, ART IN THE INDUSTRIAL SECTOR, Ein Projekt von Kunstplug e.V. in Kooperation mit der Akademie der Kunste und regionalen Firmen
1997 ARS ELECTRONICA, FLESFHFACTOR: Globe Theater: Robotic Pageant, Act II, Scene 2: Machine Nostalgia
EDUCATION
1995 THE SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, M.F.A., Computer Art
1967 HUNTER COLLEGE, Varied Painting Courses
1963 BROOKLYN COLLEGE, B.A., Fine Arts with Honors
1956–1963 THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM ART SCHOOL, Scholarship Student, Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Instructors included Tom Doyle, Reuben Kadish, Reuben Tam and Isaac Soyer
TEACHING
2003–2012 THE GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY, New York, NY, Faculty Member: Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program for PhD Candidates, Co-taught: Theory, Design and Practice
1998–2015 NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, New York, NY, Professor: Entertainment Technology, Emerging Media Technologies
1997–2006 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART, New York, NY, Adjunct Instructor: Mechanical Engineering, Co-creator and co-instructor: Interdisciplinary courses for EID111: Design, Illusion and Reality: Semester Topics included: Inventing the Inventor, Cities, Bridges, Robotic Visions and Theater; Robotic Visions and Theater, Co-taught Michael Schneider; Self-Replicating Habitats Co-taught with Ericson Mar
1996 – 1998 SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, New York, NY, MFA Photo and Related Media Department, Instructor: The Networked Aesthetic – Art and Telecommunication Projects
1995 – 1998 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART, New York, NY, School of Art, Adjunct Instructor: Advanced Computer Techniques
1995–1996 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, TISCH SCHOOL OF ARTS, GRADUATE FILM AND TV, New York, NY, Co-taught with Noah Wardrip-Fruin: Writing Pluralistic Narrative for New Media
1992 NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, New York, NY, Department of Humanities, Adjunct Professor of Art History