"Art of the Digital Age" Lecture Panel on Thursday, April 12, 7 - 9 pm
NYIT Manhattan campus, 11th Floor Auditorium, 16 West 61st Street
(near Columbus Circle)
Moderator: Bruce Wands, Author of “Art of the Digital Age”,=
published by Thames & Hudson
Panelists:
Victor Acevedo - Digital Imaging
Joseph Nechvatal - Digital Imaging
W. Bradford Paley - Software, Database and Game Art
Robert Michael Smith - Digital Sculpture
The impact of digital technology on the production of art has been
profound.
Traditional activities such as painting and sculpture have been
radically transformed
by digital techniques and media, while entirely new forms, such as
net art, digital
installation and virtual reality, have emerged as recognized artistic
practices.
Digital artists themselves are often at the forefront of creative
experimentation,
relentlessly pushing the boundaries of artistic expression and
exploring some of the most urgent social and political issues facing
humankind today.
After an introductory statement regarding the past, present and
future of digital art, Bruce Wands will moderate a panel of four
artists from his book, including
Victor Acevedo, Joseph Nechvatal, W. Bradford Paley, and Robert
Michael Smith. Each artist will discuss their work, as well their
thoughts on digital art. This will be followed by a group
discussion, as well as a question and answer period with the audience.
BRUCE WANDS
http://www.brucewands.com/
Bruce Wands has been working in digital media and music for more than
thirty years as an artist, musician, writer, and curator. His
creative work explores the relationship between visual art,
mathematics and music, and the invention of new forms of narrative.
He has lectured, performed, and exhibited in the United States and
internationally, including Europe, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and
Beijing, China. Recent lectures and exhibitions include Electronics
Alive IV, SIGGRAPH 2006, BUDI 2005 in Pusan, Korea, CHART 2006 and
the ACM Creativity & Cognition Conference and Exhibition in London,
“Thoughts on Hesse, Digital Art and Visual Music” at SIGGRA=
PH
2004, and the First Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition.
Time Out New York named Bruce as one of the “99 People to Watc=
h
in 1999”. He is the Chair of the MFA Computer Art Department and=
the Director of Computer Education at the School of Visual Arts in
New York. He is the Director of the New York Digital Salon, an
international digital art organization that celebrated its 10th
anniversary in 2003 (www.nydigitalsalon.org). He is the author of
Art of the Digital Age from Thames & Hudson in 2006 and Digital
Creativity, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2001.
VICTOR ACEVEDO
http://www.acevedomedia.com
Victor Acevedo is an artist, best known for his digital work
involving print making and photography. He attended Art Center
College of Design in Pasadena. He is now based in New York where he
is on faculty in the MFA Computer Art Department at the School of =
Visual Arts. He produced a significant body of work in traditional
media painting and drawing during the years 1977-1985. Since 1984
computer graphics has been his primary medium. Acevedo’s work has=
been published in several books and has been shown in over 80
exhibitions worldwide including the Isamu Noguchi Museum, NY 2005,
Siggraph/TAS, Paris, 2005; Novosibirsk State Art Museum; 2005; LACDA,
2005; Digital Art Museum, Berlin 2004; Millennium Art Museum, Bejing,
China, 2004; ACM/Siggraph CG03; Siggraph/TAS, Cleveland Art Museum
2003; Digital Duality, EZTV/Cyberspace 2002; Levall Gallery,
Novosibirsk, Russia, 2002; YLEM's 20th Anniversary Exhibition, SF,
California, 2001; Colville Place Gallery, London, 2001
JOSEPH NECHVATAL
http://www.nechvatal.net/
Joseph Nechvatal is a digital artist who produces computer robotic-
assisted paintings and electronic installations that focus on
political issues. His work has been exhibited in one-person shows in
Paris, Munich, New York and Marseille, and is in the collections of
The Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art and Moderna
Museet, Stockholm, among others. He has published numerous essays on
digital art as well as the impact of media culture on modern life.
Nechvatal started to use computers to make "paintings" in
1986. From 1991-1993 he was artist-in-residence at the Louis Pasteu=
r
Atelier in Arbois France and at the Saline Royale/Ledoux Foundation's
computer lab. There he worked on the Computer Virus Project, which
was an artistic experiment with computer viruses and computer
animation.
W. BRADFORD PALEY
http://wbpaley.com/brad/
W. Bradford Paley uses computers to create visual displays with the
goal of making readable, clear, and engaging expressions of =
complex data. He did his first computer graphics in 1973, founded
Digital Image Design Incorporated (didi.com/brad) in
1982, and started doing financial & statistical data
visualization in 1986. He has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art;
he created TextArc.org; he is in the ARTPORT collection of the
Whitney Museum of American Art; has received multiple grants and
awards for both art and design, and his designs are at work every day
in the hands of brokers on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
He is an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University, and is
director of Information Esthetics: a fledgling interdisciplinary
group exploring the creation and interpretation of data
representations that are both readable and esthetically satisfying.
ROBERT MICHAEL SMITH
http://iris.nyit.edu/~rmsmith
Robert Michael Smith is a digital sculptor and Associate Professor of
art and technology at New York Institute of Technology Fine Arts
Department. Smith is also NYIT Middle East Fine Arts Computer
Graphics Coordinator for Global Exchange Programs
at Amman, Jordan; Kingdom of Bahrain, and Abu Dhabi, United Arab
Emirates. Smith has been an active pioneer of digital sculpture,
3D visualization/animation, Web design, virtual sculptures for the
Web, virtual actors for computer gaming, curator for international
art exhibitions as well as a philosopher of art & technology
aesthetics. Smith was the founding Web Director of
www.sculpture.org during 1997-2003 and Board Director of the
International Sculpture Center during 2003 - 2005. Smith is
President Emeritus of The Sculptors Guild, founding Board Director
and Treasurer of Digital Stone Project. Smith's sculptures and
digital art have been exhibited extensively worldwide, featured in
lectures at numerous universities, international conferences, and
included in several international articles.

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"Art of the Digital Age" Lecture Panel on Thursday, April 12, 7 - 9 pm
NYIT Manhattan campus, 11th Floor Auditorium, 16 West 61st Street
(near Columbus Circle)
Moderator: Bruce Wands, Author of “Art of the Digital Age”,=
published by Thames & Hudson
Panelists:
Victor Acevedo - Digital Imaging
Joseph Nechvatal - Digital Imaging
W. Bradford Paley - Software, Database and Game Art
Robert Michael Smith - Digital Sculpture
The impact of digital technology on the production of art has been
profound.
Traditional activities such as painting and sculpture have been
radically transformed
by digital techniques and media, while entirely new forms, such as
net art, digital
installation and virtual reality, have emerged as recognized artistic
practices.
Digital artists themselves are often at the forefront of creative
experimentation,
relentlessly pushing the boundaries of artistic expression and
exploring some of the most urgent social and political issues facing
humankind today.
After an introductory statement regarding the past, present and
future of digital art, Bruce Wands will moderate a panel of four
artists from his book, including
Victor Acevedo, Joseph Nechvatal, W. Bradford Paley, and Robert
Michael Smith. Each artist will discuss their work, as well their
thoughts on digital art. This will be followed by a group
discussion, as well as a question and answer period with the audience.
BRUCE WANDS
http://www.brucewands.com/
Bruce Wands has been working in digital media and music for more than
thirty years as an artist, musician, writer, and curator. His
creative work explores the relationship between visual art,
mathematics and music, and the invention of new forms of narrative.
He has lectured, performed, and exhibited in the United States and
internationally, including Europe, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and
Beijing, China. Recent lectures and exhibitions include Electronics
Alive IV, SIGGRAPH 2006, BUDI 2005 in Pusan, Korea, CHART 2006 and
the ACM Creativity & Cognition Conference and Exhibition in London,
“Thoughts on Hesse, Digital Art and Visual Music” at SIGGRA=
PH
2004, and the First Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition.
Time Out New York named Bruce as one of the “99 People to Watc=
h
in 1999”. He is the Chair of the MFA Computer Art Department and=
the Director of Computer Education at the School of Visual Arts in
New York. He is the Director of the New York Digital Salon, an
international digital art organization that celebrated its 10th
anniversary in 2003 (www.nydigitalsalon.org). He is the author of
Art of the Digital Age from Thames & Hudson in 2006 and Digital
Creativity, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2001.
VICTOR ACEVEDO
http://www.acevedomedia.com
Victor Acevedo is an artist, best known for his digital work
involving print making and photography. He attended Art Center
College of Design in Pasadena. He is now based in New York where he
is on faculty in the MFA Computer Art Department at the School of =
Visual Arts. He produced a significant body of work in traditional
media painting and drawing during the years 1977-1985. Since 1984
computer graphics has been his primary medium. Acevedo’s work has=
been published in several books and has been shown in over 80
exhibitions worldwide including the Isamu Noguchi Museum, NY 2005,
Siggraph/TAS, Paris, 2005; Novosibirsk State Art Museum; 2005; LACDA,
2005; Digital Art Museum, Berlin 2004; Millennium Art Museum, Bejing,
China, 2004; ACM/Siggraph CG03; Siggraph/TAS, Cleveland Art Museum
2003; Digital Duality, EZTV/Cyberspace 2002; Levall Gallery,
Novosibirsk, Russia, 2002; YLEM's 20th Anniversary Exhibition, SF,
California, 2001; Colville Place Gallery, London, 2001
JOSEPH NECHVATAL
http://www.nechvatal.net/
Joseph Nechvatal is a digital artist who produces computer robotic-
assisted paintings and electronic installations that focus on
political issues. His work has been exhibited in one-person shows in
Paris, Munich, New York and Marseille, and is in the collections of
The Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art and Moderna
Museet, Stockholm, among others. He has published numerous essays on
digital art as well as the impact of media culture on modern life.
Nechvatal started to use computers to make "paintings" in
1986. From 1991-1993 he was artist-in-residence at the Louis Pasteu=
r
Atelier in Arbois France and at the Saline Royale/Ledoux Foundation's
computer lab. There he worked on the Computer Virus Project, which
was an artistic experiment with computer viruses and computer
animation.
W. BRADFORD PALEY
http://wbpaley.com/brad/
W. Bradford Paley uses computers to create visual displays with the
goal of making readable, clear, and engaging expressions of =
complex data. He did his first computer graphics in 1973, founded
Digital Image Design Incorporated (didi.com/brad) in
1982, and started doing financial & statistical data
visualization in 1986. He has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art;
he created TextArc.org; he is in the ARTPORT collection of the
Whitney Museum of American Art; has received multiple grants and
awards for both art and design, and his designs are at work every day
in the hands of brokers on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
He is an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University, and is
director of Information Esthetics: a fledgling interdisciplinary
group exploring the creation and interpretation of data
representations that are both readable and esthetically satisfying.
ROBERT MICHAEL SMITH
http://iris.nyit.edu/~rmsmith
Robert Michael Smith is a digital sculptor and Associate Professor of
art and technology at New York Institute of Technology Fine Arts
Department. Smith is also NYIT Middle East Fine Arts Computer
Graphics Coordinator for Global Exchange Programs
at Amman, Jordan; Kingdom of Bahrain, and Abu Dhabi, United Arab
Emirates. Smith has been an active pioneer of digital sculpture,
3D visualization/animation, Web design, virtual sculptures for the
Web, virtual actors for computer gaming, curator for international
art exhibitions as well as a philosopher of art & technology
aesthetics. Smith was the founding Web Director of
www.sculpture.org during 1997-2003 and Board Director of the
International Sculpture Center during 2003 - 2005. Smith is
President Emeritus of The Sculptors Guild, founding Board Director
and Treasurer of Digital Stone Project. Smith's sculptures and
digital art have been exhibited extensively worldwide, featured in
lectures at numerous universities, international conferences, and
included in several international articles.

Please excuse any cross-postings of this announcement. If you would
like to be removed from this mailing list please send a letter to
acevedo4@earthlink.net with the word “remove” in the subjec=
t
line - thanks.
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