ISEA Board
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Nina Czegledy, Chair Peter Anders, Secretary Wim van der Plas, Treasurer Gunalan Nadarajan |
Anne Nigten Julianne Pierce Cynthia Beth Rubin |
Peter Anders (based in Midland, MI, USA)
Peter Anders is an architect, educator, and information design
theorist. He has published widely on the architecture of cyberspace and
is the author of "Envisioning Cyberspace" which presents design
principles for on-line spatial environments. The book was published by
McGraw Hill in 1998.
Anders received his degrees from the University of Michigan (B.S.1976)
and Columbia University (M.A.1982). He is currently a fellow of the
University of Plymouth CAiiA-STAR Ph.D. program. He was a principle in
an architectural firm in New York City until 1994 when he formed
MindSpace.net, an architectural practice specializing in
media/information environments. He has received numerous design awards
for his work and has taught graduate level design studios and
computer-aided design at universities including the New Jersey
Institute of Technology, University of Detroit-Mercy, and the
University of Michigan.
His work has been featured in professional journals and he has
presented his research on the architecture of cyberspace in several
international venues including The New York Architectural League, Xerox
PARC, ISEA, CAiiA, Cyberconf, ACADIA, AEC, ACM-Multimedia, InterSymp,
SEGD and the World Future Society. Those interested in pursuing these
topics may visit his site, http://mindspace.net
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Nina Czegledy (based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Nina Czegledy, an independent media artist, curator and writer, has
been involved in collaborative international projects for over a
decade. Points of Entry, an electronic arts collaboration between
Canada, Australia and New Zealand, conceptualized by Czegledy and
curated in collaboration, is currently touring in New
Zealand/Australia. Digitized
Bodies, Virtual Spectacles, developed by Czegledy, centered on the
changing perceptions of the human body and presented a series of
on-line and on-site events in Canada (2000), Hungary (2001) and
Slovenia (2002).
Czegledy's art&science&technology interest is reflected by projects in progress including Aurora Universalis, The Electromagnetism of Bodies and BodySense. The nomadic Crossing Over (CO) Workshop/Media Residency project co-curated with Iliyana Nedkova since 1996 is aimed at digital film production. In addition, Czegledy has been involved in producing digital works, video art, broadcast documentaties as well as leading and participating in international workshops, forums and festivals. Czegledy curated over twenty international media art/video programs and touring exhibitions presented in over thirty countries. She has published and lectured widely in Europe, Asia, Australia and North and South America.
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Gunalan Nadarajan (based in Singapore)
Gunalan Nadarajan is an art theorist / curator from Singapore and is currently Associate Dean
of Research and Graduate Studies, College of Arts and Architecture at the Pennsylvania State
University (USA). His publications include a book, Ambulations (2000), numerous catalogue
essays and various academic articles including most recently, "Ornamental Biotechnology and
Parergonal Aesthetics", in Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond (MIT Press; 2006) and "Islamic A
utomation: A Reading of al-Jazari's 'Book of Ingenious Mechanical Devices' (1206)",
in MediaArtHistories (MIT Press; 2006). He has curated exhibitions in several countries
including Ambulations (Singapore), 180KG (Jogjakarta, Indonesia), Negotiating Spaces
(Auckland, New Zealand) and media_city 2002 (Seoul, S.Korea). He was contributing curator for
Documenta XI (Kassel, Germany) and served on the jury of several international exhibitions
including ISEA2004 (Helsinki / Talinn) and transmediale 05 (Berlin, Germany). He is also currently
Artistic Co-Director of the Ogaki Biennale 2006. In 2004, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Arts (UK). Gunalan's current research interests include contemporary painting, art
and biology, robotic arts, nanotechnology and toys.
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Anne Nigten (based in the Netherlands)
ANne Nigten is the manager of V2_Lab,
the aRt&D department of V2_Organization
in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and content manager of the European
Network for Cyber ART (EncART). ANne is lecturing on research and
development in the interdisciplinary field from an art perspective. She
is advisor for several media art and science initiatives in Europe.
Over the last years she published papers on art, engineering and
(computer) science collaboration and software development especially on
‘open source’ for interdisciplinary purposes. Before her current
position at V2_ she has been working as an independent media artist,
and simultaneously fulfilled several management jobs for the media art
sector in the Netherlands. Besides this, ANne has practiced several
more technical oriented functions.
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Julianne Pierce (based in
Adelaide, Australia)
Julianne Pierce is an Australia new media curator, artist and producer.
She is a founding member of the influential artists group VNS Matrix,
who exhibited widely in Australia and internationally from 1991 - 1997.
She has curated several new media events and exhibitions including
Biomachines (Telstra Adelaide Festival 2000), Spectrascope (Sydney
Biennale satellite exhibition 2000), Code Red (ANAT & Performance
Space, 1997), encryption corruption (online exhibition for The Physics
Room, NZ, 1997) and Future Languages (Adelaide Festival, 1994).
Julianne was Producer of the interactive titles - Bad Code computer
game prototype by VNS Matrix (1996) and Uncle Bill (2000) directed by
Debra Petrovitch (winner of first prize, New Media, Video Brasil 2001).
In
August 2000, Julianne took up the position of Executive Director of the
Australian Network for Art
and Technology (ANAT), Australia's peak network and advocacy body
for artists working with science and technology. Julianne was a member
of the International Program Committee for ISEA2002
and is currently a Board member of the Australian Dance Theatre and is
a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of LEA (Leonardo Electronic
Almanac).
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Wim van der Plas (based
in Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
Wim van
der Plas is a sociologist interested in the relationship between
science and art, or, on a more practical level, between technology
& culture. He teaches at Mediatechnologie, Faculteit Natuur & Techniek,
Hogeschool van Utrecht in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. He is one of the
founding members of ISEA, and organized the First International
Symposium on Electronic Art in Utrecht, NL (FISEA), the Second
International Symposium on Electronic Art (SISEA) in Groningen, NL and
the Seventh International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA96) in
Rotterdam, NL.
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Cynthia Beth Rubin
(based in New Haven, CT, USA)/p>
Cynthia Beth
Rubin is a digital artist who exhibits internationally in a variety of
venus. The recipient of the first individual artist’s grant in New
Media from the
Connecticut Commission of the Arts, Rubin has also received numerous
other
awards, including grants from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish
Culture, the New
England Foundation on the Arts, and various artist residencies. Rubin’s
work has
been featured in exhibitions across North America and around the world.
Recent
exhibitions include a duo show at the LeVall Gallery in Siberia, the
New York Digital
Salon, Pixxelpoint in Slovenia, ARCADE III (and II, which opened in
England and
traveled to Siberia and Belarussia), several editions of SIGGRAPH (2003
2002,
2001,1999,1995), and ISEA 2000 in Paris (and ISEA 1991, 1995, 1997).
She has
also exhibited in recent years in Brazil, Australia, the Netherlands,
and Canada.
Her computer animations have been included in many festivals, including
the
Pandemonium Festival (ICA in London), the Florida Film Festival,
Festival Art Vidéo
(Casa Blanca, Morocco), 2nd Annual VideoUS, (Stockholm, Sweden), and
opening
night of the Jewish Film Festival (Berkeley CA) and the Boston Jewish
Film Festival.
Rubin’s work
has been written about in numerous publications. INA (Paris)
published a text on her Web site Memoirs in an edition of dossiers de
l'audiovisuel
on "arts en réseau" (art on the web) edited by Jean Segura. An
extensive article on
her work by Jef Trombeur and an accompanying CD was published by
Création
Numérique in February 2001. Other articles have been published
in Russia, Korea,
Japan, the Netherlands, France, Brazil, and the UK. Her work is
discussed in detail
in The Computer in the Visual Arts by Anne Morgan Spalter, and in the
Painter Wow! Book by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis. Rubin is a native of
Rochester, NY and holds degrees from Antioch College and the Maryland
Institute, College of Art (BA and MFA). She currently teaches part-time
at the Rhode Island School of Design. As part of the organizing
committee for ISEA95 in Montreal, Rubin served as co-chair of the
conference (papers/panels) committee. She has served as a Board member
of ISEA since 1997, with a special interest in Cultural Diversity.
Extensive information about Cynthia Beth
Rubin is available on her web site:
http://www.cbrubin.net
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