Education:
B.S. University of Wisconsin, Madison, American Intellectual History, 1964.
M.S. Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Photography,
1966.
Special study:
Synthesizer techniques and electronic music composition, Philadelphia Musical
Academy.
Intensive workshop in holography, Lake Forest College.
Teaching experience:
Professor, Director of Academic Computing, The University of the Arts, Photography
Department 1966-1982, Electronic Media 1982 to present.
Visiting Professor, School of Visual Arts, NYC 1989-1994, teaching in the
Graduate Computer Art program
Visiting Professor University of Illinois at Chicago Circle 1981-82.
Moore College of Art, part time Photography Department, 1967-70
Institute of Design, teaching assistant Photograpy Department, Spring 1966,
and Summers 1965 and 1966.
Shows and Exhibitions:
1995: HYMNS OF THE REPUBLIC, MYSTERY STREET, and DECEPTIONS along with 19
digital prints selected as part of "Digital Vision/Digital Voice"
exhibition at the Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, April 7 - June
24, 1995
1995: HYMNS OF THE REPUBLIC exhibited in (inter)ACTIVE: electronic art
channels, Trenton State College.
1995: Five prints selected for digital photography show at Tyler School
of Art, Elkins Park
1995: Three images from the Deceptions Matrix series selected for the Human
Figure show at the Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia.
1994: Two prints exhibited at the Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia as part
of the SCAN Art Show.
1994: MYSTERY STREET shown along with two dye sublimation prints at The
University of the Arts.
1993: MYSTERY STREET, selected for inclusion in the "It's Hot! It's
Cool! It's Color" Artmobile traveling exhibition Oct. 1993 - June 1994,
Bucks County Community College.
1993: Excerpts from MYSTERY STREET shown in the "Computer Art: Reality
and Abstraction" invitational exhibition at Raritan Valley College,
NJ
1992: Color ink-jet print shown as part of the "Photographic Possibilities"
exhibition at the Continential Bank , Philadelphia, PA.
1992: MYSTERY STREET, shown at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia as part
of the art exhibition at the SCAN 12th Annual Symposium on Small Computers
in the Arts.
1992: TIMELINE a thirty minute digital multimedia piece was shown as part
of the International Painting Interactive project held in conjuction with
the Siggraph Art Show at Siggraph 1992 in Chicago, Illinois.
1992: MYSTERY STREET selected for inclusion in "Truth or Dare: Photography
Interacting with Computers," IMAGES Center for Photography, Cincinnati.
1991: TIMELINE shown as part of the Artist's Journals exhibition at The
University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
1991: MYSTERY STREET selected for inclusion in the Siggraph 1991 Art Show
as part of the Fine Arts Animation exhibition. It was also selected to be
part of the travelling exhibition.
1991: "Low Tech: High Tech" exhibition at The University of the
Arts, VICTIMS installation and three color thermal dye transfer prints shown.
1991: "Philadelphia Art Now: Artists Choose Artists", Institute
of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. MYSTERY STREET computer video installation
piece.
1991: "Limited Editions" an exhibition of offset prints and book
arts. The print "Counterpoints" shown, at The Laurie W. and Irvin
J. Borowsky Gallery, Gershman Y, Philadelphia.
1990: Invited to exhibit VICTIMS in the ARTIFICES (computer in art: invention,
simulation) exhibition in the salle de la Légion d´honneur,
Saint-Denis, Paris.
1990: Invited to exhibit DECEPTIONS and PATRIANOSTRA video pieces in the
Digital Image-Digital Photography exhibition Dallas Public Library.
1990: "Current Technologies and Photography" exhibition at the
Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorsetown, NJ.
1989: Invited to participate in the "Death of Photography" exhibition
at the University of Colorado.
1989: Five prints from the Deceptions series selected for inclusion in the
Computers & Photography exhibition at the Pyramid Art Center, Rochester,
NY in conjunction with the Society of Photographic Education national conference.
1989: Four computer video pieces and Deceptions Triptych selected for inclusion
in the "Art Around the Edges" exhibition at the Port of History
Museum, Philadelphia.
1988-89: Two color ink jet prints from the VICTIMS series selected for the
WYSIWYG exhibition at the Blair Art Museum in Hollidaysburg, PA.
1988: DECEPTIONS diptych and COUNTERPOINTS prints exhibited at the Symposium
on Small Computers in the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
1988: DECEPTIONS and VICTIMS, selected to be shown at the PIXIM Art Show,
Paris.
1988: Ink jet print exhibited at the IBM Gallery in New York as part of
the "Computers and Art" exhibition.
1988: Seven prints, VICTIMS installation, and video pieces PATRIANOSTRA
and DECEPTIONS, included in the "Invitational Exhibition of Computer
Generated Art" held at Augusta College, Georgia.
1988: Eight prints included in the Arts & Technology show at the Abington
Art Center Jenkintown, PA.
1987: Two images selected for inclusion in the "Computers and Art"
exhibition that opened at the Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY.
1987: Three images from the Softlands series included in the exhibition,
"Extending the Boundaries of Photography", at the Center For Creative
Photography, Tucson, Arizona.
1987: Images from the Icons/Idols series selected for inclusion in the "Prix
Ars Electronica '87" exhibiton in Linz, Austria.
1987: Triptych work selected for Siggraph 1987 Art Show.
1987: Five prints and Softlands installation shown in the Illuminated Pixel
exhibition at the University of Scranton Art Gallery.
1986: Two images selected for inclusion in the Faces of Philadelphia exhibition,
as part of the Art in City Hall program.
1986: Invited to show five images in at the Fifth Annual Pacific Northwest
Computer Graphics Conference.
1986: Venture Fund Receipients exhibition, Philadelphia Colleges of the
Arts, MOSAIC TRANSFORMS, a continuously changing image matrix realized on
an Apple II computer. Also four ink jet prints shown.
1986: Siggraph '86 Art Show. Installation of VICTIMS, consisting of four
sequential image ink jet prints, and image/voice synthesis sequence perfomed
on a Macintosh computer. Also selected for inclusion in the traveling version
of the exhibition.
1986: Computer Photographics; group exhibition. The Catskill Center for
Photography.
1986: Computer Images '86: one man show, York University, City University
of New York.
1985: Forth Annual Pacific Northwest Computer Graphics Conference: Videotapes
and slides shown as part of the art exhibition.
1985: Series of large scale inkjet prints, and computer controlled image
sequences, exhibited in the Art-in-Science V project, at the University
City Science Center gallery, Philadelphia.
1985: One print selected for inclusion in the 1985 Siggraph art show, and
slide set. This print was also selected for inclusion in the exhibition
that will travel to Japan.
1985: Three prints selected for the Artist and the Computer II travelling
exhibition sponsored by the Louisville Art Gallery.
1985: Four prints included in the New Spirit of Photography exhibition at
the Fashion Institute of Technology, in NYC.
1985: Two prints selected for inclusion in the traveling computer art exhibition
sponsored in part by the National Computer Graphics Association.
1985: Six prints shown in the Computer Modified Photographs exhibition,
Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia College of Art.
1985: Four prints selected for Photographs From the Computer, exhibition
at the Project Art Center, Cambridge, Mass.
1984: One man show, Bloomsburg University, Penna.
1984: Selected for The Artist and the Computer exhibition of computer mediated
art sponsored by the Honeywell Corporation.
1983: The computer images exhibited in the ELECTRA exhibition at the Musee
d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, along with installation of the computer
piece SOFTLANDS.
1983: Exhibited prints at the University of Pittsburg and in an exhibition
titled, ART IN THE COMPUTER AGE, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
1983: Exhibited two prints at the Symposium on Small Computers in the Arts,
Philadelphia.
1983: Two images selected for inclusion in Siggraph 1983 Art Exhibition,
a show that will travelled world wide. One print published in the catalog,
the other in chosen for inclusion in the slide set of the show.
1983: Two computer photographic images in show of Regional Photographic
Educators, at the Art Institute of Phila.
1983: Color photographs exhibited in "Using Photographic Imagery";
Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa.
1982: Invited to show six computer images at the "Artist, Designer,
and Computer Graphics" exhibition in Los Angeles.
1982: Computer images shown in faculty exhibition, along with SOFTLANDS,
a continuous image construction computer program.
1982: Photograph selected for Philadelphia Past and Present exhibition,
Art Alliance, Philadelphia.
1982: Photographs and computer images exhibited at Young/Hoffman Gallery,
Chicago, Il.
1982: Three computer images selected for inclusion in the Siggraph exhibition
in Boston, one published in the catalog.
1982: Computer images selected for inclusion in Electronic Imaging Exhibition,
Stockholm, Sweden.
1981: Photographs selected for "BROAD SPECTRUM", a traveling exhibition
of faculty work from the Philadelphia College of Art.
1980: Photographs selected for an exhibition of Pennsylvania Photographers,
at the Govenor's mansion in Harrisburg, PA.
1980: Computer print shown at the Art Alliance in Philadelphia.
1977: Group show "FRESH FROM PHILADELPHIA", Ohio State University.
1976: One man show of color prints and SX-70 images at the Madison Art Center,
Madison, WI.
1976: One man show of color prints at The Photography Place, Strafford,
PA.
1973: Color prints shown in the group show of the Visual Interface symposium,
Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park.
1973: Color prints shown at the Archetype Gallery, New Haven, CT.
1972: Group exhibition Baltimore Art Museum.
1972: Single screen projected image sequence shown at M.I.T. Photography
Gallery, and at the University of Rhode Island.
1970: Prints selected for exhibition and inclusion in the collection of
the American Arts Documentation Centre, Exeter University, England.
1970: Two mural prints included in "Contemporary Photography: a, sensitive
view", Peale Gallery of the Pennsylvania Academy of the, Fine Arts,Philadelphia.
1969: Invitational exhibition, "Photography Is...", Ridgefield,
CT.
1969: "Vision and Expression", George Eastman House, Rochester,
NY.
1969: "1969...", invitational contemporary art exhibition, Cheltenham
Art Center, Cheltenham, PA.
1968: "Light7", Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
MA.
1965: "Introspective Landscape", one man exhibition, Lake Forest
College, Lake Forest , IL.
1964: One man exhibition, Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison, WI.
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Computer Controlled Electronic Image and Sound
Performances:
1983-84: THE UNEXPECTED, a computer mediated dance piece performed by
Group Motion. The computer program displayed images and determined the progressions
of performance, as well as performing the Epilog, a computer image "dance"
on the monitor. Performed for two runs at the Group Studios, and at the
Painted Bride Center for the Arts.
1984: IKONS: AN INTERACTIVE IMAGE JOURNEY, installed during the Symposium
on Small Computers in the Arts.
1983: SOFTLANDS installed at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris,
as part of the ELECTRA exhibition.
1983: SOFTLANDS installed at the Kipps gallery at Indiana University of
Pennsylvania.
1983: Section of MASKS aired by WHYY television.
1982: Computer Music Concert, at the Symposium on Small Computers in the
Arts, Philadelphia
1982-85: Presentations of video/computer pieces given since 1982 (see lectures).
1981: Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pa.
1980: Etage Gallery in Philadelphia.
Awards and Grants:
1993: Awarded a research stipend by the Philadelphia College of Art, Venture
Fund Faculty Grant.
1985: Awarded a travel stipend by the Philadelphia College of Art, Venture
Fund Faculty Grant.
1983: Philadelphia College of Art, Venture Fund Faculty Grant, for work
in computer graphics as an expressive form.
1975: UICA Faculty Grant: Research in electronic imaging.
1972: Guggenheim Fellowship: Photography.
1965: Graduate Study Stipend, Institute of Design, Chicago, Illinios.
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Lectures and Panel Participation:
1994: Presentation given concering the development of the digital multimedia
recruiting program for The University of the Arts at the 14th Annual Symposium
on Small Computers in Arts held at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia.
1992: Lecture given on the Photo-CD at the 12th Annual Symposium on Small
Computers in the Arts, held at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia.
1991: Presentations for both the Multimedia and Digital Photography tracks
at the Eleventh Annual Symposium on Small Computers in the Arts, Philadelphia.
1991: Lecture titled "Unseen Moments" concerning MYSTERY STREET
and digital imaging given at the Print Club in Philadelphia.
1990: Lectures at The University of the Arts and Perkins Center for the
Arts as part of the Photography Sesquicentennial Project.
1990: Invited to judge a national exhibition of computer art at Glassboro
State College, NJ.
1988: Panel member at the Educom national conference discussed computers
in the curriculum of The University of the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1988: Two lectures presented at the Symposium on Small Computers in the
Arts in Phila., PA.
1988: Visiting artist lecture at Glassboro State College, Glassboro, New
Jersey.
1987: Invited by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to make a presentation
at the Third Symposium on Art Education, at Kings Gap.
1987: Invited to participate on the Photography and Computers panel at the
Society for Photographic Education 24th Annual Conference in San Deigo.
1987: Invited to give a workshop in conjunction with the "Art and Computer"
exhihition at the University of Scranton Art Gallery.
1986: Moderated aesthetics panel, and lectured on implications of desktop
publishing to the artist, at the Symposium on Small Computers in the Arts,
Philadelphia.
1985: Invited to present a paper and tutorial at the National Computer Graphics
Association national conference in Dallas, TX.
1985: Presented a day long lecture/workshop to the secondary school art
teachers of Delaware County, Pa.
1985: Invited to lecture on the new technologies in the arts at the Afro-American
Cultural Museum, Philadelphia.
1984: Gallery lecture at Bloomsburg University.
1984: Visiting artist lecture, Southern Illinois University
1984: Two addresses one on aesthetics, and on personal work, at the Symposium
for Small Computers in the Arts.
1983: Invited to discuss the implications of computer imaging, and present
an overview of personal work, at the Mid Atlantic Society for Photographic
Education meeting in Baltimore, MD.
1983: Presented a paper Camera In/ Camera Out, at the Symposium on Small
Computers in the Arts, Philadelphia. Presented talk concerning the creation
of IKONS: AN INTERACTIVE IMAGE JOURNEY.
1983: Invited to present computer performance work, and lecture on the subject
of animation at the National Computer Graphics Association.
1983: Invited to lecture at the annual conference of the Society for Photographic
Education. Two lectures and one workshop were given.
1983: Public lecture on computer graphics imaging tools given at PCA, in
conjunction with the Small Computers in the Arts group.
1983: Invited to lecture and show personal work to teachers of the Haverford
School District, Havertown, Pa.
1982: Lecture for the Small Computers in the Arts group at the University
of Pennsylvania.
1982: Lecture at the Symposium on Small Computers in the Arts, Phila.
1982: Lecture on personal work with computer imaging, at the Center for
Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson.
1982: Conducted a workshop on digital imaging processes at the University
of Arizona, Tucson. CBS affiliate in Tucson aired an interview concerning
the workshop.
1982: Lecture and presentation of work for the education project Computertown
USA, funded by the National Science Foundation.
1979: Philadelphia College of Art, panel, "Art and Technology."
1977: Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts, panel on electronic music
and theater.
1977: Bucks County Community College, PA.
1974: Philadelphia Musical Academy, panel discussion of electronic music.
1973: University of Pennsylvania, discussion of work in progress as part
of an aesthetics symposium.
1970: University of Louisville, KY.
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Publications:
1994: Article "Cyberart Considerations" published in Art Journal,
Vol. 53 No. 3
1993: Images from VICTIMS and DECEPTIONS selected for inclusion in ART OF
THE ELECTRONIC AGE, by Frank Popper, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
1993: Counterpoints offset print selected for inclusion in the book PHOTOGRAPHING
IN THE STUDIO, by Gary Kolb, published by Wm. C. Brown Communications, Inc.,
Dubuque, IA.
1992: Two images selected for the book, Making Art Safely; by Merle Spandorfer
and Deborah Curtis, published by Van Nostrand Reinhold.
1991: One image selected for inclusion in the book PHOTOGRAPHIC POSSIBILITIES,
by Robert Hirsch, published by Butterworth-Heinemann, Stoneham, MA.
1990: One image reproduced as part of the portfolio DIGITAL IMAGERY, published
by Mead Paper Co.
1990: Three images from the "Blue Line Series" selected for inclusion
in the PHILADELPHIA IMAGES book published by The University of the Arts,
Philadelphia, PA.
1990: One image published in the book PHOTOGRAPHY sixth edition, by Phil
Davis, published by Wm. C. Brown Co.
1989: Co-author of an article, "Computers in the Arts" published
in the Encyclopedia of Microcomputers, published by Marcel Dekker, Inc.
1988: Sunday New York Times, Northeast edition makes mention of the VICTIMS
fund raising project on behalf of Amnesty International. Also, a feature
article published in the Main Line Neighbors section of the Philadelphia
Inquirer covering both the Amnesty project and other art works. January
11, 1989 a mention of the piece Deceptions, and excerpt of an interview
was broadcast on WHYY FM during the Morning Edition program. An article
and image from VICTIMS published in Computers and Applications magazine
January 1989.
1988: Two articles published in the Proceedings of the Symposium on Small
Computers in the Arts.
1987: One image published in the book Digital Visions, a volume that accompanies
the "Computers and Art" exhibition.
1986: Six images published in the book Introduction to Visual Literacy,
by Deborah Curtiss, published by Prentice-Hall.
1985: One image published in the book PHOTOGRAPHY, by Phil Davis, published
by Wm. C. Brown Co.
1985: Two images reproduced in the book DRAWING WITH COMPUTERS, by Mark
Wilson, published by Perigee books.
1985: A paper titled SYSTEMS INTEGRATION published in the Proceedings of
the National Computer Graphics Association. Also published in the Proceedings
of the Symposium on Small Computers in the Arts.
1984: Cover image of the book TECHNO STRESS published by Addison-Wesley.
Book cover reproduced in Newsweek article on book.
1984: National Geographic World Magazine, computer image published.
1983: Three images and a discussion of work published in A+ magazine.
1983: Two images published in Softside magazine.
1983: Published an article in Electronic Imaging magazine evaluating a computer
film recorder system.
1983: Published the article "Camera In / Camera Out" in the Symposium
on Small Computers in the Arts Proceedings.
1983: One image selected for publication a special computer art issue of
Computer Graphics World magazine.
1983: One of the two images selected for the Siggraph Art Show published
in the catalog, and in the special Japanese edition of the show catalog.
One image chosen for inclusion in the Art Show slide set.
1983: Article on SOFTLANDS, along with several images published in the March
issue of Softalk magazine.
1983: Computer images published in a book on alternative imaging processes
and new technologies, titled, THE NEW PHOTOGRAPHY, by Prentice-Hall.
1982: Review of performance work published in SCAN, Small Computers in the
Arts Newsletter.
1982: Computer images published in Small Computers in the Arts Newsletter,
Phila., Pa.
1981: Photograph in catalog of "BROAD SPECTRUM" show.
1980: Two photographs published in the London and Curin book, HIGH CONTRAST.
1976: Review of CYCLES accompanied by eight photographs published in AFTERIMAGE.
1974: Photograph published in PHOTOGRAPHY: A HANDBOOK OF HISTORY,
MATERIALS AND PROCESSES, by Charles Swedlund, published by Holt, Rinehart
and Winston.
1972: Cover photograph of the Life Library of Photography book,
FRONTIERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY, accompanied by three additional photographs within
the book.
1971: Photograph published in the Life Library of Photography book,
THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
1969: Photograph published in VISION and EXPRESSION, catalog to the exhibition
organized by the George Eastman House. The work was mentioned in the New
York Times review of the show.
1968: Photograph published in Aperture, LIGHT7 issue. It was also reproduced
in the Christian Science Monitor review of the exhibition.
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Special projects:
1988: Installation of prints and computer controlled imagery for the 20th
anniversary of Group Motion, in Phila., PA.
1988: Hypercard edition of VICTIMS released in the public domain as an approved
fund rasing project for Amnesty International USA. It is available on the
Compuserve, GEnie, and Maclink networks.
1988: Commissioned by The University of the Arts to create a limited edition
offset print commemorating Judith Jamison's dance piece "With Us".
Computer images were also utilized as projections in the production.
1985: Elected to the board of directors of the Small Computers in the Arts
Network.
1985: Selected as one of three artists/curators of Art-in-Science V project,
at the University City Science Center gallery.
1982-85: Editor of THE MUSES, an electronic magazine appearing on the Source,
an consumer mainframe database,the magazine is an electronic extension of
SCAN, a journal devoted to computers in the arts.
1984-85: Contributing editor of SCAN, the publication of the Small Computers
in the Arts Network.
Multi image presentations:
1980: Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, retrospective of Multi-Image
works; MADE IN U.S.A., CYCLES, and MY FUNNY VALENTINE.
Presentations of MADE IN USA:
1970: Multi Image Festival of the National Education
Association, Detroit, MI.
1970: University of Illinois Circle Campus, Chicago, IL.
1970: University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
1970: Peale House Gallery of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA.
1969: Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Presentations of CYCLES:
1978: Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE.
1978: Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
1978: University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD.
1977: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
1977: Bucks County Community College, PA.
1976: University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
1976: Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL.
1976: University of Illinois Circle Campus, Chicago, IL.
1975: Brown University/Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
1975: National meeting of the Society for Photographic Education, Rochester,
NY .
1975: Ryerson Polytechnic Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1975: Philadelphia Musical Academy, Philadelphia, PA.
1973: University of Pennsylvania, CYCLES shown as a work in progress.
1979: MY FUNNY VALENTINE performed at the the Philadelphia College For The
Performing Arts.
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Electronic/Computer Music:
1986: Commissioned to create a soundtrack for 'Reverberations', a slide
sequence shown as part of the exhibition, "The Basel School of Design
and Its Philosophy: The Armin Hoffman Years".
1977: Work from CYCLES featured in an Evening for Electronic Music at the
Philadelphia College For The Performing Arts. Served on a panel discussing
electronic music and theatrical media.
1974: Portion of CYCLES soundtrack chosen for airplay and discussion over
WUHY-FM, Philadelphia. Also served on panel for the Electronic Music Symposium,
Philadelphia Musical Academy.
1972: Composed the complete electronic music score for Zero Moving
Company's dance piece, "Time Within A Time", performed at Temple
University, Glassboro State College, and the Annenberg Theater at the University
of Pennsylvania.
1971: Three electronic music pieces performed at the Philadelphia Museum
of Art as part of the New Music program of the Philadelphia Musical Academy.
A review of this work appeared in the January 1973 issue of MUSICAL QUARTERLY.
1970: Composed the finale for Group Motion, Berlin, dance piece,
"The Great Theater of Oklahoma Calls You".
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Descriptions of Computer Mediated Works:
HYMNS OF THE REPUBLIC
This interactive multimedia piece focuses upon the ever shifting ethos of
American life. It is filled with observations of contemporary lifestyle,
culture and politics that through digitized photographs and video. The imagery
reflects upon the contemporary meilu with observations that are at times
disturbing, delighful and perplexing. The heart of this work is reveals
and gives expression to some of the complexities that constitute contemporary
American life.
MYSTERY STREET
This piece is a fifteen minute long series of image sequences derived from
still photographs and video images, as well as sounds that have been digitized
into the computer. These sequences are intended to represent an allegorical
street upon which a variety of events, circumstances and relationships are
encountered. MYSTERY STREET contains images of celebration, desperation
and mystery. It is a weave of meanings, integrating images and sound that
are continuously displayed by a computer onto a color video monitor.
TIMELINES:
This piece is assembled from photographs taken during the period 1966-68
in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. It is an impressionistic
flow of styles, politics, racial tension, anti-war movement and signifiers
of that period's milieu. The scrolling image flow is intended to break usual
picture boundaries allowing images to fuse or break unexpectedly.
DECEPTIONS:
A sequence of images that evoke the dark emotions of evil and deceit using
magazine imagery that has been altered by collage and electronic manipulation.
In its original conception, the piece was intended to reflect a real life
episode in which a couple inflicted unusual cruelty on each other. The piece
is accompanied by an original musical sound track created with digital instruments
using MIDI systems.
PATRIANOSTRA:
A political piece that reacts to Reagan administration's overindulgent reliance
upon military solutions to human problems. It is comprised of images from
the popular media that are electronically collaged and fragmented by the
display program. The percussion sound track brings together military cadences
with Latin flavored rhythms that symbolize the current focus of US foreign
policy.
VICTIMS:
A continuously running computer/video image piece about the utter loss and
impossibility of revenge suffered by victims of tyranny. Although the videodigitized
imagery was derived from footage of a Nazi concentration camp, it is intended
to address the ever present danger of any absolutist ideology that so easily
sacrifices life in pursuing its self justified goals. In its most recent
version, it is has been programmed into the Macintosh Hypercard format,
and is available on major computer networks as an ArtStack. It is free to
anyone, but a donation of $10 to Amnesty International is requested.
SOFTLANDS:
A disk based program designed to continuously create software mediated landscapes,
recombining a database of stored images in memory. It uses random number
functions to construct each frame, so that it is very unlikely that any
"finished" image is ever repeated. It is about time and tension;
about waiting, delighting, and ensuing frustration, as images are constructed
and destroyed.
MASKS:
This piece was created soley with low resolution digitized video images.
The lack of resolution is used purposely to allow a wider range of meanings
to be "read" by the viewer. As the title infers, a mask motif
is created in the process of digitizing photographic imagery. The processes
used to display each frame change in dynamics to further engage the viewers
perception of image transition. It is accompanied by an electronic music
soundtrack in which digital as well as analog processes are used.
ANIMAL DREAMS
A fantasy designed for children, of whimscal sequences of animals
cavorting in unlikely circumstances. It is accompanied with an electronic
music soundtrack.
THE UNEXPECTED
A collection of images and programs, that are integrated into a live dance
presentation. The climax of this piece is the Epilog, an unpredictible computer
mediated "dance" on the video monitor. Created in conjunction
with Group Motion dance company.
IKONS: AN INTERACTIVE IMAGE JOURNEY
This is a hard disk based installation piece that invites the viewer to
select an image journey and interact with the piece as it unfolds. It engages
elements of the programs mentioned above, along with the master program
IKONS, a complex interplay of original images, and visual elements gathered
from a variety of historic sources.
MOSAIC TRANSFORMS
A progression of images that continuously undergo spatial transformations
accompanied by a sound mosaic that like its visual counterpart, alter in
texture, timbre, abstraction, and tempo.
OTHER WARS:
This is a video piece of digitally altered news footage of a military operation
in the middle east that is treated in a manner that suggests the general
theme of conflict rather than a specific case. It is accompanied by a percussive
electronic soundtrack of military cadences.
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Multi-image/sound pieces:
MADE IN USA:
A 30 minute multimedia presentation that gives an impressionistic view of
American society during the late 1960's. It is a highly charged collage
of sound, altered photographs, and film.
CYCLES:
The piece begins with "Prologue", a 15 minute section of sound
that serves to establish audience feeling for the progression of events.
The first picture and sound section, "Beginnings" is an eight
screen image matrix in which thematic concerns focus upon childhood, the
home and those influences that begin to build a child's view of being.
The second image section uses a three screen format, and is titled "Journeys".
It traces the growth and transformation ofthe individual moving toward maturity.
"Mysteries and Terrors" is the final section, in which questions
of existence, along with fears, both real and imagined, surface. Its content
varies from the depiction of a child's dream turned nightmare, to a series
of complexly altered images of a physical conflict. As the key section of
CYCLES, the section is intended to presage those dark events that loom as
potential threats to one's stable existence.
MY FUNNY VALENTINE:
A short single screen piece about aggression and love.
Commissions and Professional Experience:
1994: Conceived and developed a digital multimedia recruiting program for
The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA.
1994: Consultant to Zeneca Pharmaceuticals on digitally based trade exhibition
systems as well as onsite setup and assurance of operation of existing systems.
1989: Created a totally computerized exhibit system for Stuart Pharmaceuticals
to help launch their new anesthesia product Diprivan. This system includes
computer animation, a historic imaging system incorporating the physicians
portrait in a depiction of the first public demonstration of etherization.
1988-89: Computer systems consultant to the Port of History Museum, Philadelphia,
PA.
1988: Consultant to Stuart Pharmaceuticals and ICI Pharma on hardware /
software for exhibit systems.
1987: Created a customized letterhead / data acquisition exhibition for
ICI Pharma. This system also offered the disk based program called Assure
that allowed letterhead generation on Macintosh computer system. Also developed
software and graphics for the Patients Like Yours video display system.
1986: Consulted for the Creative Department graphic design firm to help
establish a computer design system for the firm.
1986: Hardware and software design for computer graphic exhibit system used
by Parke-Davis pharmaceuticals.
1986: Computer graphic work for design firms in Philadelphia and Norwalk,
CT., and National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.
1984: Created an interactive, bio-feedback computer graphic exhibit system
for Stuart Pharmaceuticals, Div. ICI Americas
1983: Consultant to Franklin Computer Corporation creating product demostration
disks, and corporate image slide show.
1983: Computer graphics consultant, Stuart Pharmaceuticals.
1983: Computer graphics consultant for an educational interactive videodisk
concerning diagnostic ultrasound scanning processes.
1983: Represented by Photo Researchers, Inc., 60 East 56th St., New York.
1982: Product development consultant to Interactive Structures Inc., Bala
Cynwyd, Pa.
1982: Computer graphics program and images created for Amdek Corp.
1981: Graphics consultant to Interactive Structures Inc.
1980: Consulted and helped develop a computer controlled message system
for the Philadelphia College of Art.
1978: Created a slide-tape program for the Philadelphia College of Art for
use in the institution's public relations program.
1978: Produced a series of digital images for Smith, Kline and French, Phila.,
PA.
1975: Media consultant to Sangamon State University, Lincoln Project, Springfield
Illinios.
1975: Commissioned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art to create an educational
multimedia presentation of four Eighteenth century period rooms.
1973: Portfolio of photographs featured in the Weyerhaeuser Paper Company,
"Innovations In Paper" publication.
1973: Photographed the public work projects across the State of Zulia, Venezuela
for a multimedia program produced by that government.
1972: Technical consultant to Andrew Rudin's opera "The Innocent",
performed at the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia.
1972: Multimedia consultant to Ayer Design, a division of N.W. Ayer Advertising,
Philadelphia.
1970: Created a nine screen multimedia installation for the City/2 exhibition
at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The exhibition ran for six months.
1967: Created the multimedia environment for the opening of the Electric
Factory, in Philadelphia.
1965: Worked for Ash Films on a project involving interviews conducted by
Studs Terkel.
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