HIGHER EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA: Master of Science, Visual Studies, June 1986
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA: BFA, Visual Art, May 1982
CURRENT
EMPLOYMENT
Transmedia Artist,
Writer and Lecturer, 2002-06:
€ Developing a transmedia world, The Nervepool. Working with producer, Sylvie Myerson, New York, and
Stephen McGuire of Treemedia, Los Angeles. Produced new website, two
introductory videos, a music video and wrote 18 screenplays for television.
€ University of Northern Iowa¹s Kamerick Arts Center, 2005-06: Organized retrospective of 20 years of media works. The 5,300 sq. ft.
exhibition was accompanied by a
60-page catalogue produced by curator, Darrell Taylor, with a foreward by Douglas Rushkoff.
€ Other
exhibits: Solo show, Simpson College, Iowa, 2004; Solo show, Drexel
University, 2005; Group show of New York artists at the Lille Arts Festival in
France, 2004.
€ Lectures:
New York University, NY, 2002; Hampshire College, MA, 2002; University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 2003; University of
Washington, Seattle,
2003; Sarah Lawrence College, NY, 2003; Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, 2004; Simpson College, IA, 2004; Bennington College, VT, 2004; The Fred Jones Jr. Museum
of Art, Univ. of
Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, 2005.
TEACHING
Drexel University, College of Media Arts & Design, Philadelphia, PA, 2005
As
the 2005 Marjorie Rankin Scholar-in-Residence, gave a series of lectures and workshops and
exhibited new digital works at Drexel University's Leonard Pearlstein Gallery.
.
Hunter College, Dept. of Film & Media, New York, NY, 2001-02
Assoc. Professor. Invited
to teach and help set up MFA Program in Integrated Media Arts.
Program
suspended due to New York City budget cuts following World Trade Center disaster.
.
University
of Iowa, School of Art & Art History, Iowa City, IA, 1998–01
Assistant Professor. Founded
and directed Digital Worlds program.
Taught courses in digitals arts, including
2D, 3D and web arts. Organized two public screenings per year of students'
digital works. Consultant for University and Steven Holl Architects on
integrating digital media into a new arts building planned for the University.
Contract renewed, but accepted a position in New York at Hunter College.
New
School University, Dept. of Sociology & Computer Instruction Center, New York, NY, 1989–98
Adjunct Professor. Courses
in digital media theory and practice. Also taught via experimental online teaching program (DIAL).
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), The Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, 1985-87
Taught
the Media Lab's first undergraduate course
at the Lab's inception. The course, ³Creative Seeing,² introduced students to
an experimental approach to media and culture
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Design and Scientific Illustration, Boston & New York, 1990-2006
Freelance work for: McGraw-Hill; Berlitz; Wall Street Journal; Austin-Knight; Barnum Communications; Coopers& Lybrand; The Boston Consulting Group; Citicorp; The Depository Trust Company; Young & Rubicam; Adweek/MediaWeek; Ford Motor Company; Neurologoy Department, University of Iowa.
Test-Site Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 1991-92
Media Director. Helped to develop the gallery into an innovative, community-oriented arts center. Designed logo, advertising and other media. Promoted video and film screenings, a salon for 600 artists and a media store featuring Brooklyn publishers and digital media works.
Downtown Community Television (DCTV), New York, NY, 1989-90
Artist-in-Residence. Directed a series of media and information-sharing events called "Media Compressions."
Eye Research Instititute, Boston, MA, 1987-89
Computer Imaging Specialist. Worked with scientists to develop photographs, charts and scientific illustrations.
WMBR Radio, Cambridge, MA, 1987-88
Radio co-host with David Sturm on "Art Bridge." Interviewed people in the arts.
Published
Articles
Artspace, New Haven, CT, 2006: Catalogue essay, ³Between Plumage and Plunder,² for
the exhibit, Confinement & the Art of Decoration, with installations by Caterina Verde, Elise Martens & Gloria Zein.
Inliquid, 2004: Essay, ³Lovesong to a Hyper-Runt,² for digital
arts exhibit, Hyper-Runt,
co-curated with Emily Zimmerman. Sponsored by web-based arts organization,
Inliquid.com.
A History of
East Village Film & Video, 2003:
Interviews with Steve Jones and Big Twin.
Williamsburg
Observer, 2001: Article on Corporate
Farms & Culture, p. 5.
Artbyte Magazine, NYC, 1999: ³Pioneers of Digital Art Education.² pp.
44, 130, 131
Digital
Creativity, London, 1998: Cover
article, ³The Future of Wiggling Things.² pp 25-32
Java Magazine, Phoenix, 1997: Essay contribution to ³Visionaries of
the New Millenium.²
The Utne Reader, Jan,1995: ³Rediscovering the Value of Social
Ritual.² p. 52
The Wall Street Journal, 1994: Diagrams of biotechnology and computer
networks.
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, 1993:
Catalogue essay, ³Quivering Amidst the Cultural Organisms of our own
Construction,² for the exhibit, ³Out of Town: The Williamsburg Paradigm,²
curated by Jonathan Fineberg. pp. 17-20.
Performances, Exhibits & Screenings
University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls, IA, 2006: Retrospective curated by
Darrell Taylor, director of the UNI Gallery of Art. Premiere of music video,
³Neuro Mysterium.²
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Univ. of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, 2005:
Lecture/Screening.
Untitled Gallery, Oklahoma City, 2005: Multimedia Installation.
Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, 2005: Solo exhibit.
Farnham Galleries, Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, 2004: Solo exhibit.
Lille Arts Festival, Lille, France, 2004: Group installation of media works, ³Parallel World,
New York,² by a delegation of New York artists. Curated by Robert Elmes.
Madagascar Institute, New
York, 2003: Projection for multimedia event curated by Jeff Stark.
Museum of Art, University of Iowa, 2001: Group exhibit.
Iowa State Capital, Des
Moines, 2000: Projected animation at a reception for state representatives and
Governor Vilsack.
PS1/Museum of Modern Art, 2000: Multimedia
event curated by Robert Elmes.
South by Southwest Festival (SXSW), Austin, Texas, 2000: Group exhibit
curated by Nick West.
University of Iowa Ballroom, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 2000: Projections at
multimedia rave featuring DJ Ritchie Hawtin (Plastikman).
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1998-1999: ³Transatlantic
Connections,² an exhibition of new American visual artists. Travelled to Gray¹s
School of Art in Aberdeen, East Kilbride (near Glasgow), Dumfries and other
Scottish locations.
Féile 97,
St. Eugene's Hall, Derry, Northern Ireland, 1997: Projections of work at a
féile with Kris Needs (of the Orb and Primal Scream). Included Zoacode, ³Link
Enemies.²
Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Skopje, Macedonia, 1997: Website and Wigglism
Manifesto selected for exhibition,
³Altering Visions on the Net.²
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List Visual Arts Center at the Media Lab, 1997: Co-organized a 2-month internet and
onsite multimedia event and installation, ³Port,² involving over 100
participants. Mediated online dialogues.
Centre International D¹Art Contemporain de
Montréal, 1996: Work included in
exhibit, ³One Hundred Years of Contemporary Art.²
MIT Media Lab, 1996: Group exhibit on the web, ³Portraits in Cyberspace,² curated by
Judith Donath.
Postmasters Gallery, New York, 1996: Group exhibit of digital media works,
³Can You Digit?²
Greene/Naftali Gallery, New York, 1996: Group show featuring artists from
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, curated by Daniel Carello and Pedro Gomez.
The Kitchen,
New York, 1995 & 96: Multimedia performances.
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, Germany, 1995, and Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, 1994: Group exhibit, Bioinformatica,
organized by X-Art Foundation.
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, 1993: ³Out of
Town: The Williamsburg Paradigm,² a group show curated by Jonathan Fineberg.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 1993: Initiated and coordinated 15-hour multimedia
³Web Jam² in collaboration with 120 artists, musicians and architects. Audience
of over 2,000.
Exit Art,
New York, 1992-3: Work presented in the ³Apartment Store,² curated by Papo Colo
and in ³The Opium Den,² a screening of media curated by Bradley Eros and Jeanne
Liotta.
Test-Site Gallery, 1992, Brooklyn: ³Heat-Seeking Psycho-Suctions.² Solo show of
interactive media installations, involving heat sensors and computer-generated
projections.
Downtown Community Television and Minor Injury
Gallery, Manhattan & Brooklyn,
1990-91: Conducted ³The Media Compressions,² media-sharing rituals.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 1988: Created, directed, and sang in
³Evolution of the Grid,² a multimedia performance.
Harvard University, Carpenter Center for the Arts, Cambridge, MA, 1988:
Directed and performed in multimedia performance.
Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA, 1987: ³Fort Point Artists at the Federal
Reserve,² Visual art exhibit juried by Kathy Halbreich, John McNamara, and
Marjory Jacobson.
MIT,
Dupont Gym, Cambridge, MA, 1987: Directed ³Existence,² a multimedia event.
Boston Children¹s Museum, Boston, MA, 1987-95: Co-created ³Keep Moving!² with
Karen Ellzey, a children¹s video on exercise for an exhibit on health,
sponsored by the Harvard Community Health Plan.
Professional
Activities
Inliquid.com, Philadelphia, PA, 2004: Co-curated new media
exhibit, Hyper-Runt, with Emily
Zimmerman. Wrote website essays and designed website architecture.
Hunter College, New York, 2002: Organized and moderated an evening
of public lectures, ³Creative Networks in the Media Storm² with Wayne Ashley,
Manager of New Media for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Elise Bernhardt,
Director of The Kitchen, and Robert Elmes, Founder/Director of Galapagos Art
Space, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Hunter College, New York, 2002: Co-organized new public lecture
series, ³The Untamed Signal.²
Alpert Awards in the Arts, California Institute for the Arts, 2002: Nominator
for media award.
The Kitchen, NYC, Fall 2001: Invitational Luncheon & Dialogue
on ³The Arts after 9/11.²
Brooklyn Academy of Music and Lucent
Technologies, New York, NY, 1999 & 2001: Invited to present work
to a colloquium of new media artists from New York and scientists from Lucent
Technologies and Bell Labs. Other invited artists included David Byrne
(formerly of the music group, The Talking Heads), Julia Scher, Bill Irwin, Laurie
Anderson and Jaron Lanier.
Venice Guggenheim Museum's Web
Broadcast, 2000: Live web broadcast
sponsored by the Venice Guggenheim Museum of discussion with Ebon Fisher, Ralph
Abraham (mathematician), Carol Gigliotti (technology ethicist), and Elisabet
Sahtouris (evolutionary biologist).
Planetwork, San Francisco, CA, 2000: Screening/lecture at a conference on
digital networks and global ecology, organized by Elizabeth Thompson, Jim
Fournier and Erik Davis.
South by Southwest Festival (SXSW), Austin, TX, 2000: Presentation/lecture at
Film/Music/Digital festival. Also exhibited digital work at the festival's
first interactive media exhibit.
E. Connecticut State University, Akus Gallery, 1996: Curated exhibit, ³Meme
Breeders,²including works by experimental pop artists Public Enemy,
Negativland, Lloydd Dunn and the Riot Grrrl movement. Wrote catalogue essay.
University of
Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1996: Member of the jury for media festival, Thaw
96.
School
of Visual Arts, New York,
1996: Screening/Lecture in the department of digital arts.
Columbia
University, New York,
1996: Screening/Lecture at the graduate school of painting.
Selected Media
Appearances
KWWL Television, Iowa & Minnesota, 2006: Review of Retrospective
at the University of N. Iowa.
³Practical Visionaries,² Documentary by Jeff Hutner (in production, 2006).
Video interviews with innovators in a variety of disciplines.
³Techno Organica,² 2002, Video documentary by Karthik Swaminathan on
1990's electronic culture in New York City. Interviewed at Galapagos Art Space,
Brooklyn.
KCRG Television, Channel 9 News, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, 2000: Interview on the
Green Party.
Fuji Television Network, 1997: Live news broadcast to Tokyo of works and
interview with Tetsuo Suda. Covered installations at Galapagos Artspace,
Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Audience of approx. 10 Million.
Pseudo Online Radio, ³Art Dirt,² 1997, hosted by GH Hovagimyan. Discussed
media arts with guests from London¹s MUTE Magazine, New York¹s Artnetweb, and
Matthew Drutt, director of New York¹s SoHo Guggenheim Museum.
³State of the Union,² CD anthology, 1996: Music composition, ³Circulate
All Sensation,² included in anthology of new experimental music. Produced by
Elliott Sharp.
WMBR, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986-7:
Co-hosted ³Art Bridge,² a talk show dedicated to bridging gaps between artists
and the public.
Selected Press
Web
Press, 1995-06:
Rhizome, Nettime, Ars Electronica, Guggenheim
Museum, Pixel, MIT Media Lab, Papermag, Pseudo, Technosphere, Word, Business
Wire, Telepolis, Art Seen, Intelligent Agent, TalkBack, Artnetweb, Now.com,
Planetwork, Current, HottieNET's Groovy Surfing Guide, Usell! Italia, Brooklyn
Cacophany Society, Netlingo, BoingBoing.
The Courier, Waterloo & Cedar Falls, Iowa, January 15, 2006: Feature story in Arts & Life
section by Melody Parker, ³Ebon Fisher creates primordial soup of art, biology
and new media.²
The Oklahoma Daily, April 27, 2005: Article by Joshua Torres, ³Cyber
artist brings his culture to Oklahoma University.²
Philadelphia Metro, March 31, 2005: ³Interview with Multimedia Artist,
Ebon Fisher.²
Philadelphia Weekly, 2004: Hyper-Runt exhibit chosen for ³Arts & Entertainment A-List.²
Philadelphia City Paper, 2004: Hyper-Runt exhibit chosen for A.D. Amorosi's ³Artpick.²
RES Magazine, vol. 4 no. 4, Summer 2001: Article in special
section, Who to Watch/What to Watch:
³Soft Machines: Ebon Fisher Coils into Gentle Linkage² by David Alm.
Guggenheim
Museum Magazine, 1997: ³Bionic Codes²
project referred to in article by Laura Trippi, ³Intelligent Life.² The article
refers to the Museum's online CyberAtlas which has presented Ebon Fisher's
Bionic Codes project from 1996-2006.
Associated Press, 1999: Article on
online exhibit at Theglobe.com's Pixel Gallery, curated by Yael Kanarek. Picked
up by The Des Moines Register and
other national newspapers.
New York Arts
Magazine, 1998: Discussion of work in
article on technology and artists.
Performing Arts
Journal, 1998: ³Ebon Fisher's AlulA
Dimension,² by Jennifer Dalton.
Domus Magazine, 1998: ³Go With the Flow: Eight New York Artists and
Architects in the Digital Era,² by Suzan Wines.
Die Zeit, German newspaper, 1997: ³Vis-a-vis Manhattan,²
Claudia Steinberg on Williamsburg, Brooklyn's emerging arts scene.
Mute Magazine, London-based arts magazine, 1997: ³Absorb into
Memory: Ebon Fisher's Media Organisms,² by Peter Boerboom.
Sandbox Magazine, 1996 & 97: Images and interview by Sylvie
Myerson and Vidyut Jain.
Wired Magazine, 1995: ³Mr. Meme² by Matt Haber.
New York Magazine, 1995:
Included with ³The New York Cyber 60,² featuring 60 pioneers of New
York's emerging new media industry and culture.
The Drama Review, Fall 1993: Article about Brooklyn warehouse events.
Wired Magazine, August, 1993: ³Web Jam² discussed in Jargon Watch column.
Newsweek, July 26, 1993: Article about ³post-rave² art
movements, including a review of ³Organism.²
Flash Art, February, 1993: Work discussed in an interview with
art dealer, Annie Herron.
New York Press, March 6-12, 1991: Feature story on emerging art
scene in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Academic and
Professional Honors
2005 Marjorie Rankin
Scholar-in-Residence, Drexel University:
$20,000 award
for an exhibition of new digital prints and a series of lectures.
Nominated for
Rockefeller Grant, 2003.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Website, 2000: Work cited ³Best of the Web.²
Arts and Humanities Initiative, 2000: $5,000 grant from the University of Iowa.
Old Gold Summer Fellowship, 1999: $5,000 grant from the University of Iowa.
Java Magazine, Phoenix, 1997: Cited as a ³Visionary of the New
Millenium.²
Thaw Film/Video Festival, University of Iowa, 1996: Member of the jury.
New York Magazine, 1995:
Cited as one of the ³New York Cyber 60.²
Works in Art
History Books
From
Technological to Virtual Art by Prof. Frank Popper, U. of Paris, (MIT Press,
scheduled for 2006).
Contemporary
Artists, edited by Tom and Sarah Pendergast, St. James Press,
2002: Article by Prof. Frank Popper, University of Paris.
Art Since
1940: Strategies of Being by
Prof. Jonathan Fineberg, U. of Illinois, Prentice Hall, 1995/2000.
The Best of
Graphic Art on the Web by The
Internet Design Project, Universe Publishing, Rizzoli, 1998.