RESEARCH & VISITING ARTISTS

VISITING ARTISTS

Every year leading artists in their fields are invited to work with our students. This aspect of the program enables students to go deeper into an area of interest, collaborate with the most cutting-edge thinkers and disciplines, and become involved with professionals as life-long mentors.

• In the Fall of 2008 visiting artist, Caterina Verde, will be working with Stevens' students on an extension of her ongoing curatorial project, Strange Positioning Systems (SPS). A play on GPS tracking technology, SPS examines the aesthetic, cultural and psychological peculiarities of positioning the self and collective enterprises in a fluid, electronically dislocated environment. Former performance curator for The Kitchen, NYC, and artist-in-residence with the American Center in Paris, Verde has recently launched SPS at ArtSPACE in New Haven, CT. As part of Verde's SPS series, Art & Technology professor, Ebon Fisher, recently presented his media rituals and Zoacodes at ArtSPACE. For more information: StrangePositioningSystems.org

RESEARCH

• This year, an Art & Tech faculty member was awarded a National Science Foundation grant, the first in the history of Humanities/Social Sciences/Arts at Stevens. Professors Ebon Fisher from Art & Technology and H. Quynh Dinh from the Department of Computer Science have been awarded an exploratory research grant of $150K over two years for their proposal entitled, "A Transmedia Search Engine for Creative Analogy Generation in Mixed-Media Design." This grant is funded through the NSF CreativeIT program which seeks "synergies between creativity and information technology, science, engineering, and design research."

• Partly in connection with his work on a Transderivational Search Engine, above, Ebon Fisher is working with Stevens students on a series of studies for a live action science fiction production called Ripples in the Nervepool. He is working with the Art & Technology green screen and incorporating footage shot in the Stevens pool. The production involves layering a virtual set with 3D animated elements, live actors, various biomorphic props and a live parakeet named Azulia brought in by student, Alexis Clyburn. Students Rachel Cannell, Justin Aughey, Sam Eichner and Tim Quintanilla have also worked on the production.