Biography,
Elliot W. Anderson
Elliot Anderson is an
artist working with interactive technologies, curator, educator
and software engineer. He has been involved professionally in the
field of computer technology since the early 1980's. Working as
an engineer he developed interactive computer graphics for flight
simulation, medical technology, cartography and industrial use.
As an undergraduate he studied computer engineering at Northeastern
University in Boston. He received a Bachelors of Arts in Art in
the Conceptual Design program and a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary
Studies focusing on technology art practice and 20th century continental
philosophy from San Francisco State University. He is currently
an Assistant Professor of Art and directs the Electronic Media program
at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Anderson has organized numerous events and exhibitions focusing
on technology and its application and effect on the arts. He curated
and produced exhibitions of electronic media at the Los Angeles
Center for Photographic Studies, the San Francisco Arts Commission
Gallery and a special exhibit of interactive art at the 1993 Seybold
Conference. As the technology arts editor for the magazine OnLine
Design, Anderson wrote about technology arts in the Bay Area and
throughout the United States. In 1993 Anderson produced and organized
a conference on electronic media art entitled Art in the Age of
Electronic Media at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has lec-tured
and been a visiting artist in institutions including UC Davis, the
San Francisco Arts Institute and the California Institute for the
Arts. Anderson has partici-pated as a speaker numerous conferences
such as SIGRAPH, The Society for Photographic Educators and The
Culture of Interactivity.
Anderson's work incorporates a wide range of media including video,
sound, interaction with the computer, installation and computer
generated text and image. The focus of his art making is an examination
of human and biological systems as means to create an ongoing
negotiation
and interaction with the computer and its software. He is currently
developing a project entitled Networked Nomadic Artforms for
which
he received funding from the University of Californias Inter-Campus
Arts grant. The project uses artificial life algorithms and the
Internet to create artworks that evolve through interaction on
the
Internet. Anderson created interactive sets for an opera by composer
Daniel Rothman that premiered in Graz Austria in 1996 and was preformed
at the LA County Museum of Art in April 1998. He developed in collaboration
with the artist Jim Campbell the first computer based interactive
public art installation owned by the City of San Francisco for
the
San Francisco State University MUNI station. His work is exhibited
locally, in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
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