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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 Visiting Lecturer in Computer Art at the University of California at Santa Cruz, the Digital Media department at the San Francisco Art Institute and in the graduate program of the Inter-Arts Department at San Francisco State University.
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 lectured and been a visiting artist in institutions including UC Davis, the San Francisco Arts Institute and the California Institute for the Arts. Anderson has participated as a speaker numerous conferences such as SIGRAPH and The Society for Photographic Educators.
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 biological systems as means to create an ongoing negotiation and interaction with the computer and its software. Anderson created interactive sets for an opera by composer Daniel Rothman that premiered in Graz Austria in 1996 and will be preformed at the LA County Museum of Art in April 1998. He is also developing an interactive public art installation for the San Francisco State University MUNI station. His work is exhibited in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
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