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EDUCATION

  • Brown University, B.A. in Mathematics, Visual Art with honors, and Independent Concentration (honors), Providence, RI, 1987.
  • Rhode Island School of Design, M.F.A. in Painting with honors, Providence, RI, 1992.

 

ART EXHIBITED

2016

  • upcoming: Caerphilly Castle, Lumen Global Tour Exhibition, Wales. Autumn, 2016. 
  • upcoming: Kennard Park, Interior and exterior pieces, Kennard Park Sculpture Trail, Newton, MA, September 1 to October 31, 2016.
  • upcoming: Electronic Visualisation & Arts Conference, Covent Garden, London, UK, July 8-10, 2016.
  • upcoming: Creative Tech WeekLumen Prize Global ExhibitionCallahan Gallery, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY, April 29-May 8, 2016.
  • upcoming: Leeds Digital Festival, Leeds, UK, April 25-29, 2016.
  • Moving Image New York 2016, video piece with Galeria Impakto, Waterfront New York Tunnel, 269 11th Avenue, New York, NY. March 3-6, 2016.
  • Spring/Break Art Show, Highlighted installation, curated by Elizabeth Keithline, Skylight at Moynihan Station, New York, NY, March 2-7, 2016.
  • Canary Wharf Winter Lights Festival, London, UK, Lumen Prize Exhibition of World of Water video, January 5-30, 2016.

2015

  • Spectrum Miami (Blink Group Gallery), Miami, FL, Dec 1-6, 2015.
  • NYIT Auditorium on Broadway, Lumen Prize Exhibition of World of Water video,  New York City, NY, December 7-10, 2015.
  • Jin Space & Gallery, Shanghai, China, Lumen Prize Exhibition of World of Water video, November 19-22, 2015.
  • Mark MIller GalleryOn & On: Art Without End, curated by Elizabeth Keithline, World of Water and Palm Fronds: Bora Bora videos, New York, NY, November 8-December 6, 2015.
  • Los Angeles Center for Digital ArtElectron Salon, International Group Exhibit, October 17-November 18, 2015.
  • ISEA2015: DISRUPTION, 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art, “NYC Unfolding” video, Vancouver, CA, August 14-18, 2015.
  • Luminous Flux 2.0: New and Historic Works from the Digital Art Frontier at the Thoma Foundation, Santa Fe, NM, starting July 24,  2015.
  • Museum of Fine Art, Split, Croatia, PHLOGISTON, “On Fire” video, July 2-August 30, 2015.
  • Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT, (Computers+Art)/Time, June 26-September 25, 2015.
  • Art Lima, with Galerie Impakto, April 23-26, 2015
  • Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas, large-scale video/print “Secret Ocean”, launched April 23, 2015.
  • Galeria Impakto, Group exhibition: Technology, video prints and video gems, Lima, Peru, February-March, 2015.
  • Museum of Fine Art,  screening for Museum Night, Split, Croatia, January 30, 2015
  • 229 W43rd Street Lobby, video installation on large screens in main lobby–NYC Yahoo and Snapchat headquarters. January-June 2015

2014

  • Art Miami, with Magna Metz Gallery, Miami, FL, December 2-7, 2014.
  • Cynthia-Reeves at Independent Art Projects, Solo Show entitled “Modern Renaissance.”  North Adams, MA, November 22, 2014-February 22, 2015.
  • Art Silicon Valley, with Cynthia Reeves Gallery, San Francisco, CA, October 9-12, 2014.
  • ISEA 2014: Location, the 20th International Symposium on Electronic Art. Video in art show, October 30-November 8, 2014, Dubai, UAE.
  • Art House, Luminous Flux: digital and geometric art from the Thoma Foundation, Topiovideo coffee table, Santa Fe, September 2014.
  • Industrial Art Biennial, Labin, Croatia, video works projected, September 19-October 10, 2014. Video projections in Rasa, Croatia, September 27, 2014.
  • Magnan Metz. Group Exhibition: Destination Unknown, New York, NY, June-July 2014
  • Downtown Fair: modern and contemporary NY 2014. Large-scale video print diptych World of NYC, with Cynthia Reeves Projects, NY. May 8-11, New York City, NY, 2014. 
  • Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Flora: A Celebration of Flowers in Contemporary Art, March 15-June 22, 2014. Dessert Flower video, Sunflowers video, Video Gems.
  • SCOPE: New York 2014. Video Prints, March 6-9 2014. 
  • Periphery, RISD Alumni Show curator Cady Thomkins, Cady Thompkins Projects. March, 2014. Topio Video Table.
  • Visual Aids, Postcards From the Edge, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY. Annual fundraiser. January 24-26, 2014.
  • Design Expo 2014: Impact, Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown, RI. January 23-February 23, 2014. Bora Bora Sunset video.
  • COLLISION20:bilocate, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Jamaica Plains, MA, January 17, 2013-February 23, 2014. Topio Video Coffee TableCatalog

2013

  • SCOPE: Miami Beach, in conjunction with Art Basel: Miami BeachTopio Video Coffee Table and Video Gems, December 3-8 2013.
  • Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), Electron Salon, two prints, November 14-December 7, 2013. 
  • ArtsyShark, Featured Artist.  http://www.artsyshark.com/2013/11/11/featured-artist-anne-spalter/. November 2013.
  • Studio 1504, “PVD: TLA”  Contemporary Art from Providence, RI, fine art digital wall decals, Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 25, 2013.
  • ARTcetera2013, video gem. Boston, MA, October 5, 2013.
  • Shattuck Gallery, Digital Art: (R)evolution, works by Anne Spalter, Leslie Thornton, and selections from the Anne & Michael Spalter Collection, Westport, MA, October 2- November 10, 2013. Catalog
  • DIRT Gallery, “SMORGASBORD,” curated by Lucas Lai  and Scott Murphy, NY, July 27-Aug31, 2013.
  • Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Locally Made. “Factory” video in group show, video works curated by guest curator Dina Deitsch (Contemporary Art Curator, deCordova Museum) July-November 2013.
  • EXPOSURE: 2013See | Exhibition Space, Long Island City, NY. Still images from videos. July 2013. 
  • IN/SIGHTBlanc Gallery, Cambridge, MA. Curated by Casey Curry and Matt Doyle. July 6-27, 2013. 
  • Unpredictable Patterns of Behavior, ArtCenter/South Florida, “i95” video in group show curated by Ombretta Agro, June and July 2013.
  • Moving Image: Contemporary Video Art Fair (part of Armory Week), New York, NY 2013. “Sky of Dubai,” presented by toomer labdza. March 2013.
  • Mills Pond House Gallery, REFLECTION. “Factory” video in group show. Juror James H. Rubin. St. James, NY. March 2013.
  • Manifest Gallery, CODE D. “I95” video in group show. Cincinnati, OH. March 2013.
  • RADIUS: An Exhibition of RISD Alumni juried by Bunny Harvey. Keeseh Studios, RI. “Multimedia coffee table.” February 2013.
  • Postcards from the Edge by Visual Aids. Fundraiser show at Sikkema Jenkins. January 2013.
  • Women in Photography International Show at Photo LA. Reference: Transportation. Los Angeles, CA. January 2013

2012

  • Artist’s Talk at TriesteContemporanea. Videospritz 2012/ Anne Spalter-Modern Landscapes, Trieste, Italy. December 7, 2012. 
  • Solo show in The Forum Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, December 2012-January 2013.
  • COLLISION18, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, November 9 – December 8, 2012. Digital video work in group show. 
  • DECADE: Contemporary Collecting 2002-2012, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, September 2012-Janurary 2013
  • ISEA2012: Machine Wilderness, Digital video work “Sunrise over Rockefeller Center,” Albuquerque, NM, September 2012-January 2013.
  • Distributed Microtopias, Fingerlakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), Ithaca College, “Sky of Dubai,” curated by Dale Hudson, 2012.
  • Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Large-scale projection of “Sunrise Over Rockefeller Center,” December, 2012.
  • The Billboard Art Project. 60 images on an Atlanta, GA digital billboard. Atlanta, GA, October 2012. Additional screenings as part of Color Shift, A selection of images curated for the billboard by Katerina Lanfranco.
  • Solo Show, “From Las Vegas to Dubai,” digital videos and prints, Candita Clayton Studios, RI. May 31- June 17 2012
  • Solo Show, “Traffic Circle,” Stephan Stoyanov/Luxe Gallery, New York, NY. Digital video works. December 2011-January 2012

2011

  • ISEA2011: Istanbul. Digital videos shown on panel. September 2011. Istanbul, Turkey. September 2011.
  • Big Screen Plaza, Digital video “Clouds” series shown on outdoor 30-foot-wide screen, Chelsea, New York, July 2011.
  • The RISD Museum of Art, Open Call: Video Art, an outdoor screening event, July 2011.
  • Digital video works in group show “Places,” Stephan Stoyanov/Luxe Gallery, New York, NY. July 2011.
  • Videos and drawings in group show, Candita Clayton Studios, Providence, RI, June 2011.
  • ROMA: The Road to Contemporary Art, still and video works in art fair, Rome Italy, May 2011
  • Interview on DubaiOne TV on “Studio One” show.
  • Drawings in group show, Candita Clayton Gallery, Providence, RI, December 2010-January 2011.

2010 and earlier

  • Pieces in group show, WestSide Arts, Providence, RI, November 2010.
  • Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2008. Charcoal drawing in group show. 
  • SIGGRAPH 2003 Art Show, two oil paintings in group show, San Diego, 2003. 
  • Colville Place Gallery, 1 Colville Place, London, England, Digital work in group show, 1998.
  • The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park and the Computer Museums, Lincoln and Boston MA. Three digital works in “The Computer in the Studio”, 1994. 
  • By Virtue of Excellence: Rhode Island Women Artists, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI. Three digital works included, 1994.
  • Still Images/Moving Pictures: David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI. Two digital works included, 1994. 
  • Grayscale Highway, List Building, Brown University. One-person show, 1993.
  • A Modern Landscape. Billboard in downtown Providence, RI, 1993-1996. 
  • SIGGRAPH 1992 Art Show, two pieces in juried show, Chicago, 1992. 

 

ART PRESS

 

BOOK

Spalter, Anne Morgan, The Computer in the Visual Arts, Addison-Wesley, 1999.

 

BOOK REVIEWS

  • WebMaster #9, Andres Sanchez, July 2001.
  • Brown Alumni Monthly, Richard P. Morin, “Pixels and Paint”, March/April 2000.
  • Digital Creativity, Stuart Mealing, January 2000.
  • HOW Now/Technology, September 1999.
  • MIT Technology Review, Wade Roush, September and October, 1999, Vol 102, No. 5
  • SIAM News, Philip J. Davis, “From Computer Graphics Toward Computer Art”, July 1999.
  • USA TODAY Online, “A techie’s offline summer pleasure … ” July 1999.
  • Art2u.com, an interview (This was also published in hard copy in the Oct 1999 issue of the California Printmaker.) July 1999.
  • CGI Magazine, March 1999.
  • Art Tech Review Guide, February, 1999.
  • New York Times, William Safire, “Office Pool” column, December 1999.

 

TALKS & PRESENTATIONS

  • upcoming: Artist’s Talk, Creative Technologies Week, New York, NY, April 29-March 8, 2016.
  •  Artist Talk, New York Foundation for the Art (NYFA), New York, NY, March 30, 2016.
  • Artist’s Talk, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, December 9, 2015.
  • Artist’s Talk, Berlin Collective, Phantom Audio, New York, NY, November 17, 2015
  • Talk on Art, Space and Higher Dimensions at The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, NY, November 12, 2015. http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal/video.php?id=2372
  • Artist’s Talk, The Frontline Club, as part of Lumen Prize Gala Event, London, UK, September 24, 2015.
  • Artists’ Talk with Leslie Thornton, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT, August 13, 2015.
  • Artist’s Talk, Chinese Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China, March 23, 2015.
  • Artist’s Talk, Cynthia-Reeves at Independent Art Projects, North Adams, MA, November 22, 2014.
  • Artist’s Talk, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT, April 10, 2014.
  • Artist’s Talk, ATNE (Art Technology New England), Boston CyberArts Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA, March 26, 2014.
  • Artist’s Talk, Rhode Island School of Design, in conjunction with work in the Locally Made show, September 2013.
  • Artist’s Talk, Leaders in Software and Art (LISA) Conference at The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, February, 2013. 
  • “Moving Image Technology of Tomorrow,” panel presentation, part of Moving Image Fair at the Armory Show, New York, NY. March 10, 2012.
  • Artist’s Talk, Leaders in Software and Art, New York City. November 2011.
  • Artist’s talk, “What is Digital Painting?” Graduate Digital Arts Seminar, The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, April 2012.
  • Collecting Now/New Media, RISD Museum, March 2011.
  • Symposium lecture, Creating, Critiquing, Collecting, Who’s Afraid of New Media?, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, February 2010.
  • Symposium lecture, Creating, Critiquing, Collecting, Decoding the Digital Symposium, The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK, February, 2010
  • Visiting Artist lecture and critiques, Pioneers of Early Computer Art, Digital Nature wintersession course, The Rhode Island School of Design, January 2010.
  • Harvard University, Initiative in Innovative Computer lecture series, Digital Visual Literacy, February 2006
  • Public lecture and master class at Richmond UniversityVisual Thinking/Visual Computing, Richmond Virginia, November 2004
  • Lecture in RISD Interior Architecture ProgramDigital Color, Providence, RI, April 2004.
  • Keynote talk, Visual Literacy AssociationModeling and Visualization Literacy: The Role of Computer Graphics, Newport, RI, October 2003.
  • Keynote talk, MITC Digital Images Symposium, DePauw University, The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Greencastle, IN, August 2003.
  • The University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Anderson Consulting Digital Arts and Science Lecture Series, The Computer in the Visual Arts, 2000.
  • Brown University, Providence, RI, Points on the Compass program, “Interdisciplinary Investigations: Computer Art & Science,” January 2000.
  • Brown University, Providence, RI, The Artemis Project, Computers and Art, July 2000.
  • Carnegie Mellon HCI Seminar SeriesNew Interaction Techniques for Color Selection, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA, February 2000.
  • Johnson and Wales University, Providence, RI, The Computer in the Visual Arts, Evolution or Revolution? November 1999.
  • Richmond University, Richmond, VA, The Computer in the Visual Arts, Evolution or Revolution? October 1999.

 

WORK

  • Artist, Anne Spalter Studios, Pawtucket, RI (2009-present)
  • Adjunct Lecturer, Brown University, Department of Computer Science (2004-2007).
  • Artist in Residence and Visual Computing Researcher, Brown University, Department of Computer Science (2004-2007).
  • Outreach Coordinator and Artist-in-Residence, NSF Science and Technology Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization, Brown University (1995-2004).
  • Adjunct Lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design, Graduate Studies (1991-94).
  • Adjunct Lecturer, Brown University, Department of Visual Art (1992-94).
  • Adjunct Lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design, Master of Arts in Teaching (1992-93).

 

ACADEMIC ARTICLES

  • Martin, F., Spalter, A., Friesen, O., & Gibson, J. (2008). An Approach to Developing Digital Visual Literacy (DVL) College and University Media Review. 14, 117-143, (2008).
  • Spalter, Anne Morgan and Andries van Dam, Digital Visual Literacy, Theory Into Practice, Volume 47, Issue 2 April 2008 , pages 93 – 101.
  • Spalter, Anne Morgan, and Tenneson, Dana K. The Graphics Teaching Tool, ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Proceedings, Education Program, (2006).
  • Meier, Barbara, Spalter, Anne Morgan, and Karelitz, David, Interactive Color Palette Tools, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 24, No. 3, (2004).
  • Spalter, Anne Morgan, Will There Be Computer Art in the Year 2020? ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Proceedings, Electronic Art and Animation Catalog, (2003).
  • Spalter, Anne Morgan, and van Dam, Andries. Problems with Using Components in Educational Software, [an expanded version of the SIGGRAPH 2002 paper of the same name]. Computers and Graphics, V. 27, pp. 329-337, (2003).
  • Henry Fuchs, Andries van Dam, Sascha Becker, Loring Holden, Adrian Ilie, Kok-Lim Low, Anne Morgan Spalter, Ruigang Yang, and Greg Welch,Immersive Electronic Books for Teaching Surgical Procedures, in Proceedings of CREST Symposium, ICAT 2002, Susumu Tachi, editor. Ohmsha, IOS Press, (2003).
  • Spalter, Anne Morgan. Problems with Using Components in Educational Software, ACM SIGGRAPH 2002, Proceedings, Conference Abstracts and Applications, (2002).
  • Spalter, Anne Morgan, CyberWork, RISD VIEWS, (Fall 2001).
  • Laleuf, Jean R. and Spalter, Anne Morgan, A Component Repository for Learning Objects: A Progress Report, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, (June 2001).
  • van Dam, Andries, Forsberg, Andy S., Laidlaw, David L., LaViola Jr., Joseph J., and Simpson, Rosemary M., Side bar section in Immersive VR for Scientific Visualization, A Progress Report, . IEEE Computer Graphics and Application November/December 2000, pp.26-52 (side bar on p. 30).
  • Spalter, Anne Morgan and Simpson, Rosemary Michelle, Considering a Full Range of Teaching Techniques for Use in Interactive Educational Software: A Practical Guide and Brainstorming Session, Proceedings of IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) 2000.
  • Spalter, Anne Morgan, Stone, Philip A., Meier, Barb J., Miller, Timothy S., and Simpson, Rosemary Michelle. Interaction in an IVR Museum of Color: Constructivism Meets Virtual Reality, [an expanded version of the SIGGRAPH 2000 IVR Museum Paper], Leonardo, Vol. 35, Issue 1, February 2002.
  • Spalter, Anne Morgan, Stone, Philip A., Meier, Barb J., Miller, Timothy S., and Simpson, Rosemary Michelle. Interaction in an IVR Museum of Color. ACM SIGGRAPH 2000, Proceedings, Conference Abstracts and Applications, and accepted for an upcoming issue of Leonardo, MIT Press, (2000).
  • Spalter, Anne Morgan and Simpson, Rosemary Michelle. Integrating Interactive Computer-Based Learning Experiences Into Established Curricula. Proceedings of ACM Information Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE) 2000, pp. 116-119. [
  • Spalter, Anne Morgan and Simpson, Rosemary Michelle. Reusable Hypertext Structures for Distance and JIT Learning. Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 2000, pp. 29-38, (2000).
  • Simpson, Rosemary Michelle, Spalter, Anne Morgan, and van Dam, Andries. Exploratories: An Educational Strategy for the 21st Century. ACM SIGGRAPH 1999, Proceedings, Conference Abstracts and Applications, pp. 43-45, (1999).

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • Reviewer, Leonardo Journal, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012.
  • Reviewer, Information & Culture: A Journal of History, 2012.
  • Member, Awards Committee for SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art, 2008-2010
  • Reviewer, SIGGRAPH 2006 Art Show
  • Member, Editorial Advisory Board, CG Educational Materials Source (CGEMS), (2004-2008).
  • Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Mathematics and Art, (2006-2009).
  • Panelist/presenter in SIGGRAPH 2004 Education Forum, “The Technological Imperative in Art and Design Education,” (2004).
  • Member, Advisory Board, Digital Learning Interactive (now iLrn), Medford, MA, (2000-2002).
  • Member of committee to fund grants to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference, held September 14-16, (2000).
  • SIGGRAPH 99 Course #31, “Why Does it Do That? 10 Mysteries of Computer Artmaking Revealed”, Notes published by ACM SIGGRAPH, (1999).
  • SIGGRAPH 99 Electronic Schoolhouse Playground exhibit, “The Color Playground,” a series of exploratories teaching color theory.
  • Moderator for NSF Virtual Workshop, Research Foundations for Improving the Representation of Women in the Information Technology Workforce(9/27/99 to10/5/99).
  • IEEE FIE (Frontiers in Education) 1996, “A Summer Workshop in 3D Computer Graphics and The World Wide Web,” (1996)
  • College Art Association (CAA) Intellectual Property Rights Committee (1995-1997).
  • Founder, CAA SIG for Computers in the Visual Arts (SIG-CIVA), (1995).

 

ACADEMIC GRANTS

  • Co-PI of NSF Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Grant, Computation by Design.”
  • Co-PI of NSF Advanced Technology Education (ATE) grant, Digital Visual Literacy.”
  • Grant from Sun Microsystems for continuing work on Java-based education software, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006.
  • Co-PI of NSF National Science Digital Library grant #1078520, A Component Repository and Environment for Creating of Teaching Environments (CREATE), September 2000 – September 2002.
  • PI of grants from Adobe Systems, Inc., Accessible Color I and II, 1999-2000 and 2000-2001, respectively.

 

MARTIAL ARTS

  • Greatest Lessons from the Martial Arts: A Compilation of Martial Wisdom, Tim Johnson. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012 ISBN-10: 1480156434 ISBN-13: 978-1480156432. Essay in this compilation.