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Andrea Ackerman Page 1 \| Biography
Born: New York City Lives: New York, NY

Education Yale College B.S., cum laude, 1974, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Harvard Medical School, MD, 1978, Concentration Neuroscience Trained and practiced as child psychiatrist/psychoanalyst 1980 to 1992 (Advanced Candidate at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute) New York University, School for Continuing and Professional Studies, Center for Advanced Digital Applications, Maya (3D Computer Animation) - February/March 2001, Pixar�s Renderman (3D Computer Animation) - May 2001. Academic Experience: Visiting Instructor, 3D Computer Modeling, School of Art and Design, Computer Graphics and Interactive Media, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, Fall, 2004

Group Exhibitions 1. Rose Breathing featured at the Live Box Gallery, Nova Art Fair http://www.liveboxgallery.com/ , http://novaartfair.com/2006/flatfile.php?id=51, April 23-27, 2006 Chicago, Illinois. 2. Brides of Frankenstein, July 30 - October 30, 2005, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California curated by Marcia Tanner, brochure, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose CA, July 30 - October 30, 2005 http://www.sjmusart.org/content/exhibitions/past/exhibition_info.phtml?itemID=225 3. Second Nature, Fish Tank Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, June 18 to July 19, 2004, curated by Linda Dennis, http://www.fishtankgallery.com/exhibitions.html 4. Allure Electronica, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA, January 23 to March 6, 2004, curated by Murray Horne, catalog, essays by Claudia Herbst, Michele Thursz, and Kathy Brew http://www.woodstreetgalleries.org/past/allureelectronica.html 5. Cartoombria 2003, Animation Festival at the Center for Contemporary Art Trebisonda, Perugia, Italy, Dec. 3-Dec 7, 2003 http://www.cartoombria.it/canale.asp?id=34&idpag;=9 6. New Lawn: Contemporary Nature in a Subdivision World, Jack the Pelican Presents, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, July 2 - August 3, 2003, http://www.jackthepelicanpresents.com/newlawn_pr.html 7. Calculus of Transfiguration, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center,Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, October 10 - November 15, 1998 curated by Yuko Nii. Selected Performances 1. Woman Waking/Paper Dissolve , DVD, a 3D computer animation with computer generated music by contemporary composer, Matthew Greenbaum . Premiered in concert "Approximate Man: Music of Matthew Greenbaum" curated by Nina Colosi, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY May 23, 2006. http://chelseaartmuseum.org/events/2006/greenbaum/ 2.Video Set Design for Verge, a dance in Encounters, choreographed by Cherylyn Lavagnino, Danspace Project at St.Mark's, New York NY, February 12 - 16, 2004, www.danspaceproject.org Selected Screenings 1.cinemaScope, -scopeNew York, curated by Lee Wells, New York, March 9-12, 2006, http://www.scope-art.com/main.php 2.Restoration Celebration, the Rededication of Canal Park, an evening of live music, performance and projections, NYC Dept. of Parks and Recreation and the Canal Park Conservancy, Canal Park, New York, NY, October 21, 2005. 3.cinemaScope, -scope Hamptons Art Fair, curated by Lee Wells, Southampton, NY July 15-17, 2005 and March 9-12, 2006 http://www.scope-art.com/archives/index.php?pcontent=hamptons2005&sec;=0%20%20%20%20 http://www.leewells.org/homesite.html. 4. Inter [sec/ac] tion, New Forms Festival, curated by Camille Baker, Vancouver, Canada, July 30- August 2, 2003, www.newformsfestival.com 5. Open Zone, Ocularis at Galapagos Art and Performance Space, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, June 29, 2003, http://www.ocularis.net/ 6. X\|ReDux: Best of X\|FEST 2003, presented by ICON@REMOTE and The Digital Salon, REMOTE LOUNGE, Bowery, New York, NY, May 16, 2003,. http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:vuBQiqGJjMwJ:www.x-fest-digital.com/artists_ite01.html+%22andrea+ackerman%22+x%5Cfest&hl;=en 7. X\|Iterate, part of X\|FEST (experimental video, animation and VJ performance festival), curated by Sandra McLean, REMOTE LOUNGE, Bowery, New York, NY, March 8, 2003, http://www.remotelounge.com./
Bibliography 1.Beverly Reiser and Sonya Rapoport, "Brides of Frankenstein", Leonardo Reviews, December 2005. http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/reviews/dec2005/brides_rapoport.html 2. Marcia Tanner, Interview with Lee Montgomery, Women in the Arts "Brides of Frankenstein", kalx.berkeley.edu/ noon PST on Tuesday, September 13th, 2005. 3. Marcia Tanner, KQED\|Forum with Michqael Krasny "Brides of Frankenstein" Exhibit , http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R508091000 4.Marcia Tanner, Brides of Frankenstein:The Marriage of Art and Technology, Lecture, PARC Forum: George E. Pake Auditorium, Palo Alto,CA USA http://www.parc.xerox.com/cms/get_article.php?id=469 , August 18, 2005. 5. Susan Yung, Lavagnino Balances, The Dance Insider Flash Review Journal, 2-27: www.danceinsider.com/f2004/f0227_1.html, March 1, 2004 6. Alice Winn, The Female Form, PULP (Pittsburgh), February 19, 2004 http://www.pittsburghpulp.com/content/2004/02_19/arts_art.shtml 7. Mary Thomas, Complex Attractions Artists Appeal to the Senses through Digital Works, Pittsburgh Post- Gazette, Section B p.6. February 7, 2004 http://postgazette.com/ae/20040207thomas0207p3.asp 8. Kurt Shaw, New Perspectives Blossom, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Section B p.6, Feb 8, 2004 9. Robert Isenberg, Women in the Electronic Age, Pittsburgh AOL Cityguide, Top Pick, Feb/March 2004 10. Elisabeth Bernstein, State of Siege, Villlage Voice, p.106. March 12, 1998, 11.Carla Breeze, Chapter 5, Mavericks, New Modern: Creative Living Spaces , PBC International, 1995

Projects Selected Interviews and Presentations and Lectures 1. Synthetic Experience and the Continuum of the Authentic: A Contribution , featured speaker and digital artist at the conference Synthetic Sensations - The Five Senses and New Technologies , June 30, 2006, Kingston University, London, UK http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/news_and_events/item.php?updatenum=173, webcast and catalog forthcoming). 2.Flesh & Chips: Conversations with the Brides of Frankenstein, San Jose Museum of Art Speaker Series, author Ellen Ullman interviewed with Andrea Ackerman by curator Marcia Tanner exploring how digital technology makes us question our notions of what is natural and what is artificial, September 23, 2005. http://www.sjmusart.org/content/events/event_info.phtml?itemID=234 3. Daniel Durning, PS1 Radio, Art and Technology, Edition #11, Digigirls http://www.wps1.org/include/shows/art_and_technology.html First broadcast May 31, 2005 Upcoming Events 1. Panelist on Can Geeks be Humanists?, College Art Association (CAA) 95th Annual Conference, New Media Caucus Panel, moderated by Marcia Tanner, February 14-17 2007, New York, New York. http://conference.collegeart.org/2007/ http://www.newmediacaucus.org/ . 2. Rose Breathing, in Breath-Taking: Air Art Architecture, edited by Monika Bakke, website and monograph to be published by Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2006. http://www.janvaneyck.nl/~breath-taking/breathtaking.swf
Publications Selected Writings 1. "Can We Fall in Love with a Machine ? " lead catalog essay in Can We Fall in Love with a Machine?, edited by Claudia Hart, monograph/catalog for the show Can We Fall in Love with a Machine? , Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA/Cambridge, MA, April 2006.

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