Andrea Ackerman

Andrea Ackerman
Nationality American
Education Yale College B.S., Harvard Medical School, MD
Notable work ‘’Rose Breathing’’
Movement New media
Website www.andreaackerman.com

Andrea Ackerman is an American artist, theorist and writer best known for her New Media artworks.[1] She lives and works in New York.[2]

Biography

At Yale Ackerman studied physics and biophysics; afterwards she graduated Harvard Medical School, with a concentration in Neuroscience, and trained and practiced as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. She has used digital technology since the mid 1990s in order to fabricate her work, which dabbles in the realms concerning technology, nature, aesthetics and ethics. She imbues objects with qualities not ordinarily occurring in nature, and in doing so fabricates a “synthetic” nature. Specific aspects of 2D and 3D still and animation software are applied in subtle ways like using effects meant for fluids on rose petals or skin. Ackerman believes finding meaningful ways to use these effects is essential to the evocation of a seamless transformation - digital to human.

Ackerman has taught 3D computer modeling (Maya) at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, was a co- director of ISEA2011,[3] and is an editor of Leonardo Electronic Almanac, most recently, the associate editor of Uncontainable, the exhibition catalog of electronic art exhibited at ISEA2011, Istanbul. Ackerman lives in New York, New York with her husband and two children.[4][5]

Exhibitions

TitleVenueLocationDate
Vital Signs: New Media Art from the San Jose Museum of ArtWichita Art MuseumWichita, KSSeptember 14, 2013 - January 19, 2014
Vital SignsSan Jose Museum of ArtSan Jose, CAJune 12, 2010 -February 6, 2011
PolymerHunter Museum of American ArtChattanooga, TNMarch 26, 2009
NABLAB Volume 1NAB GalleryChicago, ILNovember 17, 2006- December 8, 2006
Instant GratificationLike the Spice GalleryBrooklyn, NYJanuary 12, 2007- February 17, 2007
Rose BreathingLive Box GalleryChicago, ILApril 23–27, 2006
Poesia in Forma di RosaLa Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di MonfalconeItalyNovember 4, 2005
Brides of FrankensteinSan Jose Museum of ArtSan Jose, CAJuly 30, 2005 – October 30, 2005
Second NatureFish Tank GalleryBrooklyn, NYJune 18, 2004- July 19, 2004
Allure ElectronicaWood Street GalleriesPittsburgh, PAJanuary 23, 2004- March 6, 2004
Cartoombria 2003Center for Contemporary Art TrebisondaPerugia, ItalyDec. 3-Dec 7, 2003
New Lawn: Contemporary Nature in a Subdivision WorldJack the Pelican PresentsBrooklyn, NYJuly 2, 2003- Aug 3, 2003
Calculus of TransfigurationWilliamsburg Art and Historical CenterBrooklyn, NYOctober 10, 1998 - November 15, 1998
Group ShowName Brand DamagesBrooklyn, NY1993

Selected collections

  • San Jose Museum of Art[6]

References

  1. ↑ Otero, Ana. "New Media Caucus at the 2007 College Art Conference". Rhizome. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "ISEA2011 The 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art: Andrea Ackerman". Sabancı Üniversitesi. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "ISEA2011 Team". Sabancı Üniversitesi. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
  4. ↑ http://www.andreaackerman.com/brief%20narrative%20bio_august06.htm
  5. ↑ http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/.ackerman
  6. ↑ Turner, Monica. "SJMA to present Vital Signs: New Media from the Permanent Collection". BLG Media LLC. Retrieved 5 February 2016.

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