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School of Science Colloquium: February 27


School of Science and Center for the Arts Host Speaker on Collaborations among Science, Art, and Technology

The School of Science and the Center for the Arts at TCNJ are honored to host Gunalan Nadarajan, Dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, for a presentation in our Spring 2015 Arts Brown Bag lecture series.

Gunalan Nadarajan is an art theorist and curator working at the intersections of art, science, and technology, who has received numerous awards for his creative work and teaching, and who has also received national and international acclaim for his work at the intersections of science and art. Dean Nadarajan will showcase this interdisciplinary work in a presentation titled “Creative Crucible: Collaborations in Arts, Science and Technology ” on Friday, February 27, 2015, from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm, in the Mayo Concert Hall.

“Creative Crucible: Collaborations in Arts, Science and Technology”

  • Friday, February 27, 2014
  • 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
  • Mildred & Ernest E. Mayo Concert Hall, Music Building

About the Speaker:

Gunalan Nadarajan is Dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. He isan art theorist and curator working at the intersections of art, science, and technology.

His publications include Ambulations (2000), Construction Site (edited; 2004) and Contemporary Art in Singapore (co-authored; 2007), Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology: Historical Investigations on the Sites and Migration of Knowledge (co-edited; 2009), The Handbook of Visual Culture(co-edited; 2012) and over 100 book chapters, catalogue essays, academic articles and reviews. His writings have also been translated into Mandarin, Indonesian, Korean, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Valencian and Spanish. He has curated twenty international exhibitions including Ambulations (Singapore, 1999), 180KG (Jogjakarta, 2002), media city (Seoul, 2002), Negotiating Spaces (Auckland, 2004) and DenseLocal (Mexico City, 2009). He was contributing curator for Documenta XI (Kassel, Germany, 2002) and the Singapore Biennale (2006) and served on the jury of a number of international exhibitions, like ISEA2004 (Helsinki /Talinn), transmediale 05 (Berlin), ISEA2006 (San Jose) and FutureEverything Festival (Manchester, 2009). He was Artistic Co-Director of the Ogaki Biennale 2006, Japan and Artistic Director of ISEA2008 (International Symposium on Electronic Art) in Singapore.

He is active in the development of media arts internationally and has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Inter Society for Electronic Art and is on the Advisory Board of the Database of Virtual Art. Presently, he is also working on a National Science Foundation funded initiative to develop a national network for collaborative research, education and creative practice between sciences, engineering, arts, and design. He is a member of several professional associations including Special Interest Group in Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), College Art Association, National Council of University Research Administrators, International Association of Aesthetics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2004, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art.

He has served in a variety of academic roles in teaching, academic administration, and research for over two decades. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, he was Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Arts. He also had previous appointments as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the College of Arts and Architecture, Pennsylvania State University, and Dean of Visual Arts at the Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore.

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