Hi Paul,

Thanks for all your efforts in putting this together - it is so needed!

Here's a bit about what I'm doing/done which you could post.


Currently, I am teaching in the Media Arts Department at LIU (Long Island
University).  This department unique combines theory and production on the
undergraduate and graduate levels.  I teach classes in the theory area such
as Contemporary Digital Arts, Survey of Computer Arts, Introduction to Media
Arts, History of Photography and CGI, and Media Arts Theory.
My ongoing writing, initially articulated in my lectures, engages in -- what
I hope and feel to be -- a creative integration of the history and theory of
media and meta-media arts.

In 2002 I completed a Ph.D. in the Critical Studies area in the Department
of Art and Art Professions at New York University for my work on the
aesthetics of computer arts.  My dissertation entitled " Language, Memory
and Volition: Toward an Aesthetics of Computer Arts" constructs an aesthetic
framework for computer arts based on the three most fundamental and
operational components of the computer: language, memory and volition.  As
the primacy of process within the computer is a reflection of "how we think
we think" -- the computer as a meta-tool is an integration of cognitive
processes aligned with various skill sets.  (Web access is forthcoming.)

From 1996 to 1999 I served as a member of the Artists¹ Advisory Committee
for the Artists¹ Fellowship Program of the NYFA (New York Foundation for the
Arts). In 1996, as a member of this committee, I initiated the founding of
the first discipline category specifically devoted to computer arts within
arts funding in the United States.  The development of this fellowship
category -- in the only state supported funding program for individual
artists in New York -- was a model program which influenced other funding
organizations to follow suit and proved instrumental in the critical
acceptance of computer arts as funded exhibitions of computer arts became a
reality in major museums in New York.

As an artist, I've been working with computers since the mid-seventies in
both still and moving imagery.  Since then, the focus of my work has moved
serially --  between intense periods of art making and exhibition --
alternated with equally intense periods of activity in theory and history.
Currently, I strive for a parallel work process.

Best,
Maureen Nappi

-- 
Maureen Nappi, Ph.D.
Media Arts Dept.
Long Island University
Brooklyn Campus




on 9/21/04 9:16 PM, Paul Brown at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> The subscriptions to DASH have now passed the 200 mark and many of
> the key players in the history arena are on board.  It would be good
> if those subscribers with active history projects/publications etc..
> could post details, urls etc... to the list.  DASH is archived so
> this will build up into a good reference for work in the field.
> 
> Another point - a few people have tried to post announcements about
> current events, etc... which I have rejected.  There are many other
> venues for those posts and I'd like to keep DASH focused.  So if you
> are posting something that isn't obviously related to the history
> field can you please give it context with a leading explanatory
> sentence?
> 
> Note also - if you reply to a post - your reply is directed to the
> list not to the sender.
> 
> Looking forward to hearing from you all.