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Leonardo Electronic Directory
Edward Shanken
| Edward A. Shanken Art History Department Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah, Georgia 31402-3146 Phone 912.525.6068 Fax 912.525.6064 Email: giftwrap@yahoo.com |
Edward Shanken is Professor of Art History at the Savannah College of Art & Design. He edited a collection of essays by Roy Ascott, entitled Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness, 2003. He has lectured at conferences including Einstein Meets Magritte (Brussels), ISEA (Rotterdam, Chicago), Consciousness Reframed (Wales), CAA (New York), SIGGRAPH (Los Angeles), and Cyberart Bilbao, and delivered the 2004 Rita Friendly Kaufman lecture at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Ontario, Canada. His essay, “Art in the Information Age: Technology and Conceptual Art” received honorable mention in the Leonardo Award for Excellence in 2004. His scholarship has appeared in journals including Leonardo, Art Journal, Art Byte, and Art Criticism and has been translated into French and Polish. He was Executive Director of the Information Science + Information Studies program at Duke University (2001-4) and was Director of Visual Research for Reactive Search, Inc. (2000-1). Dr. Shanken earned his Ph.D. in Art History from Duke University (2001), his MBA from Yale (1990), and has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Duke University, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is currently editing a selection of essays for Leonardo on “Artists in Industry and the Academy: Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations,” the theme of a panel he chaired at the College Art Association conference in 2004. He serves as an advisor for Leonardo projects including Pioneers and Pathbreakers and Media/Art/History.
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| Posted 10 May 2005. |
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