Shanken holds graduate degrees from Yale (MBA, 1990) and Duke (MA, Art History, 1999). He wrote his doctoral dissertation on "Art in the Information Age: Cybernetics, Software, and Telematics," and received his PhD in Art History from Duke. He was a Fellow in Arts Administration at the National Endowment for the Arts in 1991 and a Henry Luce/American Council of Learned Societies fellow in 1998–99. He is a member of the editorial board of Leonardo Digital Reviews, and a participant in the Leonardo Pioneers and Pathbreakers of Electronic Art online project. More information about Edward A. Shanken is available at his website, www.duke.edu/~giftwrap.