Shawn Brixey is a new faculty hire at the University of California, Berkeley. He will head up Department of Art Practice's New Genre Program, and will be developing their Laboratory for Advanced Research in Art and Technology, Fall 1998.
He served as Professor of Art and Technology at the University of Washington in Seattle from 1994 to 1998, and Chaired the University's Cross-Disciplinary Arts Program, and also directed the University's Laboratory for Animation Arts.
His research interests lie at the emerging interface of art, science and technology. He is currently developing radical new art forms which present important evolutionary transformations in digital media by synthesizing these technologies with elements of space time and biology as a hybrid strategies for future computational expression.
A graduate of MIT's CAVS/Media Lab, he has exhibited art and technology works internationally; including Documenta in Kassel, Germany, The Deutscher Kunstlerbund in Karlsruhe, Germany, The Cranbrook Art Museum in Detroit, the MIT Museum in Boston, The Contemporary Art Center of Cincinnati, The International Symposium for Electronic Arts at the Chicago Art Institute, and the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
He has received all levels of major grants and awards to support his research including: The National Institute of Health, The Intel Corporation, Silicon Graphics, Newport/Klinger Research Corporation, Apple Computer, IBM GmbH, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Leica and Hughes Aircraft.
He lectures widely in the U.S and Europe on new and emerging media art forms. Critical writing and reviews of his work have been featured in diverse sources, including Wired Magazine,The Cincinnati Inquirer, The Boston Globe, Art News, WolkenKratzer magazine Germany, and Smithsonian World Television.
He appears in six separte editions of "Who's Who", these include Media, Entertaiment, Communications, Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World. Significant review of his work is included in Thames and Hudsons 1992 book release, Art of the Electronic Age.
In 1997 he received the first Distinguished Visiting Scholar/Mentor award from San Franciso State University's, New Media Institute. This new award is presented to individuals whos work exemplfies significant innovation in the field of new media. In 1998 he was selected as a keynote speaker for The Mayor's International Multimedia Summit, San Francisco, California.
He is currently designing a large scale telepresence project for the EXPO/2000 World's Fair in Hannover Germany.