Dan Collins is an associate professor of Intermedia at Arizona State University where he teaches courses in studio art, art theory, and visualization and prototyping.  Professor Collins is founding Co-Director of the PRISM lab--an interdisciplinary 3D modeling and rapid prototyping facility--and coordinator of the foundation program in basic art instruction (artCore) at ASU.  He served as interim director of the Institute for Studies in the Arts at ASU in 2000-2001.  

Collins studied studio art and art history at the University of California at Davis where he received a Bachelor's degree in 1974.  He received an MA in Art Education from Stanford University in 1975, and an MFA in "New Forms" and Sculpture from UCLA in1984.  He is currently a doctoral candidate in educational media and computers at Arizona State University.

As part of the PRISM team, he has received numerous grants for his work in visualization, interface design, and rapid prototyping.  He was awarded a Fulbright to Malaysia for Research and Teaching in 1987 and ASU's  Herberger College Award for Research and Creative Activity in 2000.

His theoretical essays and reviews in the areas of art, education, and technology have appeared in Leonardo, New Art Examiner, Computer Graphics, and the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education among others.  He has co-edited two collections of essays on contemporary art:  The Simulated Presence (1993) and The Eighth Day:  The Transgenic Art of Eduardo Kac (2003), both of which were published by the Institute for Studies in the Arts at ASU.

He is active in a number of national and international organizations including the College Art Association; Foundations in Art, Theory, and Education (FATE); SIGGRAPH; Association of Computing Machinery (ACM); the International Sculpture Center, and the Sculpture Guild of New York.

His work in digital sculpture, closed-circuit video, and installation has been exhibited at the Boston Cyberarts Festival, the Basel Art Fair, SIGGRAPH, the San Francisco Exploratorium and in numerous one person shows in commercial galleries in Arizona and New York.