Douglas Irving Repetto is an artist and teacher. He lives in New York City
and works at the Columbia University Computer Music Center. His work,
including installation, performance, recordings, software, and lectures
has been presented internationally. He runs a number of
arts/community-oriented groups in New York City and on the web, including
dorkbot: people
doing strange things with electricity, ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show,
organism: making art with living systems, and the music-dsp mailing list. When not teaching or making
art, Douglas spends much of his time cooking, coveting buildings, and
socializing with members of the plant kingdom. He is married to writer
Amy Charlotte Benson.
M.F.A., School of Visual Arts; B.A. Eastern Illinois University.
Philip Galanter is currently the Associate Director for Arts Technology at
New York University. In addition he is adjunct faculty at NYU's
Interactive Telecommunications Program where he created the course
"Foundations of Generative Art Systems".
His current artistic work includes custom hardware systems, analog and
digital video, digital fine art prints, and installations. He also has
earlier experience in performance art, and electronic, experimental and
pop music. In addition Philip has created MIDI music software products for
Hybrid Arts, and firmware for electronic games at Williams Electronics.
Along with his ArtBots activities, Philip has recently spoken on the the
Fine Art / Complexity Science nexus at the International Conference on
Complexity Science and the Complexity and Philosophy Workshop. Philip
chaired a session called "Complexity and Emergence" at this year's College
Art Association meeting in New York City. He also organized with the
artist Ellen K. Levy COMPLEXITY, the first fine art exhibition addressing
art and complex systems. COMPLEXITY opened at the Dorsky Museum at SUNY
New Paltz, and will travel later this year to the Gallery of the Federtal
Reserve Bank in Washington D.C. and the University of Michigan in Ann
Arbor.
JENNY LEE is a sculptor and teacher. She is a graduate of The Cooper Union
and teaches welding and sculpture in the Fine Arts Department at Pratt
Institute. She has
exhibited extensively in galleries, arts organizations and museums. She is
a member of the Sculptors Guild, and her work is in several important
public and private collections, including The Brooklyn Museum and the de
Menil Collection. Representative galleries include Herstand, Borgenicht
and Shapolsky.
Jenny's career has included unique, specialized, industrial projects,
which require artistic sensibility and technical proficiency. She is
currently developing, prototyping and fabricating custom exhaust headers
and systems for the legendary Jaguar XJ-220 to make it compliant with US
emission standards, and to withstand rigorous thermo-shock tests. She has
also played key roles in the construction of two major exhibits at the
American Museum of Natural History. In the early 1990s, she was part of an
elite team of paleontologists, scientists and artists who worked on the
Fossil Hall, rearticulating fossil skeletons to conform to evolving, new
discoveries in those fields. In the late 1990s, she oversaw aspects of the
development and creation of the world's largest diorama and interactive
display of the Dzanga-Sangha rainforest of the Central African Republic in
the Hall of Biodiversity.
A 2000-2001 Faculty Development Grant partially funded her new body of
work, which was part of a one-person retrospective at the Hoboken
Historical Museum in 2002. This exhibit was also funded by the NJ State
Council on the Arts and The NJ Council for the Humanities.
In 2001, her work was featured in the first-ever historical survey, Welded
Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, at the Neuberger Museum.
