Who's Who in
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WHO 'S WHO IN AMERICAN ART
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NAME: Ben Davis
CLASSIFICATION: Photographer, Painter, Video
PREF MEDIA (TWO): Photo Electronic Media, Paint
BIRTH DATA: Syracuse, NY, June 5, 47
STUDY: Stetson Univ, Fla, ABA; Univ Fla, BS(commun); Fla State Univ, MFA
PUBLIC COLLEC: Ctr Creative Photog, Univ Ariz, Tucson; Mus Mod Art, New York;
Ctr Advan Visual Studies, Mass Inst Technol, Cambridge; Lomholt Formular Archive, Falling, Denmark;
Int Mus Photog, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
EXHIBITIONS: Hemphill Fine Arts, 2000. ; Art Inst Boston, 80; Mass Inst
Technol, 81; Other Cinema, Syracuse Univ, 84; Ars
Electronica, Stadt Mus, Linz, Austria, 86; Biennale Venice Int
Art Exhib, 86; Boston Computer Mus, 87; Fla State Univ, 94; <250> and others
PROF POSITIONS: Chair Dept of Electronic Imagery, Atlanta Col Art, 76-86
dir, Senoj, Inc, Atlanta, Ga, 76-; dir, Visual Computing, Project Athena MIT,
86-91; res assoc, MIT Ctr Educ Computing, 91-95, Program Manager, Communications,
Getty Information Institute, 96-2000, Getty Trust Publication Electronic Mgr, 2000.
Senior Scientist, Razorfish, Inc 2000-2001.
TEACHING: video, photo, drawing Atlanta Col Art, 75-86;
Mass Inst Technol, 83-84; MIT Media-Lab, MIT Visual Arts Prog,
86-90
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Scientific American, Gallery in the Machine, May, 95 ; Scientific American, The Culture Machine, August, 96,
Infra-Thin Multimedia, Visual Resources Mag, 6/91;
Image Learning, Teachers Col Press, 89; Digital Museums, Aperture Mag, Summer 94
PUBLICATIONS: Auth, Role of the artist, Community TV Rev, 4/81;
Sky Disc: Implications, Ctr Adv Visual Studies, Mass Inst. Technol, 84;
The age of computer art, Atlanta Art Papers, 1-2/86
MEMBERSHIPS: IMAGE Film & Video, Atlanta, GA; Association of Motion Image Archivists
HONORS, AWARDS: Smithsonian Computerworld Award 1999 Nat Endowment Arts, Alternative Spaces,
77-78; Fel, Ctr Advan Visual Studies, 83-84