Ben Howell Davis
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Career Summary
Bone-Davis
International Consulting, La Have, Nova Scotia, Canada,. Senior Scientist and
Strategic Development Director, Media and Entertainment, Razorfish, Inc., Los
Angeles, CA., 2000-2001. Manager, Electronic Publications, J. Paul Getty Trust
Publications, Los Angeles, California, 1999. Program Manager, Communications,
Getty Information Institute, Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, 1996-1999.
Consultant, J. Paul Getty Trust, Art History Information Program, Santa Monica,
California, 1995. Producer, Learn Technologies Inc. for National Air and Space
Museum, Washington, DC, 1995, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, 1995. Co-Chair,
Task Force on Educational Technology, International Council of Distance
Education, Olso, Norway, 1995. Research Associate, MIT Center for Educational
Computing Initiatives, 1991-present. Manager, MIT CECI AthenaMuse Software
Consortium and Multimedia Application Development (1991-1994); Manager,
MIT/Project Athena Visual Computing Group (1987-1991); Fellow, MIT Center for
Advanced Visual Studies (1983-84); Instructor, MIT Media-Lab, Visible Language
Workshop (1988); Chair, Research Consortium of the National Demonstration
Laboratory for Interactive Educational Technology, Smithsonian Institution
(1988-1990); Instructor, Aspects of Visualization and Formal Analysis of Media,
Teachers College, Department of Communication, Computing, and Technology
(1988-89); Lecturer, MIT Visual Arts Program, Department of Architecture and
Urban Planning (1990); Chair, Department of Electronic Imagery, Atlanta College
of Art, Atlanta, GA (1975-1986); Master of Fine Arts, Florida State University
(1975); Bachelor of Science, Communications, University of Florida (1970).
Education
Doctoral Studies,
Computing, Communications, and Technology, Teachers College Columbia
University, 1988-1993.
M.F.A. Painting,
Photography, Film/Video, Florida State University, 1975.
B.S. Communications,
University of Florida, 1970.
Employment
Consultant, Bone-Davis
International, La
Have,Nova Scotia. Bone-Davis International is a digital solutions consultancy
for digital media asset management including strategic evaluation, strategic
planning, integration and implementation of asset management systems, and
knowledge transfer.
Senior Scientist and
Strategic Development Director, Razorfish, Inc., Los Angeles, California, 2000:
Strategic Development for Media and Entertainment focuses on branding and
identity, enterprise asset management, experience engineering, and media
gateway development. Applications include film and television, publishing, new media,
music, gaming, sports, and learning. Emphasis on rich media asset management
including digital asset management, content management, digital rights
management, customer relations management, and knowledge management. Razorfish,
Inc. was a digital solutions provider with 15 offices in nine countries and
focused on financial, manufacturing, information communication, healthcare, and
media and entertainment clients. Razorfish is now a division of the SBI Group
(Razorfish.SBI) , an international consultancy. See http://www.sbigroup.com/
Manager, Electronic
Publications,
J. Paul Getty Trust Publications, Los Angeles, California 1999 -2000:
Management of Getty electronic publications including CDROM and online development
of research databases, online resources, and electronic books. Publications
include the Bibliography of the History of Art, The Getty Provenance Index, Art
and Archeology Technical Abstracts, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals,
Art and Architecture Thesaurus, Union List of Artist Names, Thesaurus of
Geographic Names, and the Introduction to … Series of print books and Web
books. Liaison with project developers in the Getty Museum, Getty Conservation
Institute, Getty Research Institute, Getty Information Technology Services
(www.getty.edu).
Program Manager,
Communications,
Getty Information Institute, 1995-1999:
Manager of
communications and publications including print, CD-ROM, and World Wide Web
design and development. The Communications Program linked the resources of the
Institute to the public, educational institutions, and scholars by researching
and developing digital communication and publication technologies. Management
responsibilities included liaison to the J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Institutes,
Getty Museum, and Programs of the Getty. Programming and development for the
Getty Information Institute Internet Forum, a traveling exhibition of Internet
cultural experience for the Association of Art Museums, College Art
Association, Museum Computer Network, Congress of Art Historians, and other
international conferences. The Information Institute Web site design won the
Best of the Web Award for Best Museum Professional's Website at the 1998 Museums and the Web
Conference and won the Smithsonian ComputerWorld Medal for 1999. Creator and
manager of the Information Institute Millennium Lecture Series at the Getty Center, Co-chair
of Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity Conference on preserving digital resources
with Stewart Brand, The LongNow Foundation and the Getty Conservation
Institute. The Getty Information Institute closed in June of 1999.
Research Associate,
MIT Center for Educational Computing Initiatives (CECI), Office of the Provost,
1991-1995:
Producer and designer
for multimedia projects in humanities, language, science, and engineering,
museum, archive, library, and telecommunication applications. Management of
interactive multimedia educational design teams, programmers, and freelance
producers, 1986-1994. Manager, AthenaMuse Software Consortium (AMSC)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Administration and consortium building
of international (US, Europe, Asia) MIT/CECI organization to sponsor
development of advanced multimedia authoring software. Extensive travel in
Europe, US, Japan in coordination with the MIT Industrial Liaison Program,
1991-1994. Manager, Project Athena Visual Computing Group (VCG), Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, team that created the original AthenaMuse multimedia
software and all-digital multimedia applications, 1987-1991. Coordinator for
multimedia workstation design: implementation of visual UNIX workstation
configurations, user interface designs, multimedia authoring environment
(AthenaMuse) for UNIX, Macintosh, and PC. International Liaison: Coordination
of MIT multimedia projects, proposal writing, and tutorial responsibilities
with centers, departments, MIT Museum, MIT Archives, MIT Media Lab, MIT
Information Systems, MIT Industrial Liaison Program. Administrator:
International relations, fund raising, budget projection, proposal writing,
staff performance review, hiring, testing and evaluating of audio/video,
computer equipment, audio/video studio design and administration, scheduling,
corporate and academic demonstrations, equipment deployment.
Chair, Department of
Electronic Arts, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1975-1986:
Tenured faculty:
Administration of Electronic Arts Department including curriculum design,
audio/video studio design, computer graphics studio, post-production studio
design. Professor in video/audio production, film production, and computer
graphics. Interdisciplinary courses in mixed media, media analysis, and
commercial internships. Instructor in photography, photographic techniques, and
drawing. Associate Producer, The First Emperor of China, interactive multimedia project
on historical/archeological materials on the Ch'in Terracotta Army discovered
in 1974. Involved extensive on-location production in China including
video/audio, still photography, research, 1985. Simmons College, Department of
Library Science, Boston, MA., Directed by Dr. Chin Chi Chen, sponsored by
National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Equipment Corporation, Ministry
of Culture and Museums, People's Republic of China. Associate Producer, MIT
Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Sky Art Interactive Videodisc Traveling
Exhibition,
1984. Producer, MIT Transmissions, weekly video art program for MIT cable television,
1984. Producer, New Disciplines, Cox Cable, student cable television program, Atlanta,
GA, 1980-1985. Producer and curator, International Magnetic Image Exhibition,
Atlanta College of Art, audio/video art invitational, 1975-1982. Producer, Tele-Arts
Projects
sponsored by Robot Corporation, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT,
Carnegie Mellon University, Alfred University, Massachusetts College of Art,
IMAGE Film and Video, Atlanta, GA., 1985. Designer and Director of the Atlanta
College of Art Media Studies Program sponsored by the Gannett Foundation, 1986.
Other Teaching
Nova Scotia College of
Art and Design University, Foundation Photography, Halifax, NS, 2003.
Instructor, Visible
Language Workshop, Hypervision/HyperSense, MIT Media Lab, 1987-88.
Lecturer, MIT Visual
Arts Program, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, MIT, 1989-1991.
Associate Instructor,
Department of Computing, Communication, and Technology, Formal Analysis of
Media, Aspects of Visualization, Teachers College Columbia University, New York,
1987-89.
Instructor, IMAGE Film
and Video Center, Atlanta, GA. Interactive Video: Design and Concept, 1985-86.
Teaching Fellow, Center
for Advanced Visual Studies, Special Problems in Environmental Art:
Tele-Environment and Transmission, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1984.
Instructor, School of
the Art Institute of Chicago, Heliography: Light Sensitive Materials, Chicago,
Illinois, 1977.
Professional
Positions
Member, Board of
Visitors, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 2000-2001
Member, Advisory Board,
Center for Digital Arts, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 2000.
Member, Association of
Motion Image Archivists, Los Angeles, CA, 1999.
Member, Program
Committee for Museums and the Web Conference, New Orleans, March, 1999.
Committee on Electronic
Information, College Art Association, 1996-1998.
Executive Advisory
Board, Academic Press, Image Directory, San Diego, CA, 1995.
Co-Chair, Task Force on
Educational Technologies, International Council for Distance Education, Oslo,
Norway, 1995.
Chair, Research
Consortium, National Demonstration Laboratory for Interactive Educational
Technologies, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC., 1987-1990.
Multimedia
Consulting
Learn Technologies
Interactive, Inc. for projects at the National Air and Space Museum,
Washington, DC and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, 1994-5.
J. Paul Getty Trust,
Getty Information Institute, general editor: Introduction to Multimedia in
Museums, CIDOC,
1995. Producer for World Wide Web site for Introduction to Imaging: Issues
in Constructing an Image Database, by Jennifer Trant and Howard Besser, 1995.
Museum Art Loan
Program, Strategic Grantmaker Services and MIT, Cambridge, MA., 1995.
Buffalo Bill Historical
Center, Cody, Wyoming, 1995.
International Design ,
CyberSmith, Inc., Cambridge, MA, 1995.
Houghton Mifflin
Publishing, College Division, Boston, MA, 1994.
Telefonica, Madrid,
Spain, 1994.
la Caixia Foundation,
Barcelona, Spain, 1994.
Viacom New Media, New
York, NY, 1993.
Siemens Nixdorf
Information Systems, Multimedia Center, Burlington, MA, 1993.
The Dalton School, The
New Laboratory for Teaching and Learning, New York, New York, 1993.
Groupe BULL, Paris,
France, 1991-93.
Thomson-CSF, Paris,
France, 1991-92
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France,
1991-3.
SyMedia, Inc., Paris,
France, 1991-92.
Bibliotheque de France,
Paris, France, 1990-1993.
Siemens-Nixdorf,
Munich, Germany, 1991.
IBM Europe, Heidelberg,
Germany, 1991.
Alenia Corporation,
Rome, Italy, 1991.
Olivetti Corporation,
Pisa, Italy, 1992.
MIT Museum, Cambridge,
MA, 1991.
National Museum of
Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1987.
Harvard University,
Collection of Historical and Scientific Instruments, Cambridge, MA., 1989.
Microsoft, Inc.,
Multimedia User Interface Group, Seatle, Washington, 1989.
Teachers College
Columbia University. Curriculum in Visualization for the Department of
Communications, Computing and Technology. Annenberg/CPB Grant Proposal,
1988-90.
Georgia Technical
Institute, Atlanta, GA. CD-I application in quantum physics, 1988.
MIT Man Vehicle Lab,
collaboration with NASA and MIT Telescience Group for multimedia
telecommunication system.
University of Maine,
Augusta, MA. Interactive video courseware for Coastal Ecology, 1988-9.
MIT Media-Lab
Epistemology and Learning Group, MIT, Daedalus Project. Interactive videodisc
on history and technology of human powered flight, 1989.
Middendorf Gallery,
Washington, DC. Man Ray's Paris Portraits: 1921-39 as multimedia project, 1989.
ABC News, New York, NY.
Re-purposing of news archive for interactive educational products, 1988.
University of the Air,
Smithsonian World, Washington, DC. Interactive video courseware based on PBS
broadcast material by the producers of Smithsonian World, 1988.
Houghton Mifflin, Inc.
Boston, MA. Reference Division. Electronic versions of reference publications,
1988.
General Motors, Inc.
Detroit, Michigan. Market Research and Planning, design documentation systems,
1988.
South Carolina State
Museum, Columbia, South Carolina. Interactive video exhibit on New Deal Art in
South Carolina, 1987.
High Museum of Art,
Atlanta, GA. Museum Education Department, 1986.
Still Current Design,
Inc. Atlanta, GA, Interactive videodisc applications in the arts and
humanities, 1986.
Crawford Communications,
Atlanta, GA, demonstration videodisc and promotional materials for Nebraska
Videodisc Symposium, 1985.
Columbia University,
New York, NY. Design of interactive videodisc for Alan Lomax,
anthropologist/ethnomusicologist, for film and video archive, 1985.
Vision Machine
Research, Cambridge, MA. Education of the Circle, interactive demonstration
videodisc, Project Eon, interactive videodisc game, 1980-82.
Awards, Grants, Fellowships
Smithsonian
Computerworld Medal, design of Getty Information Institute Web site, Washington, DC, 1999.
Best of the Web Award
for Best Museum Professional's Website, Museums and the Web Conference, Toronto, 1998.
Gannett Foundation
Grant, for Atlanta College of Art Media Studies Program, 1986.
MIT Center for Advanced
Visual Studies, Fellowship, Cambridge, MA, 1983-84.
Association of
Independent Colleges of Art, Faculty Grant, , 1983.
City of Atlanta,
Program Grant, Department of Telecommunications, Atlanta, GA, 1982.
City of Atlanta, Artist
Grant, Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, GA,1979.
State of New York, ZBS
Foundation, Fellowship, Fort Edward, New York, 1979.
National Endowment for
the Arts, Alternative Space Grant, Washington, DC, 1977-78.
NBC Television,
Fellowship, WSB, Atlanta, GA, 1976.
Invited Lectures
From Commentary to
Contemplation,
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Fall 2003.
Lecturer: Public
Art: The Internet as Public Space, University Southern California, March 1, 2001.
Moderator: Digital
Hollywood: Speeding Up, Content Peering and Jump Starting Streams, San Jose, CA, March 6, 2001.
Lecturer: MIT
Communications Forum: Digital Museums, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA,
March 8, 2001.
Session Chair: Engineering the Future:
Requirements and Architecture for Administration and
Maintenance of
Digital Object Libraries, Museums and the Web Conference, Seattle, WA, March 15, 2001.
Co-organizer w/Warner
Brothers: Symposium on Issues of Archiving and Media Production: New Paradigms
for the Digital Age,
UCLA, Los Angeles, March 16, 2001.
Tisch School of the
Arts, Columbia University, Department of Photography, The Internet and
Photography,
November, 1999.
1999 Society of
American Archivists Meeting, The Information Afterlife: Time and Bits , Pittsburgh August, 1999.
Visual Resource
Association Conference, Digital Reference: Building and Rebuilding , Los Angeles, February, 1999.
College Art Association
Conference, Virtual/Human Interfaces for Virtual Exhibitions, Los Angeles, February, 1999.
Virtual Worlds and
Simulations Conference, Virtual Worlds as Content-Clocks for Cultural Memory, San Francisco, January, 1999.
Global Business
Network, The Future of Design , Santa Monica, CA, December, 1998.
Invited speaker, 4th
International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, Virtual World
Heritage UNESCO, Gifu, Japan, November, 1998, 2000.
Speaker, UCLA Forum on
Protecting Digital Creativity, Los Angeles County Library, November, 1998.
Americans for the Arts
Annual Conference, Making Aesthetic Judgements in the Information Age, Denver, Colorado, June, 1998.
University of New
Mexico, The Digital Future, Department of Art and Art History, Albuquerque, New
Mexico, April, 1998.
Getty Center, Time and
Bits: Managing Digital Continuity, Panelist and speaker, February, 1998.
Getty Center , Book
Publishing: The Web, CD-ROM and other Digital Dreams Conference, Published
to Bits: The New Media, sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Trust Publications and the Getty
Information Institute, Los Angeles, February, 1997.
Community Networking
Conference, New Media, Taos, New Mexico, May, 1996.
College Art Association
Conference, Introduction to Digital Imaging, Boston, MA, February 1996.
Buffalo Bill Historical
Center, Multimedia Literacy, Cody, Wyoming, September, 1995.
Atlantic Provinces
Library Association, Multimedia Literacy, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada,
May, 1995.
University of Athens,
Ekpedftiria Doukas Conference on Technology and Education, The Teacher of
the Future,
Athens, Greece, November, 1994.
University of
California, Aspects of Time in Multimedia, Berkeley, California, November, 1994.
Technical University of
Nova Scotia, Multimedia for Libraries, November, 1994.
University of Montreal,
Department of Architecture, Multimedia, September, 1994.
Museum Computer Network
Conference, Seeing the Unseen: The Harold Edgerton Multimedia Project, Washington, DC, August, 1994.
MIT CECI Workshop on
Multimedia Development, August, 1994.
IEEE Multimedia Conference,
Workshop: Integrative Multimedia Design, Boston, 1994.
SIGCHI (Special
Interest Group for Computer Human Interface, ACM Annual Conference, Workshop: Integrative
Multimedia Design,
Boston, 1994.
Columbia University,
Societal Choices Workshop, Multimedia Computing and Environmental Literacy, 1994.
National University
Continuing Education Association Annual Conference (NUCEA), Transforming
Education Through Multimedia Applications, Atlanta, Georgia, 1994.
School of the Museum of
Fine Arts, Multimedia Arts, Boston, MA, 1994.
Universidad Nacional de
Educacion Distancia (UNED), Multimedia Design, Madrid, Spain, 1994.
University of Paris,
Jussieu, Institut Image et Communication, Multimedia Language, Paris, France, 1994.
Escuela de Organizacion
Industrial, MIT Multimedia, Madrid, Spain, 1994.
Universitat Politecnica
de Catalunya, MIT Multimedia, Barcelona, Spain, 1994.
Annual Conference for
The Museum Computer Network, The Works of Harold Edgerton Multimedia
Application,
Seattle, Washington, November, 1993.
New Paltz Lecture
Series on Multimedia, Wheel of Culture, State University College, New Paltz, New York,
October, 1993.
MONTAGE 93,
International Festival of the Image, Digital Museums, Rochester, New York, July,
1993.
INTERCHI 93, Conference
on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Integrative Multimedia Design, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April
1993.
University of Southern
California, Colloquium on Entertainment and Education, Models of Multimedia, Los Angeles, CA, April, 1993.
Trinity College,
Conference on Culture, Technology, and Interpretation, Wheel of Culture, Dublin, Ireland, March, 1993.
Florida State
University, Imagery and the Millennium, Tallahassee, Florida, March, 1993.
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Tenth International Conference on Technology and Education, Interactive
Media Literacy,
March 1993.
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Conference on Educational Computing in the Twenty-First Century:
Building from Project Athena, Interactive Environmental Literacy, November, 1992.
Teachers College
Columbia University, Faculty Colloquia, Center for Educational Computing
Initiatives,
October, 1992.
University of Athens,
Ekpedftiria Doukas Conference on Technology and Education, Ways of Teaching, Athens, Greece, November, 1991.
International
Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums (ICHIM 91), Panal
moderator: Museums, Universities, and Libraries: Partners in Multimedia
Development and Dissemination, Pittsburgh, PA, October, 1991.
Salon International des
Systems de Gestion Electronique de Documents et D'Information (SIGED 91),
Concluding Address: Long Range Solutions, Paris, October, 1991.
Cooper Union for the
Advancement of Science and Art, MIT Center for Educational Computing
Initiatives,
New York, New York, September, 1991.
Indiana University
Multimedia Symposium, Keynote Address: Santa Claus, Rip Van Winkle, Abbey
Road, and Multimedia,
Bloomington, Indiana, September, 1991.
IBM European Institute,
No Rock, No Window,
Oberlech, Austria, August, 1991.
Bibliotheque de France,
AthenaMuse in the Library, Paris, France, April, June, August, 1991.
Rene Dubos Center for
Human Environment, Educational Technology, New York, NY, 1991.
NASA Space Grant
College, University of Colorado, New Technology for Global Communications, Boulder, Colorado, 1991.
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, The Social Creation of Knowledge: Multimedia and Information
Technologies in the University, Cambridge, MA, 1991.
IBM Educational
Telecast, Connected Design, Thornwood, NY, March, 1991.
School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, Folk Art 2, Chicago, Illinois, 1990.
Aspen Global Change
Institute, New Technologies for Global Change, Aspen, Colorado, 1990.
IDATE90, Distributed
Multimedia, 12th International Congress, Montpellier, France, 1990.
EDUCOM90, Looking
Through Computers,
Atlanta, Ga, 1990.
Georgia Institute of
Technology, Global Village or Village Idiots?, Atlanta, Ga, 1990.
NTTData Multimedia
Computing Research, Multimedia at MIT, Tokyo, Osaka, Japan, 1990.
Seybold Electronic
Publishing Conference, Multimedia Applications, Boston, MA, 1990.
American Association of
Museums, Multimedia and Museums, Chicago, Illinois,
1990.
IBM Academic Computing
Conference, Multimedia at MIT, Miami, FLA, 1990.
Florida State
University, Department of Art and the FSU Supercomputer Center, The
Influence of Visualization on the Arts, Tallahasse, FLA, 1989.
Museum Computer
Network, Multimedia and Museums, Chicago, Illinois, 1989.
International
Electronic Imaging Conference and Exposition, Pasadena, California, Visualization
Using Multimedia Workstations, 1989-90.
International Meeting
on Museums and Art Galleries Image Databases, London, UK, Collection Image
System for the Smithsonian Institution, 1989.
Image Technology Users
Group, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Multimedia Workstations and
Museums, 1989.
Teachers College,
Columbia University, New York, NY, Learning and the Workstation, 1989.
Simmons College,
Boston, MA, Multimedia Conference, Project Athena and Visual Computing, 1988-89.
EDUCOM89, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, Project Athena Visual Computing Group, 1989.
SALT (Society for
Applied Learning Technologies), Orlando, Florida, Use and Development of
Interactive Multi-Media in Higher Education, Advanced Projects: The New
Education,
1989.
International
Electronic Imaging Conference, Boston, MA, Image Learning, 1988.
EDUCOM88, Washington,
DC, Special Interest Group Chair, Visual Computing, 1988.
International
Interactive Communications Society, Boston, MA, Project Athena and Visual
Computing,
1988.
IBM Academic Computing
Conference (ACIS), Dallas, Texas, Visual Courseware at Project Athena, 1988.
Technological Advances
in Education and Training Conference, University of Maine, Augusta, MA, Project
Athena and Visual Computing, 1987.
National Endowment for
the Humanities, Washington, DC, Projects in Multimedia at MIT, 1987.
EARDHE, European
Association for Research and Development in Higher Education and the Dutch
Association for Research and Development in Higher Education 5th Congress on
Higher Education and Technology, State University of Utrecht, Utrecht,
Netherlands, Keynote address, Image Learning: Higher Education and
Interactive Videodisc,
1987.
Museum School, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Art and Technology, 1986.
Carnegie Mellon
University, Department of Art, Art and Technology, 1985.
Massachusetts College
of Art, Boston, MA, Art and Technology, 1985.
Center for Advanced
Visual Studies, Artists Speak, MIT, Art and Technology, 1985.
Alfred University,
Department of Art, Art and Technology, 1984.
Syracuse University,
The Other Cinema, Syracuse, NY, Art and Technology, 1984.
Nova Scotia College of
Art and Design, Halifax, NS, Art and Technology, 1983.
Boston Film and Video
Center, Boston, MA, Art and Telecommunications, 1981.
University of Illinois,
Champaigne/Urbana, Illinois, Art and Technology, 1980.
School of the Visual
Arts, New York, NY, Video and Photography, 1978.
Publications
Razorfish Reports,
Razorfish, Inc, (www.reports.razorfish.com) Digital StoryTelling, Tom's
Rules of Thumbing, All in Good Timing, 2000-2001.
Spectra, Museum
Computer Network Publication, What will become of New Media? , Summer, 2000.
Who's Who in American
Art, 1978-2001.
Union List of Artists
Names, Getty Information Institute.
Encyclopedia of the
Environment, Art and the Environment, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 1999.
Visual Resource
Association, Digital Reference: Building and ReBuilding, February, 1999.
Virtual Worlds and
Simulations Proceedings and CD ROM, Virtual Worlds as Content-Clocks for Cultural
Memory,
January, 1999.
Time and Bits: Managing
Digital Continuity, co-author, Margaret MacLean, Getty Information Institute,
Getty Conservation Institute, LongNow Foundation, September, 1998.
Scientific American
Magazine, The Future of the Past, August, 1997.
Scientific American
Magazine, The Culture Machine: Science and Art on the Web, August, 1996.
Scientific American
Magazine, The Gallery in the Machine, May, 1995.
Journal of the American
Society for Information Science, Teacher of the Future, November, 1996.
Sociomedia: Multimedia,
Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Knowledge, Vol. 4, No. 5, Edward
Barrett, ed; Wheel of Culture, 1995.
Aperture Magazine, Digital
Museums,
August, 1994.
New Media Magazine, AthenaMuse
Targets Group Authoring, August, 1994.
Computer Artist
Magazine, Ins and Outs of Multimedia Design: MIT Creates Multimedia Life of
Edgerton,
February/March, 1994.
El Mundo, Interview:
De la concentracion a la manipulacion, Madrid, Spain, March, 4, 1994.
SPIE 94 (The International
Society for Optical Engineering), The Human Interface to Large Multimedia
Databases, San
Jose, CA, 1994.
La Revolucion de los
Medios Audiovisuales, Un Mundo Multiple, Roberto Aparici, ed., Ediciones de la Torre,
Madrid, 1993.
Multimedia Computing:
Case Studies from MIT Project Athena, InfraThin Multimedia, ed. M. Hodges and R. Sasnett,
, Addison Wesley, Boston, MA, 1993.
Educom Review, Looking
and Learning Through Computers, Vol.28, Number 1, January/February 1992.
Multimedia Review, Looking
Through Computers,
Vol. 3, Number 4, Winter,
1992.
Sociomedia: Multimedia,
Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Knowledge, Edward Barrett, editor; , MIT
Press, 1991.
Visual Resources
Magazine, Infra-Thin Multimedia, Vol. VII, July, 1991.
Windows on Athena, Distributed
Multimedia, MIT
Project Athena, Cambridge, MA, 1990.
Advanced Imaging
Magazine, Educational Multimedia at MIT, Ben Davis, Russell Sasnett, Matthew Hodges,
July/August, 1989.
The Society of Text:
Hyper-Text, Hyper-Media and the Social Construction of Information, Edward
Barrett, editor; Multimedia Design Documentation, Mathew Hodges, Russell
Sasnett, and Ben Davis, MIT Press, 1989.
Computing and
Education: The Second Frontier, Robert McClintock, editor; Image Learning, Ben Davis, Teachers College Press,
NY, 1989.
Interactive Media
International, Project Athena: Multimedia Learning, Vol. 3, March, 1898.
Scientific American
Special Issue Vol. 1, Trends in Computing, Michael Dertouzos, Interactive
Language Programs, VCG illustration, 1988.
Teachers College
Record, Vol. 89, No.3, Image Learning: Higher Education and Interactive
Videodisc, Ben
Davis, Spring, 1988.
Project Athena, The
First Five Years, Vol. II, Image Learning, Ben Davis, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1988.
EDU Magazine; Special
Edition, Workstations for Education, Project Athena's Visual Computing Group
Develops Athena Muse; Hypermedia in Action, David Lampe, Digital Equipment Corporation,
1988.
MIT Report, Athena
Muse: Hypermedia in Action, David Lampe, February, 1988.
IEEE Software, A Construction
Set for Multimedia Applications, Matthew Hodges, Russell Sasnett, Mark Ackerman,
January, 1989.
Tech Talk, Telescience
to Bring More Space Experiments, Eugene Mallove, MIT, September, 1988.
Videography Magazine, The
Emperor's New Videodisc: An American Team Opens the Door for an Interactive
China, Steve
Gowin, January 1986.
Atlanta Art Papers,
Memory Theater One: The Age of Computer Art, Ben Davis, January/February, 1986. Hometown
USA, Ben Davis,
October,1982. Lisa Irwin: Water Sports, Ben Davis, January, 1981. Artist to Artist, Ben Davis, September, 1978.
Atlanta Art Papers,
Ben Davis, by
Jan Avgikos, March/April, 1985.
Sky Art Interactive
Videodisc Catalog, Sky Disc: Implications, Ben Davis, CAVS, MIT, 1984.
Community Television
Review, The Role of the Artist, Ben Davis, 1981.
Contemporary Arts
Southeast, Alternative to Alienation, Sarah Daniels, August, 1977.
BEO, Ben Davis, George Hemphill,
Sarah Schroth, Nexus Press, Atlanta, GA, 1977.
Selected Exhibitions
Our Good Earth:
Landscape at the End of the Century, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC, May-July, 1999.
Getty Center, Getty
Underground, An
Exhibition of Works of Art by Getty Staff, Los Angeles, November, 1998.
Florida State
University, Millennium Now, Tallahassee, Florida, March, 1993.
Boston Computer Museum,
Surrealist's Ball,
telecommunication piece between Vancouver, BC., Boston, Pittsburgh, Atlanta,
1987.
Museum of Contemporary
Art, San Paulo, Brazil, Telecommunication, with Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT,
1987.
Biennale of Venice
International Art Exhibition, Technologica E Informatica, Telecommunication, with collaborators in Japan,
Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Wales, and US, 1986.
Ars Electronica
Exhibition, Imagining Antarctica, drawings and telephone connection to Scott Base
Antarctica, Linz, Austria, 1986.
Architectural Research
Terminal, Architecture is Exhibition, drawings and photographs, Waregem, Belgium, 1985.
Atlanta Film and Video
Festival, Life on Mars, videotape, Atlanta, GA, 1985.
Georgia State
University, Solo
exhibit, paintings, drawings, video, Atlanta GA, 1985.
Suffolk Theater,
Suffolk University, Tomorrow's News, live video performance, Boston, MA, 1984.
Syracuse University, The
Other Cinema:
videotapes, Syracuse, NY, 1984.
Hidvore Art Library, BEO, Falling, Denmark, 1983.
International Sky Art
Festival, Du Bist,
video transmission piece from Cambridge, MA, Munich, West Germany, 1983.
Middendorf Gallery, The
Kennedy Papers,
photographs, Washington, DC 1982.
Pieter Brattinga Gallery,
Drawings and Photographs, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1981.
Mixage Gallery, BEO, Caen, France, 1981.
Art Institute of
Boston, Vector Shredders, photographs, Boston, MA, 1980.
Light Gallery, Hiroshima
Nice,
photographs, New York, NY, 1977.
Midtown Gallery, A
Reliable Snowman,
photographs, New York, NY, 1976.
Museum of Contemporary
Art, OK Photos,
photographs, Recife, Brazil, 1975.
Magnetic Image
International Exhibition, Videotape, Atlanta, GA, 1975-82.
Collections
Hemphill Fine Arts,
Washington, DC.
International Museum of
Photography at The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.
High Museum of Art,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Museum of Modern Art,
New York, NY, Artists Book Collection.
Center for Advanced
Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
St. Petersburg Museum
of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, Florida.
Jacksonville Museum of
Fine Art, Jacksonville, Florida.
Center for Creative
Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
Florida State
University Museum, Tallahassee, Florida.
Lomholt Formular
Archive, Falling, Denmark.
References On request