B - SVA MFA INTERACTION DESIGN- THESIS SYLLABUS - School of

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Manhattan; The Agony and the Ecstasy; No Man’s Land; The
Works of Georg Buchner; The Illiad and the Odyssey; Piracy
& Plunder: A Murderous Business; Vampires, Werewolves,
Zombies: Compendium Monstrum; The Red Badge of Courage
puBlicAtions include: Art in America, Printmaking Today,
Journal of the Print World, Contemporary Literary Criticism,
A Survey of Illustration, The New York Times, Step-by-Step,
American Artist, Carrier Pigeon
clients include: The New York Times; Dell Publishers; Grove
Books; E.P. Dutton; Holt, Rinehart and Winston; Psychology Today;
Doubleday; Franklin Library; People; The New Yorker; Discovery
Channel Magazine; Bristol Myers Squibb; Pfizer; Boyds Mills Press;
Vintage Books; Peter Pauper Press
AwArds And grAnts include: Silver Medal, Society of Illustrators;
Jerome Foundation; Printmaking Workshop
andy Walker
Senior technical director, Framestore CFC
educAtion: BA, with honors, Bournemouth University
clients include: Geico, Coca-Cola, General Motors Corporation,
Pepsi, Oral B, Dodge, Jeep, Playstation, Smirnoff, Hoover, Verizon
AwArds include: Visual Effects Society
ellen Wallenstein
Photographer, book artist
educAtion: BA, SUNY Stony Brook; MFA, Pratt Institute
one-person exhiBitions include: Henry Street Settlement;
Aperture Foundation; Camera Club of New York; Arsenal Gallery;
92nd Street Y; The Creative Center; Alison Palmer Gallery, Bantam, CT
group exhiBitions include: Ellis Island Museum; HarperCollins
Exhibition Space; Center for Book Arts; Barbara Ann Levy Gallery;
Canon Gallery, Amsterdam; Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid;
Pelham Arts Center, NY
collections include: Museum of the City of New York; Center
for Creative Photography, Tucson; Performing Arts Library, Lincoln
Center; Ellis Island Museum; Humanities Research Center, Austin;
Brooklyn Museum; Jaffee Collection, Florida Atlantic University;
Southwest Texas State University; Pfizer
puBlicAtions include: Afterimage, Contemplate, The Sun,
Metrosource, Spot, Third Coast, PDNedu
AwArds include: New York Foundation for the Arts, Ford
Foundation. Artist residences include: The Creative Center, Women’s
Studio Workshop
Joyce Wan
Founder, Wanart; author; illustrator
educAtion: BA, Barnard College
clients include: Blue Apple Books, Papryus, Scholastic Inc.,
Madison Park Greetings, Paper Source, Asia Society, target.com
Books include: You Are My Cupcake, Greetings From Kiwi
and Pear
weBsite: www.wanart.com
Bruce Wands
Chair, MFA Computer Art Department, director of computer
education, School of Visual Arts; artist/writer/musician; producer/
director, Wands Studio; director, New York Digital Salon
educAtion: BA, cum laude, Lafayette College; MS, Syracuse
University; Rutgers University
Author: Art of the Digital Age, Digital Creativity
group exhiBitions include: Art in the Digital Era, Guangzhou,
China; Electronics Alive III, IV, V, Tampa, FL; D-ART Online Digital
Art Gallery; Computer Graphics Invitational, Greeley, CO; Creativity
& Cognition, Goldsmiths College, London; International Digital
Media and Arts Exhibition, Orlando, FL; First Beijing International
New Media Arts Exhibition; ASCI Digital 01 Exhibition, New York;
Art and Science International, National Museum of Fine Art, Beijing;
SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, Los Angeles; Hong Kong Arts Centre;
Museum het Toreke, Tienen, Belgium; New-York Historical Society
conferences include: Victoria & Albert Museum, London;
British Computer Society, London; International Conference on
Animation Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing; University of
London; International Conference on the Arts in Society, Venice
and Kassel; SIGGRAPH, ISEA, Singapore; International Conference
on Interaction Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing; College
Art Association
grAnts include: National Endowment for the Arts; Rockefeller
Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts; NESTA (National
Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, U.K.)
AwArds And honors include: National Science Foundation panelist;
New York State Council on the Arts panelist; “One of the 99
People to Watch in 1999” Time Out New York; “Top Ten Digital
Arts Schools in the World” ImagineFX, U.K.; Best Original Web Art
Award for Department website, Yahoo Internet Life; Chicago Film
Festival; New York International Film and TV Festival; Art Directors
Club; NCGA Educator’s Scholarship; National Safety Council Award
for Excellence; senior editor, Leonardo Electronic Almanac; board
of directors, NYC/ACM SIGGRAPH; advisory board, 3D Design
Conference; keynote speaker, University of London; keynote speaker,
Wabash College
weBsite: www.brucewands.com
Daniel Wapner
Sculptor
educAtion: BFA, MFA, School of Visual Arts
group exhiBitions include: DUMBO Art Festival, ISE Cultural
Foundation, Goliath Visual Space, Visual Arts Gallery
Oliver Wasow
Fine art photographer
educAtion: BA, Hunter College
represented By: Janet Borden Gallery
one-person exhiBitions include: Tom Solomon’s Garage, Los
Angeles; Galerie de Poche, Paris; Josh Baer Gallery; Glenn Dash
Gallery; Julian Pretto Gallery; Janet Borden Gallery; Southeastern
Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
group exhiBitions include: Whitney Museum of American Art;
Patricia Shea Gallery, Los Angeles; Green Museum, Osaka; CEPA
Gallery, Buffalo, NY; International Center of Photography
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