Golan Levin and Collaborators

• Complete Vitae PDF (11/2007, 1.09 MB)
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• Biography
• Exhibitions
• Performances
• Public Lectures and Workshops
• Press, Reviews and Compendia
• Publications, Discography, Patents
• Pedagogy and Teaching Activities
• Education and Employment
• Recognitions and Other Vitae

Short Summary CV

Brief Statement:
My work represents a personal inquiry into abstract communications protocols. In my process, I create new communications systems to explore such protocols, and then employ these systems in artworks which strive to be both demonstrative yet sublime.

Biography:
Golan Levin's work combines equal measures of the whimsical, the provocative, and the sublime in a wide variety of online, installation and performance media. He is known for the conception and creation of Dialtones: A Telesymphony [2001], a concert whose sounds are wholly performed through the carefully choreographed dialing and ringing of the audience's own mobile phones, and for interactive information visualizations like The Secret Lives of Numbers [2002] and The Dumpster [2006], which offer novel perspectives onto millions of online communications. Previously, Levin was granted an Award of Distinction in the Prix Ars Electronica for his Audiovisual Environment Suite [2000] interactive software and its accompanying audiovisual performance, Scribble [2000]. Other projects from recent years include Re:MARK [2002], Messa di Voce [2003], and The Manual Input Sessions [2004], developed in collaboration with Zachary Lieberman, and Scrapple [2005] and Ursonography [2005]; these performance and installation works use augmented-reality technologies to create multi-person, real-time visualizations of their participants’ speech and gestures. Levin is now in the preliminary research phase of a new body of work, which centers about interactive robotics, machine vision, and the theme of gaze as a primary new mode for human-machine communication. Presently Levin is Associate Professor of Electronic Time-Based Art at Carnegie Mellon University; his work is represented by the bitforms gallery, New York City.

Tenure-Track Teaching:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Associate Professor of Electronic Time-Based Art, CMU School of Art. July 2007 to present. Courtesy appointments in the School of Design (2006-) and School of Computer Science (2007-).
Assistant Professor of Electronic Time-Based Art, CMU School of Art. January 2004 to July 2007.

Education:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA. Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences, August 2000.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Bachelor of Science in Art and Design, June 1994. Minor in Music Theory and Composition.

Selected Group Exhibitions:
First Taipei International Digital Art Festival. Taipei, Taiwan. 11/2006.
Engaging Technology, Ball State Museum of Art, Muncie, Indiana. 11/2006.
Tmema Projects. NTT InterCommunicationsCenter, Tokyo, Japan. 8/2006.
Emoção Art.ficial 3.0 Biennial, Itaú Cultural Institute, São Paolo, Brazil. 7/2006.
Whitney Museum Artport and Tate Online, Net Art Commission, 2/2006.
Software Art, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Boston. 1/2006.
Digital Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan. 12/2005.
Rhizome ArtBase 101, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC. 6/2005.
Generative X: OneDotZero9. Institute for Contemporary Art, London. 5/2005.
Cut and Splice. The Jerwood Space, London. 5/2005.
Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, ZKM, Karlsruhe. 3/2005.
New Media: What. Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase, New York. 3/2005.
You Are Here: The Design of Information. Design Museum, London. 2/2005.
Art meets Media: Adventures in Perception, NTT ICC, Tokyo, Japan. 1/2005.
Microwave International Media Art Festival. City Hall Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong. 11/2004.
The Algorithmic Revolution: On the History of Interactive Art. ZKM, Karlsruhe. 10/2004.
Prix Ars Electronica. O.K. Centrum Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria. 9/2004.
Navigator. Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan. 7/2004.
Interactions/Art and Technology. American Museum of the Moving Image, 5/2004.
Digital Sublime. Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan. 5/2004.
Whitney Biennial 2004. Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. 3/2004.
Uijeongbu International Digital Art Festival. Nabi Art Center, Seoul, Korea. 11/2003.
Abstraction Now. Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria. 9/2003.
Golan Levin / Casey Reas. bitforms gallery, NYC. 2/2002.
Golan Levin / Katrin Grotepass. Moving Image Gallery, NYC. 4/2001.

Selected Performances (2003-):
Ursonography at Artefact Festival, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium, 2/2007.
Scribble and Scrapple at San Francisco International Film Festival. 4/2006.
Scribble, Scrapple, The Manual Input Sessions at Digital Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan. 12/2005.
Ursonography at Ars Electronica Festival. 9/2005.
The Manual Input Sessions at RomaEuropa Festival, Rome, Italy. 11/2004.
Messa di Voce at Poetry International Festival 2004, Royal Festival Hall, London. 10/2004.
Scribble (Solo) at SonarSound, Instituto Tomie Othake, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 9/2004.
The Manual Input Sessions at Ars Electronica Festival. Linz, Austria. 9/2004.
The Manual Input Sessions at The Kitchen, NYC. 4/2004.
Scribble (Solo) at TED 2004, Monterey, California, 2/2004.
Messa di Voce at Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), London. 11/2003.
Messa di Voce at Ars Electronica. Brucknerhaus Theater, Linz, Austria. 9/2003.
Scribble (Solo) at User_Mode, Tate Museum of Modern Art, London. 5/2003.

Selected Honors and Awards (2003-):
Webby Award, NetArt Category, 2007 Webby Awards. 5/2007.
Artist’s Grant, Emerging Fields Category, Creative Capital Foundation. 1/2006.
Elected as WTN Fellow, Arts Category, 2005 World Technology Awards. 6/2005.
Nominee, Artist category, 6th Annual WIRED Magazine Rave Award, 1/2005.
TR100, Technology Review's "100 Top Young Innovators Under 35", 10/2004.
Honorable Mention, Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica 2004. 9/2004.
Award of Distinction [2nd prize], Net Art, Prix Ars Electronica 2003. 9/2003.
Artist's Grant, New York State Council on the Arts. 8/2003.
Artist's Grant, Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund. 7/2003.
Artist's Grant, The Daniel Langlois Foundation, 5/2003.
Artist's Grant, Arts Council England. 1/2003.

Selected Press and Reviews (2003-):
Blais, Joline and Ippolito, John. The Edge of Art. Thames and Hudson, 2005.
Boxer, Sarah. "Web Works That Insist on Your Full Attention." New York Times, 6/28/2005.
Cameron, Andy. IdN-04: The Art of Experimental Interaction Design. IdN, Hong Kong. 2004.
Duckworth, William. Virtual Music: How the Web Got Wired for Sound. Routledge, 2005.
Fiell, Charlotte and Fiell, Peter. Graphic Design for the 21st Century. Taschen Books, 2003.
Greene, Rachel. Internet Art. Thames and Hudson, 2004.
Manovich, Lev.”Social Data Browsing.” Tate Online, 2/14/2006.
Paul, Christiane. Digital Art (World of Art). Thames and Hudson, 2003.
Savage, Neil. "TR100: 100 Top Innovators Under 35." Technology Review, p.54, 10/2004.
Tan, Tori. Golan Levin: Interview. XFUNS 13. IdN Publishing, Hong Kong. 7/2004.
Tribe, Mark and Reena Jana. New Media Art. Taschen Verlag Basic Art Series. 4/2006.
Wands, Bruce. Art of the Digital Age. Thames and Hudson, 2005.

Artscan texts (Monthly activity summaries for CMU School of Art newsletter)