ANDREA POLLI

e-oculus

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E-Oculus is a permanent, real-time public visualization of international business market activity for the University of Utah Eccles School of Business. The activity monitored is both volume and volatility, in the US (Dow), European and Asian markets. Near real-time volume in the market is expressed by both the number of contrails going across the screen and the clearness or storminess of the sky. For example, blue with clouds means the market is up, and red with lightning means a down market. Daily volatility (aka the ‘fear index’) for each market is expressed by a changing, sometimes unearthly, sky color. Occasional ripples are a feature expressing the liquid nature of the piece, emphasizing that this digital image is merely a reflection of our reality.
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source: andreapolli

Artist’s Bio: Andrea Polli is an artist working at the intersection of art, science and technology whose practice includes media installation, public interventions, curating and directing art and community projects and writing. She has been creating media and technology artworks related to environmental science issues since 1999, when she first began collaborating with atmospheric scientists on sound and data sonification projects. Among other organizations, she has worked with the NASA/Goddard Institute Climate Research Group in New York City, the National Center for Atmospheric Research and AirNow. She holds a doctorate in practice-led research from the University of Plymouth in the UK. Her latest book is Far Field: Digital Culture, Climate Change and the Poles on Intellect Press.

In her research and practice, she experiments with performance, interactive and web art, digital broadcasting and mobile media. She is focused on participatory media, and her practice often includes workshops or other activities designed to engage the public with ideas and concepts at various levels. She believes in the importance of many levels of interdisciplinary collaboration and has created collaborative situations for very large groups, small teams, or pairs of individuals. Through her work as a resident at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York and in creating the Open Source Learning Community at UNM, she has become increasingly committed to open source practice and concepts to aid collaboration, in project development and in teaching and mentoring.

Polli’s work with art/science, technology has been presented widely in over one hundred presentations, exhibitions and performances internationally including the Whitney Museum of American Art Artport and The Field Museum of Natural History, and has been recognized by numerous grants, residencies and awards including Fullbright and UNESCO. Her work has been reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art News, NY Arts and others. She has published several audio CDs, DVDs two book chapters and many papers with MIT Press, Cambridge University Press and others.

She currently works in collaboration with atmospheric scientists to develop systems for understanding storm and climate through sound (called sonification). Recent projects include: a spatialized sonification of highly detailed models of storms that devastated the New York area; a series of sonifications of climate in Central Park; and a real-time multi-channel sonification and visualization of weather in the Arctic. In 2007/2008 she spent seven weeks in Antarctica on a National Science Foundation funded project. http://www.90degreessouth.org

As a member of the steering committee for New York 2050, a wide-reaching project envisioning the future of the New York City region, she worked with city planners, environmental scientists, historians and other experts to look at the impact of climate on the future of human life both locally and globally.

She has received a Master of Fine Arts in Time Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD in Computing, Communications and Electronics from the University of Plymouth, UK. In 2000, she was voted Teacher of the Year at Columbia College in Chicago in recognition of her work connecting students to the wider community through collaborative projects. These projects included performances and exhibitions at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art and a large scale public art project connecting 5 neighborhood arts organizations with live web streaming, an exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center and six billboards. Pause. was featured as the Millennium Community Artwork for Illinois and funded by The Mid Atlantic Arts Council and Ameritech.

Polli is currently an Associate Professor of Art and Ecology with appointments in the College of Fine Arts and School of Engineering at the University of New Mexico. She holds the Mesa Del Sol Endowed Chair of Digital Media and directs the Social Media Workgroup, a lab at the University’s Center for Advanced Research Computing.

She served as the founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media Program and as Director of ARTS Lab at the University from 2009-2010. From 2005-2008 she served as the Director of the Integrated Media Arts Master of Fine Arts Program at Hunter College/CUNY. From 2006-2009 she was co-chair of the Leonardo Education Forum, an affiliate of the MIT Press and the College Art Association of America (CAA) that promotes the advancement of research and academic scholarship at the intersections of art, science, and technology and from 2004-2008 she was co-chair of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, a multi-disciplinary group exploring the urban sound environment and a chapter of the American and World Forums for Acoustic Ecology, for which she now on the board as Southwest Society Representative.

Academic Bio: Andrea Polli is currently an Associate Professor of Art and Ecology with appointments in the College of Fine Arts and School of Engineering at the University of New Mexico. She holds the Mesa Del Sol Endowed Chair of Digital Media and directs the Social Media Workgroup, a lab at the University’s Center for Advanced Research Computing.

She served as the founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media Program and as Director of ARTS Lab at the University from 2009-2010. From 2005-2008 she served as the Director of the Integrated Media Arts Master of Fine Arts Program at Hunter College/CUNY. She co-authored CUNYcolab (The City University of New York’s Collaborative Media Communications Lab) a two-year grant-funded project of the Hunter College Integrated Media Arts MFA Program and the Performance and Interactive Media Arts MFA Program at Brooklyn College designed to bridge CUNY campuses and departments working in emerging media. CUNYcolab currently focuses on mobile media projects created by students and faculty. Polli received another grant to expand that work through a Hypermedia Cities project with a faculty colleague at Baruch/CUNY in conjunction with UCLA.

Polli’s work with science, technology and media has been presented widely in over 100 presentations, exhibitions and performances internationally, and has been recognized by numerous grants, residencies and awards including a NYFA Artist’s Fellowship, the Fulbright Specialist Award and the UNESCO Digital Arts Award. From 2006-2009 she was co-chair of the Leonardo Education Forum, an affiliate of the MIT Press and the College Art Association of America (CAA) that promotes the advancement of research and academic scholarship at the intersections of art, science, and technology and from 2004-2008 she was co-chair of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, a multi-disciplinary group exploring the urban sound environment and a chapter of the American and World Forums for Acoustic Ecology, for which she now serves on the board as Southwest Society Representative.

As an educator, Polli has developed new media programs at Robert Morris College and Columbia College in Chicago where she was voted 2000/2001 Teacher of the Year in recognition of her work connecting students to the wider community through collaborative projects. These projects included working on performance and exhibition projects with the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art and pause., a large scale public art project connecting 5 neighborhood arts organizations with live web performances and presenting an exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center and six billboards throughout Chicago. Pause. was featured as the Millennium Community Artwork for Illinois and funded by The Mid Atlantic Arts Council and Ameritech.

She has served on review and curatorial boards for SIGGRAPH, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Electronic Music Foundation, the National Science Foundation and others and received a Master of Fine Arts in Time Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD in Computing, Communications and Electronics from the University of Plymouth, UK.
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source: artunmedu

Andrea Polli is currently an Associate Professor in Fine Arts and Engineering at The University of New Mexico. She co-authored CUNYcolab (The City University of New York’s Collaborative Media Communications Lab) a two-year grant-funded project of the Hunter College Integrated Media Arts MFA Program and the Performance and Interactive Media Arts MFA Program at Brooklyn College designed to bridge CUNY campuses and departments working in emerging media. CUNYcolab currently focuses on mobile media projects created by students and faculty. Polli received another grant to expand the work through a Hypermedia Cities project with a faculty colleague at Baruch/CUNY in conjunction with UCLA.

Polli’s work with science, technology and media has been presented widely in over 100 presentations, exhibitions and performances internationally, and has been recognized by numerous grants, residencies and awards including UNESCO. She is currently co-chair of the Leonardo Education Forum, an affiliate of the MIT Press and the College Art Association of America (CAA) that promotes the advancement of research and academic scholarship at the intersections of art, science, and technology and co-chair of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, a multi-disciplinary group exploring the urban sound environment and a chapter of the American and World Forums for Acoustic Ecology.

She has served on review and curatorial boards for SIGGRAPH, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Electronic Music Foundation and others and received a Master of Fine Arts in Time Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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source: socialmediahpcunmedu

Andrea Polli is a digital media artist living in New Mexico. Her work with science, technology and media has been presented widely in over 100 presentations, exhibitions and performances internationally, has been recognized by numerous grants, residencies and awards including a NYFA Artist’s Fellowship, the Fullbright Specialist Award and the UNESCO Digital Arts Award. Her work has been reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art News, NY Arts and others. She has published several book chapters, audio CDs, DVDs and papers in print including MIT Press and Cambridge University Press journals.
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source: progmeorg

Andrea Polli é uma artista de mídia digital que mora na cidade de Nova Iorque. Atualmente, ela é uma Professora Adjunta de Filme e Mídia na Faculdade Hunter. Seu trabalho trata de ciência e tecnologia na sociedade contemporânea. Ela já expôs e lecionou nacional e internacionalmente.
Andrea Polli trabalhou em colaboração com cientistas para desenvolver sistemas para compreensão de tempestades e clima através do som. Em virtude deste trabalho, ela recebeu o prêmio de Artes Digitais 2003 da UNESCO e apresentou trabalho na Bienal de Ogaki 2004 no Japão e na Conferência Mundial sobre Sociedade da Informação em Genebra.