faculty
Brooke Singer
Assistant Professor of New Media
School of Natural and Social Sciences
Office: NS3004
Phone: (914) 251-6644
Fax: (914) 251-6635
Email: brooke.singer@purchase.edu
Personal website: www.bsing.net/blog
Education:
Wesleyan University, BA, 1990
Carnegie Mellon University, MFA, 2002
Positions held:
Assistant Curator of Digital Media, American Museum of the Moving Image, New York
Areas of expertise:
net art, tactical media, social web
Research interests:
data surveillance, emerging technologies for social change, hacktivism, data visualization
Courses taught:
Internet as Public Art, Information Aesthetics, Experimental Web Practice,
Digital Media Studio, The Emerging Web: Collaborations in Web Design Using
XML, New Media Senior Seminar I & II
Selected honors and awards:
New York Foundation for the Arts Computer Arts Fellow 2007;
New York State Department of Energy's Next Generation Emerging Technologies Award; Turbulence.org Commission (2007 and 2004);
Social Sculpture Commission by Eyebeam Art and Technology Center and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2005);
Franklin Furnace Future of the Present Award (2004);
Experimental Television Center Finishing Funds (2004).
Selected publications:
Radical History Review, "Surveillance Creep!," Duke University Press, Spring 2006;
Sarai Reader 04, "Introducing AIDC as a Tool for Data Surveillance," Crisis and Media, Winter 2004; Link: A Critical Journal on the Arts in Baltimore and the World, "Databody," Issue 7: BecomingMachine, BecomingLive, Fall 2001.
Selected exhibitions:
Arte.Mov, A Festival of Mobile Art, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; 6 Billion Perps Held Hostage: Artists Address Global Warming, Warhol Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; New Media When, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, College, Purchase, NY; Sonar Music and Multimedia Festival, Barcelona, Spain; Exit Biennial II: Traffic, Exit Art, New York, NY; Break 2.3: New
Species, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Crime Thoughts, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; Cyphorg Citizens & Unwitting Avatars, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA; Database Imaginary, Walter Philips Gallery, Banff, Canada; Whitney Museum of American Art, Artport, online; Biennale de Montréal, Montreal, Canada; FILE-2002, Sao Paulo, Brazil; SIGGRAPH 2002, San Antonio, TX.