NYDS presents "Digital Art in NYC and Abroad" -- Fri. March 18 @ 7 PM

Artist Talk on Art and the New York Digital Salon presents
“Digital Art in New York City and Abroad” panel discussion

Moderator: Renee Schacht, Assistant Director of the New York Digital Salon
Panelists: Zhang Ga, media artist and co-director of agent.netart
Liz Slagus, Director of Education at Eyebeam
Linda Lauro Lazin, chair of SIGGRAPH 2005 Art Gallery

Friday, March 18, 7pm
Visual Arts Amphitheater
209 East 23rd Street, Third Floor
Admission is free to SVA students and faculty
$7 general admission
$3 for non-SVA students and seniors

Zhang Ga is a media artist and co-director of agent.netart. He has exhibited internationally at the Ars Electronica Center, Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Whitney Museum of American Art and Singapore Art Museum among others, curated exhibitions, organized conferences and digital salons, written on new media art practice and criticism, and served on jury duties for media art grants. He is the artistic director of the Millennium Dialogue: Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium, an annual project he initiated and organized, and a member of the curatorial committee of the 13th International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA2006). Zhang Ga has taught at the MFA Design and Technology Program at Parsons School of Design, School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute. Most recently he has joined the New York Institute of Technology as associate professor of communication arts. Zhang Ga studied at the Central School of Fine Arts in Beijing and University of Arts in Berlin (UDK) and holds an MFA from the Parsons School of Design in New York City.

Since 1999, Liz Slagus has developed and managed various Eyebeam Education programs, from school, youth, & family-related courses and workshops to broader issues of new and digital literacies and learning and teaching practices. Liz has organized and spoken on several panels regarding art and technology education programming, including AAM and NYCMER. She has taught new media art courses for the University of Connecticut and the University of Rochester via Eyebeam and has consulted for many organizations and schools within New York City regarding art and technology education and programming. Liz holds a Bachelor's Degree in Art History and Anthropology from Bucknell University and a Master's Degree in Visual Arts Administration from New York University.

Linda Lauro-Lazin has been exhibiting her artwork for more than 25 years in the U.S. and Europe. She has been using digital media since 1986. Recently, she has been chosen to be the Art Chair for SIGGRAPH 2005. Ms. Lauro-Lazin's artwork will be included in "Art in the Digital Age" a new book by Bruce Wands Thames and Hudson. Her artwork has been shown recently at SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria and on the Rhizome website.

She is a Fulbright Scholar, receiving the Fulbright Lecturing/Research Award for her work in Macedonia in 1998-1999. In 2002, Ms. Lauro-Lazin received the Pratt Institute Faculty Development Grant to develop eight large format digital prints of her “Veiled Woman” series. She served on the SIGGRAPH 2004 Web Graphics Jury and Art Sub-Committee, and the 2003 Sketches committee. Ms. Lauro-Lazin was also the Art and Interactive Media Sub-Committee Chair for the SIGGRAPH 2002 Sketches. She also chaired several Art Sketches at the SIGGRAPH conferences in 2002 and 2003. In 1996, Ms. Lauro-Lazin curated a well-received exhibition of computer graphics at the Muroff Kotler Art Gallery. She has lectured on her artwork, computer graphics topics & applications. She has actively taught, both students and professionals, for 18 years. Linda resides in the Mid Hudson Valley of New York with her husband and two sons.

Renee Schacht, Assistant Director of the New York Digital Salon and Assistant to the Chair of the MFA Computer Art Department at the School of Visual Arts, has been organizing art exhibitions in New York City for over seven years. She began working for the New York Digital Salon in 2001 developing and coordinating national and international new media art exhibitions, animation screenings, panel discussion, etc. She received a Master of Arts in Art and Critical Theory and Museum Studies from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts in Arts Administration from the University of Minnesota.

Founded in 1993, the New York Digital Salon is dedicated to the exhibition, study and promotion of digital art in all its genres. The New York Digital Salon (NYDS) has a remarkable history: chronicling the numerous forms of new media art, exhibiting different digital art technologies as they evolved, and promoting and presenting these new art forms art to universities, art communities and the general public in New York as well as throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. www.nydigitalsalon.org

The New York Digital Salon is made possible in part with the support from the New York State Council of the Arts, the School of Visual Arts and the Visual Arts Foundation.