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Don Foresta (born 1938 in Buffalo) is a research artist and theoretician in art. He has pioneered the use of new technologies as creative tools, with recent attention to online creation and archiving. His work Mondes Multiples, published in French in 1990, is recognized as a landmark in the fields of art and science and art and technology. A graduate of the University of Buffalo, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Foresta also holds a doctorate degree from the Sorbonne in Information Science. He is a dual citizen of the US and France and was named "Chevalier" of the Order of Arts and Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
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| dbo:abstract | Don Foresta (born 1938 in Buffalo) is a research artist and theoretician in art. He has pioneered the use of new technologies as creative tools, with recent attention to online creation and archiving. His work Mondes Multiples, published in French in 1990, is recognized as a landmark in the fields of art and science and art and technology. A graduate of the University of Buffalo, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Foresta also holds a doctorate degree from the Sorbonne in Information Science. He is a dual citizen of the US and France and was named "Chevalier" of the Order of Arts and Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. Foresta has contributed to many publications on the subject of the interface between art and science and philosophical parallels between the two in a period of profound change. He has been a Visiting Research Associate at the London School of Economics and was a professor at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts – Paris/Cergy. Foresta was the director of the American Cultural Center in Paris from 1971 to 1976. In 1976, he created the video art department of ENSAD (École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs) in Paris, the first such department in Europe. In 1981, Foresta organized his first online image exchange by telephone between the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT and the American Center in Paris where he was director of the Media Art program. He was a commissioner to the 42nd Venice Biennial in 1986, building one of the first computer networks between artists. (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | Don Foresta (born 1938 in Buffalo) is a research artist and theoretician in art. He has pioneered the use of new technologies as creative tools, with recent attention to online creation and archiving. His work Mondes Multiples, published in French in 1990, is recognized as a landmark in the fields of art and science and art and technology. A graduate of the University of Buffalo, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Foresta also holds a doctorate degree from the Sorbonne in Information Science. He is a dual citizen of the US and France and was named "Chevalier" of the Order of Arts and Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. (en) |
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