Bruce Wands

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Bruce Wands is an artist, writer and musician. He has lectured, performed, and exhibited his creative work internationally, including Europe, Japan, Hong Kong and Beijing, China. Time Out New York named Bruce as one of the "Internet People to Watch in 1999". His digital art, music, photography, and writing explore the invention of new forms of narrative and the relationship between visual art and music. Bruce was the first musicians to give a live performance over ISDN lines on the Internet in 1992. He is the Chair of the MFA Computer Art Department and the Director of Computer Education at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He has taught for eighteen years in the graduate, undergraduate, and continuing education programs in Computer Art. His department's internet site, www.sva.edu/mfacad was named by Yahoo Internet Life as one of the "100 Best Sites of 2002" for Best Original Web Art. He is the Director of the New York Digital Salon, an international digital art exhibition celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2003 (www.nydigitalsalon.org). He is the author of Digital Creativity, published by John Wiley &Sons, Inc. in 2001 and he is currently writing a book on digital art for Thames &Hudson UK, which will be published in 2004. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA UK). Bruce is also an independent producer and composer with his own company, Wands Studio, which has created award-winning design, video, animation and music for AT&T, General Motors, United Technologies, Colgate Palmolive and others. As an educational and corporate consultant, his clients have included the New York State Department of Education, the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Center for Creative Studies, and Buffalo State College. He served on the NYC ACM SIGGRAPH Board of Directors for ten years. He has a BA with honors from Lafayette College and an MS from Syracuse University, where he studied computer art and mass communication. He is the Director of the New York Digital Salon, an international digital art organization which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2003 (www.nydigitalsalon.org). He is the author of Digital Creativity, published by John Wiley &Sons, Inc. in 2001 and he is currently writing a book on digital art for Thames & Hudson UK, which will be published in late 2004. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA UK). His Web site is www.brucewands.com.