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Keynote Speaker
"Art that Thinks: Artistic Practice in the Digital/Conceptual Age"
Professor Peter Patchen
Pratt Institute
Chair, Department of Digital Arts
Peter Frank Patchen is a digital artist exhibiting and lecturing nationally and internationally. He grew up in Colorado where the natural environment had a profound influence on his
perception of the relationships that exist between
nature, humanity, culture and technology.
After graduating from the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs he earned a Masters of Fine Art from the University of Oregon in
Eugene Oregon. In 1993, he founded the Cyber Arts
(now New Media) program at the University of Toledo.
Peter's recent work includes interactive multi-media installations that
utilize alternative interfaces like light sensors, bar code scanners,
water and motion detectors. He has exhibited at the
Beecher Center
for Technology in the Arts at the Butler Institute of American Art, International Digital Art Awards (Melbourne), Siggraph Art Exhibitions, Luco Film Festival (Rome), Kalisaar Computer Art Exhibition (Tel-Aviv) and various other solo and group exhibitions.
Click here to learn more about Peter Patchen at Pratt Institute.