Andrea Ackerman

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Andrea Ackerman
NationalityAmerican
Education Yale College
Harvard Medical School
Notable work‘’Rose Breathing’’
MovementNew media
Website http://www.andreaackerman.com

Andrea Ackerman is an American artist, theorist and writer best known for her New Media artworks. [1] She lives and works in New York. [2]

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Biography

At Yale, Ackerman studied physics and biophysics; afterward, she graduated from Harvard Medical School and practiced as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. She has used digital technology since the mid-1990s in order to fabricate her work, which dabbles in the realms concerning technology, nature, aesthetics, and ethics. She imbues objects with qualities not ordinarily occurring in nature, and in doing so fabricates a “synthetic” nature. Specific aspects of 2D and 3D still and animation software are applied in subtle ways like using effects meant for fluids on rose petals or skin. Ackerman believes finding meaningful ways to use these effects is essential to the evocation of a seamless transformation - digital to human.

Ackerman has taught 3D computer modeling (Maya) at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, was a co-director of ISEA2011, [3] and is an editor of Leonardo Electronic Almanac, most recently, the associate editor of Uncontainable, the exhibition catalog of electronic art exhibited at ISEA2011, Istanbul. Ackerman lives in New York, New York with her husband and two children. [4] [5]

Exhibitions

TitleVenueLocationDate
Art Learning Lab: Koret GallerySan Jose Museum of ArtSan Jose, CAAugust 12, 2024 - June 1, 2025
Extended Senses & Embodying Technology 2022Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of GreenwichLondon, UKSeptember 8, 2022 - September 10, 2022
Almost Human: Digital Art from the Permanent CollectionSan Jose Museum of ArtSan Jose, CASeptember 22, 2019 - September 27, 2020
Your Mind this Moment: Art and the Practice of AttentionSan Jose Museum of ArtSan Jose, CAFebruary 17, 2017 - August 27, 2017
Momentum: An Experiment in the UnexpectedSan Jose Museum of ArtSan Jose, CAOctober 2, 2014 - February 22, 2015
Vital Signs: New Media Art from the San Jose Museum of ArtWichita Art MuseumWichita, KSSeptember 14, 2013 - January 19, 2014
Vital SignsSan Jose Museum of ArtSan Jose, CAJune 12, 2010 -February 6, 2011
PolymerHunter Museum of American ArtChattanooga, TNMarch 26, 2009
NABLAB Volume 1NAB GalleryChicago, ILNovember 17, 2006- December 8, 2006
Instant GratificationLike the Spice GalleryBrooklyn, NYJanuary 12, 2007- February 17, 2007
Rose BreathingLive Box GalleryChicago, ILApril 23–27, 2006
Poesia in Forma di RosaLa Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di MonfalconeItalyNovember 4, 2005
Brides of FrankensteinSan Jose Museum of ArtSan Jose, CAJuly 30, 2005 – October 30, 2005
Second NatureFish Tank GalleryBrooklyn, NYJune 18, 2004- July 19, 2004
Allure ElectronicaWood Street GalleriesPittsburgh, PAJanuary 23, 2004- March 6, 2004
Cartoombria 2003Center for Contemporary Art TrebisondaPerugia, ItalyDec. 3-Dec 7, 2003
New Lawn: Contemporary Nature in a Subdivision WorldJack the Pelican PresentsBrooklyn, NYJuly 2, 2003- Aug 3, 2003
Calculus of TransfigurationWilliamsburg Art and Historical CenterBrooklyn, NYOctober 10, 1998 - November 15, 1998
Group ShowName Brand DamagesBrooklyn, NY1993

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References

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