Eric Forman (artist)

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Eric Forman
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BornNovember 4, 1973
Philadelphia, PA
NationalityAmerican
EducationITP, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Vassar College
Known forArtist
Head of Innovation at the Interaction Design MFA program at SVA. [1]
Website www.ericforman.com

Eric Forman is a New York-based artist and designer best known for his signal blocking chandelier sculpture Dis/Connect (2021), his installation Heart Squared (2020) in collaboration with MODU, and his sound object TreeShell (2013). Dis/Connect was featured as one of Fast Company's 2021 World Changing Ideas. [2] Heart Squared was selected by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum as the winner of the Times Square Heart 2020 Design Competition. [3] Throughout February 2020, Heart Squared was seen by over 300,000 people a day. [4] TreeShell was selected by the Museum of Modern Art Design Store for its 2013 “Destination: NYC” series. [5]

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Biography

Eric Forman received his B.A. from Vassar College in 1995, where he created his own course of study in “The Philosophical Ramifications of Computer Technology.” His studies culminated in a thesis titled “Virtual Reality: The Refiguring of Space, Real, and Subject”(1995), which investigated the conceptual impact of VR on media theory and philosophy. [6] In the mid-1990s, he was one of the early members of Pseudo Programs, one of the world's original online streaming content services, [7] where he worked on creating virtual environments for the early internet service provider Prodigy. [7] Forman received his master's degree from ITP at Tisch School of the Arts (NYU) in 2002.

Eric Forman Studio was founded in 2003 and has produced primarily sculpture and installation art concerned with the intersection of technology and human, using “playful interaction to reveal issues of language, simulation, and perception.” [8] In 2012, his studio became a founding member of New Lab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. [9]

Forman has also taught “Physical Computing” to artists and designers since 2003. [10] He has taught at SIGGRAPH, [11] RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) MFA Digital+Media, [12] and SVA (School of Visual Arts) in New York City where he is currently the Head of Innovation in the MFA Interaction Design department. [13]

Selected achievements

AchievementLocationYear
Fast Company World Changing Ideas Awards 2021 Honorable Mention [14] New York, NY2021
Times Square Heart 2020 Design Winner [4] New York, NY2019
Invited to present retrospective on career [15] University of Delaware Department of Art & Design2018
Træna artist residency [16] Tenk Træna, Nordland, Norway2016
Autodesk Pier 9 artist residency [17] San Francisco, CA2014-2015
Jerome Fellowship and Franconia Sculpture Park artist residency [18] Shafer, MN2014
Spotlight Series Visiting Artist lecture [19] University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Spring2013
Selected for MoMA Design Destination: NYC collection [20] New York, NY and Tokyo, Japan2013
Invited speaker for “Creativity and Innovation” panel [21] CreateTech, Brooklyn, NY2013
Invited by New York City EDC to present artwork made locally with new technologiesNY Design Week, BMWi Ventures, New York, NY2012
Invited to present work and participate in panel “Slowness: Responding to Acceleration” [22] ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art), Istanbul, Turkey2011
Toyota HEYA Artist Innovation GrantNew York, NY2008

Selected exhibitions and works

WorkPlaceYear
Dis/Connect [23] New York, NY2021
Heart Squared (with MODU) [24] Times Square, New York, NY2020
UnBuilding [25] Citygroup Gallery, New York, NY and New Lab, Brooklyn, NY2019
Un-Urban Experiment [26] DOGA (Design & Architecture Norway)2018
Under Dytte Lyset [Under This Light] [16] Bodø Biennial, Norway2016
Sculptural Light InstallationMotherboard New York, Brooklyn, NY2016
Radiolarian [27] Sunsychronous orbit around Earth2015
Auto-Surveillance Encounter II [28] Art Souterrain, Montreal, Canada2015
Scale/Scape Light Panel series IIAutodesk Pier 9 Gallery, San Francisco, CA2015
Radioscape [29] Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN2014
Futur Absolu (with Stephan Breuer) [30] Château de Compiègne, Oise, France2013
Consensual Navigation ShirtConflux Festival, New York, NY, part of “Test Dérive” curated by Seth Carnes2010
Constrained Flight Structure [31] Solar One, New York, NY2010
What the Rain has Seen [32] DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, New York, NY2008
Untitled (performance) [33] 24HrsNonStopArt, Tigh Fili Cultural Centre, Cork, Ireland2008
Every Drop Counts (with Cynthia Lawson) [34] Exit Art, New York, NY2006
Auto-Surveillance EncounterShow & Tell Salon curated by Leejone Wong, New York, NY2004
Autonomous Harmonizing Robotic Sculpture [35] The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY2003
branch/ingThomas Street Gallery, New York, NY2002
DropITP/Tisch, New York, NY2002
TransLinkITP/Tisch, New York, NY2001
SoundBotITP/Tisch, New York, NY2000

Other professional work

Source: [36]

Eric Forman Studio also develops interactive technology for clients, most notably Marina Abromovic, [37] Anthony McCall, [38] Line Healthcare, [39] Kate Spade, [40] and The Living. [41]

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