Greg Niemeyer, Associate Professor in Digital Media in Art Practice and Film Studies

 

   
  Address

Department of Art Practice
345 Kroeber Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720

510.642.5376
E-mail: niemeyer@berkeley.edu
 
 

Bio

Greg Niemeyer studied Classics and Photography in Switzerland before he came to the US in 1992. As an MFA grad student at Stanford University, he founded SUDAC, the Stanford University Digital Art Center, in anticipation of the need for an academic space dedicated to the practical and theoretical exploration of digital media and art. SUDAC opened its first exhibit, Refresh: The Art of the Screensaver, at the Cantor Art Center and at www.artmuseum.net in 2000. After directing SUDAC for 3 years, Greg became a professor for Digital Media at UC Berkeley. There, he continues to teach and to pursue his creative research in the area of digital media installations. Supported by the prestigious Intel Art and Technology Research Grant, he completed several digital media installations, which explore novel experiences with computing. His latest installation, in collaboration with Chris Chafe, is the Oxygen Flute, which translates the human-plant carbon cycle into four-channel music in real time.

 
 

Selected Publications

2002 CCRMA Records: Extrasensory Perceptions, Audio CD, with Chris Chafe

2002 Documenta Ophthalmologica: The Function of Stereotypes in Visual Perception

2001 IEEE-VSMM: Design Considerations for an Oxygen Flute

2000 Leonardo Online: Simulation, the Cultural Anticipation of Our Own Demise

1997 CAA Art Journal, TECHNOSEDUCTION, statements, biography and color reproductions, http://www.cooper.edu/art/techno/artists/artists.html

1997 Cooper Union, TECHNOSEDUCTION Exhibition Catalogue, statements, biography and color reproductions, http://www.cooper.edu/art/techno/artists/artists.html

1996 Encyclopedia of Latin American Film on CD-ROM, design and user interface, Author: Jorge Ruffinelli, publication pending at University of Texas Press

1996 Science Magazine, September issue front cover, in collaboration with Dr. David Kehoe, Carnegie Institute of Biology: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol273/issue5280/

Recent Exhibits

2001 San Jose Museum of Art: Oxygen Flute, with Chris Chafe
2001 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 010101: PING, with Chris Chafe
2000 Cantor Art Center and artmuseum.net: Refresh: The Art of the Screensaver
1999 Xerox PARC Gallery, Palo Alto, Commissioned Installation
1999 Cantor Art Center: Fly Through the Human Body
1998 New Langton Arts, SPEED, Group Show
1997 LACE, Los Angeles Annual Benefit Group Show
1997 ArtExpo, Los Angeles: Landscape with Campsite, Commissioned Installation
1997 Triton Museum, Santa Clara: California Photography, Group Show
1997 Stanford University, Art Gallery: MFA Exhibit, Group Show
1997 Cooper Union, New York: TECHNOSEDUCTION, Group Show 1997 Arizona State University, Memorial Union: Credit History, Solo Show
1996 Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose: Location, Location 1996 Palo Alto Cultural Center, Radius Award Group Show