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Peter Benjamin Lunenfeld
Graduate Faculty | Media Design Program
Editorial Director | Mediawork Pamphlets
Art Center College of Design
1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, CA 91103
t. 626.568.4710 | f. 626.405.9104
peterl@artcenter.edu
EDUCATION
UCLA, Department of Film and Television. Ph.D., 1994.
State University of New York at Buffalo, Center for Media Study.
M.A.
Columbia University, B.A. in History.
RECENT SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Snap to Grid: A User’s Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.
Editor, The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 1999.
Editorial Director, Mediawork Pamphlet Series.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001-; the first pamphlet, Utopian Entrepreneur,
written by Brenda Laurel and designed by Denise Gonzales Crisp,
released September, 2001.
mitpress.mit.edu/mediawork
User: Probes into Art, Technology & Faith. [Manuscript under
review]
"The Myths of Interactive Cinema," in Dan Harries, ed.
The New Media Book. London: BFI Publishing, 2002. [Forthcoming]
"Enemy of Nostalgia: An Interview with Peter Lunenfeld,"
in Geert Lovink, ed. Uncanny Networks: Collected Interviews with
Media Theorists and Artists. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. [Forthcoming]
Also translated into French.
"User" Column, art/text. 1998-."Figure Ground,"
art/text 75; "Extrusion Vertigo," art/text 74; "Growing
Up Pulp," art/text 73; "Urine Nation," art/text 72;
art/text 72; "25/8" art/text 71; "Visual Intellectuals"
art/text 70; "For Ever" art/text 69; "Game Boy"
art/text 68; "Cosmopolitan Media" art/text 67; "Top
10," art/text 66; "TEOTWAWKI," art/text 65; "Solitude
Enhancement Machines," art/text 64; "Permanent Present,"
art/text 63.
RECENT PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
"When Things Think," Razorfish Science Summit, Tarrytown,
NY, October, 2000
Dean’s Lecture, Yale University School of Art and Architecture,
New Haven, Ocober 2000.
Authors @ MIT, Cambridge, MA, October, 2000
"The Digtal Object," The American Museum of the Moving
Image, New York. October, 2000.
"Magical Naming," Miltos Manetas and Yvonne Force, ?WORD
Presentation, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2000.
"CRASH - net art 2000," Symposium at UC Berkeley, 2000.
"The Perfect Machine: Frampton, Magellan and the Promise of
Digital Media," Plenary, Technologies of Moving Images, Stockholm,
1998.SELECTED
CONFERENCES & PANELS CHAIRED
Conference Co-Chair, SCRIPTED SPACES: An ITA Conference on Entertainment
Design, Narrative Architecture, and Virtual Environments, 1998.
Reviewed in Tara McPherson, "Making Space," Convergence:
The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
v. 5, n. 2 (Summer, 199).
Conference Chair, The Digital Dialectic: A Conference on the Covergence
of Technology, Media & Theory, Pasadena, CA, 1995. Reviewed
in Charles Tashiro, "Contradiction versus Convergence?,"
Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
v. 1, n. 2 (Autumn, 1995).
Conference Chair, Curating New Media: A Technocultural Roundtable
for Curators, Audiences, and Audiences, Cyberarts Gallery, Los Angeles,
1993.
Moderator, "Micro Space/Global Time" Panel. MAK Center
for Art & Architecture, LA. 1999.
Chair, "Media Interventions 1," Technologies of Moving
Images, Stockholm, 1998.
NEW MEDIA EXPERIENCE
Director, Institute for Technologies & Aesthetics (ITA). The
ITA is an interdisciplinary space unique to Southern California
for the development of new forms and theories of computers and culture.
The ITA's mission is to ground the discourses of technologies in
the constraints of their practice and to create interdisciplinary
collaborations that expand the parameters of visual intellectual
culture. Projects include "SCRIPTED SPACES: An ITA Conference
on Entertainment Design, Narrative Architecture, and Virtual Environments,"
1998, co-sponsorship of "Unwriting the Word: A Festival of
Music, Murmurs, & Media," 1999 at Loyola Marymount University,
and the "Mediawork Pamphlet Series <mitpress.mit.edu/mediawork>.
Founder, mediawork: The Southern California New Media Working Group.
Meeting quarterly at Art Center, this group gathers specialists
from a range of disciplines and institutions to discuss their work
and debate the impact of the computer on contemporary culture .
1993-.
Member, National Nominating Committee for the Rockefeller Foundation
Intercultural Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowships. 1995-97.
Member, Advisory Committee, American Film Institute-Apple Computer
Center For Film and Videomakers. 1992.
Applications Coordinator for multi-media for Academy Award-winning
company, Lyon Lamb Video Animation Systems, of Burbank, CA. Responsibilities
included managing software developers, evaluating 3D computer graphics
systems, doing demonstrations, and coordinating development and
marketing of Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX based graphical user interface
software systems for animation controllers. 1991-92.
TEACHING, HONORS, & AWARDS
Graduate Faculty, Art Center College of Design. Full appointment
with a concentration on the history and theory of imaging technologies
and the analysis of multi-media, interactive systems. Courses include:
"New Media Theory," "The Interface to Narrative,"
"Intelligent Environments," "Demo or Die," and
"Digital Dialogues" among others. 1993-.
Recipient, Rockefeller Foundation grant. The Rockefeller Foundation’s
Creativity and Culture area is the major on-going funder for the
Mediawork Pamphlet series which I originated and administer. 2001-.
Recipient, Jeffrey and Catharine Soros venture philanthropy grant
to support the development and launch of the first three Mediawork
Pamphlets. 2000-2001.
Inductee, World Technology Network, 2001
Faculty Enrichment Grant, Art Center College of Design, 2000.
Great Teacher Award, Art Center College of Design, 1995.
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