Digital Art Faculty

Margaret Dolinsky, Associate Professor

dolinsky@indiana.edu
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Margaret Dolinsky researches, designs, and creates for the CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE). She investigates visual metaphors for navigation and guiding participants’ roles in completing an art experience in a virtual environment. She teaches 3-D computer graphic and CAVE development. Her own artwork concentrates on collaborative CAVE environments where two or more CAVEs are networked together using the high-speed bandwidth of the next generation research network. Her CAVE artwork is installed at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, and the ICC Museum in Tokyo, Japan. She has exhibited at Chicago’s Alternate Currents, INET2000, SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, and Virtual Spaces in conjunction with ISEA97. A former virtual reality (VR) artist-in-residence at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Dolinsky has spoken at the University of Memphis, Tennessee, NeXT 1.0: New Extensions in Technology in Sweden, SIGGRAPH, and for the High Performance Computational Science Committee on Institutional Cooperation in Washington, D.C. Dolinsky’s work also appears in numerous publications, including Discover, Computer Graphics World, US News and World Report, Yahoo Internet Life, ACM’s Computer Graphics, VR Developer’s Journal, and Leonardo. She earned her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Arthur Liou, Associate Professor

liou@indiana.edu
Arthur Liou worked as a video journalist in Taiwan before coming to US in the early 90s. In the past decade his work gravitates toward the increasingly personal issues of media experience, ethnicity, food, and illness. The work format roamed from multimedia, archival digital prints, to high-definition video installation. Liou received Rising Star Award in Fotofusion 2004 conference for the series “Picture(s)” and “Blood work.” His work travels internationally, including Asian American Arts Center, New York; Poissant Gallery, Houston; Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, and numerous electronic and digital arts festivals in Sweden, Italy, Argentina and Brazil. His video installation series “Things that are edible” was reported by Indianapolis Star as one of the top 5 visual art events in Indianapolis in 2002. Liou received MFA in Electronic Intermedia and Photography from the University of Florida. He is an Assistant Professor of Digital Art at Indiana University.

Leslie Sharpe, Assistant Professor

lesharpe@indiana.edu
http://lesliesharpe.net
Leslie Sharpe’s recent art and research centers around questions of embodiment, subjectivity and space in relation to wireless and mobile culture. In this work, she utilizes narrative and scientific metaphors of ghosts and haunted space to explore questions of how mobile and networked technologies are reformulating our understanding of subjectivity and presence as both embodied and disembodied subjects in time and space. The mobile device, itself a technological object that can store and ‘transmit’ encoded and invisible data, also suggests a temporal ‘haunted’ space and is often treated as such in her work. Sharpe is also exploring short-range wireless technologies as a means of  building and distributing narrative in ad-hoc performative and installation spaces.

Sharpe has been an artist-in-residence at P.S. 1 Museum/Institute for Contemporary Art in New York, The Banff Centre in Canada, and Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. She has been the recipient of several awards, and was recently named winner of the Nabi Wireless Art Competition Prize for her work “The Spell of the Haunted Handheld,” a site-specific narrative for GPS-enabled cell phones in Seoul, Korea. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including P.S. 1, Exit Art, The New Museum, Artists Space, and Franklin Furnace in New York; Walter Phillips Gallery, Latitude 53, and Art Gallery of Hamilton in Canada; and in Europe at ISEA, Kiasma Museum of  Contemporary Art, Finland, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, and the Internationale Photoszene Köln.

Sharpe was a Faculty Fellow in Visual Arts at University of California, San Diego from 2002-2004, a Summer Teaching Fellow at UCSD in 2001 and previously taught at Pratt Institute in New York. She received her MFA in Visual Arts at University of California, San Diego and her BFA at University of Alberta in Canada.