| last name: | Shanken |
| first name: | Edward A. |
| also known as: | Eddie Shanken |
| birthday: | 1964 |
Edward A. Shanken is an American art historian and academician currently serving as the Universitair Docent in New Media at the University of Amsterdam, and is a member of the Media Art History faculty at the Donau University in Krems, Austria.
His latest work, Art and Electronic Media, published by Phaidon Press in 2009, is a vast overview of the history of artstic use of technology in the 20th century.
| 1986 | Haverford College Haverford, Pennsylvania. B.A., Fine Art. |
| 1990 | Yale School of Organization and Management New Haven, Connecticut. M.B.A. |
| 1999-01 | Duke University Durham, North Carolina . Ph.D. , M.A., Art History. Dissertation – “Art in the Information Age: Cybernetics, Software, Telematics, and the Conceptual Contributions of Art and Technology to Art History and Aesthetic Theory.” |
| 2001 | Edited the collection of essays and authored “From Cybernetics to Telematics: The Art, Pedagogy, and Theory of Roy Ascott,” Berkeley.University of California Press, 2003. |
| 2004-07 | Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, Georgia . Professor of Art History and Media Theory. |
| 2007-08 | University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California Senior Researcher, Art|Sci Center; Visiting Scholar, California NanoSystems Institute. |
| Post 2007 | Donau-Universität Krems, Zentrum für Bildwissenschaften, Krems, Austria . Faculty of Media Art History. |
| Post 2008 | University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Universitair Docent, New Media, Department of Media Studies. |
| 2009 | Authored – Art and Electronic Media. London: Phaidon Press, . |
