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Summary

Stephen Wilson is a San Francisco author, artist and professor who explores the cultural implications of new technologies. His interactive installations & performances have been shown internationally in galleries and SIGGRAPH, CHI, NCGA, Ars Electronica, and V2 art shows.

His computer mediated art works probe issues such as World Wide Web & telecommunications; artificial intelligence and robotics; hypermedia and the structure of information; GPS and the sense of place; synthetic voice; and biological & environmental sensing.

He won the Prize of Distinction in Ars Electronica’s international competitions for interactive art and several honorary mentions.

He is Head of the Conceptual and Information Arts program at San Francisco State University.

He has been an artist in residence at Xerox PARC and NTT Research labs, a developer for Apple, Articulate Systems and other companies and principal investigator in National Science Foundation research projects to investigate the relationship of new technologies to education.

His latest publication is Art Science Now (2010), published by Thames and Hudson.

Previous publications include:

Information Arts:Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology (MIT Press, 2002),
World Wide Web Design Guide (Hayden, 1995),
Multimedia Design with HyperCard (Prentice Hall, 1991),
Using Computers to Create Art (Prentice Hall, 1986).

and numerous articles exploring the intersection of art.

Interview with Stephen Wilson.

Lecture from 2005 at “Liberating the Labs”.

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anonymous
posted over 2 years ago
The board and staff at Leonardo/ISAST are deeply saddened to announce the death of Stephen Wilson, artist, author, professor and longtime Leonardo/ISAST board member. Stephen Harth Wilson died in San Francisco on January 10, 2011, at age 66, of cancer. He was the beloved husband of Catherine Witzling, devoted father of Sophia Z. Wilson, and loving uncle of Pamela Wilson and Staci Pruitt and their families. Educated at Antioch College, University of Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago, Steve was a leading thinker and practitioner in the field of new media. His award-winning interactive installations and performances were shown in galleries, museums and internationally renowned exhibitions including SIGGRAPH, CHI, NCGA, Ars Electronica, and V2. He was an investigator in NSF projects and artist-in-residence at various think tanks, including Xerox PARC. For many years, he was a Professor of Art at San Francisco State University, where he headed the program in Conceptual & Information Arts. He was the author of several books exploring the cultural implications of the intersection between art, science and technology, including Information Arts (MIT Press/Leonardo Books, 2001) and most recently Art + Science Now (Thames & Hudson, 2010). At the time of his death he was working on an award-winning project on energy harvesting. Steve was an active member of the Leonardo/ISAST governing board from 1982, when the non-profit was founded, until 2011. He participated in the leadership of the organization with great energy, enthusiasm and insight right up to the very end of his life. Steve was a seeker who combined an indefatigable curiosity with a keen intelligence, an incisive wit, and a kind and generous nature. He lived for his work, his family, his friends and his students, and will be sorely missed by all.
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