Mel Alexenberg
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Mel Alexenberg is an artist who creates artworks at the interface between art, science, technology, and culture. His artworks explore interrelationships between digital age art and Jewish consciousness, space-time systems and electronic technologies, participatory art and community, high tech and high touch experiences, and responsive art in cyberspace and real space. His artworks exploring digital technologies and global systems are in the collections of more than forty museums worldwide. Alexenberg is Founding Dean of a new School of Art and Multimedia Design at Netanya College in Israel, Professor of Art and Jewish Thought at the University College of Judea and Samaria in Ariel, and Emunah College in Jerusalem. He was Professor and Chairman of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute, Associate Professor of Art and Education at Columbia University and Bar-Ilan University, Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, and Dean of Visual Arts at New World School of the Arts in Miami. He is the author of the books: The Future of Art in the Digital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness, Aesthetic Experience in Creative Process, Light and Sight, and with Otto Piene, LightsOROT: Spiritual Dimensions of the Electronic Age. He is Editor of Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture, former Art Editor of The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics, and author of numerous papers. Born and educated in New York, Alexenberg earned degrees at Queens College, Yeshiva University, and New York University (interdisciplinary doctorate in art, science, and psychology). He lives with his wife, artist Miriam Benjamin, in Petach Tikvah, Israel. |
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