Ben Davis
Career
Summary
Consultant, Bone Davis
International, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2002 – present. Nova Scotia Nature
Trust Property Monitor, Long Cove Property, Port Medway, Nova Scotia,
2009-present. Senior Scientist and Strategic Development Director, Media and
Entertainment, Razorfish, Inc., Los Angeles, CA., 2000-2001. Manager,
Electronic Publications, J. Paul Getty Trust Publications, Los Angeles,
California, 1999. Program Manager, Communications, Getty Information
Institute, Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, 1996-1999. Consultant, J.
Paul Getty Trust, Art History Information Program, Santa Monica, California,
1995. Producer, Learn Technologies Inc. for National Air and Space Museum,
Washington, DC, 1995, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, 1995. Co-Chair,
Task Force on Educational Technology, International Council of Distance
Education, Olso, Norway, 1995. Research Associate, MIT
Center for Educational Computing Initiatives, 1991-present. Manager, MIT
CECI AthenaMuse Software Consortium and Multimedia Application Development
(1991-1994); Manager, MIT/Project Athena Visual Computing Group (1987-1991);
Fellow, MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies (1983-84); Instructor, MIT
Media-Lab, Visible Language Workshop (1988); Chair, Research Consortium of the
National Demonstration Laboratory for Interactive Educational Technology,
Smithsonian Institution (1988-1990); Instructor, Aspects of Visualization and
Formal Analysis of Media, Teachers College, Department of Communication,
Computing, and Technology (1988-89); Lecturer, MIT Visual Arts Program,
Department of Architecture and Urban Planning (1990); Chair, Department of
Electronic Imagery, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA (1975-1986); Master of
Fine Arts, Florida State University (1975); Bachelor of Science,
Communications, University of Florida (1970).
Education
Doctoral Studies,
Computing, Communications, and Technology, Teachers College Columbia
University, 1988-1993.
M.F.A. Painting,
Photography, Film/Video, Florida State University, 1975.
B.S.
Communications, University of Florida, 1970.
Employment
Senior Scientist and Strategic
Development Director, Razorfish, Inc., Los Angeles, California, 2000: Strategic Development for
Media and Entertainment focuses on branding and identity, enterprise asset
management, experience engineering, and media gateway development. Applications
include film and television, publishing, new media, music, gaming, sports, and
learning. Emphasis on rich media asset management including digital asset
management, content management, digital rights management, customer relations management, and knowledge management. Razorfish,
Inc. was a digital solutions provider with 15 offices in nine countries and
focused on financial, manufacturing, information communication, healthcare, and
media and entertainment clients.. See http://www.razorfish.com/
Manager, Electronic Publications, J. Paul Getty Trust
Publications, Los Angeles, California 1999 -2000:
Management of Getty electronic publications including CDROM and online
development of research databases, online resources, and electronic books.
Publications include the Bibliography of the History of Art, The Getty
Provenance Index, Art and Archeology Technical Abstracts, Avery Index to
Architectural Periodicals, Art and Architecture Thesaurus, Union List of Artist
Names, Thesaurus of Geographic Names, and the Introduction to … Series of print
books and Web books. Liaison with project developers in the Getty Museum, Getty
Conservation Institute, Getty Research Institute, Getty Information Technology
Services (www.getty.edu).
Program Manager, Communications, Getty Information Institute,
1995-1999:
Manager
of communications and publications including print, CD-ROM, and World Wide Web
design and development. The Communications Program linked the resources of the Institute to
the public, educational institutions, and scholars by researching and
developing digital communication and publication technologies. Management
responsibilities included liaison to the J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Institutes,
Getty Museum, and Programs of the Getty. Programming and development for the
Getty Information Institute Internet Forum, a traveling exhibition of Internet
cultural experience for the Association of Art Museums, College Art
Association, Museum Computer Network, Congress of Art Historians, and other
international conferences. The Information Institute Web site design won the
Best of the Web Award for Best Museum Professional's Website at the 1998 Museums and the Web
Conference and won the Smithsonian ComputerWorld Medal for 1999. Creator and
manager of the Information Institute Millennium Lecture Series at the Getty Center,
Co-chair of Time
and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity Conference on preserving digital
resources with Stewart Brand, The LongNow Foundation and the Getty Conservation
Institute. The Getty Information Institute closed in June of 1999.
Research Associate, MIT Center
for Educational Computing Initiatives (CECI), Office of the Provost, 1991-1995:
Producer
and designer for multimedia projects in humanities, language, science, and
engineering, museum, archive, library, and telecommunication applications. Management of interactive
multimedia educational design teams, programmers, and freelance producers,
1986-1994. Manager, AthenaMuse Software Consortium (AMSC)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Administration
and consortium building of international (US, Europe, Asia) MIT/CECI
organization to sponsor development of advanced multimedia authoring software.
Extensive travel in Europe, US, Japan in coordination with
the MIT Industrial Liaison Program, 1991-1994. Manager, Project Athena
Visual Computing Group (VCG), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, team that
created the original AthenaMuse multimedia software and all-digital multimedia
applications, 1987-1991. Coordinator for multimedia workstation design:
implementation of visual UNIX workstation configurations, user interface
designs, multimedia authoring environment (AthenaMuse) for UNIX, Macintosh, and
PC. International Liaison: Coordination of MIT multimedia projects, proposal
writing, and tutorial responsibilities with centers, departments, MIT Museum,
MIT Archives, MIT Media Lab, MIT Information Systems, MIT Industrial Liaison
Program. Administrator: International relations, fund raising, budget
projection, proposal writing, staff performance review, hiring, testing and
evaluating of audio/video, computer equipment, audio/video studio design and
administration, scheduling, corporate and academic demonstrations, equipment
deployment.
Chair, Department of Electronic
Arts, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1975-1986:
Tenured faculty:
Administration of Electronic Arts Department including curriculum design,
audio/video studio design, computer graphics studio, post-production
studio design. Professor in video/audio production, film
production, and computer graphics. Interdisciplinary courses in mixed
media, media analysis, and commercial internships. Instructor
in photography, photographic techniques, and drawing. Associate
Producer, The
First Emperor of China, interactive multimedia
project on historical/archeological materials on the Ch'in Terracotta Army
discovered in 1974. Involved extensive on-location production
in China including video/audio, still photography, research, 1985.
Simmons College, Department of Library Science, Boston, MA.,
Directed by Dr. Chin Chi Chen, sponsored by National Endowment for the
Humanities, Digital Equipment Corporation, Ministry of Culture and Museums,
People's Republic of China. Associate Producer, MIT Center
for Advanced Visual Studies, Sky Art Interactive Videodisc Traveling Exhibition, 1984. Producer, MIT Transmissions, weekly video art program for MIT cable
television, 1984. Producer, New Disciplines, Cox Cable, student
cable television program, Atlanta, GA, 1980-1985. Producer
and curator, International Magnetic Image Exhibition, Atlanta College of Art,
audio/video art invitational, 1975-1982. Producer, Tele-Arts Projects sponsored by Robot
Corporation, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, Carnegie Mellon
University, Alfred University, Massachusetts College of Art, IMAGE Film and
Video, Atlanta, GA., 1985. Designer and Director of the Atlanta College of Art
Media Studies Program sponsored by the Gannett Foundation, 1986.
Other
Teaching
Nova
Scotia College of Art and Design University, Foundation Photography, Halifax, NS, 2003.
Instructor,
Visible Language Workshop, Hypervision/HyperSense, MIT Media Lab, 1987-88.
Lecturer,
MIT Visual Arts Program, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, MIT,
1989-1991.
Associate Instructor,
Department of Computing, Communication, and Technology, Formal Analysis of Media, Aspects of
Visualization, Teachers College Columbia University, New York, 1987-89.
Instructor, IMAGE Film
and Video Center, Atlanta, GA. Interactive Video: Design and Concept, 1985-86.
Teaching Fellow, Center
for Advanced Visual Studies, Special Problems in Environmental Art: Tele-Environment
and Transmission, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1984.
Instructor, School of
the Art Institute of Chicago, Heliography: Light Sensitive Materials, Chicago,
Illinois, 1977.
Professional
Positions
Member, Board of
Visitors, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
2000-2001
Member, Advisory Board,
Center for Digital Arts, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 2000.
Member,
Association of Motion Image Archivists, Los Angeles, CA, 1999.
Member, Program Committee
for Museums and the Web Conference, New Orleans, March,
1999.
Committee
on Electronic Information, College Art Association, 1996-1998.
Executive
Advisory Board, Academic Press, Image Directory, San Diego, CA, 1995.
Co-Chair,
Task Force on Educational Technologies, International Council for Distance
Education, Oslo, Norway, 1995.
Chair, Research
Consortium, National Demonstration Laboratory for Interactive Educational
Technologies, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.,
1987-1990.
Multimedia
Consulting
Learn Technologies
Interactive, Inc. for projects at the National Air and Space Museum,
Washington, DC and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, 1994-5.
J. Paul Getty Trust,
Getty Information Institute, general editor: Introduction to Multimedia in Museums,
CIDOC, 1995. Producer for World Wide Web site for Introduction to
Imaging: Issues in Constructing an Image Database, by Jennifer Trant and
Howard Besser, 1995.
Museum Art Loan
Program, Strategic Grantmaker Services and MIT, Cambridge, MA.,
1995.
Buffalo Bill Historical
Center, Cody, Wyoming, 1995.
International Design , CyberSmith, Inc., Cambridge, MA, 1995.
Houghton
Mifflin Publishing, College Division, Boston, MA, 1994.
Telefonica, Madrid,
Spain, 1994.
la Caixia Foundation, Barcelona,
Spain, 1994.
Viacom
New Media, New York, NY, 1993.
Siemens
Nixdorf Information Systems, Multimedia Center, Burlington, MA, 1993.
The Dalton School, The
New Laboratory for Teaching and Learning, New York, New York, 1993.
Groupe BULL, Paris,
France, 1991-93.
Thomson-CSF, Paris,
France, 1991-92
Musee
d'Orsay, Paris, France, 1991-3.
SyMedia, Inc., Paris,
France, 1991-92.
Bibliotheque de France,
Paris, France, 1990-1993.
Siemens-Nixdorf,
Munich, Germany, 1991.
IBM Europe, Heidelberg,
Germany, 1991.
Alenia Corporation,
Rome, Italy, 1991.
Olivetti Corporation,
Pisa, Italy, 1992.
MIT Museum, Cambridge,
MA, 1991.
National Museum of
Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1987.
Harvard University, Collection
of Historical and Scientific Instruments, Cambridge, MA.,
1989.
Microsoft, Inc.,
Multimedia User Interface Group, Seatle, Washington, 1989.
Teachers College
Columbia University. Curriculum in Visualization for the
Department of Communications, Computing and Technology. Annenberg/CPB Grant Proposal, 1988-90.
Georgia Technical
Institute, Atlanta, GA. CD-I application in quantum physics, 1988.
MIT Man Vehicle Lab,
collaboration with NASA and MIT Telescience Group for multimedia
telecommunication system.
University of Maine,
Augusta, MA. Interactive video courseware for Coastal
Ecology, 1988-9.
MIT Media-Lab
Epistemology and Learning Group, MIT, Daedalus Project. Interactive
videodisc on history and technology of human powered flight, 1989.
Middendorf Gallery,
Washington, DC. Man Ray's Paris Portraits: 1921-39 as multimedia project, 1989.
ABC News, New York, NY.
Re-purposing of news archive for interactive educational products, 1988.
University
of the Air, Smithsonian World, Washington, DC. Interactive video courseware
based on PBS broadcast material by the producers of Smithsonian World, 1988.
Houghton Mifflin, Inc.
Boston, MA. Reference Division. Electronic versions of
reference publications, 1988.
General Motors, Inc.
Detroit, Michigan. Market Research and Planning,
design documentation systems, 1988.
South Carolina State
Museum, Columbia, South Carolina. Interactive video exhibit
on New Deal Art in South Carolina, 1987.
High
Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. Museum Education Department, 1986.
Still
Current Design, Inc. Atlanta, GA, Interactive videodisc applications in the
arts and humanities, 1986.
Crawford
Communications, Atlanta, GA, demonstration videodisc and promotional materials
for Nebraska Videodisc Symposium, 1985.
Columbia University,
New York, NY. Design of interactive videodisc for Alan Lomax,
anthropologist/ethnomusicologist, for film and video archive, 1985.
Vision
Machine Research, Cambridge, MA. Education of the Circle, interactive
demonstration videodisc, Project Eon, interactive videodisc game, 1980-82.
Awards, Grants, Fellowships
Smithsonian
Computerworld Medal, design of Getty Information Institute Web site, Washington, DC, 1999.
Best of the Web Award
for Best
Museum Professional's Website, Museums and the Web Conference, Toronto,
1998.
Gannett Foundation
Grant, for Atlanta College of Art Media Studies Program, 1986.
MIT Center for Advanced
Visual Studies, Fellowship, Cambridge, MA, 1983-84.
Association of
Independent Colleges of Art, Faculty Grant, , 1983.
City
of Atlanta, Program Grant, Department of Telecommunications, Atlanta, GA, 1982.
City of Atlanta, Artist
Grant, Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, GA,1979.
State
of New York, ZBS Foundation, Fellowship, Fort Edward, New York, 1979.
National
Endowment for the Arts, Alternative Space Grant, Washington, DC, 1977-78.
NBC
Television, Fellowship, WSB, Atlanta, GA, 1976.
Invited
Lectures
From Commentary to
Contemplation,
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Fall 2003.
Lecturer: Public Art: The
Internet as Public Space, University Southern California, March 1, 2001.
Moderator: Digital
Hollywood: Speeding Up, Content Peering and Jump Starting Streams, San
Jose, CA, March 6, 2001.
Lecturer: MIT
Communications Forum: Digital Museums, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
MA, March 8, 2001.
Session Chair: Engineering the
Future: Requirements and Architecture for Administration and
Maintenance of Digital Object
Libraries,
Museums and the Web Conference, Seattle, WA, March 15, 2001.
Co-organizer w/Warner
Brothers: Symposium
on Issues of Archiving and Media Production: New Paradigms for the Digital Age,
UCLA, Los Angeles, March 16, 2001.
Tisch School of the
Arts, Columbia University, Department of Photography, The Internet and Photography,
November, 1999.
1999 Society of
American Archivists Meeting, The Information Afterlife: Time and Bits , Pittsburgh August, 1999.
Visual Resource
Association Conference, Digital Reference: Building and Rebuilding , Los Angeles, February, 1999.
College Art Association
Conference, Virtual/Human
Interfaces for Virtual Exhibitions, Los Angeles, February,
1999.
Virtual Worlds and
Simulations Conference, Virtual Worlds as Content-Clocks for Cultural Memory, San
Francisco, January, 1999.
Global Business
Network, The
Future of Design ,
Santa Monica, CA, December, 1998.
Invited speaker, 4th
International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, Virtual World
Heritage UNESCO, Gifu, Japan, November, 1998, 2000.
Speaker, UCLA Forum on
Protecting Digital Creativity, Los Angeles County Library, November,
1998.
Americans for the Arts
Annual Conference, Making Aesthetic Judgements in the Information Age, Denver,
Colorado, June, 1998.
University of New Mexico, The Digital
Future, Department of Art and Art History, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April,
1998.
Getty Center, Time and Bits:
Managing Digital Continuity, Panelist and speaker, February,
1998.
Getty Center , Book Publishing: The Web, CD-ROM and other Digital
Dreams Conference, Published to Bits: The New Media, sponsored by the J. Paul Getty
Trust Publications and the Getty Information Institute, Los Angeles, February,
1997.
Community Networking
Conference, New
Media, Taos, New Mexico, May, 1996.
College Art Association
Conference, Introduction
to Digital Imaging, Boston, MA, February 1996.
Buffalo Bill Historical
Center, Multimedia
Literacy, Cody, Wyoming, September, 1995.
Atlantic Provinces
Library Association, Multimedia Literacy, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, May, 1995.
University of Athens,
Ekpedftiria Doukas Conference on Technology and Education, The Teacher of the Future, Athens,
Greece, November, 1994.
University of
California, Aspects
of Time in Multimedia, Berkeley, California, November,
1994.
Technical University of
Nova Scotia, Multimedia
for Libraries, November, 1994.
University of Montreal,
Department of Architecture, Multimedia, September, 1994.
Museum Computer Network
Conference, Seeing
the Unseen: The Harold Edgerton Multimedia Project, Washington, DC, August, 1994.
MIT CECI Workshop on
Multimedia Development, August, 1994.
IEEE Multimedia
Conference, Workshop:
Integrative Multimedia Design, Boston, 1994.
SIGCHI (Special
Interest Group for Computer Human Interface, ACM Annual Conference, Workshop: Integrative Multimedia Design, Boston, 1994.
Columbia
University, Societal Choices Workshop, Multimedia Computing and Environmental Literacy,
1994.
National
University Continuing Education Association Annual Conference (NUCEA), Transforming
Education Through Multimedia Applications, Atlanta, Georgia, 1994.
School of the Museum of
Fine Arts,
Multimedia Arts, Boston, MA, 1994.
Universidad
Nacional de Educacion Distancia (UNED), Multimedia Design, Madrid, Spain, 1994.
University of Paris,
Jussieu, Institut Image et Communication, Multimedia
Language, Paris, France, 1994.
Escuela
de Organizacion Industrial, MIT Multimedia, Madrid, Spain, 1994.
Universitat Politecnica
de Catalunya, MIT
Multimedia, Barcelona, Spain, 1994.
Annual Conference for
The Museum Computer Network, The Works of Harold Edgerton Multimedia Application, Seattle,
Washington, November, 1993.
New Paltz Lecture
Series on Multimedia, Wheel of Culture, State University College, New Paltz, New York,
October, 1993.
MONTAGE 93,
International Festival of the Image, Digital Museums, Rochester, New York, July,
1993.
INTERCHI 93, Conference
on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Integrative Multimedia Design, Amsterdam,
Netherlands, April 1993.
University of Southern
California, Colloquium on Entertainment and Education, Models of Multimedia, Los Angeles, CA,
April, 1993.
Trinity College,
Conference on Culture, Technology, and Interpretation, Wheel of Culture, Dublin, Ireland,
March, 1993.
Florida State
University, Imagery
and the Millennium, Tallahassee, Florida, March, 1993.
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Tenth International Conference on Technology and Education, Interactive Media
Literacy, March 1993.
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Conference on Educational Computing in the Twenty-First Century:
Building from Project Athena, Interactive Environmental Literacy, November, 1992.
Teachers College
Columbia University, Faculty Colloquia, Center for Educational Computing Initiatives, October, 1992.
University of Athens,
Ekpedftiria Doukas Conference on Technology and Education, Ways of Teaching, Athens, Greece,
November, 1991.
International
Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums (ICHIM 91), Panal
moderator: Museums,
Universities, and Libraries: Partners in Multimedia Development and
Dissemination, Pittsburgh, PA, October, 1991.
Salon International des
Systems de Gestion Electronique de Documents et
D'Information (SIGED 91), Concluding Address: Long Range Solutions, Paris, October,
1991.
Cooper Union for the
Advancement of Science and Art, MIT Center for Educational Computing Initiatives,
New York, New York, September, 1991.
Indiana University
Multimedia Symposium, Keynote Address: Santa Claus, Rip Van Winkle, Abbey Road, and
Multimedia, Bloomington, Indiana, September, 1991.
IBM European Institute,
No Rock, No
Window, Oberlech, Austria, August, 1991.
Bibliotheque de France,
AthenaMuse in
the Library, Paris, France, April, June, August, 1991.
Rene Dubos Center for
Human Environment, Educational Technology, New York, NY, 1991.
NASA Space Grant College,
University of Colorado, New Technology for Global Communications, Boulder, Colorado, 1991.
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, The
Social Creation of Knowledge: Multimedia and Information Technologies in the
University, Cambridge, MA, 1991.
IBM Educational
Telecast, Connected
Design, Thornwood, NY, March, 1991.
School
of the Art Institute of Chicago, Folk Art 2, Chicago, Illinois, 1990.
Aspen Global Change
Institute, New
Technologies for Global Change, Aspen, Colorado, 1990.
IDATE90,
Distributed Multimedia, 12th International Congress, Montpellier, France, 1990.
EDUCOM90,
Looking
Through Computers, Atlanta, Ga, 1990.
Georgia Institute of
Technology, Global
Village or Village Idiots?,
Atlanta, Ga, 1990.
NTTData
Multimedia Computing Research, Multimedia at MIT, Tokyo, Osaka, Japan, 1990.
Seybold
Electronic Publishing Conference, Multimedia Applications, Boston, MA, 1990.
American Association of
Museums, Multimedia
and Museums, Chicago, Illinois,
1990.
IBM
Academic Computing Conference, Multimedia at MIT, Miami, FLA, 1990.
Florida State
University, Department of Art and the FSU Supercomputer Center, The Influence of
Visualization on the Arts, Tallahasse, FLA, 1989.
Museum Computer
Network, Multimedia
and Museums, Chicago, Illinois, 1989.
International
Electronic Imaging Conference and Exposition, Pasadena, California, Visualization
Using Multimedia Workstations, 1989-90.
International Meeting
on Museums and Art Galleries Image Databases, London, UK, Collection Image System for the Smithsonian
Institution, 1989.
Image
Technology Users Group, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Multimedia
Workstations and Museums, 1989.
Teachers
College, Columbia University, New York, NY, Learning and the Workstation, 1989.
Simmons
College, Boston, MA, Multimedia Conference, Project Athena and Visual Computing, 1988-89.
EDUCOM89, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, Project
Athena Visual Computing Group, 1989.
SALT (Society for
Applied Learning Technologies), Orlando, Florida, Use and Development of
Interactive Multi-Media in Higher Education, Advanced Projects: The New Education,
1989.
International
Electronic Imaging Conference, Boston, MA, Image Learning, 1988.
EDUCOM88,
Washington, DC, Special Interest Group Chair, Visual Computing, 1988.
International
Interactive Communications Society, Boston, MA, Project Athena and Visual Computing,
1988.
IBM
Academic Computing Conference (ACIS), Dallas, Texas, Visual Courseware at Project Athena,
1988.
Technological Advances
in Education and Training Conference, University of Maine, Augusta, MA, Project Athena
and Visual Computing, 1987.
National Endowment for
the Humanities, Washington, DC, Projects in Multimedia at MIT, 1987.
EARDHE, European
Association for Research and Development in Higher Education and the Dutch Association
for Research and Development in Higher Education 5th Congress on Higher
Education and Technology, State University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, Keynote address,
Image Learning: Higher Education and Interactive Videodisc, 1987.
Museum School, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Art and Technology, 1986.
Carnegie
Mellon University, Department of Art, Art and Technology, 1985.
Massachusetts
College of Art, Boston, MA, Art and Technology, 1985.
Center
for Advanced Visual Studies, Artists Speak, MIT, Art and Technology, 1985.
Alfred
University, Department of Art, Art and Technology, 1984.
Syracuse
University, The Other Cinema, Syracuse, NY, Art and Technology, 1984.
Nova
Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, Art and Technology, 1983.
Boston
Film and Video Center, Boston, MA, Art and Telecommunications, 1981.
University
of Illinois, Champaigne/Urbana, Illinois, Art and Technology, 1980.
School
of the Visual Arts, New York, NY, Video and Photography, 1978.
Publications
Razorfish Reports,
Razorfish, Inc, (www.reports.razorfish.com) Digital StoryTelling, Tom's Rules of Thumbing, All
in Good Timing, 2000-2001.
Spectra, Museum
Computer Network Publication, What will become of New Media? , Summer, 2000.
Who's Who in American
Art, 1978-2001.
Union
List of Artists Names, Getty Information Institute.
Encyclopedia
of the Environment, Art and the Environment, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 1999.
Visual Resource
Association, Digital
Reference: Building and ReBuilding, February,
1999.
Virtual Worlds and
Simulations Proceedings and CD ROM, Virtual Worlds as Content-Clocks for Cultural
Memory, January, 1999.
Time and Bits: Managing
Digital Continuity, co-author, Margaret MacLean, Getty Information Institute,
Getty Conservation Institute, LongNow Foundation, September, 1998.
Scientific American
Magazine, The
Future of the Past, August, 1997.
Scientific American
Magazine, The
Culture Machine: Science and Art on the Web, August,
1996.
Scientific American
Magazine, The
Gallery in the Machine, May, 1995.
Journal of the American
Society for Information Science, Teacher of the Future, November,
1996.
Sociomedia: Multimedia,
Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Knowledge, Vol. 4, No. 5, Edward
Barrett, ed;
Wheel of Culture, 1995.
Aperture Magazine, Digital Museums,
August, 1994.
New Media Magazine, AthenaMuse
Targets Group Authoring, August, 1994.
Computer Artist
Magazine, Ins and Outs of Multimedia Design: MIT Creates Multimedia Life of Edgerton,
February/March, 1994.
El Mundo, Interview: De la concentracion
a la manipulacion, Madrid, Spain, March, 4, 1994.
SPIE 94 (The
International Society for Optical Engineering), The Human Interface to Large Multimedia
Databases, San Jose, CA, 1994.
La Revolucion de los
Medios Audiovisuales, Un Mundo Multiple, Roberto Aparici, ed., Ediciones de la Torre,
Madrid, 1993.
Multimedia Computing:
Case Studies from MIT Project Athena, InfraThin Multimedia, ed. M. Hodges and R.
Sasnett, , Addison Wesley, Boston, MA, 1993.
Educom Review, Looking and
Learning Through Computers, Vol.28, Number 1, January/February 1992.
Multimedia Review, Looking Through
Computers, Vol. 3, Number 4, Winter,
1992.
Sociomedia: Multimedia,
Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Knowledge, Edward Barrett,
editor; , MIT Press, 1991.
Visual Resources
Magazine, Infra-Thin
Multimedia, Vol. VII, July, 1991.
Windows
on Athena, Distributed
Multimedia, MIT Project Athena, Cambridge, MA, 1990.
Advanced Imaging
Magazine, Educational
Multimedia at MIT, Ben Davis, Russell Sasnett, Matthew Hodges, July/August,
1989.
The Society of Text:
Hyper-Text, Hyper-Media and the Social Construction of Information, Edward
Barrett, editor; Multimedia
Design Documentation, Mathew Hodges, Russell Sasnett, and Ben Davis, MIT
Press, 1989.
Computing and
Education: The Second Frontier, Robert McClintock, editor; Image Learning, Ben Davis, Teachers
College Press, NY, 1989.
Interactive Media
International, Project Athena: Multimedia Learning, Vol. 3, March, 1898.
Scientific American
Special Issue Vol. 1, Trends in Computing, Michael Dertouzos, Interactive
Language Programs, VCG illustration, 1988.
Teachers College
Record, Vol. 89, No.3, Image Learning: Higher Education and Interactive Videodisc, Ben
Davis, Spring, 1988.
Project Athena, The
First Five Years, Vol. II, Image Learning, Ben Davis, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1988.
EDU Magazine; Special
Edition, Workstations for Education, Project Athena's Visual Computing Group
Develops Athena Muse; Hypermedia in Action, David Lampe, Digital Equipment Corporation,
1988.
MIT Report, Athena
Muse: Hypermedia
in Action, David Lampe, February, 1988.
IEEE Software, A Construction
Set for Multimedia Applications, Matthew Hodges, Russell Sasnett, Mark
Ackerman, January, 1989.
Tech Talk, Telescience to
Bring More Space Experiments, Eugene Mallove, MIT, September,
1988.
Videography Magazine, The Emperor's New
Videodisc: An American Team Opens the Door for an Interactive China, Steve
Gowin, January 1986.
Atlanta Art Papers, Memory Theater
One: The Age of Computer Art, Ben Davis, January/February,
1986. Hometown
USA, Ben Davis, October,1982. Lisa Irwin: Water Sports, Ben Davis, January, 1981. Artist to Artist, Ben Davis, September, 1978.
Atlanta
Art Papers,
Ben Davis, by Jan Avgikos, March/April, 1985.
Sky Art Interactive
Videodisc Catalog, Sky Disc: Implications, Ben Davis, CAVS, MIT,
1984.
Community
Television Review, The Role of the Artist, Ben Davis, 1981.
Contemporary Arts
Southeast, Alternative
to Alienation, Sarah Daniels, August, 1977.
BEO, Ben Davis, George Hemphill,
Sarah Schroth, Nexus Press, Atlanta, GA, 1977.
Selected
Exhibitions
Ben Davis, Peer Gallery, Lunenburg, Nova
Scotia, May 2004.
Our Good Earth: Landscape at the End of the Century, Hemphill Fine Arts,
Washington, DC, May-July, 1999.
Getty Center, Getty Underground,
An Exhibition of Works of Art by Getty Staff, Los Angeles, November,
1998.
Florida State
University, Millennium
Now, Tallahassee, Florida, March, 1993.
Boston Computer Museum,
Surrealist's
Ball, telecommunication piece between Vancouver, BC.,
Boston, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, 1987.
Museum
of Contemporary Art, San Paulo, Brazil, Telecommunication, with Center for Advanced
Visual Studies, MIT, 1987.
Biennale of Venice
International Art Exhibition, Technologica E Informatica, Telecommunication, with collaborators in
Japan, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Wales, and US, 1986.
Ars Electronica
Exhibition, Imagining
Antarctica, drawings and telephone connection to Scott Base Antarctica,
Linz, Austria, 1986.
Architectural Research
Terminal, Architecture
is Exhibition, drawings and photographs, Waregem, Belgium, 1985.
Atlanta
Film and Video Festival, Life on Mars, videotape, Atlanta, GA, 1985.
Georgia
State University, Solo exhibit, paintings, drawings, video, Atlanta GA, 1985.
Suffolk Theater,
Suffolk University, Tomorrow's News, live video performance, Boston, MA, 1984.
Syracuse University, The Other Cinema:
videotapes, Syracuse, NY, 1984.
Hidvore Art Library, BEO, Falling,
Denmark, 1983.
International Sky Art
Festival, Du
Bist, video transmission piece from Cambridge, MA, Munich, West Germany,
1983.
Middendorf Gallery, The Kennedy
Papers, photographs, Washington, DC 1982.
Pieter
Brattinga Gallery, Drawings and Photographs, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1981.
Mixage Gallery, BEO, Caen,
France, 1981.
Art Institute of Boston,
Vector
Shredders, photographs, Boston, MA, 1980.
Light Gallery, Hiroshima Nice,
photographs, New York, NY, 1977.
Midtown Gallery, A Reliable
Snowman, photographs, New York, NY, 1976.
Museum of Contemporary
Art, OK Photos,
photographs, Recife, Brazil, 1975.
Magnetic
Image International Exhibition, Videotape, Atlanta, GA, 1975-82.
Collections
Hemphill
Fine Arts, Washington, DC.
International
Museum of Photography at The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.
High
Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.
Museum
of Modern Art, New York, NY, Artists Book Collection.
Center
for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
MA.
St. Petersburg Museum
of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, Florida.
Jacksonville Museum of
Fine Art, Jacksonville, Florida.
Center
for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
Florida State
University Museum, Tallahassee, Florida.
Lomholt
Formular Archive, Falling, Denmark.
References
On request