CCA GRAD FINE ART SATELLITE LECTURE SERIES
AND THE FILM PROGRAM PRESENT
in conjunction with the LAND MINDS/SITE LINES graduate seminar
JOEL SLAYTON
WEDNESDAY, OCT 13TH, 12 NOON, SF Campus - Production Stage

A pioneer in the field of art and technology Joel Slayton’s artworks
engage with social software, cooperation models and networks, ontology
of organizations, robotics, information mapping, and interactive
visualization. He was an original member of the Visible Language
Workshop at MIT in the mid 1970’s, has received a National Endowment
for the Arts award, and was selected for the Xerox Parc Pair Artists
in Residence Program.

Joel is currently the director of ZERO1 in San Jose, and Director of
the CADRE Laboratory for New Media, an interdisciplinary academic
program in the School of Art and Design dedicated to the development
of experimental applications involving information technology and art.
He also serves on the Board of Directors of Leonardo/ISAST
(International Society for Art, Science and Technology), and was
Editor and Chief of the Leonardo-MIT Press Book Series from 1999-2005.
His research papers include Social Software; Entailment Mesh, The Re=
Purpose of Information, and The Ontology of Organization as System.

The first recipient of the Pick-Laudati Award, Joel has exhibited widely, in
major art museums and media symposia in Los Angeles, Singapore, Seoul, and
New York. His robotic tele-present works have been exhibited at the Krannert
Museum of Art and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Slayton was selected for participation in Alternating Currents: American Art in the Age of
Technology co-curated by San Jose Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.