Professional Organization: National Art Education Association
Dr. Mel Alexenberg
Writing book 'How to Photograph God' based on student work in Israel (see blog www.photographgod.com)., Creating Facebook group 'Aesthetic Peace' (see blog www.aestheticpeace.blogspot.com)., In the tradition of Picasso's Guernica, creating and disseminiating webart to prevent genocide (see web artwork www.futureholocaustmemorials.org archived by Rhizome at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York), Writing paper for the International Journal of Education through Art and a chapter in the book 'Digital Visual Culture' being published by the National Art Education Association
art, art education, digital art, art & science, art & technology, Jewish studies, kabbalah, consciousness & culture, interdisciplianry learning
Mel Alexenberg lives in Israel where he is Founding Dean of a new School of Art and Multimedia at Netanya Academic College, Professor Emeritus at Ariel University Center of Samaria, Head of Programs in Art and Design, Emunah College in Jerusalem, and formerly Professor at Bar-Ilan University. In the USA where he was born and educated, he was Dean at New World School of the Arts in Miami, Professor and Chairman of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute, Associate Professor of Art and Education at Columbia University, and Research Fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies. His artworks exploring digital technologies and global systems are in the collections of more than forty museums worldwide, including: Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Baltimore Museum of Art, High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Malmo Museum in Sweden, Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna, Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Museo de Art Contemporaneo in Caracas, and Israel Museum in Jerusalem. He is author of the books: 'Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture' (Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press, 2008), 'Dialogic Art in a Digital World: Judaism and Contemporary Art' (Jerusalem: Rubin Mass House, 2008) in Hebrew, 'The Future of Art in a Digital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness'(Intellect Books 2006), 'Aesthetic Experience in Creative Process' (Bar Ilan University Press), 'Light and Sight' (Prentice-Hall), and with Otto Piene, 'LightsOROT: Spiritual Dimensions of the Electronic Age' (MIT/Yeshiva University Museum). He was art editor of 'The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics', and has written numerous interdisciplinary papers.
Susan Fecho
Susan Fecho, prominent and award-winning Eastern North Carolina artist, is a resident of historic Tarboro, NC. Her lifelong devotion to art includes over twenty years of teaching and working with art students in the United States and abroad. She holds an advanced degree (M.F.A. 1988) from East Carolina University (Greenville, NC). She completed additional educational training at the Humboldt Field Research Center (1998, Eagle Hill, Maine), Penland School of Crafts (summers of 1988-1991, Penland, NC), Jan Van Eyck Academy (1997, Maastrict, Holland), and Goldsmith College, (1979, London, England).
Fecho sees her art as an eclectic fusion of digital and fine art; assembling disparate cultures into social, personal and political landscapes as she seek relationships between the variables. The work investigates the sensory experience of travel. How will the memory express a particular area's geographic assemblage of forms and boundaries?
