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Diane
Gromala |
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I am an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, and adjunct faculty in Industrial Design. My graduate and undergraduate degrees are from Yale University and the University of Michigan, respectively. Between degrees, I worked as a designer and art director in the corporate realm, including Apple Computer, Inc. My work as an artist, designer, theorist, and curator in the field of Electronic Art focuses on how artistic configurations of technologies -- from VR to biomedical devices -- can provoke a new awareness and understandings of our senses. Then I put that experimental research to pragmatic use in new approaches to interface design. My
artwork has been shown around the world, and my design work has
received numerous awards from the American
Institute of Graphic Arts and the American
Institute of Architects, to name a few. Along with collaborator
Lily Shirvanee,
I was a semi-finalist for Discover
magazine's Award for Technological Innovation in 2001 and
nominated for the Frank Annunzio Award for work which combines biomedical
technologies with mixed reality. In 2000, I was Chair of SIGG
RAPH's Art Gallery, and was named chair of the Research arm
of UNESCO's (United Nations'
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) global Electronic
Arts Initiative. My theoretical work grows out of a desire to make the meaning of art and design practice relevant to those outside of my discipline. In addition to my articles, I co-authored, with Jay David Bolter, the forthcoming book Windows and Mirrors: Electronic Art, Design, and the Myth of Transparency, which reexamines the issues of human computer interaction and interface design. I am an elected member of the Editorial Board of Postmodern Culture and Visual Communication. As a teacher, I have co-developed several interdisciplinary curricula and university-wide classes at my prior institutions, the University of Texas and the University of Washington, Seattle. This led to New Zealand, where I helped create a new joint program in Human Computer Interaction Design at Wanganui Polytechnic and Waikato University as a Senior Fulbright Fellow. I am happy to be a member of GVU and the Georgia Tech community, because, as an enlightened and progressive place, it is a lot easier to do this sort of interdisciplinary work. Prof. Gromala's work has been generously supported by: Apple
Computer, Inc. American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) |
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