- email dmoser@massart.edu
- phone 617-879-7480
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education
- MFA, MassArt
- BFA, Central State University, Edmond, OK
Courses: SIM Major Studio, Electronic Projects, Internet Culture and Techniques
Dana Moser (he/him)has been a transformational architect of the SIM program since his arrival in 1986 and the longest serving full time faculty in the history of the SIM program. He was a pioneer actively involved at the inception of internet art and his Electronic Projects course has inspired generations of students. His research includes artistic applications of video, electronics, music, networks and interactive technologies.
Dana has been a guest lecturer at the Chicago Art Institute, San Francisco Art Institute, Harvard University, Brown University, M.I.T. “Transmit” conference, OSCON International Open Source Conference, Art Technology New England Conference, and the Progress Bar in Bratislava, Slovakia. He has exhibited all over the world including the Boston Cyberarts Festival, Berlin, Germany; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; MIX Film/Video Festival, NYC; National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa; and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. At MassArt, Dana created some of the earliest MassArt webpage pages as well as the first SIM website that incorporated groundbreaking social networking features.
In 1999, Dana was a featured artist on the WGBH-TV and Decordova Museum documentary about the history of video the “The Electronic Canvas.” His work has been written about in Leonardo Journal, the Technology Review/MIT Press and Art Papers.
Dana’s knowledge base includes:
- Computer programming (C, Lisp, Java, Python, Processing, PureData, Max/MSP/Jitter)
- Working with electricity: sensors, homebrew synths, circuits, Arduino, Raspberry Pi
- Video Art (history and techniques for editing)
- History of the Internet and Internet technologies
- World music and traditional western musical composition
- Studio for Interrelated Media history
- Anarchism
- Queer Culture
Industry Experience
- Computation in the Futures of Our Past” Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin, Germany
- Turbulence.org Internet art organization Steering Committee Member
- Boston Cyberarts Festival Visiting Artist
- Guest Lecturer: Chicago Art Institute, San Francisco Art Institute, Harvard University, Brown University, M.I.T. “Transmit” conference
Selected Exhibitions
Film, video, performance, and computer based media
- Axiom Gallery, Boston;
- Creator of live events using digital imagery and telecommunications at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
- National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa
- The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
- MIX Film/Video Festival, NYC
- Curator, “The Ballad of Wires and Hands” exhibition of interactive sculpture
Selected Publications
- 2003 – Art New England, Review of “The Ballad of Wires and Hands”
- 2001 – Boston Globe, Review of “Geek Artists, Interacting Electronically”
- 2000 – WGBH, “The Electronic Canvas”, featured artist in television documentary on video art history
Awards
- 2019 – Residency, Berlin Sessions
