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=Anne Morgan Spalter= Anne Morgan Spalter (b. 16 April 1965) is a new media artist working from Anne Spalter Studios in Pawtucket, RI, USA. Spalter is also the author of the widely used text “The Computer in the Visual Arts,” (Addison-Wesley 1999). Her art, writing, and teaching all reflect her long-standing goal of integrating art and technology.

Life and Work Art Shows and Press References External Links

Life and Work
Spalter first used a computer as an undergraduate at Brown University, Providence, RI in the late 1980s. Recognizing its unique power to integrate different disciplines, Spalter created an independent major that culminated in a multimedia novel. She also graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics and in Visual Art. After three years in New York, Spalter returned to RI to pursue an MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). [1] Spalter initiated and taught the first new media fine arts courses at both RISD and Brown. Finding a lack of teaching aids she wrote a textbook, “The Computer in the Visual Arts,” “the first comprehensive work to combine technical and theoretical aspects of the emerging field of computer art and design,” according to artist and author James Faure Walker. [2] “The Computer in the Visual Arts” and has been used at schools from Harvard University to MIT to the Pratt Institute and remains an important reference in the field. As an educator and artist in this emerging field, Spalter has also been honored to act as a reviewer of digital art shows and technical papers of ACM SIGGRAPH and Leonardo magazine, as well as serve on editorial boards of publications from CG Educational Materials Source (CGEMS) to the Journal of Mathematics and Art.

In BrownUniversity’s Department of Computer Science, Spalter worked with Thomas J. Watson, Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education and Professor of Computer Science Andries van Dam as Artist in Residence and as a Visual Computing Researcher. She has initiated and published on research projects ranging from color theory and its applications to better color selection tools to a large-scale educational effort to raise visual literacy to the same status as reading and writing in core curricula. [3][4][5]. In 2007, Spalter left her position at Brown to create art full-time.

Spalter’s art works explore the concept of the “modern landscape” through both the subject matter and the processes used to create the work. She draws on her own travels and digital photographic database to create both traditional works and new media still and moving pieces. She is particularly interested in combining traditional strategies with computation processes possible only with the computer.[6]

Her work has been exhibited in the US and abroad and is held by museums such as the Albright-Knox (Buffalo, NY) and the Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK). She is also in high-profile collections such as the Bobbie Foshay collection and the Dick and Pamela Kramlich collection. She is represented by the Stephan Stoyanov/Luxe Gallery in New York City, Catherine Rubin in Paris, and Candita Clayton in RI.

Her husband, Michael Spalter, shares a passion for new media art and in the 1990s the two began collecting early art works in the field. They now have the world’s largest private collection of early works in this genre and have lent pieces to the MoMA in New York as well as museums internationally. A show curated from the Spalter collection was held in 2011 at the deCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA.[7]

Art Shows and Press

 * Solo Show at Stephan Stoyanov/Luxe Gallery, New York, NY. November 2011.
 * Leaders in Software Art (LISA), New York, NY. Presentation on recent art works, October 2011.
 * ISEA (International Society of Electronic Art) 2011, panel presentation on art work, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2011.
 * Stephan Stoyanov/Luxe Gallery, New York, NY, still images and digital video drawing #9 Dream in group show, “Places”, July 2011
 * The Big Screen Plaza, digital video drawings from Internal Energies series screened on 30-foot LCD screen in New York City, July 2011. Part of Leaders in Software Art (LISA)
 * Candita Clayton Studios, Providence, RI, still and moving images in group show, June 2011.
 * ROMA: The Road to Contemporary Art, still and video works, Rome, Italy, May 2011.
 * Stephan Stoyanov/Luxe Gallery, New York, NY, selected drawings and three digital video works in group show, “The Heart of a Woman,” February 2011.
 * Candita Clayton Studios, Providence, RI, group and solo show, December 2010 and January 2011.
 * The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Symposium lecture, Creating, Critiquing, Collecting, Who's Afraid of New Media, February 2010.
 * The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK, Symposium lecture, Creating, Critiquing, Collecting, Decoding the Digital Symposium,, February, 2010.
 * The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Visiting Artist lecture and critiques, Pioneers of Early Computer Art, Digital Nature wintersession course,, January 2010.
 * WestSide Arts, Providence, RI, three pieces in group show, November 2010.
 * Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2008. Charcoal drawing in group show.
 * Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Initiative in Innovative Computer lecture series, Digital Visual Literacy, February 2006