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Jane Veeder is an artist-programmer, filmmaker, and professor at San Francisco State University in the Department of Design and Industry, at which she held the position of chair between 2012 and 2015. She has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) where she studied Video and Filmmaking. Veeder is best known for her pioneering work in early computer graphics, however she has also worked extensively with traditional art forms such as painting, ceramics, theatre, and Photography.

Veeder moved away from traditional art making and began her work in the digital arts in 1976 after her enrollment in the graduate program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) where she first discovered video as an artistic medium. In 1982, her video 'Montana' became the first computer graphics piece to be featured in the video collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her video work typically involves working with a computer to create the images, rather than a video recorder, to achieve a more direct relationship between the artist and the piece. Many pieces are meant to involve participation between the viewer and the work itself. Veeder's work marks some of the significant steps that took digital technology into the fine arts, which never had been done previously.

Early Life & Education
Both of Jane Veeder’s parents were Artists, her mother was a painter and her father was a photographer.

From 1967-1969 Veeder studied ceramic sculptures and photography at California College of Arts & Crafts graduating with a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts (BFA).

In the early 1970's Veeder moved from California to the neighborhood of Pilsen in Chicago, Illinois. From 1975-1977, Veeder pursued her Master's Degree in Fine Arts (MFA) at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) where she studied video and filmmaking.

After enrolling in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s MFA program, Veeder began taking film classes. By the end of her first year at SAIC, Veeder had discovered video as an artistic medium and switched entirely from studying Ceramic Sculpture to studying Video and Film.

Program #7
Between 1976 and 1982, Jane Veeder traveled the western mountains of the United States with Phil Morton. On these road trips the two would shoot video of their surroundings using a portable video recorder. Some of these video recordings of the western mountain terrain were used to produce the televised video piece known as Program #7. Program #7 was produced as a part of a larger group of videos known as ''The Electronic Visualization Center: A Television Research Satellite to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Program #7'' was televised on Chicago Public Television as a part of a program which ran work by independent video creators. Program #7 was created using a Sandin Image Processor and a Bally Home Computer. Graphics generated using a Bally Home Computer would be overlaid overtop of the video recorded by Veeder and Morton using the Sandin Image Processor. The Sandin Image Processor would also be used to add varying patterns to the image.

Solo Work
Over the course of her career, Jane Veeder has worked extensively as a solo artist