Peter D'Agostino

Peter d'Agostino is an artist working in video and new media. He is a Professor in the Film and Media Arts Dept, and Director of the NewTechLab, Temple University, Philadelphia.

His pioneering projects have been exhibited internationally in the form of installations, performances, telecommunications events, and broadcast productions. Surveys of his work include: "Between Earth & Sky: MX (1973–2007)", exhibited at Laboratorio Arte Alemeda, Mexico City; "Interactivity and Intervention, 1978–99", Lehman College Art Gallery, New York; and, "Between Earth & Sky, 1973/2003", University of Paris I Partheon-Sorbonne.

Major group exhibitions include: Whitney Museum of American Art (Biennial, and The American Century - Film and Video in America 1950-2000), the São Paulo Bienal, Brazil, and the Kwangju Biennial, Korea. His works are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Kunsthaus Zürich, Caixa Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, Pacific Film Archive, University Art Museum, Berkeley, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, and is distributed by [Electronic Arts Intermix].

His interactive multimedia projects (Web, DVD, CD-ROM, Laserdisc) include: "DOUBLE YOU" (and X,Y,Z.), "TransmissionS", "TRACES", "STRING CYCLES", "VR/RV: a Recreational Vehicle in Virtual Reality", "YOO (YearZEROZERO)", "@Vesu.Vius", "World-Wide-Walks" and www.peterdagostino.net The installations have been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Long Beach Museum of Art, as part of the Video Viewpoints series at The Museum of Modern Art, the Festival des Arts Electroniques, Rennes, France, the Interactions exhibition at the Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschede, the Netherlands, and the European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany. "The TransmissionS: In the WELL "installation (1990) and "VR/RV" (1995) both received honorary awards for interactive art at [Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria].

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