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Mel Alexenberg
Mel Alexenberg
36 Lohamay Hageto Street
Petach Tikvah 49651
Israel
Email: mel@melalexenberg.com
Web: www.melalexenberg.com
Mel Alexenberg creates artworks at the interface between art, science, technology, and culture. His artworks explore interrelationships between digital age art and Jewish consciousness, space-time systems and electronic technologies, participatory art and community, high tech and high touch experiences, responsive art in cyberspace and real space, and blogart and wikiart. His artworks are in the collections of more than forty museums worldwide including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York , Baltimore Museum of Art, High Museum of Art in Atlanta , Israel Museum in Jerusalem , Haags Gemeentemuseum in The Hague , Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna , and the Jewish Museum in Prague . His artworks can be seen at his website
He is Head of the School of the Arts at Emunah College in Jerusalem , and professor emeritus at Ariel University . In Israel , served on the faculties of Bar-Ilan University , Tel Aviv University , Haifa University , and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. In the United States , he was Professor and Chairman of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute, Associate Professor of Art and Education at Columbia University , Research Fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and Dean of Visual Arts at New World School of the Arts in Miami .
Alexenberg is the author of The Future of Art in the Postdigital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness (Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press), Dialogic Art in a Digital World: Judaism and Contemporary Art (Jerusalem: Rubin Mass House), Aesthetic Experience in Creative Process (Bar-Ilan University Press), Light and Sight (Prentice-Hall), and with Otto Piene LightsOROT: Spiritual Dimensions of the Electronic Age (MIT and Yeshiva University Museum). His numerous papers and book chapters include: "Space-Time Structures of Digital Visual Culture: Paradigm Shift from Hellenistic to Hebraic Roots of Western Civilization" in Inter/sections/Inter/actions: Art Education in a Digital Visual Culture, "Semiotic Redefinition of Art in a Digital Age," in Semiotics and Visual Culture: Sights, Signs, and Significance, "From Science to Art: Integral Structure and Ecological Consciousness in a Digital Age," in Interdisciplinary Art Education and "Cyberangels: Aesthetic Peace Plan for the Middle East" in Leonardo. He is editor of Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture (Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press) and former Art Editor of The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics.
Updated 22 July 2010
