Edward Shanken's research explores the historical entwinement of art, science, and technology, with a focus on interdisciplinary practices involving new media. He is author of Art and Electronic Media (Phaidon Press, forthcoming) and editor of Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness (University of California Press, 2003). His essay Art in the Information Age: Technology and Conceptual Art received honorable mention in the Leonardo Award for Excellence in 2004. He edited Artists in Industry and the Academy: Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations, a special series of essays in Leonardo (2005). His scholarship has appeared in Art Journal, Art Byte, Art Criticism, a minima, Leonardo, and Technoetic Arts, and has been translated into French, Polish, Spanish, and Portuguese. He has lectured at Ars Electronica, ISEA, SIGGRAPH, CAA, and AAH. Dr. Shanken earned his Ph.D. in Art History from Duke (2001) and his M.B.A. from Yale (1990). He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Council of Learned Societies. He has served on advisory and editorial committees for the REFRESH and re:place conferences (2004-7), Creativity and Cognition (2006-7), Technoetic Arts, CAA Education Committee (2005-8), and co-chairs the Leonardo Education Forum (2005-8). Dr. Shanken was Professor of Art History and Media Theory at Savannah College of Art and Design and Executive Director of the Information Science + Information Studies program at Duke University. During 2007-8, he is a visiting scholar at the California NanoSystems Institute and Senior Researcher at the Art|Sci Center, both at UCLA.

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