Gene Felice
Assistant Professor of Digital Artat University of North Carolina WilmingtonBIO:
Gene A. Felice II bridges his creative practice across art, science, education and design, developing a sustainable network of innovation, living systems, and emerging technologies. His hybrid practice grows at the intersection of nature and technology, developing coactive systems as arts science research. His interactive work uses input sources from bio and eco sensors, cameras, touch screens and online data sources, feeding output from motors, LED’s, video projectors, speakers and more. These interdependent systems of hardware and software translate research into interactive, multi-sensory puzzles, exploring both passive and active modes of interaction, providing multiple ways for the audience to engage with the work. Video and animated imagery displayed via projection mapping / shared VR, transform two-dimensional surfaces into three-dimensional storytelling systems. Throughout his creative process, emerging technologies such as 3D printing, laser cutting & CNC milling hybridize with older methods such as wood fabrication, lost wax bronze casting, ceramics, glass casting and more. While keeping site specific histories in mind, he achieves confluence by merging these varied passions into a system of creative collaboration.
Gene A. Felice II is an assistant professor in Digital Art within the department of Art & Art History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington where he is developing the Coaction Lab for interdisciplinary collaboration. His work has been featured nationally at the Cameron Art Museum, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, internationally at Sussex University in the UK, at ISEA Hong Kong and as a 2018 American Arts Incubator / State Dept. funded exchange artist based in Alexandria Egypt.
EDUCATION:
M.F.A. in Digital Art & New Media, The University of California Santa Cruz
B.F.A. in Art & Technology, The Ohio State University
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Art & Science Based Collaboration
Digital Prototyping: 3D Printing, Laser Cutting, CNC Milling
Interactive Electronics / Installation Design
Video Projection Mapping / Shared VR / Augmented Reality
Data Visualization / Spatialization
portfolio website: www.genefelice.com
lab website: www.coactionlab.org
Current projects:
www.flowilm.com
www.algaesociety.org