, currently based: Chicago
http://paulhertz.net
About
Paul Hertz works in digital and traditional media, with particular interest in intermedia, algorithmic composition, and performance. His interactive installations, performances, and digital prints have been exhibited at many international media conferences and festivals, including Siggraph, ISEA, the International Computer Music Conference, Digital Arts and Culture, and Upgrade! International.
Hertz’s early work developed while he lived in Spain, from 1971 to 1983. There he collaborated with musicians and theatrical performers and developed a generative system for intermedia art. Upon moving back to the United States, he earned an MFA in Time Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he learned to work with computers as a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in Art and Technology.
Hertz was employed for seventeen years at Northwestern University as a software developer and an instructor in the Department of Radio, Television and Film and the School of Journalism. He was Co-Director of the Center for Art and Technology. He co-curated “Imaging by Numbers: A Historical View of the Computer Print,” which opened at the Block Museum, Northwestern University, in January 2008. He developed design and code for the Collaboratory Project, an online collaborative environment for K-12 education.
He currently teaches in the Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A master digital printmaker, Hertz has recently started his own print studio, Ignotus Editions. He currently resides in Chicago, his home for over 25 years (Source: http://paulhertz.net).
Hertz’s early work developed while he lived in Spain, from 1971 to 1983. There he collaborated with musicians and theatrical performers and developed a generative system for intermedia art. Upon moving back to the United States, he earned an MFA in Time Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he learned to work with computers as a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in Art and Technology.
Hertz was employed for seventeen years at Northwestern University as a software developer and an instructor in the Department of Radio, Television and Film and the School of Journalism. He was Co-Director of the Center for Art and Technology. He co-curated “Imaging by Numbers: A Historical View of the Computer Print,” which opened at the Block Museum, Northwestern University, in January 2008. He developed design and code for the Collaboratory Project, an online collaborative environment for K-12 education.
He currently teaches in the Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A master digital printmaker, Hertz has recently started his own print studio, Ignotus Editions. He currently resides in Chicago, his home for over 25 years (Source: http://paulhertz.net).
CV
GlitchSort, a glitching and visualization tool created in Processing, August 2012.
IgnoCodeLib, a software library for the Processing programming language, released March 2011.
Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall 2010 to present, teaching courses in departments of Art History, Art and Technology Studies, and Film, Video, New Media and Animation.
Ignotus Editions, Chicago, 2009. Digital printmaking studio oriented to fine art editions.
Guest Lecturer,“Prehistories of New Media,” School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 2009.
Software Developer, Academic and Research Technology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 2008–2009. Developing software for visualization and tiled screen display.
Guest Lecturer, ARTS Lab, U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, November 2006.
Guest Lecturer, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, U. of Illinois, Chicago, October 2006.
Co-Director, Center for Art and Technology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 2003-2004. Responsible for interdisciplinary program in art and technology with faculty from departments of Music;
Theater; Art Theory and Practice; Radio, Television and Film; and Computer Science.
Visiting Artist, Center for Art and Technology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Winter 2001-2002, Winter 2002-2003. Developed course in Virtual Reality. Assisted in VR studio design. Developed a
spatialized sound server for the virtual reality using MaxMSP.
Guest Lecturer, Center for Art and Technology, Northwestern University. Interactive multimedia design, 1999; Cross-modal and Synesthetic Art, 2002-2004 (History of Art and Technology).
Collaborative Applications Developer,The Collaboratory Project, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1997 to 2009. Online collaborative environment for K-12 education.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Interactive Multimedia, concurrent appointment, Department of Radio, Television and Film, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, 1995 to 2003.
Artist-in-residence, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, May 1996.
Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1986-95.
Lecturer, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, 1988-1992.
Cultural Arts Director, Logan Square Unit, Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago, 1987.
Instructor in Drawing, Painting, and Screenprinting, Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago, 1983-1987.
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