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BIO


Mark Millstein is an artist and designer living in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He is a Professor in the Design Department at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where he teaches Digital Media and special projects in video, interactive media, digital photography and printmaking. He received his BFA in video and photography from the Atlanta College of Art in 1982 and an MFA in interrelated media from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1986.

Mark worked as an animator and interactive media designer before returning to academia full-time. Before coming to UMass Dartmouth in 1994, he taught at Massachusetts College of Art, Atlanta College of Art and Carnegie Mellon University.

In recent news, Mark completed an installation for the main lobby of SMAST, UMass Dartmouth's School for Marine Science and Technology waterfront campus in the south end of New Bedford. See some photos here soon!

In Spring 2008, Mark's work was selected for Top 40, at LACDA, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, and in Rochester, NY, at BookSmart Studio's Kunstler Gallery, Mark's work was included in the First Alternative Process Digital Printing Exhibition, juried by Massachusetts artist and author, Mary Taylor.

Mark's artwork has been included in several SIGGRAPH Art Galleries, most recently SIGGRAPH 2006 in Boston, and in prior years 2005, 2003, 2000 and 1995. Mark is included in the 2006 text Art of the Digital Age, edited by Bruce Wands, Thames and Hudson, publisher.

In 2003, Mark's work was included in a juried kite design show at the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Arts and Industry, and in the same year, during the Boston Cyberarts Festival, Mark won the Kahlil Gibran award from the Copley Society of Boston for his work in the show Manifest 2003.

Mark has also received numerous research and creative grants, has been a reviewer for texts on digital imaging, and has curated several exhibitions regarding concepts in digital and hybrid process art and design. These include a UMass faculty show at the statehouse in Boston during the first Cyberarts Festival in 1999; Digital Insight at the Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA in 2001; and Hybrid Prints: Redefining Printmaking, at UMass Dartmouth in 2003, co-curated with professors Janine Wong and Marc St. Pierre.

New kite and sailform works can be seen at the Kusmin Gallery in Plymouth, Massachusetts or by appointment in New Bedford,



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