Looking Outwards 11: A Focus on Woman Practitioners

Andrea Ackerman is an American artist who specializes in New Media artworks. She graduated from Harvard Medical School and teaches 3D computer modeling at Pratt Institute. She is also a co-director of ISEA2011, an international nonprofit that combines art, technology and science, where she is the associate editor of Uncontainable, the catalog of the electronic art exhibition. The piece I’m going to be looking at is called “Momentum: an experiment in the unexpected” which was showcased in the San Jose Museum of Art. I admire her artwork because she was one of the first to integrated digital technology and art and her piece fabricates a synthetic nature by manipulating human facial features.