Peter d'Agostino is an artist working in video and new media. He is a Professor in the Film and Media Arts Dept, and Director of the NewTechLab, Temple University

Temple University

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, Philadelphia.

Life

His pioneering projects have been exhibited internationally in the form of installations, performances, telecommunications events, and broadcast productions. Surveys of his work include: "Between Earth & Sky: MX (1973–2007)", exhibited at Laboratorio Arte Alemeda, Mexico City; "Interactivity and Intervention, 1978–99", Lehman College Art Gallery, New York; and, "Between Earth & Sky, 1973/2003", University of Paris I Partheon-Sorbonne.

Major group exhibitions include: Whitney Museum of American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...

 (Biennial, and The American Century - Film and Video in America 1950-2000), the São Paulo Bienal, Brazil, and the Kwangju Biennial, Korea. His works are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Kunsthaus Zürich

Kunsthaus Zürich

The Kunsthaus Zürich houses one of the most important art museums in Switzerland and Europe, collected by the local Kunstverein, called Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, and holdings running from the Middle Ages to contemporary art, with an emphasis on Swiss art.Kunsthaus is also the name of the tram stop...

, Caixa Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, Pacific Film Archive, University Art Museum, Berkeley, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, and is distributed by [Electronic Arts Intermix].

His interactive multimedia projects (Web, DVD, CD-ROM, Laserdisc) include: "DOUBLE YOU" (and X,Y,Z.), "TransmissionS", "TRACES",
"STRING CYCLES", "VR/RV: a Recreational Vehicle in Virtual Reality", "YOO (YearZEROZERO)", "@Vesu.Vius", "World-Wide-Walks" and www.peterdagostino.net The installations have been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest art museums in the United States. It is located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. The Museum was established in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year...

, Long Beach Museum of Art

Long Beach Museum of Art

The Long Beach Museum of Art is a museum located on Ocean Boulevard in the Bluff Park neighborhood of Long Beach, California. The museum occupies the historic 1912 Elizabeth Milbank Anderson house and carriage house and a new two-story pavilion, and includes oceanfront gardens. The museum is open...

, as part of the Video Viewpoints series at The Museum of Modern Art, the Festival des Arts Electroniques, Rennes, France, the Interactions exhibition at the Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Holland, and the European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany. "The TransmissionS: In the WELL "installation (1990) and "VR/RV" (1995) both received honorary awards for interactive art at [Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria].

D’Agostino’s books include: Transmission: toward a post-television culture, The Un/Necessary Image and TeleGuide-including a Proposal for QUBE. He is also a contributor to: Art & Electronic Media, Illuminating Video, and Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art. Recent publications featuring his work include Video Art, New Media in Art, and "Digital Art" in the Thames & Hudson

Thames & Hudson

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 World of Art series.

He was an artist-in-residence at the TV Laboratory, WNET, New York, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, Italy as well as a visiting artist at the National Center for SuperComputing Applications, University of Illinois, and the American Academy in Rome

American Academy in Rome

The American Academy in Rome is a research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo in Rome.- History :In 1893, a group of American architects, painters and sculptors met regularly while planning the fine arts section of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition...

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Awards

• National Endowment for the Arts
  National Endowment for the Arts
  The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
  
   grant,
• 1992 Pew Fellowships in the Arts
  Pew Fellowships in the Arts
  The Pew Fellowships in the Arts is an organization established by the Pew Charitable Trusts in 1991 which awards grants to Philadelphia-area artists. The grants provide artists with an economic freedom that presents the opportunity to focus on their individual practices over a considerable period...
  
  
• Onassis Foundation grant,
• Japan Foundation, grant
• Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant
• Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT grant.
• Fulbright Fellowships to Brazil, 1996, Australia, 2003, and Italy 2006.

External links

• Artist's website
• Selected works distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix