Statement:
Mark Shepard is an artist and architect whose cross-disciplinary practice draws
on architecture, film, and new media in addressing new social spaces and signifying
structures of emergent digital cultures. His current project, the Tactical Sound
Garden [TSG] Toolkit, addresses the impact of mobile technologies and wireless
networks on architecture and urbanism, and will be published by Princeton Architectural
Press in the forthcoming issue of 306090 ? 09: Regarding Public Space. In 1998
he founded dotsperinch - a collaborative network of artists, architects, technologists,
and programmers developing new media environments for the arts, museum, design,
and education communities. Projects with dotsperinch include SonicMemorial.org
- an open archive and networked participatory audio experience documenting the
30-year history of the World Trade Center, developed in collaboration with Picture
Projects and NPR. SonicMemorial.org was the recipient of the first Peabody Award
for New Media in 2003.
His work has been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New
York; Artists Space, New York; the Queens Museum of Art, New York; the Beall
Center for Art and Technology, University of California, Irvine; the Jacksonville
Museum of Contemporary Art, Florida; Cyberfest, Boston; Hot Docs, Toronto, Canada;
the Viper International Festival of Film, Video and New Media, Basel, Switzerland;
the Impakt Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands; and the Arealle99 Electronic
Arts Festival, Brück/Linthe, Germany, among others.
His work has been supported by the US Department of Education; the Ford Foundation;
the New York State Council on the Arts, The Experimental Television Center,
USIS BERLIN/Amerika Haus; and the Brandenburg Ministry of Economics, Culture
and Technology.
Mark is a Jacob K. Javits Fellow in the Humanities and received a MS in Advanced
Architectural Design from Columbia University; a MFA in Combined Media from
Hunter College, City University of New York; and a BArch from Cornell University.
