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	Stephen Wilson

Professor, Conceptual Design/Information Arts

Post: Art Dept, San Francisco State University,SF,CA 94132
email: swilson@sfsu.edu
WWW: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~swilson

Stephen Wilson is a San Francisco author, artist and professor who explores the cultural implications of new technologies. His interactive installations have been shown internationally in galleries and SIGGRAPH, CHI, NCGA, Ars Electronica, and V2 art shows. His computer mediated art works probe issues such as World Wide Web & telecommunications; artificial intelligence and robotics; hypermedia and the structure of information; synthetic voice; and environmental sensing. He won the Prize of Distinction in Ars Electronica's international competitions for interactive art. He is Head of the Conceptual Design and Computer Art program at San Francisco State University. He has been a developer for Apple, Articulate Systems and other companies and principal investigator in US government projects to introduce new technologies to teachers. He has published extensively including articles such as "The Aesthetics and Practice of Designing Interactive Events", "Interactive Art and
Cultural Change", and "Noise on the Line: Emerging Issues in Telecommunications Art". He has published three books, Using Computers to Create Art (Prentice Hall, 1986), Multimedia Design with HyperCard (Prentice Hall, 1991), and World Wide Design Guide (Hayden), which promotes an experimental, culturally aware approach to Web design.