Create animated paintings with your silhouette's movements echoing color and form. Each moment is unique. The images never repeat.

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Ed Tannenbaum

ED TANNENBAUM was born in New York City on February 14, 1953. He lives in Crockett, a small town near San Francisco, California. Tannenbaum attended Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA and received his BFA in film/video from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1976. He was a member of Electron Movers in Providence, Rhode Island, where he served as Chief Engineer. He subsequently became the Technical Director for the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in Oakland, CA. He has since been consultant to Atari Design Research, 3D TV Corp., IBM, GTE Sylvania, Macy's Department Store, and Walt Disney Enterprises for various video and computer assisted art projects. He has had Artist-in-Residence positions at Art Park in Lewiston, NY; Chicago Art Institute; and the Exploratorium in San Francisco. He has also received an Individual Artist in Video, Interdisciplinary Arts, and a Composer's Collaborative Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. His interactive video Artworks are or have been on exhibit at the San Francisco Exploratorium, Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, Sesame Place in Philadelphia, Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, VA, Fleet Science Center in San Diego, the IBM Gallery in NYC, the Center Of Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio, the Kuntslerhaus in Vienna, Austria, "CHAOS and ORDER" in Gratz, Austria, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA, The Deutches Filmuseum in Frankfurt, Disneyland in Anaheim, the Boston Children's Museum, Kohl Children's Museum in Chicago, the Magic House in St. Louis, the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art in Alabama, Jackson Museum of Art in Mississippi, Saibu Gas Museum in Fukuoka, Japan, and the Asahi Shimbun Museum of Fun exhibit throughout Japan. Tannenbaum has performed his interactive video/dance works "Technological Feets" in venues throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan. Some performances include The ZKM MultiMedialle in Karlsruhe, Germany, New Music America '87, Kanagowa Science Park in Kawasaki, Japan, the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, Parigraph in Paris, France, Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, Festival '87 MANCA in Nice, France, and the Tsukuba Expo '85 on the Sony "Jumbotron". While Tannenbaum's formal education is in art, he has taught himself many aspects of electronic design and computer programming in order to actualize some of his artistic ideas.