Biography
Peter d'Agostino is a professor of Film and Media Arts and director of Climate, Sustainabilty & the Arts (CSArts) at Temple University, where he teaches new media and experimental video courses. His pioneering video and interactive projects have been exhibited internationally in the form of installations, performances, virtual online events and broadcast productions. Surveys of his work include: World-Wide-Walks / between earth & sky / 1973- 2012, University Art Gallery, Bilbao, Spain; Between Earth & Sky: MX (1973-2007) Laboratorio Arte Alemeda, Mexico City; Between Earth & Sky, 1973 / 2003, University of Paris I Partheon-Sorbonne; Interactivity and Intervention, 1978-99, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York. Major group exhibitions include: the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, Sao Paulo Bienal, Brazil, Kwangju Biennial, South Korea. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Foundation La Caixa, Barcelona, and is distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix, New York.
Professor d’Agostino is a three-time Fulbright Scholar (Brazil, 1996; Australia, 2003; Italy, 2006). He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Japan Foundation, Onassis Foundation, Pew Trusts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was an artist-in-residence at the TV Lab / WNET, New York, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, Italy, |as well as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois and the Art / Sci Center, University of California, Los Angeles. His installations TransmissionS: In the WELL and VR/RV: a Recreational Vehicle in Virtual Reality received honorary awards for interactive art at Prix Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.
D’Agostino’s books include: World-Wide-Walks / Crossing Natural-Cultural-Virtual Frontiers, Transmission: toward a post-television culture, The Un/Necessary Image and TeleGuide-including a Proposal for QUBE. He is also a contributor to Illuminating Video, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, Video Writings by Artists (1970-1990). Publications featuring his work include: Art & Electronic Media, Video Art, New Media in Art and Digital Art.
Learn more about Peter d'Agostio's book World-Wide-Walks.
Learn more about Peter d'Agostino on his website.