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BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY
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New York/ *USA 1951
Robert Atkins is an art historian and activist. He recently founded "911 - The September 11 Project: Cultural Intervention in Civic Society" (http://rhizome.org/911) and is currently media-arts editor of The Media Channel (www.mediachannel.org), editor/producer of "Artery: The AIDS-Arts Forum" (www.artistswithaids.org/artery) and an instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design.
In 1999-2000, he was a Microsoft Research Fellow at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1996-98, he held the position of editor-in-chief of the Arts Technology Entertainment Network, a New York Times start-up company producing arts programming for the Internet and cable TV. In 1995, he founded the City University of New York-sponsored "TalkBack! A Forum for Critical Discourse" (http://talkback.lehman.cuny.edu/tb), the first American online journal about online art.
A UC Berkeley-trained art historian, Robert Atkins is a former columnist for "The Village Voice" who has written for more than 100 publications throughout the world and received awards for art criticism from the NEA, Manufacturers Hanover Bank and the 2001 Penny McCall Awards for the Visual Arts. In 1993, Abbeville Press published "ArtSpoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords 1848-1944", a companion to his bestselling "ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords" which is now available in five languages in its updated edition (1997). He is also the co-author of "From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS", the exhibition catalogue and accompanying book for the show of the same name, the first travelling museum exhibition of its kind. He is currently completing an anthology of his writing entitled "Eye/I Witness: Art Writing as Activism, Criticism & Reportage".
His interests in art, technology and mass media resulted in exhibitions at far-flung venues including "Between Science and Fiction" (which he organized for the Sao Paulo Bienal), "Peter D'Agostino: Twenty Years of Intervention and Interactivity" (for Lehman College Art Gallery in New York) and "Fusion! Artists in a Research Setting" (for Carnegie Mellon University). He has long chronicled the cyber-art-world for such publications as "Art in America". (His ground-breaking December 1995 cover story, "The Art World (& I) Go On Line" - updated in January 1999 in a piece called "State of the (Online) Art" - was the first article of its kind). He has also lectured extensively about online art and convergence media, as well as activism and AIDS at European, American and East Asian venues. He is a co-founder of "Visual AIDS", the group of arts professionals that conceived 'Day Without Art' and the 'Red Ribbon', and a board member of the American branch of the International Art Critics' Association.
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