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BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY
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Toronto/ *USA 1947
Tom Sherman is an artist and theorist best known for his media art and writing about person/machine relationships. His work has been exhibited, broadcast and published extensively internationally. Sherman, raised in Manistee, Michigan, emigrated to Toronto in 1971. He represented Canada at the 1980 Venice Biennale. In 1983, The National Gallery of Canada mounted "Cultural Engineering", a ten year retrospective of his work. Sherman was an international commissioner for the "Art, Technology and Informatics" section of the 1986 Venice Biennale. In the 1990s his work was featured in exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid), the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), documenta X (Kassel) and Ars Electronica (Linz), and the Musee d'art moderne de la ville de Paris. Selected venues in 2000-2002 include Sender Freies Berlin, TranzTech (Toronto), and Elektra (Montreal).
Beside his work as an artist and theorist, Sherman has founded or co-founded organizations such as A Space Video (1973, Toronto), Fuse Magazine (1978, Toronto), the Media Arts Section of the Canada Council (1983, Ottawa) and the Centre for Image/Sound Research (1989, Vancouver). He was Director of the School of Art & Design at Syracuse University, New York, from 1991 to 1996. He is currently an Associate Professor at Syracuse University, teaching video and media theory in its Department of Art Media Studies.
Remaining active in video for the past 30 years, Sherman's recent activities have centred on live performance and public and web-based radio. Throughout the 1990s he was a regular contributor to Kunstradio, the weekly radio art program on the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation's national cultural channel. In 1997, he released an audio CD of his voice/music work entitled "Personal Human", in collaboration with composers Jean Piche and Bernhard Loibner. Sherman and Loibner have since formed a performance/recording duo called "Nerve Theory" (for information on Nerve Theory, check out: <http://www.allquiet.org/>).
In 2002, the Banff Centre Press published "Before and After the I-Bomb: An Artist in the Information Environment", an anthology of Tom Sherman's writing on art, culture, and nature in the information era.
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