Andrea Polli recently assumed the position of director of the Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media Program at the University of New Mexico. She joins UNM after serving as an associate professor of film and media and director of the Integrated Media Arts Masters of Fine Arts Program at Hunter College. She received a Master of Fine Arts in time arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Photo: Andrea Polli, director, Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media Program
As a digital media artist, Polli’s projects often bring together artists and scientists from various disciplines. She has exhibited, performed and lectured nationally and internationally. Her work has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Greenwall Foundation.
She was recognized by the UNESCO Digital Arts Award in 2003. She is currently co-chair of the Leonardo Education Forum, an affiliate of the MIT Press and the College Art Association of America that promotes the advancement of research and academic scholarship at the intersections of art, science and technology.
Her recent collaborations include: “Atmospherics/Weather Works,” a spatialized sonification of highly detailed models of storms that devastated the New York area; “Heat and the Heartbeat of the City,” a series of sonifications of actual and projected climate in Central Park, the heart of New York City and one of the world’s first locations for climate monitoring; and “N.,” a real-time multi-channel sonification and visualization of weather in the Arctic. She recently spent seven weeks in Antarctica on a NSF funded project titled 90 Degrees South.org.
Media Contact: Sari Krosinsky, (505) 277-1593; e-mail: michal@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at January 29, 2009 05:31 PM