About: ED TANNENBAUM Born in New York City but lives in Crockett, a small town near San Francisco, California.

Since 1979 he's been making Art with computers! "Electrons Tamed for the Arts"

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.

Ed's Artist-in-Residence positions include the Exploratorium in San Francisco, Art Park in Lewiston, NY, and the Chicago Art Institute. He has received an Individual Artist in Video, Interdisciplinary Arts, and a Composer's Collaborative Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Venues past or present for his interactive video Artworks include 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, 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, among others.

Ed's performed his interactive video/dance works "Technological Feets" in venues throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan.

While his formal education is in art, he taught myself many aspects of electronic design and computer programming in order to actualize some of his artistic ideas. He's also had the pleasure of working with some very talented engineers that have helped him to achieve his goals.

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