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Bio Dan Collins, associate professor of intermedia, joined the School of Art faculty in 1989. In addition to teaching courses in intermedia and foundations, Professor Collins is founding Co-Director of the PRISM lab--an interdisciplinary 3D modeling and rapid prototyping facility--and coordinator of the foundation program in basic art instruction (artCore). Collins studied studio art and art history at UC Davis where he received a Bachelor's degree in 1974. He holds an MA in Art Education from Stanford University (1975), and an MFA in "New Forms" and Sculpture from UCLA (1984). He was awarded a Fulbright to Malaysia for Research and Teaching in 1987 and the Herberger College Award for Research and Creative Activity in 2000. His theoretical essays and reviews in the areas of art, education, and technology have appeared in Leonardo, New Art Examiner, Computer Graphics, and the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education among others. He has co-edited two collections of essays on contemporary art: The Simulated Presence (1993) and The Eighth Day: The Transgenic Art of Eduardo Kac (2003), both of which were published by the Institute for Studies in the Arts at ASU. He is active in a number of national and international organizations including the College Art Association; Foundations in Art, Theory, and Education (FATE); SIGGRAPH; Association of Computing Machinery (ACM); the International Sculpture Center, and the Sculpture Guild of New York. His work in sculpture and installation has been exhibited at the Boston Cyberarts Festival, the Basel Art Fair, SIGGRAPH, the Scottsdale Center for the Arts, the Phoenix Art Museum, the Tucson Museum of Art and in numerous one person shows in commercial galleries in Arizona and New York.
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