Carl Skelton, Dr.-Ing.
57 Quincy Street
Brooklyn NY 11238 USA
(212) 564-1964
carl@carlskelton.com
Education
2014: Dr.-Ing. Informatics, University of Bremen DE
1986: Master of Visual Arts University of Alberta, Edmonton CA
1982: Bachelor of Fine Arts Queens University Kingston CA
Selected Solo Creative Projects
2020
ISOLUX: Four Animals Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York
2019
New States of Public Mind Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York
2018
Oracle (for Hans) Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York
2016-17
States of Public Mind Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York
YoLoveNote interactive public animations for Gotham InnovationGreenhouse/ City of Yonkers NY
Main Street River public media installation, Yonkers NY
Carl Skelton performance/installation Solivagant, New York
2012
Gist Public Projection for TEDx “Found In Translation” at Cooper Union, New York
2011
Real City dynamic public projection installation, with the Temporary Public Art Unit, NYC Dep’t. of Transportation
Betaville Storefront Clinic White Box, New York Curated by Susie Lim, Juan Puntes
2006-2015
Still Life Toronto public installation text project (14’ tall x 70’ long)
Artstage/ curated by Andrew Davies
2004
Gist 60 Wall Street, New York (in Association with LMCC/Spectropolis) curated by Wayne Ashley
2003
Next Generation Americana Powerhouse, Memphis. Curated by Peter Fleissig.
Will Is Was video/projection/ installation Art Gallery of Hamilton CA (curated by Shirley Madill, essays by Andrew Hunter, Thomas McEvilley, Jessica Wyman)
2002
Kiss My Glow projection/sound installation, White Box, New York
2001
Prisoners of Information a web tale for Immaterial.net
Dada Lama Ping Pong a multimedia performance at White Box Gallery, New York, for the “Textual Operations” series organized by A.S. Bessa
2000
Living Stones public installation, Toronto
Heavy Bird St. Norbert Art & Culture Centre (outdoor installation project, computer-generated sculpture and video)
1999
Out Here curated by Andrew Hunter, touring, catalog
Carl Skelton William Turner Gallery / Los Angeles International
Begging Bear Permanent installation, MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph CA
Perfect Lover Larvae GAGA, New York
1997
Luminous Bummy Fruitoid (curated by Brian Scott) University of Toronto at Scarborough
Wild Things (site project, sponsored by PEREGRINE, Toronto)
Canadiana Cold City gallery, Toronto
Selected Collaborative/Group Projects
2019
39th Avenue Greenway Denver CO: research and conceptual design for successful competition proposal by Walczak & Heiss
2018
WALKACROPOLIS Smarter Cities New York, with Patrick Bermingham and Jee Won Kim
Imagining My Sustainable Community Through Digital Interaction Number 9, Toronto/Wikwemikong
2017
Urban Media Art Tor 40, Bremen
2016
PlayHead interactive public animation/sound project for Gotham Innovation Greenhouse/City of Yonkers NY (with Ardis Kadiu)
Centennial Water Garden multimedia design/programming for ATOPIA Research project for Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC
2015
AUGMENTED Miami Project/Satellite (curated by Seol Park)
Mindscape collaboration with Hans Breder, Solivagant (curated by Lara Pan)
2008-Current
Betaville Massively Collaborative software platform development, deployments & use cases from neighborhood consultation to digital skills development support of 3D geodata visualization worldwide
2012
Rooftop Films, Sweet Stream Love’s River 7 events with R. Luke DuBois (sponsored by AT&T)
Tomorrow 2.0 For ReGenerations project at the New York Hall of Science, curated by Steve Dietz and Amanda Myles (with Joe Fattorini, Dwight School, Louis Armstrong IS Q227)
2011
Sweet Stream Love’s River with R. Luke DuBois, DUMBO Arts Festival (sponsored by AT&T)
Betaville on the Bowery New Museum Festival of Ideas for the New City
Betaville Massively Participatory Online Proposal/Development platform for public art and urban design/planning applications (with the Media2Culture Institute at Hochschule Bremen, Germany ThinkBETA virtual laboratory/consortium (funded by German Federal Ministry for Education and Research through M2C Bremen)
Metamorfosi 2.0 SudLab Portici, Italy and White Box, NYC
2010
Stirrings Still White Box, NYC curated by Juan Puntes and Raul Zamudio
Media Garage Pop-up May-June, at 535 Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn
2009
Emotive Association multimedia project w/ Robert Rowe et. al., New York University
2007
Tibetan Book of the Dead Live Art Direction, Multimedia Performance at Asia Society New York w/ Golden Sun Foundation, Philip Glass, et.al.
2003
Poltergeist 7 Hours, Berlin curated by C. Gruess
2002
Spirit Bar projection/performance for Cabinet Magazine at Creative Time, Brooklyn
2001
Spirit Bar Airborne The Armory Show, New York with Luke Murphy for Cabinet magazine
Prisoners of Information a web tale for Immaterial.net
Crossfade web interface for an online audio project, with Vivian Selbo, a co-production of SFMOMA, Walker Arts Center, ZKM
Under_score web showcase of Australian internet art, designed and built interface with Vivian Selbo, curated by Wayne Ashley for The Brooklyn Academy of Music
2000
Climbing The Walls video and projection Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto curated by Eileen Sommerman
Before and After Geography web project for Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival with Vivian Selbo, responding to Ralph Lemon’s “Tree/Geography Trilogy Pt. 2”
Tongue in Cheek 360 Toronto (curated by Eileen Sommerman)
Beaver Tales Oakville Galleries (curated by Marnie Fleming and Reid Diamond)
Residencies
2015-2018
IBM Post-Doctoral Fellow, OCADU Visual Analytics Laboratory
2010-Current
Researcher in Residence, Informatics, City University of Applied Sciences Bremen
2011-12
Researcher in Residence, Centre for Landscape Research, Daniels Faculty of Architecture and Planning, University of Toronto
Funding
2018
Digital Strategy Fund, Canada Council for the Arts
2017
MITACS post-doctoral fellowship, OCAD University/IBM Canada
2015-2018
iCity Urban Informatics Post-doctoral fellowship, Ontario Research Foundation
Mitacs Elevate doctoral research-industry fellowship
IBM SUR grant
2009-2011
Betaville Cultural Innovation Fund, Rockefeller Foundation (PI) $150K
2008-2011
Microsoft Research Grant: Games For Learning Institute (Co-PI) $1.5M (PI’s Jan Plass and Ken Perlin)
2008
with J. Hultin: Capital Grant ($2M) for the Center for Innovation in Technology and Entertainment
Syn-Syn/Emotive Association in Multimedia, PI with Robert Rowe, NYU-Poly SEED fund (PI) $99K
2007
NSF Collaborative: A Gaming Environment to Teach Students about Complex Distributed Systems (co-PI, PI Joel Wein)
Media Garage New York State CCAP grant
Co-PI, NSF: Virtualized Gaming as a Pathway to Enhanced Understanding of Complex Networked Systems (PI J. Wein)
Co-PI, NSF CPATH Community Building Project: Virtualized Gaming as a Pathway to Enhanced Understanding of Complex Networked Systems (PI J. Wein)
Positions
2012- Current
President, Gotham Innovation Greenhouse; clients include Office of Public consultation, City of Montreal; Department of Engineering, City of Los Angeles; Rockwell Group LAB; Panasonic USA; Zignage LLC.
2004-12
Polytechnic Institute of New York University: Founding Director, Brooklyn Experimental Media Center (BxmC); Industry Professor, Integrated Digital Media; Founding Director, Integrated Digital Media BS and MS programs
2000-2003
Adjunct Instructor, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
Awards
2017
MITACS “Elevate” fellowship, OCADU Data Visualization Laboratory, IBM SUR grant
2016
MITACS “Accelerate” fellowship, OCADU Data Visualization Laboratory, IBM SUR grant
2014
Evolution Prize, EcoHack MTL
2012
Jane Jacobs Medal for Technology and Innovation (Rockefeller Foundation)
2006
Platinum Award, 5th International UICEE conference on Engineering Education
2004
Capital grant, Alden Trust, to build Polytechnic University digital media lab
Presentations
2017
Presentation: Citizen Informatics Smart Blue City 2017, Heraklion
Presentation: Betaville 360º Horizon: New York, Toronto, Bremen People’s Smart Sculpture Symposium, M2C Institute Bremen
Workshop: Augmented Public Realms/Rolling Out the Next Avant-Garde, Canada Council for the Arts Arts in the Digital Era Symposium, Montreal
2016
Publicness: the Paved Beach Avant-Garde Rehab Kiosk Gallatin School Culture/Politics Working Group, New York University
Paper/panel presentation: Dunne, C.; Skelton, C.; Diamond, S.; Martino, M. & Meirelles, I. Quantitative, qualitative, and historical urban data visualization tools for professionals and stakeholders. HCII ’16: Proc. HCI International
Express Yourself/City Open Urban Laboratory, Bremen Bahnhofplatz
2015
New Soft Cities/Weaving Digital Media into Urban Fabrics Intelligent Community Forum, Toronto
2014
Betaville WikiCité, Montreal
EcoHack, UQAM, Montréal (with the Office de la consultation Publique de Montréal)- awarded the Evolution prize
2013
Augmented World Expo Santa Clara CA
Doctoral colloquium, University of Bremen
Betaville Augmented Reality New York
EcoHack, Maison du Développement durable, Montréal (with the Office de la consultation Publique de Montréal)
2012
Presenter, Teaching with Technology conference, NYU
Webinar, American Planning Association, New Technologies
Webinar, Urban Systems Collaborative, RFC∞: Sustainable Open Data
Sense-able City Panel Presentation: Betaville Personal Democracy Forum
Panel Presentation Betaville Innovative City conference, Nice FR
Betaville/Tomorrow 3.0 at Energy Datapalooza, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington DC
Betaville/Open Line Studio Project Goethe Institute, Montreal
2011
Presenter/panel chair: Digital government 2011/Innovation in Challenging Times Digital Government Society of North America Annual Conference, University ofMaryland, College Park
Betaville presentation for Mapping Manhattan panel, Center for Architecture, New York (organized by Abby Suckle/CultureNOW)
Downtown Brooklyn Commons Brooklyn Borough Hall
Moderator, College Art Association 100th Anniversary Convention Open Forms panel: Towards Massively Collaborative Worlds of Art New York 2011
2010
Betaville Municipal Art Society Summit for the Future of New York City
Panelist, Symposium for Electronic Art Betaville Ruhr, DE with Martin Koplin and Helmut Eirund, Moderated by Tim Druckrey
The New Fundamentals Color Marketing Group Annual Meeting, panelist
Betaville Association of Information Technology Professionals Annual Meeting
Xenakis 2.0 Xenakis Past, Present, and Future NYU-Poly
Syn-Syn Day 1 Tech Expo, Stern School of Business 2010
Betaville Day 1 Tech Expo Stern School of Business 2010
2009
Ultratopes Forum Xenakis, Centre Culturel de La Tourette, France
BrooklynX and Beyond International Urban Media Workshop, Hochschule Bremen DE
Betaville Duke University, Raleigh NC
2008
Tibetan Book of the Dead LIVE, a critical account of a “massively multicultural live media project” International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Singapore
A Day in the Life of IDMI Music and the Moving Image Conference, Music Technology program, Steinhardt School NYU
Hyperpolis 4.0 Media of Participation, conference chair
2007
Moderator, SHARE: A Multimedia Collaborative Forum in Emergence MIT5 5th Media In Transition Conference
Peaceware Culture of Peace Conference panelist, United Nations
Polytechnic CATT [Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications] 25th Anniversary Symposium Panel Session – Wireless and the Convergence with Digital/Traditional Media
2006
Conference chair: Hyperpolis 3.0/ Really Useful Media Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
UICEE (UNESCO Internaional Conference for Engineering Education) Conference paper: Generation Beta: Do Engineers Write Electronic Philosophy? – platinum paper award –
Lecture: COLOR Skidmore Owings & Merrill
2004
Panelist: Think Tank: Digital Futures Organized by Wayne Ashley for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Pace University
Conference Chair, Hyperpolis: Other Globalizations
2003
Media Presentation: Subveillance for The Future of War conference organized by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the New School, New York
2002
Panelist: New Media Workshop with Sara Diamond, International Society for the Performing Arts Annual Conference, Dec. 9, 2002, NYC
Visiting Critic: Eyebeam Atelier, post-grad stereolithography studio seminar
Panelist: Eyebeam Atelier, Online Narrative Structures with Christiane Paul
2001
Panel: Brooklyn Information & Culture (BRIC), presentation of Before and After Geography and Under_score
2000
Workshop: Advanced Design for Multimedia, Banff New Media Institute