Interactive Telecommunications

Courses

Intro to Physical Computing

Education

B.A. New York
M.P.S. New York

Biography

Greg Shakar is exploring various paths toward the goal of creating emotive and expressive active art. In the course of this effort he taps his experience as an artist, musician, and composer with the intention of teasing out the fundamentals of human attention and fascination. While participating with his recent reactive sound sculptures, viewers have controlled thunderous 30-meter long wires, sonorous 3-meter tall metronomes, dozens of dangling tentacles, sociable spiny metal spheres and musical bolts of lightning. Recently, Shakar has served an Artist Residency at the Ars Electronic Center in Linz, Austria and a Research Fellowship at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.