Pratt Institute

Education

M.F.A., San Jose State University: Photography, Performance, and Installation
B.F.A., Ohio University, Athens, Ohio: Photography

Biography

Jack Toolin is an artist working in new media, digital imaging, and performance, who also teaches at Polytechnic Institute at NYU and lectures at Rhode Island School of Design and University of California at Berkeley; his work considers contemporary life in light of the changing political, economic, and technological landscape. Current work includes White Collar and My Space for Your Life.  Toolin's individual and collaborative work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as San Francisco Camerawork; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2002 Whitney Biennial); and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has performed in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Pittsburgh, Reno, Pheonix, Hong Kong, and Linz, Austria. Commissions include the Walker Art Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art. His work has been addressed in the writings of Steve Dietz, Lev Manovich, and Christiane Paul, and his own writing regarding information art will be included in the forthcoming Information Arts – Adventures in the Creative Use of Information.

He is currently an adjunct professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and the Polytechnic Institute at NYU. He has lectured widely, at institutions such as the Rhode Island School of Design, University of California at Berkeley, the San Francisco Art Institute, Emerson College, Boston, MA, Kibla Mulitmedia Center, Maribor, Slovenia, the Museum of Contemporary Art Rijeka, Croatia, and the University of Split, Croatia.

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