Mark Shepard
Assistant Professor
office : Hayes Hall 302D
phone : 716 829 3485 x 308
e-mail : shepard6@buffalo.edu
website : www.andinc.org, www.dotsperinch.com
Assistant Professor Mark Shepard holds a joint appointment in the departments of Architecture and Media Study. He received a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, a Master of Fine Arts in Combined Media from Hunter College, City University of New York, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University. His work draws on architecture, film, and new media in addressing new social spaces and signifying structures of contemporary network cultures. His research focuses on the implications of mobile and pervasive computing for architecture and urbanism.
His work has been exhibited and screened at museums, galleries and festivals in the U.S. and abroad, including Artists Space, New York; Anthology Film Archives, New York; the Queens Museum of Art, New York; the Beall Center for Art and Technology, University of California, Irvine; the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland; the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Florida; Cyberfest, Boston; Hot Docs, Toronto, Canada; the Viper International Festival of Film, Video and New Media, Basel, Switzerland; the Impakt Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands; and the Arealle99 Electronic Arts Festival, Brück/Linthe, Germany, among others.
Selected publications include “Situating the Device” and “working
title: Industrian Pilz”, in Shark, a Journal of Poetics and Art Criticism, v.1 & 2; and “Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit”, in 306090 v.9 - Regarding Public Space, distributed by Princeton Architectural Press.
Shepard received the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in the Humanities, the William Graf Fellowship, the Robert James Eidlitz Fellowship, two Independent Projects grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, a Finishing Funds Award from the Experimental Television Center and the George Foster Peabody Award in New Media (with dotsperinch).
