Anna Z. Ursyn
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- University of Northern Colorado, School of Art and Design, Professor
Location:
- Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Website:
Bio:
In my work I integrate service, research, and teaching. I serve by editing a book “Biologically-Inspired Computing for the Arts: Scientific Data through Graphics,” and chairing the D-Art Gallery for the International Conference on Information Visualization, London. I perform research work, then pass the outcomes on to my students, and thus inspire them to create computer graphic projects. I test and assess my questions and results by creating my own art on the themes I am working on. This completes the circle. I explore relations between natural, constructed, and imagined structures. My current project is about nature versus technology, city life versus rural environment, animal world versus humans. My task is to juxtapose the regularity of nature with man’s constructions, both physical and intellectual. I am working on a project about water, centered on biologically inspired computing for the arts. I explore what technological and human worlds have in common. I synthesize my previous and current experiences and art works to build my new line of research because these themes appear continuously in nature-related and art-related projects and support my background and resources while working on these projects.
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Art Paper(s):
Type: Art Sketch / Art Talk
Author(s): Ursyn
Conference: SIGGRAPH 2008: Slow Art
Artwork(s):
Animation/Video(s):
Learning Presentation(s):

Type: [Educator’s Forum]
Massive Collaborative Animation Projects Changing Paradigms in Animation Education Presenter(s): [Joel] [Aoki] [Pollak] [DeYoung] [Ursyn] [Chang]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]

Type: [Educator’s Forum]
Is This Possible? Massive Online Inter-institutional Student Production Presenter(s): [Aoki] [Joel] [Ursyn] [Pollak]
[SIGGRAPH 2017]

Type: [Educator’s Forum]
Web with art and computer science Presenter(s): [Ursyn] [Scott]
[SIGGRAPH 2007]
Role(s):
- Animation Director
- Art Show Artist
- Art Show Organizing Committee Member
- Art Show Speaker/Presenter
- Educator's Forum Presenter