DEBRA SWACK
Portfolio

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Birdsongs:The Language Gene
Humans are not the only ones that create music. Birds not only sing songs but ...

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The Emotions
Over a hundred years ago, Charles Darwin observed the universality of emotions ...

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Animal Patterning Project
An animal’s patterning serves several practical purposes; it enables some ...

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My Perfect Child
"My Perfect Child" explores the history of engineering the perfect child through ...

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Digital Maze Symmetry Project
Hermann Weyl, a math professor at Princeton states that the mathematical idea ...

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95 Chimes
Windchimes produce overtones in addition to notes on the scale. Overtones are ...

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The Lifecycle of Trees
Scientists have discovered that the CO and FT genes that cause trees to stop ...

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Little Wars; the Carousel Project
Little Wars; the Carousel Project” is based on the history of carousels (“little ...
Select an Artwork:
- Birdsongs:The Language Gene 2007
- The Emotions 2007
- Animal Patterning Project 2007
- My Perfect Child 2007
- Digital Maze Symmetry Project 2007
- 95 Chimes 2005
- The Lifecycle of Trees 2003
- Little Wars; the Carousel Project 2002
Biography
Her work is mentioned in Xerox Parc’s “Art and Innovation” and Stephen Wilson’s “Information Arts” both published by MIT Press and also published in the 2006 competition issue of PhotoReview selected by Philip Brockman, Senior New Media and Photography Curator at the Corcoran.
She is currentlly collaborating with the Mind Brain Institute in Switzerland on an interactive video and photographic project exploring the universality of emotions ("The Emotions" after Charles Darwin)which was just awarded a residency at the Experimental Television Center at Binghamton University. Additionally she recently collaborated with Interactivos in the "Double Take" exhibit at Eyebeam.
"Digital Maze Symmetry Project" which will allow the user to grow their own maze interactively according to the principles of symmetry will be produced this summer (adapted for a CAVE environment)at the Banff Center for Arts under a co-production grant.
"Birdsongs; the Language Gene" was presented in the "Sonic Fragments" soundart festival at Princeton University in March.
In addition to being in the collection of the Rhizome artbase her work in also in the collection of MOMA,The New York Public Library, the Beecher Center for Arts and Technology, Princeton University, Banff Center for the Arts, Xerox and the Sol LeWitt Collection. She is currently employed as a consultant for the SUNY@Buffalo Research Foundation.
