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Environmental designer, media-performance artist, information
ecologist, and cultural activist, Richard Lowenberg has
contributed to a vast array of fields and disciplines.
Following studies at Pratt Institute from 1964-68 he has
pursued design, communications and creative projects that
involve art, science and social collaboration, to better
understand our evolving matter-energy-information ecosystems.
His
pioneering multimedia work with "The
Secret Life of Plants"(1976), used biofeedback
sensors to record muscular and neurological signals from
people and vegetation and transformed them into interactive
media performances. This project involved collaboration
with dancers, designers and technicians working with some
of the transitional analogue-digital audio and video synthesizers
to show the complex interrelationships between living
beings and technological systems.
From
1976-1981, he teamed up with NASA to explore creative
uses of biosensors with dancers in low-gravity environments.
As an artist, his work has been highlighted at a variety
of international venues including the Whitney Museum in
New York (1971), the Venice Biennale (1986), the Center
for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT (1990), and Digital
Art Village in Tazawako, Japan (1999). As an environmental
designer, architect, and planner, his projects have included
The Crossroads Farm in San Francisco, EcoTech in Corsica,
ParcBIT in Mallorca, the Telluride Institute/InfoZone
in Telluride, CO, Davis Community Network in Davis, California,
and most recently, networked community initiatives in
Sante Fe, New Mexico where he currently resides. For more
info see: www.radlab.com
(see
project here)
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