Cynthia Lawson

Cynthia Lawson is a digital artist, technologist and educator. Her research is in the areas of integrative and interdisciplinary education, educational technology, and media experimentation. Cynthia is fascinated with how streams of information (rss feeds, words, voicemails, photographs) can be filtered into a new medium in the creation of media art. She has taught in United States, Guatemala, Colombia, Dominican Republic, and Japan. Her artwork has been internationally exhibited and performed, including at UCLA Hammer Museum, Museum of Modern Art (Bogota and Medellin), Point Ephemere (Paris) and Exit Art (NYC). Cynthias writings have been published and presented at a variety of conferences, online journals, and books, including New Media Poetics published by MIT Press. She has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Universidad de los Andes (Bogot) and a Masters in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University. Cynthia is currently Assistant Professor of Integrated Design in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons The New School for Design, and an active member of Madarts, an arts collective in Brooklyn, NY.



lawsonc@newschool.edu
in Spring 2012 will be teaching