Curriculum Vitae - Norman T. White

Selected Group Shows

1969 "Some More Beginnings", Experiments in Art & Technology (E.A.T.),
	Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York.
1969 "The Canadian Electric Company", Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto,
	Ontario.
1977-8 "Another Dimension", four venues:
   	1. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
   	2. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
   	3. Art College of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta.
   	4. Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alta.
1979 "Sound at PS-1", Clocktower Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1982 "Artists/Computers/Art", four venues:
   	1. Canada House, London, England.
   	2. Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France.
   	3. Exhibition Gallery, Milton Keynes, England.
  	4. The Ulster Museum, Belfast, North Ireland.
1984 "Influencing Machines", YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1985 "Hearsay", global art/telecommunications event originating from
	A-Space,Toronto, Ontario.
1986 "Strategic Arts Initiative", University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.
1986 "Les Machines Sentimentales", three venues:
   	1. C.I.R.C.A., Villeneuve-lex-Avignon, France.
   	2. Centre Georges Pomidou, Paris, France.
   	3. Centre Culturel, Caen, France.
1988-89 "The Phase Show", two venues:
   	1. Glendon College Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
   	2. A-Space, Toronto, Ontario.
1988 "Salamandre", Musee d'Art, Bourges, France.
1989 "Beyond Electonics", Gallery One-One-One, University of Manitoba,
		Winnipeg, Manitoba.
1989-90 "Machinations", four venues:
   	1. La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Quebec.
   	2. Espace Virtuel, Chicoutimi, Quebec.
  	3. Centre Culturel, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec.
   	4. Galerie d l'Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Quebec.
1990 "Numbering", Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario.
1992 "Age of Electronics", Lake Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1994 "Art + Technology", two-person show with Maggie Dorning, Workscene
	Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1994 "Our Own Devices", Durham Art Gallery, Durham, Ontario.
1995 "Two Works from the Permanent Collection", National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
1995 "Welcome to the Electric Skin", McLuhan Programme, Toronto, Ontario.
1995 "Net@Works, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico.


Solo Shows

1971 Electric Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1972 Erindale College, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario.
1974 Electric Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1975-6 "Electrical Machines", three venues:
   	1. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia.
   	2. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
   	3. Owens Art Gallery, Mt.Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick.
1981 Media Study Centre, Buffalo, New York.
1982 "Funky Isn't Junky", A-Space, Toronto, Ontario.
1983 University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
1984 "Funny Weather", Eye Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.


Commissions

1975 "Splish Splash Two", Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Vancouver, B.C. (40
	ft. x 8 ft. electronically controlled light mural).


Public Collections

Art Gallery of Ontario.
Art Bank, Canada Council (8 works).
 Erindale College, University of Toronto.
National Gallery of Canada (3 works).
Vancouver Art Gallery.


Selected Private Collections

Laura Kikauka
Heinz Macke
Al Mattes
Sam Markle
Medtronic Museum of Electricity and Art
P. Schumaker
Hans Redmann
Joseph Colucci
Julian Rowan
Brydon Smith
John Weinzweig
Peter Wilson


Selected Bibliography

1975 John Turnbull, Vanguard, September issue.
1976 Joe Bodolai, Artscanada, May issue.
1984 Brian Reffin Smith, Soft Computing: Art & Design, Addison-Wesley
	Publishing Co.
1991 Review of Ars Electronica 90. Leonardo Magazine.


Prizes

1985 La Villette, Musee National des Sciences, des Techniques, et des
	Industries, Paris, France.
   	Second Prize: for the design of a landmark object for "Le Zoo des
	Robots".

1990 Prix Ars Electronica 90. Linz, Austria. "Auszeichnungen": for The
	Helpless Robot.

1995 Petro Canada Award

Public Lectures

1976 National Gallery of Canada.
1983 "New Horizons", Visual Arts Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.
1986 "Viewpoints", Banff School of Art, Banff, B.C.
1990 "Artists' Forum", Ars Electronica, ORF-Landesstudio Oberosterreich,
Linz, Austria.
1995 "Confessions of an Electric Artist", National Gallery of Canada.


Formal Education

1951-55 Punchard High School, Andover, Mass.
1955-59 Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. (B.A., Biology).
1959-60 Art Students' League, New York City, N.Y. (part-time/night classes)
1962-63 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, Calif. (part-time/night
	classes)


Teaching Activity

1978-present: Instructor, Photo-Electric Arts Department/New Media
	Programme, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario.


Involvement in Symposia

1978 "S/10: 10th Annual Sculpture Conference". Panelist with Johnathan
	Benthall, Jack Burnham, Edward Ihnatowicz, Marshall McLuhan
   	(moderated by Dr.Robert Arn) on the topic, "Pygmalion or Pythagoras:
	Sculptural Response to Living Systems". York University, Toronto, Ontario.

1980 "1980 Computer Culture Exposition". Panelist with Bill Buxton, August
	Coppola, and Ruth Leavitt (moderated by Gary Michael Dault)
   	on the topic, "The Arts". Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario.

1983 "Art and Telecommunications".Panelist with Carl Helmers, Jr., David
	Leavitt, and Nam June Paik (moderated by Willowby Sharp)
   	on the topic, "Robots", at the School of Visual Arts, New York, N.Y.

1983 Annual Conference of the University Art Association of Canada. Panelist
	with Bruce Barber, Judith Doyle, and John Massey
   	(moderated by Ian Carr-Harris) on the topic, "Issues of Representation
	through Technology", University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
1984 International Council of Fine Arts Deans. Panelist with Bob Augur, Bob
	Blaich, Richard Williams (moderated by Paul D. Fleck) on the topic,
   	"New Directions in Electronic and Film Media", Amsterdam, Holland.

1985 "Electro-Culture", Ontario Association of Art Galleries general
	meeting. Panelist with Richard Hill, Marien Lewis, Jon Lomberg, Teddy Paul.
   	Artculture Resource Centre, Toronto, Ontario.

Involvement in Symposia (continued)

1992 "MetaNetworks/MetaCulture". Panelist with Robert Adrian, Jeff Mann,
	Heidi Grundmann, Nancy Patterson, Peter Sepp (also Hank Bull,
   	Kit Galloway, Carl Loeffler, Judy Malloy, Arthur Mattock, and Sheri
	Rabinowitz by telephone conference call), at A-Space, Toronto, Ontario.

1993 "Cyberspace, Virtual Reality, and the Body". Panelist with Dan Lander,
	Nancy Patterson, Jeanne Randolph, Catherine Richards (also Corrine
   	Curry, Kim Sawchuk, Nell Tenhaaf, and David Tomas by vidoconferencing
	link), at the McLuhan Programme, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.

1995 "NERVEgate". Panelist with Ulrike Gabriel, KP Ludwig John, Nancy
	Patterson, David Rokeby, and Akke Wagenaar.
   	Sponsored by the Goethe Institute, Toronto, Ontario.

1995 "Three-space, Time-base, In-yer-face Art: The Aesthetics of Real Space
	Interactives", Panelist with Doug Back,
   	Chris Csikzentmihalyi, Louis Phillipe Demers + Bill Vorn, James Hagan, Ed Bennet + Eduardo Kac, Theodore Krueger,
   	Kenneth Rinaldo, and Gerfried Stocker (moderated by Simon Penny). ISEA95,
Montreal, Quebec.

1995 "Robotica: O Cenario Homem-Maquina", Panelist with David Rokeby, Lucia Santella, and Stellarc.
   	Sponsored by Arte No Seculo XXI, Sao Paolo, Brasil.


Agents

1969-70 Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

1970-77 The Electric Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

1979-85 Al Mattes, The Music Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.