SVA’s John F. Simon Jr. Develops App for Björk’s New iPad Album ‘Biophilia’
MFA Computer Art Department faculty member and alumnus John F. Simon Jr. (MFA 1989 Computer Art) was one of a select few artists chosen to create an app for Icelandic singer Björk’s groundbreaking new album, Biophilia. The first app album ever created, Biophilia is divided into 10 separate apps (available for download at the iTunes [...]
SVA Alumni Win Awards at Computer Animation Festival
Kyunghee Jwa (MFA 2011 Computer Art) and several 2011 graduates of the BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects Department—David Chen, Naomi Chen, Michelle Czajkowski, Carl Fong, Krzysztof Fus, Chang Shuen Lee, and James McKenzie—won Special Recognition Jury Awards at the recent Metropolitan Area College Computer Animation Festival (MetroCAF). The films that captured the [...]
What’s In Store: Mark Twain, Pope Fashion, and Cultural Noise
Mark Twain’s Autobiography 1910 – 2010 (Fantagraphics Books) by Michael Kupperman (BFA 1988 Fine Arts): Having already paired Mark Twain with Albert Einstein as a superhero duo in his hilarious Tales Designed to Thrizzle comic series, Kupperman focuses solely on the current “life” of Twain in his absurdly satirical new book. To read an interview [...]
