College of Arts and Architecture
School of Visual Arts
NEW MEDIA
GUNALAN NADARAJAN
Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies and Professor of Art
Gunalan Nadarajan, an art theorist and curator from Singapore, is currently Professor of Art and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the College of Arts and Architecture, Penn State University. His publications include Ambulations (2000), Construction Site (edited; 2004) and Contemporary Art in Singapore (co-authored; 2007) and numerous catalogue essays and academic articles. His writings have been translated into Mandarin, Indonesian, Korean, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Serbian, Russian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. He has also lectured internationally on a wide range of topics in contemporary art, cyberculture, art and technology and architecture.
Gunalan has curated exhibitions in several countries including Ambulations (Singapore), 180KG (Jogjakarta), Negotiating Spaces (Auckland) and media_city2002 (Seoul). He was contributing curator for Documenta XI (Kassel, Germany) and served on the jury of a number of international exhibitions, like ISEA2004 (Helsinki / Talinn), transmediale 05 (Berlin) and ISEA2006 (San Jose). He was most recently Artistic Co-Director of the Ogaki Biennale 2006, an international biennial exhibition of new media arts in Japan. He is currently serving as Co-Chair of RE:Place: The 2nd International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology, 2007 in Berlin and Artistic Director of ISEA2008 (International Symposium on Electronic Art) in Singapore. Gunalan is active in the development of media arts internationally previously serving on the Board of Directors of the Inter Society for Electronic Art and currently on the Advisory Board of the Database of Virtual Art (http://www.virtualart.at/).
He is a member of several professional associations, namely, Special Interest Group in Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), College Arts Association, National Council of University Research Administrators, International Association of Aesthetics and the International Association of Philosophy and Literature. In 2004, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (UK).
Gunalan’s current research interests include contemporary painting, art and biology, human-machine interfaces, robotic arts, nanotechnology, ambient intelligence, entertainment technologies and toys.