In the tradition of Picasso’s Guernica extended into our networked times, artist Mel Alexenberg has created this work of webart as a call to action to prevent a second Holocaust before Ahmadinejad executes his plan to wipe Israel off the map with a nuclear bomb as Iran’s prelude to global conquest. (Rhizome ArtBase at the New Museum of Contemporary Art has honored this webart blog by adding it to its online archive of exemplary works of new media art.)
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| Iranian street sign |
posted by Mel Alexenberg at 5:23 PM
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As an artist, my conceptual, environmental, and digital artworks have been seen by millions and are represented in the collections of more than forty museums worldwide. As an educator, I am head of the School of the Arts at Emunah College in Jerusalem, professor emeritus at Ariel University Center, and former professor of art and education at Columbia University and Bar Ilan University, head of the art department at Pratt Institute, dean at New World School of the Arts in Miami, and reseach fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies. As a writer, my most recent books are: 'Dialogic Art in a Digital World: Judaism and Contemporary Art' (in Hebrew), 'Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture' and 'The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness' (Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press). I live in Petah Tikva, Israel, with my wife Miriam Benjamin. website: www.melalexenberg.com
