Associate Professor
Coordinator, SACI
MFA, The School of Art Institute of Chicago, Art and Technology, 1999
BFA, Syracuse University, Art Media Studies-Computer Graphics, 1995
COURSES TAUGHT: ARTC201, ARTC321 ARTC331, ARTC400, ARTC409, ARTC470, ARTC423 (Video Art, Public Art, Digital Imaging, Professional Practices, Intro to Digital Arts)
AREAS OF RESEARCH/ARTISTIC FOCUS: Ms. Elliott-Famularo combines digital arts, video, performance, photography, and installation art to create her artwork. Her MFA exhibition, Peep Show, was a digital installation and performance that examined the relationship between voyeurism and exhibitionism through technology.
Elliott-Famularo's current research interests include: digital video, enhanced interactive installation art, and performance that explore the interaction between the viewer and the works of art. Emphasis is placed on the merging of technology and art to create ubiquitous transformational environments. The focus is on the creation of interactive experiences rather than objects. These works challenge the traditional method of viewing art in a gallery setting, using technology to transform the space and therefore the individual viewer's experience.
As a digital conceptual performance artist, she coerces participants of her artwork to question the traditional methods of viewing art and reevaluate their roles as "viewers" by making an audience aware of its own gaze. In her feminist work, she exploits the conventions and language of mainstream moving imagery and theater, thereby giving power to the "persona" she's created and herself as the artist, while simultaneously questioning the control innately found in the privileged male vision.
Social history and memory also play a role in her most recent body of work created with collaborator, Murray McKay. At the Catwalk Residency in Catskill, NY, they conceived, researched, and shot site-specific performances for video. Using the Hudson River Valley as the backdrop and the Hudson River School Painters as inspiration, the works introduce apparitions of the future-present, coalescing transcendentalism, environmentalism, and re-industrialism. These pieces, still in post-production, will be realized as multi-channel video installations and large-scale projection pieces.
RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS: During the past few years, Ms. Elliott has exhibited her work in many national art shows. Her collaborative award-winning, interactive piece for the exhibition, Telling Images: Stories in Art, was on display (1996-2003) at the Kraft Education Center at the Art Institute of Chicago. Shows include installation works shown in the Home Work/s and Social Seduction exhibitions at the Betty Rymer Gallery in Chicago, a video piece selected for the VideominutoPopTV festival at the Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, Italy, digital prints selected for the SIGGRAPH 2005 Art Gallery in Los Angeles, and a video installation for the Proflux 05 Exhibition in Providence, RI and Interlochen Center for the Arts, MI where she was a visiting artist.
Ms. Elliott-Famularo was also the SIGGRAPH 2004 Emerging Technologies Chair, where she organized and designed an international exhibition of ground-breaking technology and fine art. She also served as the administrator for the SIGGRAPH98 Art Show: Touchware, a subcommittee member for the SIGGRAPH 2006 Art Gallery: Intersectionsand 2001 Art Gallery: N-Space, and the assistant coordinator for the 1997 International Symposium on Electronic Art. She has also served on the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee focusing on curriculum development in the field of Computer Art and Science.
Faculty member at BGSU since 2000.
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