Harvey Goldman

Professor of Electronic Imaging, Department of Design, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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Digital Art

A self portrait of the artist reflecting on the "eureka" moment and realization that mathematics was an integral component of understanding and explaining the the universe.

This piece also pays homage to the artists past career as a potter and his past experience as a prisoner of arithmetic.

Harvey Goldman is a multidisciplinary artist. He has created critically acclainmed work in the fields of ceramics, electronic/digital imaging and music. He was born in Chicago, Illinois sometime during the middle of the last century. Goldman received his BFA from the University of Illinois and his MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He teaches electronic imaging in the Design Department at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he currently holds the position of Chancellor Professor of Design. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Ford Foundation and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. Goldman's work is included in numerous private and public collections. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the US as well as Amsterdam, Austria, Australia, Britian, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, South Africa, and Turkey. His work has been selected for the 1995, 1997 and 2001 SIGGRAPH international digital art exhibitions. His interests include gardening, storytelling, all genres of music and sound exploration, language development, writing systems and basketball.