Gunalan Nadarajan

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Biography

Gunalan Nadarajan, an art theorist and curator working at the intersections of art, science and technology, is Dean and Professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. His publications include Ambulations (2000), Construction Site (edited; 2004) and Contemporary Art in Singapore (co-authored; 2007), Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology: Historical Investigations on the Sites and Migration of Knowledge (co-edited; 2009), The Handbook of Visual Culture (co-edited; 2012) and over 100 book chapters, catalogue essays, academic articles and reviews. His writings have been translated into 16 languages. He has curated many international exhibitions including Ambulations (Singapore, 1999), 180KG (Jogjakarta, 2002), media_city (Seoul, 2002), Negotiating Spaces (Auckland, 2004) and DenseLocal (Mexico City, 2009) and Displacements (Beijing, 2014). He was contributing curator for Documenta XI (Kassel, Germany, 2002) and the Singapore Biennale (2006) and served on the jury of a number of international exhibitions, like ISEA2004 (Helsinki / Talinn), transmediale 05 (Berlin), ISEA2006 (San Jose), FutureEverything Festival (Manchester, 2009), ISEA2010 (Istanbul) and ISEA2019 (Gwangju). He was Artistic Co-Director of the Ogaki Biennale 2006, Japan and Artistic Director of ISEA2008 (International Symposium on Electronic Art) in Singapore.

He is active in the development of media arts internationally and has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Inter Society for Electronic Art and is on the Advisory Boards of the Database of Virtual Art (Austria), Cellsbutton Festival (Indonesia) and Arts Future Book series (UK). He has also served as an advisor on creative aspects of digital arts and culture to the UNESCO and the Smithsonian Institution. He served on the Board of Directors of College Art Association (2014-18) and is currently on the International Advisory Board of the ArtScience Museum (Singapore), the Advisory Board of the New Media Caucus and Joint Advisory Board of VCUArts Qatar. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Edinburgh University Press book series, Technicities. He continues to work on a National Science Foundation funded initiative, Network for Science Engineering, Art and Design, to develop and support a national network for collaborative research, education and creative practice between sciences, engineering, arts and design. He also served on the committee for the Integration of STEM, Humanities and Arts in Higher Education Report of The Board on Higher Education and Workforce (BHEW) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, USA. In 2004, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art.

He has served in a variety of academic roles in teaching, academic administration and research for almost three decades in several institutions including MICA (Maryland Institute College of Arts), Pennsylvania State University and Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore.

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In the News

• Fall 2019 Dean’s List
• Open House, Open Hearts: A Stamps Studio Suites Celebration
• New U-M Arts Initiative Announced, Gunalan Nadarajan to Advise
• U-M Town Hall focuses on integrating arts, humanities, and STEMM
• Bookmarks Exhibition Featured in Pulp
• Guna Nadarajan at National Academies’ Convocation
• Stamps School Co-Organizes 2019 Ewha International Design Conference
• Guna Nadarajan on Arts Integration: 4/9 Virtual Town Hall
• Philanthropist, Arts Advocate Penny W. Stamps Dies at 74
• Guna Nadarajan on Integration of Arts with Science at U-M
• Dean Nadarajan and Laurie Baefsky on Integration of Humanities and Arts into STEMM Fields
• Stamps School Shines at CAA
• Imagin(in)g Biologies
• IPD Featured
• Seriously Cute: Visiting Artist Hiroshi Yoshioka on Japan’s Kawaii Aesthetic
• Design@Michigan Convening
• Guna Nadarajan: Arts Education for Tomorrow Symposium
• Guna Nadarajan on New Stamps Gallery Plans
• Stamps School of Art & Design Announces New Downtown Gallery Space
• Winter 2016 Dean’s List
• Stamps Awarded $20,000 NEA Grant
• Irina Aristarkhova and Guna Nadarajan Participate in Two Conferences in Athens, Greece
• Presentation - Displacements: Stamps Faculty in Beijing
• Stamps Alum and Stamps Dean Promote Michigan Design
• IPD Connects with the Mobile Device Market
• Stamps School of Art & Design to Host Design Charette on Ebola
• Guna Nadarajan Presents at Innovative City Forum, Tokyo
• Stamps School to Launch New Maker Space in Detroit
• Exhibition: Displacements
• Guna Nadarajan: Stellenbosch University and University of Cape Town