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“Gravity Free & Reality-Independent”

Ideaforia.com unveils eclectic creative & academic projects, art, photography, animation, drawing, design concepts, & Imagination Workshops, all of them enthused by “Gravity Free & Reality Independent” ideation.

As artist/designer/director I created imaginative concepts, designs, art, innovative proposals, and short animated films for: MTV, SCI-FI, Smithsonian, Nickelodeon, ABC, NBC, Ajinomoto, PBS, HBO, AT&T, NGS, FX/M, UNICEF, BIC, Noggin, Showtime, Sesame and others. Many won international awards. SIGGRAPH Theatre presented my 3 films. I won a Guggenheim Fellow and Jerome grants. My photography exhibited by MvVO ‘20 @ Oculus, Westfield, NYC. I presented “Imagine” @ Emerging Innovation Summit, Australia. In April I exhibit @ VIDAK ‘22 International Invitational Poster Exhibition, Seoul, Korea. In May ‘22 I joined Villa-R ’22 International Artist Residency, Sicily. June-Oct artwork exhibited @ Human Rights AIAPI-UNESCO, Italy. In Sept I exhibited art, photography, drawing & conduct Master Class @ Qatar International Art Festival ‘22. Articles devoted to my art practice published by: Artventurous Magazine ’22 & ’23 and Global Art Times, May ’23; Creative Quarterly CQ71 Award Winner Aug ’23. MADS Gallery has exhibited my artwork in: Milan, Canary Island & La PEDRERA Gaudi Room, Barcelona, Spain, in “Caos” Aug ’23, MADS Eunoia International Virtual & Metaverse Exhibition “Boundless Echoes” ‘24, and recently projected my art on a digital Time Square billboard, NYC. The US State Dept. exhibited 3 of my photos at the “Impact of Exchange” traveling exhibition ’24. Previous projects received SIA Summit Creative Awards in ’23 & ‘24. Recent articles in Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, Museum Mile Contemporary “Odyssey of Edward Bakst”, and the cover feature of Global Art Times Oct ’24 issue. Photography exhibitions: Center for Photography Woodstock & Arts Society Kingston Feb ’25. Upcoming exhibitions at CICA Museum for Contemporary Art “Nature” ‘25, Seoul, Korea, and the ArtExpo NY, both in April ’25.

In my academic career I designed, directed, consulted, and launched new programs at: Pratt; Columbia U; RMCAD, founding “International Animation” and ASIFA-CO; CCS which granted me full professor. Invited by NTU, I directed curriculum and building design for the new School of Art, Design & Media. Then also oversaw launch of the School of Technology for the Arts, Singapore. As a Professor, I was invited to Kadir Has, Istanbul; Kyoto University, Japan. As endowed Ko Guan Chair to Beijing University, China. In creative and academic projects, I focus on inspiring imagination, self-discovery, exploration, and ideation sparking empowerment and self-expression.

As a Fulbright Specialist through Oct ’24 I conducted a month of Imagination Workshops @ a women’s university in Pakistan. I would welcome other such prospects, as well as interests in exhibiting my art and photography.

I see imagination as the Origin of inspiration, individuality, ideation, innovation, and invention. Imagination Workshops I conduct explore Creator’s sways in probing ideas, metamorphic stories, worlds of un-realities and ways of visualizing them. These I’ve conducted in: Germany, Malaysia, Poland, Singapore, S. Korea, UAE, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Hong Kong, Japan, Israel, Netherlands, Turkey, Sweden, China, Cuba, USA.

Travel exposes me to varied cultures, lifestyles and realities inspiring photography. Images from Ireland, Peru, Thailand, Taiwan, Oman, Cambodia, Japan, China, Morocco, Lebanon, Jordan, France, Spain, Sicily, Doha and Pakistan seek exhibiting and publishing.