Biography

“Gravity Free & Reality-Independent”

Ideaforia.com unveils creative & academic projects, artwork, photography, animation, drawing, creative concept, exhibit designs, Imagination Workshops enthused by Gravity Free & Reality Independent ideation.

As an artist/designer/director I created imaginative concepts, designs, art, innovative solutions, proposals and short animated films for: MTV, SCI-FI, Smithsonian, Nickelodeon, ABC, NBC, Ajinomoto, VIASA, PBS, HBO, AT&T, NGS, FX/M, UNICEF, BIC, Noggin, Showtime, Sesame and others. Many won international awards. SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre presented 3 of my films. I won a Guggenheim Fellow and Jerome Foundation grant. My photography was exhibited at MvVO Arts ‘20 @ the Oculus, Westfield World, NYC. Recently I presented “Imagine” @ EIS ’21 Emerging Innovation Summit, Australia: In April I was invited to exhibit @ VIDAK ‘22 International Invitation Poster Exhibition, Seoul, Korea. In May I joined Villa-R International Artist Residency, Sicily. From June 11 – Oct 11 my artwork is being exhibited at the Human Rights AIAPI – UNESCO exhibition, Italy. In Sept. I will exhibit my art, photography, drawing, as well as conduct a Master Class @ MAPS – Qatar International Art Festival ‘22. Associated article is being published in the ARTVENTUROUS Magazine AM, fall issue #31, Art & Design.

In the academic career I designed, directed, consulted to and established new creative programs at: Pratt; Columbia U; RMCAD, where I founded “International Animation” and ASIFA-CO; and CCS where I was granted full professor. Invited by NTU, I spearheaded curriculum and building design for the new School of Art, Design & Media. Then also oversaw launch of the School of Technology for the Arts, both in Singapore. As Visiting Professor I was invited to Kadir Has, Istanbul; Kyoto University, Japan and, as endowed KoGuan Chair, to Beijing University. In both creative and academic projects, I forever focus on inspiring imagination, self-discovery, experimentation, ideation sparking empowerment and hunger for creative self-expression.

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, Korea, UAE, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Hong Kong, Japan, Israel, Netherlands, Turkey, Sweden, China, Cuba, USA.

Travel has exposed me to cultures, lifestyles and enriching realities inspiring my passion for photography as well as art and concept design. My photography from Ireland, Peru, Thailand, Taiwan, Oman, Cambodia, Japan, China, Morocco, Lebanon, Jordan, France, Spain and Sicily are seeking exhibiting and publishing.

Seamlessly fusing reality & virtuality into a dimension inspiring imagination, I design concepts probing new horizons and ways to entertain, learn, design exhibits, perform, play or fuse interactivity, VR or AR into the “magic wand” enabling us to envision fantastic “un-realities” as far reaching as our imagination allows us. Within them, by controling chemical & physical properties of one’s worlds, we become the ultimate Creator.

I seek technical and practical support for project ideas probing “gravity free & reality independent prospects. As a Fulbright Specialist, I welcome worldwide cultural, science museums, academic or artistic institutions interested in my ideas, creative or academic projects, designs, photography or the Imagination Workshops.

Recent Activities

September 2022

ARTVENTUROUS Magazine, Article being published in the Fall issue #31 Art & Design

September 2022

QIAF 2022 International Art Festival, Doha, Qatar,
Invitation to exhibit my art, photography and drawings

September 2022

QIAF 2022 International Art Festival, Doha, Qatar,
Invitation to conduct a Master Class, “Imagine”

June-Oct 2022

AIAPI Human Rights? #No Gap, Italy, selected “Equilibrium” to exhibit at this International Exhibition organized in collaboration with UNESCO

May 2022

Villa R – Residency for Artists and Creative Minds, Invitation to International Artist Residency, Messina, Sicily, Italy

April 2022

VIDAK 2022 International Invitation Exhibition, Seoul, South Korea, Invitation to exhibit my poster art

August 2021

EIS ’21 Emerging Innovation Summit, Australia. Invitation to present “Imagine”

October 2020

MvVO international Exhibition at the Oculus, Westfield World, World Trade Center, NYC

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