EDUCATION

 

1998 Antelope Valley College, Lancaster, CA, (Internet Publishing)

 

1998 California State University Bakersfield Extension, Lancaster, CA, (Digital Imaging Certificate)

 

1996 University of California Los Angeles Extension, Los Angeles, CA, (Autocad Training Certificate)

 

1996 University of California Los Angeles Extension, Los Angeles, CA, (Autocad Training Certificate)

 

1971 California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, BFA (Fine Art)

 

1967 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, (School of Architecture)

 

1966 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

1971 – Present    Artist (painting, sculpture, digital prints)

 

1994 – 2013        Contractor Lic. No. 773781, Painting(C33) and General(B)

 

1992 – 1994        IBM, Santa Monica, CA, (CADAM system support technician)

 

1983 – 1991        CADAM Inc., Burbank, CA, (CADAM plotting software programmer)

 

1981                   Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, (Computer Graphics Lab, programmer)

 

1973 – 1978        Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, (Image Processing Lab, programmer)

 

1971 – 1972        BBDO Inc., New York, NY, (Management Science Department, programmer)

 

1968 – 1970        Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, (System Analyst)

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

1998

 

 

 

1995

 

 

1993

 

1988

 

 

1981

 

 

1981

 

 

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITION

 

1972

 

PRINT MEDIA

 

George G. Szpiro, “Symmetrie in Wissenschaft, Kunst und Design, Beweis der Keplerschen Vermutung”, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich, Switzerland, Mittwoch, 28, Oktober 1998.

 

Vivien Raynot, “Computer Reigns at Bronx Museum of Arts”, The New York Times, Sunday, Oct. 25, 1987.

 

Tony Longson, “Computer Art”, Arts + Architecture, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1984.

 

Paul McAfee, “Art Reflects Space Age”, Herald American, Downey, Calif., March 19, 1981.

 

Dick House, “Creative Computer Expert Builds Unique Objets D’art”, JPL Universe, Vol. 9, No. 7, 1978.

 

William Wilson, “Science-Fiction Art at Caltech”, The Los Angeles Times, June 12,Publications as Author

 

PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR

 

“Islamic Girih Tiles In Their Own Right As A History Lesson And Design Exercise In The Classroom”, Symmetry: Culture and Science, Vol. 20, Nos. 1-4, 201-216, 2009.

 

“The Origin of Symmetry in the Adenovirus: Is It Natural or Artificial?”, The Quarterly of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1995.

 

“Computer Art: Sculptures of Polyhedral Networks Based on an Analogy to Crystal Structures Involving Hypothetical Carbon Atoms”, Leonardo, International Journal of Contemporary Visual Artists, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1982, MIT Press, Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/Stable/1574542 .

 

A Technical Catalog of Computer Halftones, ©1972 by Robert Dewar. This is a limited edition art book produced in conjunction with the exhibit of computer generated halftone prints at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, April 1972.

 

PRESENTATIONS/PANELS

 

 

2009, “Islamic Girih Tiles In Their Own Right As A History Lesson And Design Exercise In The Classroom”, Presentation of paper, Symmetry Festival 2009: Symmetry in the History of Science, Art and Technology, Budapest, Hungary, July 31 – August 5,

 

1995, “The Origin of Symmetry in the Adenovirus: Is It Natural or Artificial?”, Presentation of paper, Symmetry: Natural and Artifical, Third Interdisciplinary Symmetry Congress and Art Exhibition of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, Washington D.C., August 14 – 20.

 

1983, “Finding the Soul in Computer Art", panelist, sponsored by YLEM Forum (Artists Using Science and Technology), San Jose, CA.

 

PATENT

 

U.S. Patent D215518, For the basic tile pattern of nonagons and stars, Patented Sept. 30, 1969, URL: www.google.com/patents/, search for “D215518”.