{"id":2958,"date":"2016-01-06T19:43:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T00:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=2958"},"modified":"2018-05-21T11:06:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T15:06:11","slug":"ellen-k-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/ellen-k-levy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen K. Levy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1544\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2958-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ellenklevy.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ellenklevy.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ellenklevy.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.complexityart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3005 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/EKL_headshot-1.jpg?resize=273%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"EKL_headshot\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/EKL_headshot-1.jpg?resize=273%2C300&amp;ssl=1 273w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/EKL_headshot-1.jpg?resize=768%2C844&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/EKL_headshot-1.jpg?resize=624%2C686&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/EKL_headshot-1.jpg?w=804&amp;ssl=1 804w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/>Ellen K. Levy<\/a> is a visual artist and educator whose practice encompasses experiential mixed-media installations, forums, and\u00a0writing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Levy is currently Special Advisor on the Arts and Sciences at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA) and lectures at The New School on art and neuroscience. She was President of the College Art Association (2004-2006) before earning her doctorate (2012) from the University of Plymouth (UK). She received her diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1981) following a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in Zoology. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Levy has had numerous group and solo exhibitions locally and abroad, including at the New York Academy of Sciences (1984), the National Academy of Sciences (1985), Associated American Artists (NYC), and Michael Steinberg Fine Arts (NYC); the latter were galleries that represented her art. Her work was included in Petroliana at the 2nd Moscow Biennale (cur. E. Sorokina, 2007), Weather Report: Art &amp; Climate Change at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (cur. L. Lippard, 2007), and Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics at the Field Museum, Chicago (cur.\u00a0 C. Albano, M. Wallace, adv M. Kemp, 2006). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Her honors include an arts commission from NASA (1985) and AICA award (1995-1996), and she was Distinguished Visiting Fellow of Arts and Sciences at Skidmore College (1999), a position funded by the Luce Foundation.\u00a0She was guest editor of Art Journal\u2019s special issue, \u201cContemporary Art and the Genetic Code\u201d (1996), likely the first in-depth academic publication about genomics and art. The issue included text by S. J. Gould, R. Hoffmann, R. Root-Bernstein, M.\u00a0Kemp, and D.\u00a0Nelkin. She has been a lecturer at the Cornelia street Caf\u00e9, the DASER series at the National Academy of Sciences, Williams College, Banff Centre, University of Hartford, UCLA, Drew University (NJ), Brooklyn College, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has moderated many panels on art and science, including at Location One, ISEA, and numerous conferences held by CAA and by SLSA. Twice an invited participant in Watermill\u2019s Art &amp; Consciousness Workshop, Levy also co-organizes art and science LASER evenings for <i>Leonardo\/<\/i>ISAST. regularly co-organizes art and science meetings in her studio in conjunction with Leonardo\/ISAST.\u00a0 She has published widely on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complexityart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">art and complex systems.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2998\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2998 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/migrations_2020.jpg?resize=625%2C937&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"migrations_2020\" width=\"625\" height=\"937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/migrations_2020.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/migrations_2020.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/migrations_2020.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/migrations_2020.jpg?resize=624%2C936&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/migrations_2020.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellen K. Levy Migrations 20\/20 #4, 2015, 58 x 38\u2033, Mixed media, acrylic, gel, digital print<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2999\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2999 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Platos-Cave_change_blindness2.jpg?resize=625%2C937&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Platos Cave_change_blindness2\" width=\"625\" height=\"937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Platos-Cave_change_blindness2.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Platos-Cave_change_blindness2.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Platos-Cave_change_blindness2.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Platos-Cave_change_blindness2.jpg?resize=624%2C936&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Platos-Cave_change_blindness2.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellen K. Levy, Plato&#8217;s Cave (Change Blindness) #2, 2014 58 x 38\u2033, Mixed media, acrylic, gel, digital print<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ellenklevy.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing list Ellen K. Levy is a visual artist and educator whose practice encompasses experiential mixed-media installations, forums, and\u00a0writing. 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