Edward A. Shanken
b. 1964.
Edward A. Shanken writes and teaches about the entwinement of art, science, and technology with a focus on interdisciplinary practices involving new media. He is Professor at UC Santa Cruz, where he has served as Director of the Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA program. Recent publications include essays on art and shamanism, sound art and ecology, art historiography, and bridging the gap between new media and contemporary art. Further publications include his critically praised survey, Art and Electronic Media (Phaidon Press, 2009), while his book, Inventing the Future: Art, Electricity, New Media was published in Spanish in 2013 as Inventar el Futuro, with Portuguese and Chinese translations forthcoming in paper and E-text. He also edited and wrote the introduction to a collection of essays by Roy Ascott, Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness (University of California Press, 2003). His most recent book is Systems (Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2015). Dr Shanken earned a PhD and MA in Art History at Duke, an MBA at Yale University, and a BA at Haverford College.
From On Indigenous Wisdom and Technoshamanism, March 2026
