Eric Forman is a New York-based artist working with interactive installations and responsive sculpture. His work crosses boundaries between fine art, design, and robotics – combining custom engineered technology with the open-ended exploratory nature of the art experience. Eric’s creations employ modalities of interactivity not often found in dominant forms of new media: subtle, slow, thoughtful, perhaps disturbing. His work gives us the magical and exhilarating qualities of the new, yet also plays on our uneasy fascination with the intersection of human and technology.
Eric has worked professionally with digital media for over 20 years. He started programming in the early 1980s, was an early member of the groundbreaking online media entity Pseudo Programs in the mid 1990s, and in 2006 founded the creative technology collective Klank Studios. Eric’s design practice specializes in the latest interactive experiences and fabrication techniques for artists, designers, architects, and museums. Eric Forman Studio is currently a beta founding tenant of New Lab, a next generation innovation and manufacturing space in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Eric is also the co-founder of BioArt New York, a collective pairing artists and scientists for unusual collaborations.
Eric received his Masters in 2002 from ITP at Tisch School of the Arts (NYU), and his B.A. from Vassar College in 1995 where he developed his own interdisciplinary program called “The Philosophical Ramifications of Computer Technology.” His thesis work there was a pioneering academic investigation of virtual reality and its potential impact on space and identity.
Eric currently teaches in the Digital+Media MFA department at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), the Interaction Design MFA program at SVA, and the Interactive Arts MFA department at Pratt Institute. He has also lectured at the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University, Parsons The New School for Design, the Sculpture department of MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art), and many others. He also likes to ride a bike.
Eric has worked professionally with digital media for over 20 years. He started programming in the early 1980s, was an early member of the groundbreaking online media entity Pseudo Programs in the mid 1990s, and in 2006 founded the creative technology collective Klank Studios. Eric’s design practice specializes in the latest interactive experiences and fabrication techniques for artists, designers, architects, and museums. Eric Forman Studio is currently a beta founding tenant of New Lab, a next generation innovation and manufacturing space in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Eric is also the co-founder of BioArt New York, a collective pairing artists and scientists for unusual collaborations.
Eric received his Masters in 2002 from ITP at Tisch School of the Arts (NYU), and his B.A. from Vassar College in 1995 where he developed his own interdisciplinary program called “The Philosophical Ramifications of Computer Technology.” His thesis work there was a pioneering academic investigation of virtual reality and its potential impact on space and identity.
Eric currently teaches in the Digital+Media MFA department at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), the Interaction Design MFA program at SVA, and the Interactive Arts MFA department at Pratt Institute. He has also lectured at the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University, Parsons The New School for Design, the Sculpture department of MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art), and many others. He also likes to ride a bike.
