Janice T. Searleman
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ISEA2024
Jan Searleman taught Computer Science at Clarkson University for 37 years, retired in 2015, and since retirement has been an Adjunct Research Professor at Clarkson. Her research areas are Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interaction, and Artificial Intelligence. A senior member of the ACM, Jan is also on two ACM SIGGRAPH Committees: Digital Art (DAC) and History. Jan and Bonnie Mitchell coordinated a DAC Online Exhibition “The Earth, Our Home: Art, Technology and Critical Action”. She is co-director of the ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive with Bonnie Mitchell. Jan also co-directs the ISEA Symposium Archives with Bonnie Mitchell, Wim van der Plas, and Terry C.W. Wong. In 2022/2023, she was a member of the SIGGRAPH 50th Anniversary team. She also served on the organizing team for the Second Summit on New Media Art Archiving at ISEA2023 in Barcelona.
ISEA2023
Jan Searleman (California, USA) taught Computer Science at Clarkson University for 37 years, retired in 2015, and since retirement has been an Adjunct Research Professor at Clarkson. Her research areas are Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interaction, and Artificial Intelligence. A senior member of the ACM, Jan is also on both the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Art Committee (DAC) and the ACM SIGGRAPH History Committee. Jan and Bonnie Mitchell coordinated the DAC Online Exhibition “The Earth, Our Home: Art, Technology and Critical Action”. She co-moderated SPARKS talks (Short Presentations of Artworks and Research for the Kindred Spirit) for DAC on “Robotics, Electronics, and Artificial Intelligence” with Hye Yeon Nam, and “Data: Visual Perception, Interpretation and Truth” with Everardo Reyes. Jan co-directs, along with Bonnie Mitchell, the ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive. She also co-directs the ISEA Symposium Archive with Bonnie Mitchell, Wim van der Plas, and Terry C.W. Wong.
ISEA2022
Jan Searleman (California, USA) taught Computer Science at Clarkson University for 37 years, retired in 2015, and since retirement has been an Adjunct Research Professor at Clarkson. Her research areas are Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interaction, and Artificial Intelligence. A senior member of the ACM, Jan is also on both the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Art Committee (DAC) and the ACM SIGGRAPH History Committee. Jan and Bonnie Mitchell coordinated the DAC Online Exhibition “The Earth, Our Home: Art, Technology and Critical Action”. She co-moderated SPARKS talks (Short Presentations of Artworks and Research for the Kindred Spirit) for DAC on “Robotics, Electronics, and Artificial Intelligence” with Hye Yeon Nam, and “Data: Visual Perception, Interpretation and Truth” with Everardo Reyes. Jan co-directs, along with Bonnie Mitchell, the ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive. She also co-directs the ISEA Symposium Archive with Bonnie Mitchell, Wim van der Plas, and Terry C.W. Wong.
ISEA2020
Janice Searleman, Adjunct Research Professor of Computer Science, Clarkson University, USA. Searleman graduated with a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts, and a M.S. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She then worked alongside Herb Gelernter in Artificial Intelligence on the SYNCHEM2 project with a team of graduate students and a post-doc.
As an active member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Art committee, Searleman has been working on a Digital Art Archive for ACM SIGGRAPH and International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA). The archives contain art resources from SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, ISEA, and the Digital Art Community Online Exhibitions. It is meant to be an easy-to-use and highly interconnected resource for artists, educators, art historians, students, and the art community.
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- Potsdam, New York, US
