Shawn Brixey

Shawn Brixey
Shawn Brixey Photo taken 2006.
Born	Shawn Alan Brixey 1961 Springfield, Missouri
Nationality	American
Education	Kansas City Art Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for	Digital art, Telematics, Physics, Bioart
Movement	Art, Science and Technology, Phenomenological Art

Shawn Alan Brixey (born 1961 Springfield, Missouri) is an artist, educator, researcher, writer, and inventor working primarily at the interface of art, science and technology.

Brixey is the Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University, in Toronto, Canada. Brixey was a co-founder and former director of the DXARTS Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Brixey was born in Springfield, Missouri. Brixey received a BFA in Sculpture and Experimental Media from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1985.

Brixey received an MSVisS in Media Arts and Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988. At MIT he studied at the Media Laboratory and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies.

In 1989 Brixey was selected as the inaugural Leonardo Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and as a Visiting Artist at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills Michigan. In 1990 he joined the faculty of the University of Kentucky and founded their New Media Program which grew to include artist Eduardo Kac. In 1994 he joined the faculty at the University of Washington, and Chaired the new Interdisciplinary Visual Arts Program until 1997. In 1997 He received San Francisco State University's first Presidential Distinguished Scholar Award and helped found their New Media Institute. In 1998 he joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, and was the Founding Director of the New Media Program. He rejoined the faculty at the University of Washington in 2002 to Co-Found the new DXARTS program along with composer Richard Karpen. In 2009 Brixey was honored with the University of Washington's Floyd and Delores Jones Endowed Chair in Arts and Sciences. Brixey has served as Creative Director for the Center for New Cinema since 2009.