Goodman, Cynthia
Origins and Impact of Technology on Art-Making

Cynthia Goodman is a multimedia director, producer and curator, with an international reputation for pioneering the implementation of new technologies in both corporate and museum exhibits. Currently Creative Director and Producer, Exhibits and Attractions, Millennium Monument, she is the former Director of the IBM Gallery of Science and Art, where she organized the landmark Computers and Art exhibition. Her accompanying publication, Digital Visions: Computers and Art, serves as a textbook in the field. Recently, Goodman was Co-Director with Nam June Paik of the InfoART Pavilion at the Kwangju Biennale in Korea, an international exhibition that showcased the top artists in the multimedia art field. Also active in museum automation, she participated in the John Paul Getty Trust Museum Prototype Project and was based at the Guggenheim Museum, N.Y. Goodman has also advised corporations including IBM, Polaroid, and Time Warner. She is an appointed Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was recently on the Advisory Committee for Women and the Art of Multimedia, an international conference at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

She has organized and installed exhibitions for numerous institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the IBM Gallery of Science and Art, the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. In addition, she has lectured widely at numerous museums, universities and conferences. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania, and has written numerous books, exhibition catalogs, and magazine articles. Her recent publications include the widely acclaimed and exhibited CD-ROM, InfoART: The Digital Frontier - from Video to Virtual Reality, produced at Rutt Video Interactive, NY; "Art and Technology: The Ineluctable Liaison," in Art @ Science, Springer Verlag, 1997; "Capturing the Elusive Interactive Artwork Via CD-ROM," in Selected Papers, La Louvre, Archives and Museum Informatics, 1997; and "Adventures in a Virtual Wonderland: The Interactive Universe of Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau," in The Electronic Space, Kunsthalle, Bonn, 1997. Prior to joining the Millennium Monument Staff, Goodman was producing documentaries for television, CD-ROMS and interactive multimedia for museums, corporate, and retail clients at Rutt Video Interactive.