Vitae and Biography


Academic Experience	Lynn Lukkas is an Associate Professor in the area of Time and Interactivity in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota. She previously held academic appointments at Oberlin College and Saint Johns University. Since receiving her M.F.A from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1988 she has taught extensively in the areas of video, experimental media arts, interdisciplinary and collaborative practices, art and technology, performance and photography. She has worked with students across the arts often serving on Masters and Ph.D. committees in departments of Theater Arts, Music, Architecture and Design.
Awards and Fellowships	She is the recipient of numerous awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; an Arts/Midwest NEA Fellowship, a Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship; three Jerome Foundation Fellowships in Film and Media Arts, Travel-Study and Emerging Artists; two McKnight Foundation Fellowships in Photography and one in Interdisciplinary Arts; a Diverse Visions Grant to Interdisciplinary Artists and two Minnesota State Arts Boards Fellowships among others. She recently received significant funding for her creative work from the University of Minnesota Office for the Vice President for Research and the Institute for Advanced Study for her most recent creative research project, Telling Time (working title). She has been awarded several grants and fellowships to fund academic program development in the area of media arts and new media and to sponsor academic symposia.
Exhibitions	Recent exhibition venues include Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China; Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, Minneapolis; Interactions Labor, Gottelborn Germany; Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Cleveland Ohio; Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Capetown One City Festival, Cape Town, South Africa; Maine New Media / Boston Cyber Arts Festival; Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, MO; Walker Art Center "Out There Series," Minneapolis, MN; Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.
Residencies	She has participated in a New Media Co-production Residency at the Banff Center, Banff Canada; Interaktions Labor 2004 and 2004 Gottelborn Germany and was in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 2006.
Symposia	Lynn Lukkas has produced two major symposia In 2004, "ART AND COMMITMENT: A CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE ARTS ABOUT THEIR ROLE IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY," University of Minnesota West Bank Arts Quarter. archived footage of all events at <http://artandcommitment.umn.edu>. Participants included, Krzsyztof Wodiczko, Professor of Visual Artist and Director of Interrogative Design Work Group, MIT Marina Abramovic, Performance Artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Performance Artist Pauline Oliveros, Distinguished Research Professor of Music, School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute. Chrissie Iles, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art Bob Holman, Poet and Educator Libby Larsen, Composer Papamarkou Chair of Education and Technology U.S. Library of Congress Carol Becker, Art Historian and Dean, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Amar Kanwar, Filmmaker Mary Schmidt Campbell, Dean, Tisch School of the Arts New York University David White, Producer and Former Director Dance Theater Workshop Osvaldo Sanchez, Art Historian, Curator, Museum Director. George Yudice, Professor of American Studies New York University. Richard Leppert, Professor, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature University of Minnesota Ann Markusen, Professor and Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs and Director, Project on Regional and Industrial Economics, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota In 2007, ART AS KNOWING: A CONVERSATION ABOUT ART, IDEAS AND PRACTICE University of Minnesota West Bank Arts Quarter, a project of the Institute for Advanced Study Art as Knowing Collaborative. Archived footage of all event at <http:artasknowing.umn.edu>. Participants: Kamau Brathwaite, Poet and Professor of Poetry - NYU Alan Read, Professor, Performance Theory – Kings College London Ananya Chatterjea, Associate Professor of Dance – University of Minnesota Ricardo Dominguez, Assistant Professor of Media, UCLA Douglas Ewart, Composer and Musician – Minneapolis, Minnesota JoAnn Verburg, Photographer – Minneapolis, Minnesota Ann Carlson, Performance Artist – Member Center for Creative Research David Gordon, Director – Member, Center for Creative Research Valda Setterfield, Performer – Meber Center for Creative Research Dana Reitz, Dancer and Associate Professor Bennington College – Member Center for Creative Research
Academic Program Development	During her academic career she has lead and/or worked on three major academic program initiatives, most recently she served as the Chairperson for an international search for six new faculty appointments in the new Interdisciplinary Collaborative Arts Program (IPCA) at the University of Minnesota. She worked with colleagues in the departments of Theater Arts and Dance, the School of Music, the Creative Writing Program, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and the Department of Art to help establish this new program. In 1995 she joined the faculty at Oberlin College where she instituted a new area of "Digital and Electronic Art," within the Art Department. As a new faculty member to Saint Johns University in 1988 she established the areas of photography and digital art within the more traditional arts curriculum.
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