Andrea Polli

Education

Polli has a Master of Fine Arts in time arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has a Doctor of Philosophy in computing, communications and electronics from the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom.

As an educator, Polli has developed new media programs at Robert Morris College and Columbia College in Chicago. She was voted 2000/2001 Teacher of the Year at Columbia in recognition of her work connecting students to the wider community through collaborative projects.

From 2005 to 2008 she served as the director of the Integrated Media Arts Masters of Fine Arts Program at Hunter College in New York City.

She later became an associate professor of Art and Ecology with appointments in the College of Fine Arts and School of Engineering at the University of New Mexico, where she directs the Social Media group, a lab at the University"s Center for Advanced Research Computing.

Career

Polli blends art and science to create widely varied media and technology artworks related to environmental issues. Her work has appeared widely in over one hundred exhibitions and performances both nationally and internationally including the Whitney Museum of American Art Artport and the Field Museum of Natural History. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art and Ecology at the University of New Mexico.

Achievements

• She has received numerous grants, residencies, including a residency at Eyebeam, and awards including the Fulbright Specialist Program (2011) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Digital Arts Award (2003).