bio | vita

Arlene Ducao was born slowly in Cockeysville, Maryland, USA, Earth. By day, she works as a 3d animator, production designer, and software scripter/programmer at the American Museum of Natural History and at BioDigital Systems. By night, she is a "creative creature" (so-called by a favorite grownup, Kathy Pierson) whose projects have been shown around the world. She particularly loves modeling bio-molecular forms and data. When the Macintosh debuted in 1984, she used her first computer, and has been hooked ever since. She holds various degrees from the School of Visual Arts and the University of Maryland. She lives near Henry's Bagel Cafe in Brooklyn, NY.



RECENT NOTABLE STUFF.

2008. "NIH SBIR Conference." CNN Omni Center, Atlanta

2007. "Image and Meaning." Harvard University, Cambridge

2007. "MX Design Conference." Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City

2007. "Exposicao Percursos da Arte no Seculo XXI," Sao Paulo, Brasil

2007. "6DOFmuestraPuebla," Puebla, Mexico

2007. "NYC International Polar Weekend Conference," American Museum of Natural History, New York

2007. "Envisioning Global Change: Seeing The Facts" (Apple Store), New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London

2006. "Memefest 2006," Ljubljana, Slovenia

2006. "New Forms Festival," Vancouver, BC

2006. "Lola Screen Kenya," Nairobi, Kenya

2006. "Cinema-Scope Hamptons," Wainscott, New York

2005. "Liking Lichens: Exploring Lichen Ecology and the Environment" (seminar), University of Georgia Department of Geography

2005. "Korte digitale film festival," Vleigtoren, The Hague, Netherlands

2005. "FRAIL," Durham Art Gallery, Toronto, ONT

2005. "Margaret Mead Film & Video (Documentary) Festival," American Museum of Natural History, New York

2005. Artist In Residence, Voyageurs National Park, International Falls, MN

2004. "Espacios a la Experimentacion," El Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo, Costa Rica

2004. "Slowtime...?" Le Musee di-visioniste, Cologne, Germany

2004. MFA Computer Art Thesis Show, Visual Arts Gallery, New York

2003. "Brave Destiny Film Festival," Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, New York (first prize winner)

2003. "New Leonardos," World Financial Center, New York

2003. "Animal as Mirror," Westside Gallery, New York

2003. Salon Internacional de Arte Digital, Havana, Cuba (catalogue)

2003. Ocularis, Galapagos Art Space, New York

2003. "Media Mix," Emerging Arts, New York

2003. "Reel Sisters of the Diaspora," LIU/Spike Lee Screening Room, New York