Eric Forman (artist)

Eric Forman is a New York-based artist and designer best known for his installation Heart Squared (2020) [in collaboration with [https://moduarchitecture.com/ MODU, and his sound object. Heart Squared was selected by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum as the winner of the Times Square Heart 2020 Design Competition. Throughout February 2020, Heart Squared was seen by over 300,000 people a day. TreeShell was selected by the Museum of Modern Art Design Store for its 2013 “Destination: NYC” series.
== Biography ==
Eric Forman received his B.A. from Vassar College in 1995, where he created his own course of study in “The Philosophical Ramifications of Computer Technology.” His studies culminated in a thesis titled “Virtual Reality: The Refiguring of Space, Real, and Subject”(1995), which investigated the conceptual impact of VR on media theory and philosophy. In the mid-1990s, he was one of the early members of Pseudo.com|Pseudo Programs, one of the world's original online streaming content services, where he worked on creating virtual environments for the early internet service provider Prodigy. Forman received his Masters from ITP at New York University Tisch School of the Arts|Tisch School of the Arts (NYU) in 2002.
Eric Forman Studio was founded in 2003 and has produced primarily sculpture and installation art concerned with the intersection of technology and human, using “playful interaction to reveal issues of language, simulation, and perception.” In 2012, his studio became a founding member of New Lab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Forman has also taught “Physical Computing” to artists and designers since 2003. He has taught at SIGGRAPH, RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) MFA Digital+Media, and SVA (School of Visual Arts) in New York City where he is currently the Head of Innovation in the MFA Interaction Design department.
== Selected achievements ==
Achievement 	Location 	Year
Times Square Heart 2020 Design Winner 	New York, NY 	2019
Invited to present retrospective on career 	University of Delaware Department of Art & Design 	2018
Træna artist residency 	Tenk Træna, Nordland, Norway 	2016
Autodesk Pier 9 artist residency 	San Francisco, CA 	2014-2015
Jerome Fellowship and Franconia Sculpture Park artist residency 	Shafer, MN 	2014
Spotlight Series Visiting Artist lecture 	University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Spring 	2013
Selected for MoMA Design Destination: NYC collection 	New York, NY and Tokyo, Japan 	2013
Invited speaker for “Creativity and Innovation” panel 	CreateTech, Brooklyn, NY 	2013
Invited by New York City EDC to present artwork made locally with new technologies 	NY Design Week, BMWi Ventures, New York, NY 	2012
Invited to present work and participate in panel “Slowness: Responding to Acceleration”	ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art), Istanbul, Turkey	2011
Toyota HEYA Artist Innovation Grant 	New York, NY 	2008
== Selected exhibitions and works ==
Work 	Place 	Year
Heart Squared (with MODU) 	Times Square, New York, NY 	2020
UnBuilding 	Citygroup Gallery, New York, NY and New Lab, Brooklyn, NY 	2019
Un-Urban Experiment 	DOGA (Design & Architecture Norway) 	2018
Under Dytte Lyset [Under This Light] 	Bodø Biennial, Norway 	2016
Sculptural Light Installation 	Motherboard New York, Brooklyn, NY 	2016
Radiolarian 	Sunsychronous orbit around Earth 	2015
Auto-Surveillance Encounter II 	Art Souterrain, Montreal, Canada 	2015
Scale/Scape Light Panel series II 	Autodesk Pier 9 Gallery, San Francisco, CA 	2015
Radioscape 	Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN 	2014
Futur Absolu (with Stephan Breuer) 	Château de Compiègne, Oise, France 	2013
Consensual Navigation Shirt 	Conflux Festival, New York, NY, part of “Test Dérive” curated by Seth Carnes	2010
Constrained Flight Structure 	Solar One, New York, NY 	2010
What the Rain has Seen 	DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, New York, NY 	2008
Untitled (performance) 	24HrsNonStopArt, Tigh Fili Cultural Centre, Cork, Ireland 	2008
Every Drop Counts (with Cynthia Lawson) 	Exit Art, New York, NY 	2006
Auto-Surveillance Encounter 	Show & Tell Salon curated by Leejone Wong, New York, NY 	2004
Autonomous Harmonizing Robotic Sculpture	The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY 	2003
branch/ing 	Thomas Street Gallery, New York, NY 	2002
Drop 	ITP/Tisch, New York, NY 	2002
TransLink 	ITP/Tisch, New York, NY 	2001
SoundBot 	ITP/Tisch, New York, NY 	2000
== Other professional work ==
Eric Forman Studio also develops interactive technology for clients, most notably Marina Abromovic, Anthony McCall, Line Healthcare, Kate Spade, and The Living.