Umd’S Hasan Elahi To Speak At Tedglobal 2011

Associate Professor of Art, Hasan Elahi, to address an anticipated 800 people from 30 countries at TEDGlobal.

Associate Professor of Art, Hasan Elahi, to address an anticipated 800 people from 30 countries at TEDGlobal.
TED, the nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, announces ARHU’s Hasan Elahi, associate professor of art, will be one of the featured speakers for TEDGlobal 2011, the organization's annual Europe-based conference.  Held for the first time this year in Edinburgh, Scotland, TEDGlobal will run from July 11 through July 15, and feature a range of inspired thinkers from around the globe.  The conference theme is "The Stuff of Life."
 "Our program this year gets at the heart of the latest discoveries and debates about life itself -- what it is, and how it can it be better lived," says TED's European Director Bruno Giussani, who curated the speaker's lineup.  
 Elahi’s work attempts to bridge the human and virtual worlds and looks at the border between society and technology, an active investigation into “the stuff of life.” 
 The detailed program and more information can be found online here: http://conferences.ted.com/TEDGlobal2011/.


About Hasan ElahiHasan Elahi is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines issues of surveillance, simulated time, transport systems, borders and frontiers. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions at venues such as SITE Santa Fe, Centre Georges Pompidou, Sundance Film Festival, Kassel Kulturbahnhof, The Hermitage, and at the Venice Biennale. Elahi was recently invited to speak about his work at the Tate Modern, Einstein Forum, the American Association of Artificial Intelligence, and at TEDGlobal. His awards include grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, a Ford Foundation/Phillip Morris National Fellowship, and an artist grant from the Asociacion Artetik Berrikuntzara in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. His work is frequently in the media and has been covered by The New York Times, Forbes, Wired, CNN, ABC, CBS, NPR, Al Jazeera, Fox, and has appeared on The Colbert Report. He is currently Associate Professor of Art at University of Maryland where he is Director of Digital Cultures and Creativity in the Honors College. He was a 2010 Alpert/MacDowell Fellow and in 2009, he was Resident Faculty and Nancy G. MacGrath Endowed Chair at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He holds a B.A. from Bloomsburg University in 1993 and an M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1996. About TED ConferenceThe annual TED Conference invites the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place each spring in Long Beach, California, along with the TEDActive simulcast in Palm Springs; TEDGlobal is held each summer in Edinburgh, Scotland.