Patrick W Deegan
pdeegan@ucsd.edu
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Patrick W. Deegan
University of California, San Diego
Dept. of Art History
VIS 0084 UCSD
La Jolla, CA 92093
ifon: +01 347.408.0728
http://www.pwdeegan.org
email: pw (at) pwdeegan (dot) org
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Biography:
http://www.pwdeegan.org
Patrick W. Deegan is a candidate (PhC) in the Art History, Theory and Criticism program at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on new media art practice, sociology, and ethics, examining network communities and aesthetics as they intersect with, contribute to, subvert and parallel national and global technology trends. Presently he is in the field (Russia россия and China 中国) conducting initial research on the role and effect of information technology in communities, academies, and corporations, as well as its impact on the numerous international art scenes. Patrick received his BA from the University of Iowa in Religion, and his MA from the University of California at Riverside in Art History. He has taught as an adjunct instructor at San Diego State University. Deegan has also served as a curatorial consultant at the California Museum of Photography and the Sweeney Art Gallery, and media curator for Groundworks. He is co-founder of Scale Journal.

现: 北京大学软件马微电子学院, 数字艺术设计系: 新媒体研究 中国,北京 102600 北京大学软件学院 数字艺术系 Patrick W. Deegan 电话: (+86)13817478317 : :
Research Interests:
New Media for New China: The Structure of Digital Art Production (Prospectus Research Summary): The opening and reform period in China has not only ushered in greater economic and social freedom, but has also provided more choices for the production of art. Art and artists can no longer be understood as extensions of state ideology, but rather reflect China's diverse range of economic, social, and cultural conditions. This project explores how digital information technology (IT) has influenced artists and the production of art in China since 1986. Because the relationship between technology, culture and art is so chiasmatic, the focus of this study will be on academic programs that teach art and design, and how these programs influence and are influenced by IT.
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Primary Published or Creative Work:
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“Groundworks, Media Component: Collaborative Art, Distributed Environments.” In Groundworks: Environmental Collaboration in Contemporary Art. Edited by Grant Kester. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University, 2005.

"Super-California." Artnet, http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/deegan/deegan8-16-04.asp (2004).

"Scale: A Critique of Self-Organizing Systems in Art." Scale 1, no. 6 (2004).

"Social Software in Collaborative Writing: Can the Humanities Get It Together?" Co-authored with Jon Phillips. Scale 1, no. 4 (2004).

“Palmistry: Reading Modularity in SoCal.” UCDARNET Monthly Article Feature at http://www.ucdarnet.org/writing/index.htm (2004).

"Autopsy Panofsky: Studies on Iconology." Masters Thesis, University of California, Riverside, 2002.
Other Work:
:: Supplementary Academic Training: 2005 Summer Middlebury College Summer Language Training, Chinese
2002 Summer Cornell University; Chinese FALCON Program, 9 weeks intensive Chinese language training program
1999 – 2000 San Diego State University, Post-Bac studies in Art History guided by J. Berelowitz
1996 Summer Duke University, American Dance Festival, Modern Dance Program

Conferences: “CVS and DW using common OSS social software,” presented at the Hammer Museum – “Narr@tive: Digital Storytelling Conference,” April, 2004, University of California, Los Angeles.
“Palmistry: Reading Modularity in SoCal,” presented at the Art History Graduate Student Symposium, February, 2004, University of Arizona.
“Realtime Mapping: Reconsidering Umberto Eco's 1:1 Map,” presented at the CRCA: Infrastructures of Digital Design Conference, January 2003, University of California, San Diego.
“Iconology, Openness, Trace,” presented at the UCR Graduate Humanities Symposium, April, 2002, University of California, Riverside.
“Discourse from Center to Margin in Art History,” presented at Department of the History of Art Lecture Series, May, 2001, University of California, Riverside.

Appointments: 2004 – 2005 Carnegie-Mellon University, Miller Gallery; “Groundworks” Co-Curator
2004 – 2005 Graduate Student Representative, UCSD Graduate Student Association
2004 UCSD Faculty Search Committee: Chinese Art Historian (voting member)
2004 PhD-Art Center L.A. Consortium (SoCASS) Representative
2003 – 2004 PhD Graduate Co-coordinator, UCSD Dept. of Art History, Theory and Criticism
2003 UCSD-PhD Graduate search committee (voting member)
2003 UCR Graduate Humanities Conference; keynote speaker coordinator

Teaching and Research Positions: 2006 Peking University 北京大学, Guest Scholar; Department of Digital Art
2005 UCSD Research Assistant to Prof. Grant Kester
2004 – 2005 UCSD, Revelle College Humanities, TA. Rhetoric, with Prof. Stephen Cox
2004 SDSU Dept of Art and Art History, Adjunct Instructor. Art 760: Introduction to Graduate Method and Theory.
2004 UCSD Sixth College Writing Program, TA.
2002 – 2005 UCSD Dept. of Art History TA, Reader, and Research Asst.. Courses: Sub-Saharan African Art (Prof. Sowell); History of Technology (Prof. Manovich); Art of the Enlightenment (Prof. Vidal); 20th Century Art (Prof. Welchman); Introduction to Non-Western Art (Prof. Klemm; Prof. Sowell); Chinese Art Survey (Prof. Shen Kuiyi).
2002 – 2004 UCSD Research Assistant to Prof. John Welchman
2003 Graduate Internship, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (declined position)
2003 UCSD Research Assistant to Prof. Jordan Crandall
2000 – 2002 Gluck Fellowship Instructor. Courses: “Introduction to Greek oral mythology: Psyche and Hercules,” “Introduction to Urban Theory: Building up to SoCal”
2000 – 2002 UCR Dept. of Religious Studies TA. Courses: Introduction to Asia Religion (Prof. Nyitray) Religious Myths and Ritual (Prof. Summers) Introduction to the Bible (Prof. Andrews)
2002 UCR Dept. of Art History TA. Course: Gothic Art (Prof. Conrad Rudolph). 2001 UCR Research Assistant to Prof. Patricia Morton
Work in Progress:
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Art in Transition: 21st Century New Media and Art Production in Moscow and Beijing

The Structure of Digital Art Production (Diss. draft subtitle)
Memberships:
American Society For Aesthetics
SCALE Journal
Honors and Awards:
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2006 Russell Foundation Research Grant
2005 UCSD Center for the Humanities, Graduate Research Grant
2005 UCSD Institute for International Comparative Area Studies Travel Grant
2003 Hong Foundation Mini-grant (Taipei, Taiwan)
2002 Artsbridge Scholarship (UCR)
2000 – 2002 Gluck Fellowship (UCR)
1997 University of Iowa, Dean's List
1996 Duke-ADF Dance Scholarship (Duke)