Academic : Design : Studio : Emeritus

Colleen Ludwig
Assistant Professor, New Media

Biography

Colleen Ludwig received her MFA in Time and Interactivity from the University of Minnesota in 2005 and her BFA in Film and Television from NYU in 1989. Her artwork is a fusion of technology, sculpture, moving images, and performance.  She engages the audience through multiple senses to highlight the constant negotiation between self and society.  Her audience is drawn in to her work visually, and then engages with it on a physical level.

Ludwig performed ContactContact at both the San Francisco and Austin Maker’s Faire in 2007. In 2006, her interactive video installation Trajectory, was shown at Front Room Gallery in Saint Paul. She mounted several shows with artist Jarod Charzewski, including Vanishing Point at aceartinc. in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Instinct at Consolidated Works in Seattle and Air Traffic at Zone Gallery in Kansas City. They developed a methodology to create separate adjacent installations that relate to each other in thematic and physical ways.  She is currently an Assistant Professor of New Media at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. 

The variety of Ludwig’s experience illustrates her diversity as an artist and educator. While working as a producer and editor, she and a team of specialists traveled to the Galapagos Islands and China in 1999. Ludwig was among the earliest editors to post video on the Internet. During this time, she also pursued her career as an artist, combining techniques into multi-media puppet shows and object-animation videos. She performed a monologue at the Pantages Theater in Minneapolis as part of a seminar taught by artist Alfredo Jaar.  In 2002, she and her husband, Bruce Charlesworth, were commissioned by 3-Legged Race, to create/perform an object-theater work called Glimpses of Protoplasm. The language of puppetry, as a multi-media and sculptural form, continues to influence her work.

For more information on Colleen Ludwig, visit her personal site at www.colleenludwig.com.

Course sites:
AD 332, Computer Graphics - http://332s08.pbwiki.com
AD 499, Experiments in New Media - http://499s08.pbwiki.com

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