Donna Cox & NCSA : Selected Highlights, 2019
"During graduate school, a vision emerged that art and science would converge through computer graphics technology and interdisciplinary teams. Inspired by Renaissance artists who worked with scientists to create the foundations of botany and anatomy, I coined the term “RenaissanceTeams” during the summer before moving to the University of Illinois as an assistant professor.
I officially joined the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in August 1985. Before I left Wisconsin, my MFA advisor, Professor Cavalliere Ketchum, highlighted a new supercomputing center in Urbana and recommended that I look up the director by the name of “Larry Star” who was leading the effort. Ketchum’s misnomer fit the persona of Larry Smarr, the founding director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in 1985. Smarr invited me to show some of my compulages at one of the opening events, where I met many scientists—including astrophysicist Michael Norman, with whom I have collaborated for over thirty years."
Courtesy of Donna J. Cox, NCSA, University of Illinois. Featured in 'New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts'.
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