Cary Adams doing acoustic radar research during a residency at the Center for Land Use Interpretation

Cary Adams

  • Associate Professor of Art, Environment, and Emerging Practices

MFA, Double Major: Computer Art and Video Art, Syracuse University, 1997

Sage Art Center
(585) 273-5994
cary.adams@rochester.edu

Office Hours: By appointment, via Zoom

Website


Research Overview

Research Interests

  • Environmental Art and Humanities
  • New Media
  • Social Practice

Courses Offered (subject to change)

  •  Food Justice and Social Practice
  •  Empathizing and Prototyping the Anthropocene
  •  Art & Tech 1: Eco-Art and Design
  •  Art & Tech 2: Eco-Art and Design

Selected Publications

  • The Whitney Museum of American Art
  • Rhizome at the New Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Cornell University Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
  • Turbulence.org of New Radio & Performing Arts
  • Walker Art Center
  • Mediaartbase.de
  • Computer Fine Arts
  • New Media Scotland

Selected Awards/Grants

  • NEA supported Maine Arts Commission Project Grant 2022-23
  • NEA supported, American Rescue Plan, Maine Project Grant 2022-23
  • National Endowment for the Arts project support, 2019
  • National Endowment for the Arts project support, 2018
  • Association for the Study of Literature & Environment Community Grant, 2016
  • BEMIS Center for Contemporary Arts Art Residency, 2015
  • Franklin Furnace Fund Performance Grant, 2015
  • Center for Land Use Interpretation Art Residency, 2015
  • Lillian Fairchild Memorial Award, 2013
  • New York State Council on the Arts, Electronic Media Finishing Funds Grant, 2013
  • Parsons The New School for Design Art Residency, Sheila Johnson Design Center, 2012
  • JOYA: Arte+Ecología Art Residency, 2012
  • New York State Council on the Arts, Media Art Distribution Grant, 2012
  • Whitney Museum of American Art Sunrise/Sunset Commission, 2009
  • New York Foundation for the Arts Digital / Electronic Arts Fellowship, 2009
  • Turbulence.org/New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc. Commission, 2008
  • Rhizome Commission, curated by Mark Tribe, 2002
  • Franklin Furnace Performance Grant, 2001