Daniel Collins
Collins joined the School of Art faculty at Arizona State University in 1989. In addition to teaching courses in intermedia and foundations, Professor Collins is a founding co-director of the PRISM lab, an interdisciplinary 3D modeling and rapid prototyping facility, and coordinator of the foundation program in basic art instruction (artCore). He is also a senior sustainability scholar at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability.
Collins was awarded a Fulbright to Malaysia for research and teaching in 1987 and the Herberger College Award for Research and Creative Activity in 2000, 2007, 2010 and 2013. He received the Evelyn Smith Research Award from the School of Art in 2018. He is currently funded by the EPA to develop environmental education curricula for high schools in the Intermountain West. A project focused on "stories of place" with Arizona high schools was recently funded through AZ Humanities.
Collins is currently president of the Telluride Institute, an organization devoted to watershed education and cultural sustainability.
Education
PhD, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Arizona State University, 2009
MFA, New Forms and Sculpture, University of California-Los Angeles, 1984
MA, Art Education, Stanford University, 1975
BA, Studio Art and Art History, University of California-Davis,1974
Area of study
Twister
This 3D digital self-portrait was begun in 1995 using a whole body laser scanner at Cyberware in Monterey, CA. The image has undergone a series of transformations and been translated into a variety of materials using both traditional and digital fabrication methods.
Speaking Like Adults
1993
Publications
"Teaching MFA Students to Teach," FATE in Review, (Durango, CO: FATE, 2021-2022, Vol. 38, p. 2)
SCAPE (Sustainable Communities and Place-Based Education). Quarterly Reports to the EPA, 2017 - 2021.
The Colorado River Re-Storied: A Primer for Creating Student-Led Video Documentaries (version 2. January 2016)
“Materialize: 3D Printing & Rapid Prototyping,” Materialize [catalog essay] (Phoenix, AZ: Shemer Art Center, Oct 2014)
“Community Mapping” in Cleland, K., Fisher, L. & Harley, R. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium of Electronic Art, ISEA2013, Sydney (Sydney, Au: June 2013)
"Participatory Geographic Information Systems in Visual Research," Handbook of Visual Research, eds., E. Margolis and L. Pauwels, July 2011
Putting Theory to Work: Building a Foundations Program for the 21st Century,” FATE in Review, pp. 58- 82 (Durango, CO: FATE, Feb. 2009)
"Social Networking for Learning Communities," FATE in Review 2007
“Guiding GTAs in a Foundation Art Program,” FATE in Review, Volume 27 (Durango, CO: FATE, Dec. 2004)
"Tracking Chimeras: The Eighth Day of Eduardo Kac," Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University, March 2003.
"Extreme 3D," Computer Graphics World, May 2002
"Breeding the Evolutionary: Interactive Emergence in Art and Education," paper given at the 4th Annual Digital Arts Symposium: Neural Net{work}, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ April 11 – 12, 2002
"A 3D Digital Library System: Capture, Analysis, Query, and Display," NSF funded project,
Jeremy Rowe, Anshuman Razdan, Dan Collins, and S. Panchanathan, January 7, 2002
"Educating for Interaction," New Art Examiner, 2001
"Towards Internal and External Horizons," CREATE, Institute for Studies in the Art, Fall/Winter Issue, 2000
"Digital Somatics," New Art Examiner, 1998
"The Challenge of Digital Sculpture," paper given at the 6th Biennial Symposium on Art and Technology, Connecticut College, February 27 - March 2, 1997.
"Searching for Virtue in a Virtual Landscape," New Art Examiner, 1994
"The Deep Creek School: Technology, Ecology, and the Body as Pedagogical Alternatives in Art Education," 1994
"Framing the Electronic Image," The Simulated Presence (anthology), Institute for Studies in the Arts, February 1993.
"Anamorphosis and the Eccentric Observer," Leonardo, 1992
"Christo: On Art, Education, and the Running Fence," Art Education, 1977