Peter Voci
Title:
Professor
Chairperson, Fine Arts Department
Director, MFA
Degrees:
MFA Pratt Institute
BFA NYIT
Contact:
Old Westbury:
Midge Karr Fine Arts Center
Room 201
516.686.7542
Manhattan:
New Technology Building
16 W 61st Street
Room 911A
212.261.1769
e-mail:
Areas of Scholarly and Artistic Interest:
Peter’s particular research areas cover:
• computer graphics education and visual literacy
• ante mortem facial imaging methods for forensic investigation
• digital sculpture applied to the creation of large scale physical projects
• 3D computer animation and storytelling
• aesthetics of emerging technologies in visual communication
Peter is currently researching the possibility of creating an algorithm that would automate the generation of facial counterpart to individual human skulls. The application would then be used in cases involving unidentified human remains.
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Career Summary:
Profile: Peter Voci holds the rank of full professor and is the
chairperson of the Fine Arts Department in the School of Arts Sciences
and Communication at the New York Institute of Technology. He has also
coordinated the graduate Computer Graphics Specialization program that
he developed in 1982.
As well as having a variety of hands on experience in the more
traditional methods of art and visual communications, he has also
contributed via the electronic medium by extensively exhibiting in both
national and international arenas. Professor Voci has lectured on the
subjects of visual literacy and image manipulation and has also juried
numerous art and computer animation competitions.
On the scientific research side, Peter Voci has been working with law
enforcement agencies, medical examiners offices and forensic
anthropologists as an imaging specialist in the field of antemortem
digital facial reconstruction.
As a freelance graphic designer and art services consultant, his
commercial clients include:
IBM Armonk and Tarrytown, New York;
Texaco Corp at Harrison, New York;
Continental Can at Stamford, Connecticut;
Chermayeff & Geismar, New York, New York; Art Options, New York, New York; Corporate Art Directions, New York, New York;
Cadmen Towers Assoc., New York, New York;
Computech, Garden City, New York;
Art Planing Consultants, New York, New York;
Norlin Technology Corp, White Plains, New York;
Robert Goodnough New York, New York;
Rebecca Blake Studio New York, New York;
Bank of Tokyo, New York, New York;
New York Society of Security Analysts New York, New York;
CBM Corp., New York, New York;
Foundation for Business Politics and Economics, Houston, Texas.
Professor Voci has also contributed his efforts by serving as a member
of several service oriented academic committees including: The Vision
21 Project advisory committee, the NYIT Faculty Senate distance learning
steering committee, the NYIT Faculty Senate Internet committee, the NYIT
Faculty Senate Educational Technology committee, the Art, Science and
Communication School Personnel committee and the Fine Arts Department
Search committee.
In addition, Peter Voci has made presentations to the Technology
Committee of the New York State Education Department; has received a
certificate of appreciation from the Suffolk County Viet Nam Veterans
Association; has worked with the Yonkers Police Department and with the
Westchester Medical Examiners Office on facial reconstruction cases; has
developed a high school outreach program for the arts, has produced
video presentations for schools in the Dominican Republic and has developed an internship program for NYIT Fine Arts students at Acclaim Entertainment, Glen Cove New York.
Selected Exhibitions
NY Siggraph Media Shock, NYC
Electronic Theater, Chicago, Illinois
Medien Operative Videofest, Berlin
London Film Festival, London, UK
Madrid TV, Madrid
Montage, Rochester, New York
WRO Exhibition, Krakow, Poland
ORF Exhibition, Austria
Graphic Design Association Conference, Japan
6th Computer Animation Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
National Siggraph Exhibitions in Orlando, Atlanta, Georgia; Anaheim, California, and Las Vegas Nevada
BitMovie Exhibition, Riccione, Italy
First Electronic Symposium of Electronic Arts, Utrecht, Netherlands
Imagina, Monte Carlo
CRASH Exhibition, Beloit, Wisconsin Museum, Wisconsin
Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
Selected Publications
Many publications have featured Peter’s work including: The New York Times,
Newsday, I.E.E.E, Computer Graphics Applications, Leonardo Art and
Science, MacWeek, Computer Pictures Magazine, PIXEL, International
Design Journal, N.A.N.D., Personal Computing Magazine, World Graphic
Design Now, F.I.S.E.A., Image du Futur, IMAGINA, Siggraph Show Daily,
Digital Photography Random House, BAT Graphics and Design, North County
News Westchester, Aperture Magazine, Global Canvas and a number of other
professional trade journals and exhibition catalogs.
Curatorial Activities and other Professional Activities
Peter Voci has been invited to serve as juror in a number of exhibitions
and competitions including:
Image du Futur's International Computer Graphics Art and Animation Festival sponsored by the Cite des Arts in Montreal (Jury President)
Long Island Art Teachers Association exhibition, BOCES Media and Arts Show,
American Ref-fuel design competition
Siggraph Art Show Jury, 2001
Keynote speaker at the First International Symposium on Computer Graphics in Istanbul, Turkey, 2003
Siggraph Educator Conference Panel Memeber, 2004