Greg Rivera

Greg Rivera


About

Greg Rivera, Ph.D.

Artistscientist
Work
Suspended Jump in the World Dance

And each time I touch the ground it is a different site.

The Creative Spirit as a prime motivator

The affordance of my work through various media is about understanding social systems and offered for its potential in inciting societal transformation. Another perspective is to consider my work in an evolutionary learning process informed by artscience. Specifically painting becomes evolutionary systems design research. The potential of seeing the multiverse is demonstrated in the works titled Modes Of Discovery and Systems Of Trust.

Activated Body is a complementary instrument

I arouse and articulate perceptions of energy, information-knowledge-wisdom and creative spirit in sites worldwide...presently Mundaka, Spain. My latest major project is to support an ArtScience World Research Expedition as a learning family. We will visit creative communities worldwide. Using localized knowledge as a way of understanding, each individual and community explores its emergent potential to stimulate consciousness and contextualized it. We can design evolutionary social systems supporting this primary research work in self-organizing. The act of seeing, creating, and reflection is a basis to value its social utility. As a learning community we describe and assess our work in its contextual and systemic paths. The praxis of perceiving and assembling constructive imagery locally defines the inter-relational boundaries of consciousness through the process of sequential imagery.

ACM SIGGRAPH touring exhibition in galleries and museums in 23 Countries in 1982-1985 (Dr. Cynthia Goodman - curator). Selected publications include: Creative Computergraphics (Cambridge University Press, 1984) Ryuichi Sakamoto´s Encyclopedia of New Media Art and Music (Tokyo, 1985), compiled and edited Chicano Art (Boston, 1986), SIGGRAPH Visual Proceedings, Tomorrow& 39;s Realities (SIGGRAPH & 39;93 ), and SIGGRAPH Visual Proceedings, The Edge (SIGGRAPH & 39;94). Infoarchitecture Conference Proceedings (Madrid, 1997). Works and lectures on new media projects in U.S., Latin America, and Environments Europe.Virtual works-in-progress Receive the New Forms Regional Initiative Award (1992) from the New England Foundation for the Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts , Rockefeller Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Pioneer and virtual prototyping specialist in the industry from 1983 -1994 Environments with Small Business Industrial Research (SBIR)-through LEEP Systems Development in parallel with NASA Ames Research Center and NASA Langley Research Center. Instrumental in setting in motion 11 years of SBIR grants for LEEP. Virtual Heart Project Presented to selected members of the U.S. Congress Committee Virtual Reality in 1994. Commissioned for InfoArchitectura project by the Minister of Development in Spain, 1997. Advisor, exhibitor, and lecturer at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fogg Art Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Boston Children& 39;s Museum, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Boston Center for the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Boston Computer Museum, Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts; New England Foundation for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Former Member of Board of Directors, Boston Film and Video Foundation, volunteer at the Film Study Center at MoMA, New York City; founding member to the Organization of Mexicans in New England. Former assistant professor at the Center for Knowledge Systems at Tecnológico de Monterrey / Campus Monterrey, Mexico. Appointed member of the Entovation Network E-100. International Manager: ZAWP Off-Bilbao. Presently Board Of Directors, InnovaLab Bilbao.

Recent projects include: InnovaLAB; BermeokoFab Lab; DenokInn; Bilbao Metropoli-30; Eutokia; ZAWP Off Bilbao; Entovation 100; Club of Budapest GlobalShift University; Bizkaia:zede Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2007-2010; He is a MIT McDermott Scholar.
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Education
In 2005 I received my doctoral degree from the School of Consciousness and Transformation at the California Institute of Integral Studies. My dissertation explored how artscience initiates transdisciplinary imagery and processes to transform organizational culture. Additional academic work includes the MIT Media Lab, Harvard University, Antioch University, Goddard College and Pratt Institute.

I maintain residencies in Mundaka, Basque Country and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Friends

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  • Shira Glezerman
  • Tyler Kline
  • Katelyn Alain
  • Roxanne Brousseau-felio

The Wise Woman

Painting

Greg Rivera
Singapore
Original $3,000

Meditative Focus

Painting

Greg Rivera
Singapore
Original $3,500

Greg Rivera
Singapore
Original $2,500

Greg Rivera
Singapore
Original $1,750

Greg Rivera
Singapore
Original $3,500

Greg Rivera
Singapore
Original $2,000
Prints from $40
The Green World
The Thinker
Frozen Thought
Antarctica
The Brilliant Woman
Aztec Buddha
The Transparent Pregnancy

Events & Exhibitions

Exhibitions

SELECTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT EXHIBITS
1998 Mesa, XX Anniversary Exhibition, part of the Arte Virtual/Realidad Plural, Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, México, 1997
Templo Mayor, InfoArquitectura, Ministry de Development, Madrid, Spain, 1997
Virtual Heart, CHI ´94 (exhibitor), Boston, Massachusetts, 1994
Virtual Heart, Congressional Virtual Reality Committee. Chair: U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey, Washington, D.C., 1994
Virtual Heart, Medicine and Virtual Reality, New York City, 1994
Proyecto Xochicalco, The Edge, SIGGRAPH '94 (and presented on SGI Reality Monster in Boston prior to SIGGRAPH '94), 1993
Proyecto ESE, Tomorrow's Realities, SIGGRAPH '93, 1982-1985
LIFO, (large format Polaroid image), SIGGRAPH '82 touring exhibit in 23 museums and galleries worldwide, Dr. Cynthia Goodman, curator

SELECTED COLLABORATION
Broadcast
Nam June Paik, WNET Public Television, Retrospective video, performance art as art critic, Cambridge, MA, 1980

Satellite
Picture Phone Transmission (with Antonio Muntadas and Peter D'Agostino) Boston Link Group Project UCLA and MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1981
Slow Scan Electronic Cafe International in Santa Monica, CA and Cambridge, MA, 1992 and 1993
Sky Art Conference, Cambridge, USA and Festival Arts Electronica, Linz, Austria, 1981

Artist-in-residence
Massachusetts Bay Community College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, Fall semester, 1984
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Fall semester, 2005
VR Group, Proyecto ESE, Boston Computer Society, 1992-1993

Performance Art collaboration
Jim Damiano, Virtual Heart, Washington, D.C., 1994
Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Space Gallery, Boston, 1991
Jeff de Castro, Cambridge River Festival, Cambridge, MA, 1989

Workshops
Teachers teambuilding at Punggol New Town, Singapore, 2012
Social Innovators Forum, Technopreneurship, Singapore, 2012
Business Innovation Brokers, Eutokia, experimental lab sponsored by Bilbao City Hall, 2010-2011
InnovaLab series of innovation workshops, Basque Country, 2007-2011
GloBond, co-lead workshop with scientific adviser to the King of Jordan, innovation practice, 2007
Boston Computer Museum, Kids Lab, Boston, 1994
Nantucket Island School of Design and Art, Virtual Reality worldbuilding, Nantucket, Massachusetts, 1992
Nantucket Island School of Design and Art, Drawing in stereo, Nantucket, Massachusetts, 1991

Exhibit adviser, curator, preparator, and producer
Power of Image – Past Migrations: Images and Icons from the Surinam Rain Forest, South America, Brant Gallery, Mass College of Art, Boston, 2006
Malcolm X, Brant Gallery, Mass College of Art, Boston, 2006
Arte Virtual/Realidad Plural, Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, México, 1998
Día de los Muertos, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, 1993
Día de los Muertos, Boston Children's Museum, Boston, 1992
Proyecto ESE, Boston Computer Museum Lab, Boston, 1992
Posada, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, 1991
Bleeding Hearts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, 1991
Ben Delaney hosted Virtual Reality Universe Conference, New York City, 1997
Boston Children's Museum, Community Relations Group, Boston, 1992-1993
Hot and Cool, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, December 19, 1987-February 7, 1988
Warriors of Xi’an - Terra Cotta Warriors of Ancient China, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1981
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