Darcy Gerbarg

Darcy Gerbarg, a multi-disciplinary artist, is primarily a painter. She studied with artists in Woodstock, NY when she was young and later at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture under Mercedes Matter. She spends considerable time making art in the Catskill Mountains, not far from where she grew up and first started painting. She received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from New York University. She has made art for 45 years in Chelea, NYC where she has an artist’s loft.

In 1979, she began making art using digital paint systems, in the first research labs, where talented, pioneering computer scientists were inventing 3D computer animation and computer graphics. Gerbarg began teaching the first computer art courses at New York University in 1980 and was an adjunct faculty member there for almost 40 years. In addition, she launched and was the Chairman of the first MFA Program in Computer Art in the mid 1980’s, at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She produced and chaired the first SIGGRAPH Art Shows in 1981 and 1982. Gerbarg joined CITI in the Business School, at Columbia University, as a Senior Research Fellow in 1997, and was the Executive Director of the Marconi Society, in the Engineering School, at Columbia University from 2002-2006. She has a book series with Springer, “ The Economics of Information, Communications, and Entertainment: The Impacts of Digital Technology in the 21st Century. In 2016 Gerbarg created her first 3DVR paintings at Professor Ken Perlin’s Future Reality Lab, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. Gerbarg’s art has been collected and exhibited by museums, galleries, art fairs, corporate and private collectors internationally. Her 3D animation “Raffles City” was distributed in a collection of digital short animations in 1984. Her interactive Inside and Outside Immersive Painting Experience and her 3DVR Painting and Sculpture Garden can be experienced by invitation, on spatial.io. She currently exhibits AR enhanced paintings on canvas, which provide viewers a full immersive, interactive experience.

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