Edwina & Charles Milner Women in Arts-Andrea Polli Artist Lecture

Andrea Polli is currently a Professor and Director of STEAM NM with appointments in the College of Fine Arts and School of Engineering at the University of New Mexico. She holds the Mesa Del Sol Endowed Chair of Digital Media.

Polli is an artist working at the intersection of art, science, and technology whose practice includes media installation, public art, curating and directing art, and community projects and writing. She has been creating media and technology artworks related to environmental science issues since 1999 when she first began collaborating with atmospheric scientists on sound and data sonification projects. Among other organizations, she has worked with the NASA/Goddard Institute Climate Research Group in New York City, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and AirNow.

Polli’s work with art/science, technology has been presented widely in over one hundred presentations, exhibitions, and performances internationally including in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s permanent collection and The Field Museum of Natural History, and has been recognized by numerous grants, residencies, and awards including the NSF, Fulbright, and UNESCO.

Her work has been reviewed by the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art News, NY Arts, and others. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a doctorate in practice-led research from the University of Plymouth in the UK. Her latest book is Hack the Grid produced by the Carnegie Museum of Art.

Polli will present Sound and Other Movements of Air, sharing her public art and sculptural work in glass, ceramic and other materials and art/science research related to air and environment including soundscape compositions, large scale public light works and experiments with materials.