Eric Forman

MFA Interaction Design department

Interactive Art & Design http://www.ericforman.com

Developing project modules for physically interactive and speech recognition activated kinetic architecture. Working under David Benjamin and Soo-In Yang for their "Living Architecture" class at GSAPP (Graduate School for Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University).

Teaching "Sensing, Materials, and Embodied Interaction" to graduate students in RISD's Digital+Media department. This class also has graduate students from Brown University. The students come from fine art, industrial design, furniture design, electronic music and poetry.

Founder

Leading Physical Computing segment of National Science Foundation funded program to teach new technologies to high school teachers, and eventually to their students

Web/interactive design and programming. Clients include: R/GA New York, Verizon Wireless, IBM, Iconixx New York, RCA Records, NBC Digital, MTV Online, Merck & Co.

Led AV crews, supervised all aspects of production design for live presentations and evens.

Co-supervised The Knowledge Union, advanced media lab for Digital Design MFA grad students and faculty. Taught workshops, assisted students, general systems maintenance.