Assistant Professor

B.A.    The Evergreen State College.
MFA.  Carnegie Mellon University.

Bio

Elizabeth Monoian is an interdisciplinary artist and designer who uses the Internet, found objects, public spaces, video, and performance. She is currently working on large-scale international public art projects that both address and expose models of environmental sustainability.

Her work has screened and exhibited internationally in venues including: the XXIII Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow, Russia; Anthology Film Archives, NYC; Open Screen Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia; Festival of Actual Kino, Novosibirsk, Russia; The Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; and the International Media Art Festival at the Armenian Center of Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia.

More information can be found at:

www.studiedimpact.com 
www.landartgenerator.org 
www.hot-spots.net

Office: Dubai Academic City, (Wing C, C-L1-022)

Email: elizabeth.monoian@zu.ac.ae

Teaching Areas

Sustainable design, new-media art & design, graphic & web design.

Research and Professional Activities

Elizabeth Monoian is the Principal and Co-Founder of the Land Art Generator Initiative a landmark initiative to bring together artists, architects, scientists, landscape architects, and engineers in a first of its kind collaboration. The goal of the Land Art Generator Initiative is to design and construct a series of public art installations that uniquely combine aesthetics with clean energy generation. The works will serve to inspire and educate while they provide renewable power to thousands of homes around the world.

Masdar has supported the prize award for the first international Land Art Generator Initiative design competition.