2022
Overview
An American Artist, Dennis Hlynsky (1952 Ohio) resides in Providence, Rhode Island where he is a professor emeritus of video and computer-generated images. He is a practicing artist and an early adopter of electronic media. Sculpture and photography were primary studies but soon gave way to video in 1972. Influenced by the conceptualists of the 60’s he focused his work on the creation of artworks and media to shape the culture of local communities. The US bicentennial began his study of celebration as long-form time art. He has participated in the WaterFire Festival in Providence; May Day Festival in Tiverton RI; PVD fest 2017; and the Providence Independence Day festivities.
Early conceptualist/experimental analog video synthesis was replaced with a decade of documentary. Between 1977 and 1987 Dennis advocated for children and families with life threatening illness by making films and narrowcasting these works in the medical community. This project gained national recognition through the attention of national news and health education networks. This work underscored the notion of working artists as residents in communities.
Digital technologies provided a refreshing outlet for continuation of the early experiments with analog video synthesis. He started teaching at RISD in the mid 1980’s and served as the chair of the Film/Animation/Video Program for 12 years.
His experiments with frame-stacking to trace the movement of birds gained worldwide attention.
Selected activities since 2010
· Cooldige Corner Boston MA, The Auction - January 2011
· E32 – lecture, NYC June 21st, 2011
· UMASS Amherst, Hampden Gallery – Incubator Space – Amherst, Mass – Spring 2011
· Danforth Museum - Danforth Mass – Spring 2011
· Mobius – Cyberarts Festival – Boston, Mass – Spring 2011 – review
· Confronting Complexity 2011 AESS - UVM - 6/2011
· Toronto Urban Film Festival – 9/2011
· Like Blueprints - Make No Small Plans - 10/2011
· Data In Data Out - Seton Hall, NJ - 10/2011
· Interactive Futures; Emily Carr - Murder of Crows - presented by David Bogan 2011
· Association for Environmental Studies and Science Conference, Murder of Crows - June 23, 2012.
· FAM Fest 2013 – Charlotte, SC Stems-V3 FAM Fest
· Athens International Film Festival, Athens Ohio Tales of A Digital Immigrant 2013
· RISD Museum, Providence – Carpwater, video loop 2/2013
· Framed; Pittsburgh, PA, USA, - October 2013
· Trans-Media Nostalgia; Tales of a Digital Immigrant, Supermarkt, Berlin, Germany August 5, 2013
· The Front Room Gallery; Group Exhibit, Brooklyn, NY, USA – November 23, 2013
· 3D Print Show – collaboration with Catherine Andereozzi, London business Design Center, Paris Carrousel du Louvre, NYC Metropolitan Pavilion
· Gallery@620; St Petersburg, Florida USA – Installation, lecture, and Screening of Small Minds - July 2014
· TURN conference; Munich, Germany, Speaker - June 2014
· Under the Viaduct; East Harlem, USA Screening of Starlings at Sunset at the Cotton Club – Summer 2014
· Outdoor screening – Flight of a Cloudyspot, VAW Mexico City, 2014
· Armory Art Fair NYC –Starlings at Sunset, Pink Clouds Windy Day - July 2014
· Fridge Art Fair – NYC 2014, Starlings at Sunset
· Imagine Science Films; Flight of Small Northern Cloudyspot; Dumbo, Brooklyn - October 2014
· Urban Screens; Dandenong VIC – 2014
· Under the Viaduct; Outdoor screening - West Harlem, NY - 2015
· Lecture and Screening; Haverford College 1/26/2015
· Cross-Pollinated: Hybrid Art Abuzz Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson University Dec 2015
· RISD Museum of Art; Flight Paths; Faculty exhibit – 2/2015
· Wings 24643997; Höhenrausch; OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria, 6/2015 to 12/2015
· Sparrows; The Federal Square Melbourne VIC, summer 2015
· Trans-ideology: Nostalgia, MOCA Taipei, 2/2015,
· Animator for documentary Film Woven in Time by Mark Levitt – 2015
· Parade; outdoor installation for RISD presidential inauguration, Providence RI – August 2015
· Hiroshima City MOCA, 3/2016;
· National Museum of Wildlife art of the United States, Wyoming – permanent collection 2016
· Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Spring 2016;
· For the Birds Palo Alto Art Center, Jan 2016;
· U Mass Gallery, Star Store, New Bedford MA, Solo Exhibit - Summer 2016
· Aurora Picture Show; Houston, TX; Screening Swamp Sunset 00015 – Sep 2016
· Keynote Speaker – Geographic Information Science Convention; Montreal, CA - January 2017
· PVD Fest, Providence, RI, Projection Mapping the Mercantile Block – spring 2017
· Slow Motion Camera – The Opera House by Susan Froemke – Summer 2017
· First Pencil, directed by Justine Calverley, Data in Data Out - 2017
Publications
· Buzzards; Howard Hughes Medical Institute HHMI image of the week
· Starlings; E.O Wilson’s Live on Earth digital biology textbook.
· Interview with Dennis Hlynsky; IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Journal, July/Aug 2015
· Dynamic Patterns: Visualizing Landscapes in a Digital Age (Routledge, 2016), photo credit
· ELSE pg 50 Ming Turner’s review of Tales of a Digital Immigrant
Selected Blogs and other publications
Micro Migrations as well as experiments and short works at https://vimeo.com/dennishlynsky .
The work has been sources 6.5 million times by individuals and several hundred blogs worldwide.
Instances have appeared in the following blogs.
The Royal Institution, Science Lives Here
The Atlantic and reposts RI Channel, The Smart Place for Science