Sawad Brooks is an internationally shown artist, critic, and award winning designer working with public and information spaces. DissemiNET (1998-2001), one of his collaborations with Beth Stryker, is a telematic installation commissioned in part by the Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University. DissemiNET has been shown internationally, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and is part of the Walker Art Center's Digital Arts Studies Collection, as is Brooks' Bowling Alley (1995), a collaboration with Beth Stryker, Christa Erickson, and Shu Lea Cheang. Invertigo (1997), a telematic video installation created in collaboration with Beth Stryker and Christa Erickson, was shown at The Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada. Sawad’s work has also been shown at such places as the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Johannesburg Biennale; and Postmasters Gallery, New York. He has been invited to speak at numerous locations, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Banff Centre for the Arts. He is currently working with Warren Sack on "hELLO7734," a new network protocol art-research project that interrogates "translation," funded in part by the Arts Technology Center, University of New Mexico, with grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the NEA. With Goil Amornvivat and generous support from Creative Capital, he is also working on a new line of responsive architecture. Independently, he is working on a series of interactive videos addressing the themes of landscape, public space, and time. He teaches at Brown University's department of Modern Culture and Media.

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