Scott Townsend is an Associate Professor in the Department of Graphic Design, North Carolina State University, where he teaches New Media, photography, and graphic design. His research focuses on the intersection between the individual and the community; of issues of personal identity and history, and the use of narrative and imagery. In the last six years this has taken the form of specific projects, concentrating on issues of immigration and globalization. These projects often deal with language translation and site-specificity, working with another audience at a distance/online. His work is divided between academically based research and electronically based installation art, and other hybrid projects between different media and disciplines. In the last twelve years, he has exhibited in over 60 national and international group and solo exhibitions in the Czech Republic, Havana, Mexico City/Tijuana, Edmonton, Berlin, Hamburg, New York, and Chicago. He has created visual projects and authored writings for such journals and publications as Zed, Contact Sheet (Light Work), Statements, Brujula, Art Papers, Rethinking Marxism, Visual Communication, Design Issues, and is part of a forthcoming book from the EAD (Techne, Design Wisdom). He has also been a featured presenter at Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism in the United States, Visions Plus 2 and 3 sponsored by UNESCO in Austria, the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland, the Center for 21st Century Studies, etc. He most recently was artist-in residence at the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Prague (2002), Lightwork (summer 2004) and Visual Studies Workshop (as part of an installation project) May 2005. He was in residence in Tokyo (Youkobo) in 2007 as part of an online and installation project, and has recently completed the site-specific project "Your Imaginary Country; the Berlin Wall and the Strategic Border Initiative" in central Berlin. A follow on visual project will be published in October in the international journal "Visual Communication." (Sage; London and New York).

Contact:
Scott Townsend
Department of Graphic Design
College of Design
(200 Pullen Road), Box 7701
NC State University
Raleigh, NC, 27695-7701
email: scott_townsend@ncsu.edu
telephone: 919-515-8337
fax: 919-515-7330