Mr Samuel Adam SWOPE

BFA in Sculpture from Missouri State University

MFA in Art and Technology Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

 

Assistant Professor 

Department of Art and Design

 

Email: samuelswope@hsu.edu.hk

Website: samueladamswope.com

Mr Samuel SWOPE obtained his MFA degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago while he was the New Artist Society Merit Scholar in Art and Technology Studies. From 2018 to 2019 he was a Visiting Artist faculty member of the Art and Technology Studies Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 2021 to 2022 he helped establish a New Media Art program at Hite Institute of Art & Design, University of Louisville while he was a tenure-track assistant professor.

 

Swope is most recognized for his research and development of what he defines as aerial art – flight and air as medium. Merging multiple media and engineering practices, Swope constructs and controls aesthetic systems that work with air and are often themselves airborne. Through his research and studio practice he often engages with issues on hybridity, atmosphere, emerging technologies, autonomy, and the non-human.

  • Art and Technology
  • Art and Engineering
  • Multidisciplinary Art and Design
  • Flight and Air as Medium
  • Airborne Systems and Aesthetics
  • Emerging Technologies

Exhibition venues include National Museum of American History, Smithsonian, Washington DC, USA; de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong; Chi Art Space, K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; Krupic Kersting Gallery, Cologne, Germany; Design Society, Shenzhen, China; Lotsremark, Basel, Switzerland; and Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China.

 

Artist talk venues include SDU Center for Culture and Technology, Denmark; Chronus Art Center, Shanghai; 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art, Hong Kong; Centro Colombo Americano, Bucaramanga; School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Para Site, Hong Kong; and Design Society, Shenzhen.

 

Artwork published in Frieze; Cobosocial; Artomity; Art Asia Pacific; Art in the Digital Age; and International Association of Art Critics Hong Kong

AD1001 Studio I: Fundamental Concepts and Skills

AD2001 Studio II: Objects, Products and Machines

AD3001 Studio III: Interior, Architecture, and Urban Design