Tag: Mel Alexenberg

Mel Alexenberg (Hebrew: מל אלכסנברג; born February 24, 1937) is an American-Israeli artist, art educator, and writer recognized for his pioneering work exploring the intersections of art, science, technology and digital culture. He experimental with digital fine art prints in the 1980s that are in 30 museum collections worldwide, circumglobal cyberangel flights honoring Rembrandt in 1989 and in 2019.

Alexenberg has educated generations of young artists as professor at Columbia University and universities in Israel, research fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, dean at New World School of the Arts in Miami, and head of the art department at Pratt Institute where he taught the first course on creating art with computers. In Israel, he was Founding Head in 1977 of Ramat Hanegev College affiliated with Bar-Ilan University where he was professor of education. In 1971, he was Founding Director of the Center for Creative Learning, Experimental School of University of Haifa that continues to educate Israeli youth as The Open School more than half century later.