David Darts is an artist and Chair of the Department of Art and Art Professions at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

. He holds a PhD from the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top thre ...

and was previously a faculty member in the School of Art at the

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. T ...

. He created the

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, which is an autonomous mobile

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device designed to create local file sharing networks. It is inspired by the

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and

Pirate Radio Pirate radio or a pirate radio station is a radio station that broadcasts without a valid license. In some cases, radio stations are considered legal where the signal is transmitted, but illegal where the signals are received—especially ...

movements and is registered with
Free Art License (FAL 1.3)
Darts is curatorial director of Conflux, the annual art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban

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. He is currently the Dean of Arts at NYU Abu Dhabi.Conflux Festival website
(Accessed August 12, 2009)

References

External links

NYU Faculty ProfileOfficial Homepage
Living people University of Arizona faculty Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development faculty Year of birth missing (living people) {{academic-bio-stub