Richard Kostelanetz
Richard Kostelanetz was born in New York City in 1940 and attended Brown, Columbia, and the University of London on Woodrow Wilson, New York State Regents, and Fulbright fellowships, taking his M.A. in American intellectual history.
He subsequently received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The Fund for Investigative Journalism, Pulitzer Foundation, the American Public Radio Program Fund, and the DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm, in addition to several grants from the visual arts and media arts programs of the National Endowment for the Arts.
He has been a Visiting Professor of American Studies and English at the University of Texas and a Visiting Professor of graduate theater at Hunter College, CUNY. He has lectured and presented his work at scores of institutions around the world.
He currently lives in the Rockaways after nearly three decades in SoHo, surrounded by thousands of books, hundreds of videotapes, thirty feet of long-playing records, scores of cassettes, several audio and video machines, and his own artwork.
As a media artist, Kostelanetz has created language-based audiotapes, videotapes, films, and holograms that have been exhibited and broadcast around the world. Both Anthology Film Archives (New York) and Bumbershoot (Seattle) have presented retrospectives of his audiovideotapes.
Wordsand was the title of a multimedia exhibition of art with words, numbers, and lines that toured North American universities in 1978-81. International Artists Books (Paris) mounted a retrospective of his book art in 1996. Among the arts institutions granting him production residencies are the Electronic Music Studio of Stockholm, the Experimental TV Center in Owego, New York, the Dennis Gabor Laboratory of the Museum of Holography, the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music, the Public Access Synthesizer Studio in New York, and the public radio stations WXXI-FM and WGBH-FM in Rochester and Boston respectively.
