Gregorio Rivera, Ph.D. Artistscientist. California Institute of Integral Studies, School of Consciousness and Transformation, Transformative Learning & Change, Ph.D., 2005, (San Francisco). ACM SIGGRAPH touring exhibition in galleries and museums in 23 countries in 1982-1985 (Dr. Cynthia Goodman - curator). Selected publications include: Creative Computergraphics (Cambridge University Press, 1984); Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Encyclopedia of New Media Art and Music (Tokyo, 1985); compiled and edited Chicano Art (Boston, 1986); SIGGRAPH Visual Proceedings, Tomorrow's Realities (SIGGRAPH '93), and SIGGRAPH Visual Proceedings, The Edge (SIGGRAPH '94). InfoArquitectura Conference Proceedings (Madrid, 1997). Works and lectures on new media projects in U.S., Latin America, and Europe.Virtual environments works-in-progress received the New Forms Regional Initiative Award (1992) from the New England Foundation for the Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Pioneer and prototyping specialist in the virtual environments industry from 1983 -1994 with Small Business Industrial Research (SBIR) through LEEP Systems in parallel development with NASA Ames Research Center and NASA Langley Research Center. Instrumental in setting in motion 11 years of SBIR grants for LEEP. Presented Virtual Heart Project to selected members of the U.S. Congress Virtual Reality Committee in 1994. Commissioned for InfoArchitectura project by the Minister of Development in Spain, 1997. Advisor, exhibitor, and lecturer at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Fogg Art Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University; Boston Children’s Museum, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center; Boston Center for the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Boston Computer Museum; Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts; New England Foundation for the Arts; Massachusetts Cultural Council; former Member of Board of Directors, Boston Film and Video Foundation; volunteer at the Film Study Center at MoMA, New York City; founding member to the Organization of Mexicans in New England. Former assistant professor at the Center for Knowledge Systems at Tecnológico de Monterrey/Campus Monterrey, Mexico. Appointed member of the Entovation Network E-100. Consultant to Monterrey Forum 2007. Presently Director InnovaLab Bilbao.
