frank peseckis biographical information - 5points art mathematics science

Frank Peseckis

b. November 5, 1953, Detroit, Michigan

1979: Columbia University, New York, New York, Dept. of Physics, Ph.M.
1977: Columbia University, New York, New York, Dept. of Physics, S.M.
1975: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dept. of Physics, S.B., Thesis research with Earle Lomon, Center for Theoretical Physics

1997-: President/CEO/Founder, 5points.net, Inc. internet business and technology services
1995-: Director/Webmaster, 5points art.mathematics.science, http://www.5points.com
1986-97: President, Five Points Gallery, Inc., Old Chatham, New York
1983-: Independent research, theoretical physics, Old Chatham, New York
1986-1994: Founding Director, Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, New York
1978-82: Research Fellow, Dept. of Applied Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York
1977-78: Research Fellow, Energy Research and Development Administration Fellowship, Dept. of Applied Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York,
1976: Research Assistant, Dept of Physics, Nevis Laboratories, Columbia University, Dobbs Ferry, New York, work with Charles Baltay
1975-77: Teaching Fellow, Dept. of Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York
1974-75: Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1999: Tony Carruthers, "the mind was dreaming, the world was it's dream", Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, a group exhibition in memory of Tony Carruthers; Digital Portrait Booth, web installation of collaborative project with Tony Carruthers and Bill Botzow, 5points art mathematics science; Midnight Madness, Bennington, Vermont, performance and installation in collaboration with Bill Botzow, Tony Carruthers, and Meg Cottam; Scrollover, web collaboration with Meg Cottam and Bill Botzow; Invited speaker, Columbia County Council on the Arts, The Arts and the Internet: Realizing the Web's Potential, Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY, panelist with Vincent Bilotta and Geo Geller
1998: Invited speaker, University at Albany, State University of New York, Order and Chaos; Art Critic and Correspondent, Register Star, Hudson, New York; Digital Portrait Booth, collaborative installation with Tony Carruthers and Bill Botzow for Vermont Arts Council Inaugural Arts Conference, Montpelier, Vermont; Invited speaker, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, The Ph.D As Entrepreneur, panelist with Bruce Baretz and Barbara Guggenheim Fields; Figure, collaboration with Bill Botzow, 5points art mathematics science
1997: Gorge, collaboration with Bill Botzow, 5points art mathematics science
1996: Guest artist, Bill Botzow, Paintings 1984-1996, Albany Center Galleries, Albany, New York; Process, collaboration with Bill Botzow, 5points art mathematics science
1995: Invited speaker, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, The Collaborative Process and Related Issues, with Bill Botzow and Tony Carruthers
1994: Juror, Colonie Art League Annual Exhibition, Colonie Memorial Town Hall, Newtonville, New York; Wiggle, in Randomness in Art and Science, Foundation Gallery, Art Center, Columbia Greene Community College, Hudson, New York, installation in collaboration with Bill Botzow and Tony Carruthers
1993: Juror, Landmarks, Schacht Fine Arts Center, Russell Sage College, Troy, New York; RockWater, installation beside Hoosic River for Riverworks 2, a Hoosic River Watershed Association public event, Williamstown, Massachusetts
1992: Lines, installation in The Hudson Arts Project, at the site of a former church, Hudson, New York; Project organizer, The Hudson Arts Project, site specific installations by twelve artists in the former First Methodist Episcopal Church, Hudson, New York; Symbols, installation in Spillway, Installations and Collaborations, North Bennington Independent Artists Space, North Bennington, Vermont; Juror, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston Memorial Art Exhibition, Clermont State Historic Site, Clermont, New York; Invited speaker, Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, New York, Art and Collecting
1991: Juror, The Fence Show, Rensselaer County Council for the Arts, Troy, New York; Invited speaker, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Curator's Choice: Emerging Artists, a lecture on the work of sculptor Ed Smith
1990: Invited speaker, New York Studio School, New York, New York, The Nature of Structure; Invited speaker, Contemporary Visual Arts in Columbia County, Chatham Public Library, in conjunction with the Columbia County Council on the Arts, Chatham, New York
1988: Juror, Annual Juried Exhibition, Sheffield Art League, Sheffield, Massachusetts
1982: Invited speaker, ICASE Workshop on Turbulent Processes, National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
1981: Presentation, Annual Meeting, American Physical Society, Division of Plasma Physics
1980: Presentation, Annual Meeting, American Physical Society, Division of Plasma Physics
1979: Presentation, Annual Meeting, American Physical Society, Division of Plasma Physics

1998-1999: Board of Directors, Time and Space Limited, Hudson, New York
1991-1997: Board of Advisors, Art/Omi International Artists' Workshop, Ghent, New York, and New York, New York
1991-95: Vice President, Columbia Land Conservancy, Chatham, New York
1991-92: Board of Directors, Columbia County Initiative Program Planning Committee
1990-92: Planning Board, Town of Chatham, New York; Chairman, Columbia County Tourism Advisory Commission, Hudson, New York
1989-95: Board of Directors, Columbia Land Conservancy, Chatham, New York
1989-92: Board of Advisors, Columbia County Tourism Advisory Commission, Hudson, New York
1987-88: Board of Directors, Columbia County Council on the Arts, Hudson, New York

: American Physical Society; American Mathematical Society; Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Society); Mathematical Association of America; Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; New York Academy of Sciences; American Association for the Advancement of Science

1999: Plurum, www.plurum.com
1998: Light, Geometry and Color, a conversation with Truman Egleston, HomeStyle Magazine, Austerlitz, NY, October; Anne Francey at Carrie Haddad Gallery, Register Star, Hudson, NY, August 14; Photographic Memory at Kendall Art and Design, Register Star, Hudson, NY, July 17; Martha Lloyd at Carrie Haddad Gallery, Register Star, Hudson, NY, June 19; Interview: Frank Peseckis, The Internet, Information in Motion, Homestyle Magazine, Austerlitz, NY, January
1997: Dynamics Within Infinitesimal Intervals, preprint, Old Chatham, New York
1996: Process, catalogue essay, Bill Botzow, Paintings 1984-1996, Albany Center Galleries, Albany, New York
1995: Artworks: Bill Botzow and Tony Carruthers - Shift, catalogue essay, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts; Commentary: Not Yet Up to Speed, The Independent, Hillsdale, NY, April 6
1994: Bill Botzow: Experiments with Change, catalogue essay, Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, New York; -- Frank Peseckis, Bill Botzow, and Tony Carruthers, Collaborative Projects - An Investigation of Random Processes or Chaotic Systems, New England Artists Trust News, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Vol. 4, Fall; New 1+1 D Model Equations for Navier-Stokes Turbulence, preprint, Old Chatham, New York
1993: The Resolution of Complexity: The Drawings of Linda Cross, catalogue essay, Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, New York
1992: Colin Cochran: Painting and the Vitality of Being, catalogue essay, Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, New York; The Hudson Arts Project, catalogue introduction and statement, Hudson, New York; Spirituality and Symbols of Eroticism, exhibition essay, Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, New York; Some Representations of Nondifferentiable Functions, preprint, Old Chatham, New York; Nondifferentiable Solutions to Linear Dynamical Equations, preprint, Old Chatham, New York
1991: Bill Clerk: New Works, catalogue essay, Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, New York; Art for the Land, Homestyle Magazine, Chatham, New York, September; Ron Terner: Photographs 1986-1991, introduction for Nudes 1986-1991, Beyond the Boundaries, Photography by Ron Terner, Focal Point Press, City Island, New York
1990: Dimensions Between Two and Three, exhibition essay, Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, New York; Heroes and Myths: Sculpture and Drawings by Ed Smith, catalogue introduction, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida
1989: Environmental Zoning, Chatham Magazine, Chatham, New York, May, p. 14ff; A Fractional Derivative Formalism for Anomalous Diffusion, preprint, Old Chatham, New York
1988: Fragments and Layers: Irreducible Complexity in the Sculpture of Ed Smith, catalogue essay for Ed Smith: Sculpture/Drawings, Frank Katz Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, New York, Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, New York
1987: Statistical Dynamics of Stable Processes, Physical Review A, 36 (2), 892
1982: Cusp Dynamics and the Fractal Nature of Turbulence, preprint, National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
1980: Turbulent Fluctuations as Fractal Functionals of Averages, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 25 (8), 1034
1979: A New Perspective on the Direct Interaction Approximation, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 24 (8), 934; -- Shayne R. Johnston and Frank E. Peseckis, Theory of Turbulent Resistivity in Columbia Torus II, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 24 (8), 935
1975: Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering Up to 1 Gev in the Coupled Channel Boundary Condition Model, Thesis, B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts