Professional Experience
Head, Intelligent Graphics
Group, MIT Media Lab, 1996- present
MIT, Cambridge, MA, co-founder
of the Visible Language Workshop; 1973-1994
Minor White, began extended
apprenticeship with him in Rochester, NY, and then in Arlington, MA when
he came to start MIT's Creative Photography Program; 1966-68
NBC-TV, New York, NY, projectionist;
1963-65
Academic Experience
Principal Research Associate,
Visible Language Workshop, Intelligent Graphics Group; 1984-present
Assistant Professor of Graphic
Research, MIT Department of Architecture/
Visible Language Workshop;
1977-84
Instructor, MIT Department
of Architecture, started 'Photographics'; 1971
Instructor, MIT Department
of Architecture; 1968-77
Research Activity
Research in support tools
for complex information display, supported by U.S. Department of Transportation,
Federal Rail Admin.
Research in support tools
for online design communities, supported by Civiscape Grant from National
Endowment for the Arts
Research in constraint-based,
case-based graphical programming tools,
supported by Nynex
and DARPA; 1989 -1995
Research in intelligent
personalized design tools for the naive user, supported by IBM; 1986-1989
Research in micro-based
interactive design and layout, supported by Hell GmbH;
1984-1988
Research in computer-aided
printing supported by the Outdoor
Advertising industry.
Developed prototype 20x50 foot large-scale, computer-controlled airbrush
plotter; 1977-1983
Grants
Massachusetts Arts and Humanities
Foundation, Artist-in-Residence at the VLW to do work in computer imaging;
1977
Publications and Exhibitions
Mr. MacNeil's print and
computer image works have appeared in many national and international exhibitions
and publications from 1966 to the present. A select list follows:
Exhibitions
Addison Gallery of American
Art, Andover, Mass., (permanent collection)
MIT, Creative Photography
Gallery, Cambridge, Mass.
George Eastman House, Rochester
N.Y., (permanent collection)
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Mass., (permanent collection)
Institute of Contemporary
Art, Boston, Mass.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, Mass.
Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode
Island School of Design, Providence, R.I.
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester,
Mass.
Institut fur Neue Technische
Form, Darmstadt, Germany
Library of Congress, Washington,
D.C.
New Orleans Contemporary
Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
SIGGRAPH Art Show, international
exhibit, 1983
Bronx Museum of the Arts,
N.Y., 1985 and 1987
Sixth Annual Pacific Northwest
Computer Graphic Conference, Art and Design Show, University of Oregon
at Eugene, 1987
Boston Computer Museum,
1989
SIGGRAPH Art Show and Traveling
Show, 1989
Publications by Mr. MacNeil
"Capturing and Reusing Multimedia
Design Knowledge with TYRO, the
Multimedia Presentation
Designer's Assistant"
Proceedings of Workshop
on Intelligent Visualization,
IEEE Visualization
'93
"Capturing Multimedia Design
Knowledge Using TYRO, the Constraint Based
Designer's Apprentice",
SPIE/SPSE Proceedings, 1991
"Adaptive Perspectives:
Case-based Reasoning with TYRO",
IEEE
VL Proceedings, 1990
"TYRO: A Constraint-based
Graphic Designer's Apprentice",
IEEE
VL Proceedings, 1989
Publications which include
Mr. MacNeil's work
Technology Review October
1994
Aperture and MIT Press
The Media Lab, Stewart Brand,
Viking Press, 1987
Boston Review of Photography
Horizon Press and George
Eastman House
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
University Press
Six Boston Print Makers,
Group Portfolio
The Photographers' Choice,
Addison House
AIGA Graphic Design USA:
3,
The Annual of the American
Institute of Graphic Arts
Computer Graphics World
Magazine
Lectures (selected)
Seminar leader, Universidad
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City
"The New Studio", Computer
Art and Design Conference, Chicago Art Inst.
"Artists in the Computer
Age", M.I.T. Museum, Cambridge, Mass.
"Cognitive Style of Design",
given at "The Cognitive Condition of Design Symposium", Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio
"Electronic Cabaret", exhibit
and performance series at New Orleans, LA
"TYRO: The Graphic Designer's
Apprentice," IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages, Rome, Italy, 1989
"Adaptive Perspectives",
IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages, Ill, 1990
"Capturing Multimedia Design
Knowledge...", SPIE/SPSE Symposium on Electronic Imaging, 1991
American Center for Design,
Designing for the Internet, Workshop premiering Civiscape Project. 1995
Society for Environmental
Graphic Design, future or Electronic Communications: 1996
Getty Information Institute
workshop on Semantic Systems, 1996
President’s Committie on
the Arts and Humanities, Workshop on new technology and the arts and the
humanities, June, 1996
Cranbrook Academy of Art
to Graduate Design programs Guest lecturer in 3d and 2d design. 1997
3D in Transportation Conference,
Minneapolis MN, May 1997