1. Tullio DeSantis's work is informed by ancient and contemporary philosophy, science, and the relationship between art and life.
24 Facts About Tullio DeSantis
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Tullio DeSantis moved back to the East Coast and took up dual residencies in Reading, Pennsylvania, and New York City, where he maintained a studio in Chelsea.
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In 1981 Tullio DeSantis began exhibiting his work in the Reading and Berks County area.
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In 1982, Tullio DeSantis was co-producer of the large-scale multimedia exhibit at the Reading Public Museum titled Mushroom Magic.
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Tullio DeSantis mounted his first one-person show in New York City, titled New Worlds at the Tradition 3000 gallery in 1988.
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In 1984 Tullio DeSantis received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship for his ongoing collaborative conceptual work with Keith Haring.
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In 1998 and 1999 Tullio DeSantis published the first four chapters of this work in the Terminal Journal under the title, Reading Lies Dreaming, published by Eschaton, Chicago.
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Tullio DeSantis' internationally published writing includes a magical-realist story recounting the life of the Francesco DeSantis family and the art, science, and craft of growing mushrooms for market.
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Tullio DeSantis' higher-education art-teaching career has spanned the period from 1987 to the present.
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Tullio DeSantis has continued his teaching as an adjunct professor of art at Albright College, University of St Francis, Joliet, Illinois, the MFA program of Vermont College, Norwich University, and currently at Reading Area Community College.
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In 1990 the American Association of University Professors found and reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education that Tullio DeSantis had been improperly dismissed by Alvernia College because of his criticism of the administration and that his rights of academic freedom had been violated.
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Tullio Francesco DeSantis continued exhibiting his art in the early 1990s in a selected group of galleries including the Freedman Gallery of Albright College and the Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA.
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In 2005, Tullio DeSantis created ARTology, his online blog for the Reading Eagle newspaper web site.
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Tullio DeSantis' discusses his conceptual work and his relationship with Keith Haring in a series of YouTube videos, produced by Ron Schira.
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In 2013, Tullio DeSantis retired ARTologyPOD podcasts and moved his ARTology blog from the Reading Eagle Online to its own domains at www.
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Tullio DeSantis is referenced in Keith Haring's official biography the Rizzoli illustrated edition titled Keith Haring, and the 2008 film, The Universe of Keith Haring.
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The collaborative project between Keith Haring and Tullio DeSantis is the subject of a documentary project being executed by Canadian filmmaker and collector, Victor Lallouz.
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Tullio DeSantis describes the project in an introductory video that has been posted on YouTube in raw footage.
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Tullio DeSantis has continued this work in various media since the day Keith Haring died, February 16,1990.
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Tullio DeSantis creates drawings on paper, then digitizes the original to create one light and one dark variation.
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In 2011, Dr Tom Fink and Tullio DeSantis created MindReflector Technologies, LLC to produce neurofeedback software and mind-training applications.
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Tullio DeSantis managed MindReflector development and composed the audio track for MindReflector training.
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Tullio DeSantis collaborated with contemporary artists and engineers to extend MindReflector technology and multimedia.
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Scarlet and Tullio DeSantis are working on a collaborative project under the name, "Coup de Tete".