Tommy Chambers:
CLASS OF 1965
Austin High SchoolClass of 1965
El paso, TX
Midwestern State UniversityClass of 1969
Wichita falls, TX
Tommy's Story
Tom R. Chambers is currently Teacher in Technology Applications for Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [charter] in Houston, Texas, U.S.A. He also teaches and advises after school programming ["Power Time"] in Digital Photography and Digital/New Media Art. His core group of "Power Time" students connected with the Houston Audubon Society [HAS] to make nature photographs, and they exhibited their work at the HAS Gala, Museum of Natural Science in Houston [November 8, 2007]. They also connected with FotoFest International [Houston] to participate in the organization's Literacy Through Photography [LTP] program as a pilot project via a photo blog. It's ongoing, and it involves a collaboration with two other schools ... Eisenhower Middle School [Wyckoff, NJ, U.S.A.] and Southmore Intermediate School [Pasadena, TX, U.S.A.].
Chambers was Visiting Lecturer in Digital/New Media Art for the Fine Arts Department at Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing, China, 2005 - 2007. He joined the Department to develop and teach a Digital/New Media Art Program. He and his students collaborated with Beijing Film Academy (Beijing, China), Art Institute of Boston (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.), Maine College of Art (Portland, Maine, U.S.A.), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York, U.S.A.), National Chengchi University (Taipei, Taiwan), Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.A.) and University of Louisville (Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.) in joint student projects/exhibitions, off- and on-line.
He was invited by the National Institute of Design [NID] in Ahmedabad, India to conduct a three-week, New Media Art workshop for its New Media Design graduate students, July 10 - 28, 2006. The workshop culminated in the exhibition, NMA/NID. He also exhibited his work, Kites for Gandhi along with the students' works.
Chambers is Executive Committee Member and Juror (2003 - 2005) for the International Digital Art Awards (IDAA). He was instrumental in expanding the content of the IDAA to include New Media Art, and served as on-line New Media Director (2004 - 2005). He was also instrumental in helping to bring the 2005 IDAA Exhibition to Beijing, China under the auspices of the Beijing Film Academy.
He was invited by the Fine Arts Department, New Media Art, Beijing Film Academy, Beijing,...Expand for more
China, April 8, 2005 to give a retrospective lecture, Dyer Street Portraiture to Pixelscapes. This thirty-year retrospective took a look at Chambers' evolution from conventional documentary photography to his current work with digital and new media art.
Chambers has been a Documentary Photographer/Visual Artist for over thirty years, and he is currently working with the pixel as Minimal Art (Pixelscapes) which begins to approach a true, abstract, visual language in Digital Art. His Pixelscapes have not only been exhibited as a part of the IDAA exhibitions (Juror invitation, 2003 - 2005), but also as a part of the Glass Membrane: Scanner to Screen group show at the Digital Studio, UCR/California Museum of Photography, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A., 2002, Digital Showcase 15, Austin Museum of Digital Art, Austin, TX, U.S.A., 2002 and 6th International Information Visualization Conference, University of London, London, England, 2002. He has over eighty exhibitions, off- and on-line, to his credit.
He completed a three-year tour (1993-1995) as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Harare, Zimbabwe, Africa as Art Conservator/Curator for the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and as the Initiator/Instructor of The McEwen Photographic Studio for the National Gallery Art School: research/classification and computerization of the National Gallery Permanent Collection to produce a catalogue; and instruction of a fine arts/documentary photography workshop for Black Africans (exhibitions held of the students works: 'Moments In Time' (1993), 'Moments In Time II' (1994) and 'Moments In Time III' (1995) at the National Gallery).
He was invited by the National Gallery of Zimbabwe to exhibit Variations On The Dan Mask (a conceptual look at the African mask form through manipulation of the photogram technique) (December 1995; officially opened by the U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe); and he received a U.S. Government Grant via the United States Information Service (USIS), Harare to exhibit Southwest Of Rusape: The Mucharambeyi Connection (a series of documentary portraits of the Black African people) at the USIS Gallery (June-July 1995; officially opened by the U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe; and accepted as a part of the USIS Archives Permanent Collection).
He has exhibited his fine arts/documentary w
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