Dr. Siler was a participant in
Closer to Truth:
Show 206, "Why Do We Make Music & Art?"
Show 211, "Can
You Learn to Be Creative?"
Dr. Todd
Siler
Dr.
Todd Siler is an artist, writer, inventor, educator,
speaker, and consultant. He is the founder and director of
Psi-Phi Communications, a company which specializes in
developing innovative multimedia learning materials and
processes for fostering integrative thinking in education,
business, and the family. The Company's products and
services employ "The Think Like A Genius Process",
which Dr. Siler has developed over the past twenty years.
Dr. Siler received his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies
in Psychology and Art from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1986, the first visual artist to receive a
doctorate from the Institute. He is currently a member of
the advisory board for the Council on Art, Science and
Technology at M.I.T. He is also a member of the board of
directors for the Foundation for Human Potential in Chicago.
Dr. Siler has published many articles and books on his work,
including Breaking the Mind Barrier (NY: Simon and
Schuster, 1990 and Touchstone Books, 1992) and Think Like
A Genius (NY: Bantam Books, 1997). Breaking the Mind
Barrier was nominated for the 1994 University of
Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education for a "work of
outstanding educational achievement with potential for
worldwide impact."
Dr. Siler has lectured and consulted extensively
throughout the world on a myriad of subjects including the
history of the arts' interactions with science and
technology. Todd Siler is a recipient of an I.B.M. Thomas J.
Watson Fellowship to Paris, France (1975-76), a Fulbright
Fellowship to India (1985-86), and a Meitec Fellowship
(1989-91), awarded by the Meitec Corporation in Tokyo. He
received the 1995 "Artist-of-the-Year" Award from
the New York City Teachers Association and the United
Federation of Teachers.
Todd Siler's works of art are in numerous private and
public collections worldwide, including The Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The
Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art in
New York City, The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Belser Vealag
Print Archives, Stuttgardt, Zurichland and the Pushkin Fine
Arts Museum in Moscow. His artwork is represented by Ronald
Feldman Fine Arts in New York City, who presented another of
Todd Siler's solo exhibitions during the fall of 1997.
You will find more about Dr. Siler and creativity at:
www.metaphorming.com
and
www.thinklikeagenius.com
