Dr. Patti Pente is an artist and professor of art education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. She obtained her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Curriculum Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Pente has been artist in residence at the Canadian National Institute for Nanotechnology, and continues to research digital and analogue innovations for art education. She is interested in contemporary art, with particular emphasis on educational potential within digital art processes, nanotechnology, and GPS technology. The aesthetic nature of physical and virtual relationships to place is one significant focus in her work. She has exhibited her art nationally and internationally and maintains an active studio practice where she continues her interest in the relationships among perceptions of scale.
