Peter Terezakis

Peter Terezakis is an Associate Arts Professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Beginning in 2014, Peter taught “Green World,” an introductory course on environmental issues, Cell Phone Cinema, and Recurring Principles in Art and Technology.

In 2019, Terezakis accompanied an expedition to Greenland’s Helheim Glacier with David and Denise Holland. As a result of this experience, Terezakis developed a course called Abrupt Climate Change. The course’s goals are to assist students in understanding the science, scope, and potential consequences inherent in an abruptly changing climate. In addition, the course requires that students share their knowledge with the public through video projects.

In 1974 he began creating jewelry-sized electronic works of art. His ideas then grew to gallery-sized works, to an interactive building, and eventually to monumental scale temporary installations of a kinetic light sculpture in deserts, forests, and national parks. In 2007 he developed Sacred Sky Sacred Earth, a theatrical event combining art, dance, education, and music to focus on precious – and vanishing – open spaces.

Terezakis’ works have been exhibited in the United States and abroad, including Canada, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.