Graphical Waterfalls®

Stephen Pevnick

Stephen Pevnick received his BA degree in Design from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1968 and his MFA degree in Multimedia from Washington University in St. Louis in 1972. He taught sculpture at the University of South Florida in Tampa until 1978, followed by a move to Milwaukee, WI where he currently is Professor Emeritus of Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and president of Pevnick Design, Inc. His current research centers around real- time multimedia and computer controlled kinetic sculpture and water. It lead to the creation of a computer controlled waterfall called the Graphical Waterfall®. The first Graphical Waterfall®, initially called the Rainfall Project, ran at the University of South Florida in Tampa in 1977. Research continued at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee until 1999 when the waterfalls were moved to Stephen Pevnick’s studio building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin