(United Kingdom, 1977)
Digital artist. PhD from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). He is an associate professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and Design at the University of Chicago.
He is part of the OpenEndedGroup collective along with Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar. OpenEndedGroup's projects span a wide range of disciplines, including music, dance, installations, film and public art. His works include: Pedestrian (multiple sites, 2002), Enlightenment and Breath (Lincoln Center, 2006 and 2007), Recovered Light (York Minster, 2007), Crossings (Nuit Blanche/Royal Ontario Museum, 2010), and All Day ( Barclay's Center, 2013). In recent years they have participated in 3D screenings such as Upending (2010), All sides of the road (2012), Knight's Rest (2013), Saccades (2014), Ulysses in the Subway (2016); the installations After Ghostcatching (with Bill T. Jones, 2010), Stairwell (with Wayne McGregor, 2010) or Plant (2011); in addition to multiple installations such as Maenads & Satyrs (2018); Into the Forest (2011) or Drawn Together (2012); and in the chamber opera Twice through the heart (2011).
They have been awarded both individually and collectively with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Cage Award Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship, and a Bessie award BIPED decor. They have exhibited at MoMA, Pompidou Center, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Lincoln Center, the New York Film Festival, the Barbican Center, the Hayward Gallery, ICA Boston, Sadler's Wells, the Festival d'Automne, the Sundance Film Festival, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Rome Film Festival, the Museum of the Moving Image, SITE Santa Fe, EMPAC, MASS MoCA, the MIT Media Lab, ICA London, Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, the Center for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), the Kiasma museum , among other institutions.
He participated in Medialab Madrid with the work “Loop” within the exhibition “Digital Transit” (February 8 to April 2, 2006). One of the four exhibitions that made up the Digital Culture environment in 2006. This great exhibition proposed a journey through the interconnections between art, science, technology and society. Transiting through permeable spaces that foster productive interferences between diverse imaginaries, concepts and practices. As a whole, a transdisciplinary view was proposed through the works of more than 60 artists, understood as a way of interpretation, exploration and participation in the complex web of relationships that articulates contemporary culture. Digital Transit thus constituted a communication space that connected current computer and telecommunications technologies with visual, sound and performing arts, architecture and urban planning, science, education, citizen participation and the environment. Digital Transit described an environment woven together by processes and projects that take place at different scales and in different contexts: whether in a bacterial culture, a human body, an urban fabric, a telecommunications network or an ecosystem. Thus, a systemic and global vision was proposed that circulated from genetics to urban planning or from computing to education, passing through the new digital communities that are articulated on the Internet. The exhibition brought together some of the most outstanding projects of digital culture, from the Austrian and international sphere, awarded in recent years at the prestigious international Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria.
