A. Michael Noll is an American engineer, artist, and pioneer in the fields of digital art and 3D animation. His work as a scientist, mathematician and technologist attempted to locate the boundaries of computer imagery as a medium during its early years, and his research and writings were integral to the construction of the field […]
Aaron Marcus, Principal, Aaron Marcus and Associates, Berkeley, California, was the first graphic designer to work with computers (1967) and is a pioneer UX designer and computer graphics artist. He is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, User Experience; Editor, Information Design Journal; Advisory Board, Visible Language; Editorial Board, International Journal of HCI, and Chair, Design, User Experience, and […]
Abraham Moles was an electrical engineer and physicist who worked on analyzing and investigating the links between aesthetics and information theory. His professional legacy includes research on acoustics and music technology, as well as on computational aesthetics. Born in 1920, he studied technology and earth sciences at the University of Grenoble in France, and then […]
Adam Smith graduated from RISD in 1985 with his BFA. After moving to Cambridge, MA, he developed one of the first 3D CAD (Computer-Aided Design) applications. He then relocated to San Diego, where he worked for NASA as art director for a booklet, Global Change, later presented to the Reagan administration as the first NASA document acknowledging […]
Biography and image are courtesy of the artist: Adrianne Wortzel is an American artist based in New York City. She has exhibited her work for over six decades at venues including the Asheville Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Ars Electronica, Cooper Union and MIT Visual List Center. Her artists’ books and electronic literature […]
Aldo Giorgini (1934-1994) was an Italian-born artist, engineer, and educator whose visionary practice united computational methodology with creative expression. Growing up in Voghera, Italy, he trained under futurist painter-sculptor Ambrogio Casati, working as both apprentice and restorer of war-damaged masterworks. This formative period instilled a deep appreciation for artistic craft that would later inform his […]
Aleksandra Jovanić is an artist and programmer from Belgrade, Serbia. She holds a doctorate in Digital Arts and a BSc in Computer Science. In her research and artistic practice she combines various media, mainly in the field of interactive art, art games, and generative art. Jovanić’s recent works focus on the aesthetic of data visualization […]
Alexandre Vitkine (1910-2014), trained as an engineer, was born in Berlin to Russian immigrant parents and spent his childhood in Copenhagen, before moving to Paris in the 1930s. When World War II erupted he joined the Foregien Legion. By the early 1950s, Vitkine had foregone work as an engineer to become a photographer. He was […]
Alfred Graßl is a scientist and technologist mainly known for being a founding member of the Ars Intermedia group. Graßl studied Information Technology at the Technical University of Vienna, and then became assistant professor there in 1966. That year also marked the founding of Ars Intermedia, with Otto Beckmann, an experimental working group with the […]
biography and image are courtesy of the artist: “ANA MARÍA CABALLERO is a multidisciplinary, award-winning Colombian-American poet and artist. Her work explores how biology delimits our societal and cultural rites, ripping the veil off romanticized motherhood and questioning notions that package sacrifice as a virtue. The speakers in her poems find their voice by navigating […]
Analívia Cordeiro, PhD, with two postdoc, member of the International Dance Committee CID UNESCO, architect, dancer, choreographer, video artist, and researcher of human movement, has developed fifty-three years of art creation focused on body language, encompassing multiple fields of inquiry and diverse media. Her principal area of investigation concerns the relationship between the body and […]
