John Maeda (born 1966) is an American executive, designer, technologist. His work explores the area where business, design, and technology merge to make space for the “humanist technologist.”[1][2] He is Global Head, Computational Design and Inclusion at Automattic[3] where he seeks to address the diversity gap in tech[4] by exploring how inclusion can be a key ingredient for success in the technology industry.[5][6][7] As an […]
Robert W. Mallary (December 2, 1917 – February 10, 1997) was an American abstract expressionist sculptor and pioneer in computer art. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was renowned for his Neo-Dada or “junk art” sculpture, created from found materials and urban detritus, pieced together with hardened liquid plastics and resins. Mallary’s work is represented […]
I have a very active mind. My consciousness is preoccupied with a lifelong pursuit of figuring out how things work. Because when I was young I was taught a bunch of junk. How does life actually work? Nobody knows, but a lot of insightful smart people have found keys. Making art or thinking about making art I’m using those […]
Biography and profile picture courtesy of the artist’s website: “Elman Mansimov is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services in New York City. He is currently working on foundation models at Amazon Bedrock. Ultimately, he aspires to make progress in natural language processing and deep learning, leading to substancial benefits for customers. Previously, he […]
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 […]
Jean-Claude Marquette studied arts and graphics at the École Estienne in Paris and fine arts and informatics at the University of Vincennes, now University of Paris VIII. 1970 member of the Groupe Art et Informatique de Vincennes. 1970–1976 worked for Galerie Denise René, Paris. He lives in Paris, FR. Exhib. and lit.: See: Groupe Art […]
Maughan S. Mason was an early computer programmer and digital artist at the forefront of computer art. Born in Utah, he studied physics and mathematics at university, and after graduating, worked at White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces, New Mexico. He later became the head of the Analog Simulation Lab at Thiokol Chemical Co. […]
Although Mattox’s history is not widely noted, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., has taken special care to preserve a large repository of his work. The University of New Mexico is fortunate to own two of Mattox’s kinetic sculptures. Mattox’s obituary notice in SFGate states that “He joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, […]
Tomislav Mikulić (Born in 1953 in Croatia) is a Croatian-Australian artist, and a pioneer of computer graphics and computer animation. He learned the computer programming language Fortran at a high school in Zagreb in 1970. A year later, he enrolled to study at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Zagreb (ETF) where he […]
Michael Mittelman’s background lies in both architecture and technology. Born in New York, he studied at Wesleyan and MassArt, as well as in Paris through the Columbia University GSAPP intensive architecture program. At the beginning of his artistic career, Mittelman’s work involved creating virtual reality sculptures and realizing them in welded steel. By the early 2000s, he had […]
Manfred Mohr is one of the great names of computer art, considered a pioneer in the field and nicknamed “godfather” of digital art. His work is distinguished by its radically rational construction which explores series of shapes of ever-increasing complexity. Born in Pforzheim, Germany, Mohr began his career as an action painter and jazz musician. […]
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 […]
Vera Molnar (1924-2023), also known by her maiden name, written Gács Vera a.k.a GV, was a Hungarian-born artist born in Budapest in 1924. She is considered a pioneer of digital and algorithmic art who many have designated as the first female digital artist. Steeped in a pictorial legacy characteristic of Eastern Europe, she moved to […]