Authors and Contributors
Tega Brain is an Australian-born artist, environmental engineer, and educator. Her work examines issues of ecology, data systems, and infrastructure. Her work has been shown in the Vienna Biennale for Change, the Guangzhou Triennial, and in institutions like the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the New Museum, among others. She is Assistant Professor of Integrated Digital Media at New York University (NYU) and works with the Processing Foundation on the Learning to Teach conference series and p5.js project.
Golan Levin is Professor of Electronic Art at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the School of Computer Science, the School of Design, the School of Architecture, and the Entertainment Technology Center. As an educator, Golan's pedagogy is concerned with reclaiming computation as a medium of personal expression. He teaches “studio art courses in computer science,” on themes like interactive art, generative form, and information visualization. Since 2009, Golan has also served as Director of CMU's Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, a laboratory for atypical and anti-disciplinary research across the arts, science, technology, and culture.
Taeyoon Choi is an artist and educator based in New York City and Seoul. He is the co-founder of the School for Poetic Computation and is a faculty researcher at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). Choi has extensive experience teaching art and technology to youth and communities through his Making Lab and Poetic Science Fair initiatives. He has held artist residencies at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at CMU, and the Art + Technology Lab at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His collaboration with Christine Sun Kim was presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who is interested in art as research and critical practice. She has shown work internationally at events and venues including the World Economic Forum, Shenzhen Urbanism and Architecture Biennale, the New Museum, and MoMA PS1. Her work has been widely discussed in the media, from the New York Times and the BBC to TED and WIRED. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of Interactive Media at NYU Abu Dhabi and is co-founder of REFRESH, an inclusive and politically engaged collaborative platform at the intersection of art, science, and technology.
R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, and has lectured and taught worldwide on interactive sound and video performance. An active visual and musical collaborator, DuBois is the co-author of Jitter, a software suite for the real-time manipulation of matrix data developed by San Francisco-based software company Cycling’74. DuBois is the director of the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and is on the Board of Directors of the ISSUE Project Room.
De Angela L. Duff is Industry Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and an Associate Vice Provost at NYU. Teaching in higher education since 1999, she is passionate about educating students at the intersection of design, art, and technology. She was acknowledged for this passion by being awarded the NYU Tandon School's 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award. Duff holds an MFA in Studio Art (Photography) from MiCA, a BFA in Graphic Design from Georgia State University, and a BS in Textiles from Georgia Tech.
Minsun Eo is a professor of graphic design at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where he is a recipient of the Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching; previously, Eo was adjunct professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) Queens College. His New York-based design-research studio focuses on practices that create integrated knowledge, systems, and experiences for the art, technology, architecture, fashion, and education sectors. Eo holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in Visual Communication Design from Kookmin University, Seoul. Eo has worked at 2x4 New York under the guidance of Michael Rock (2013–15) and is a member of the Korean Society of Typography (KST).
Zachary Lieberman is an artist, researcher, educator, and hacker with a simple goal: he wants you surprised. He creates performances and installations that take human gesture as input and amplify it in different ways—making drawings come to life, imagining what the voice would look like, transforming silhouettes into music. He's been listed as one of Fast Company's Most Creative People, and his work has been awarded the Golden Nica from Ars Electronica and the Interactive Design of the Year award from Design Museum London. He creates artwork through writing software and is a co-creator of openFrameworks, an open-source C++ toolkit for creative coding. Lieberman is co-founder of the School for Poetic Computation, a school examining the lyrical possibilities of code, and is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Laboratory, where he directs the Future Sketches research group.
Rune Madsen is a designer, artist, and educator who explores code as a design material. As a co-founder of Design Systems International, a design studio that explores systems in graphic design and digital media, he specializes in non-trivial interfaces, brand systems, and custom design tools. He is the author of Programming Design Systems, a free online book that teaches a practical introduction to the new foundations of graphic design. Rune has previously worked for the New York Times, O’Reilly Media, and as an Assistant Arts Professor at New York University Shanghai. Rune holds a BA from the University of Copenhagen and a master's degree from NYU ITP.
Lauren Lee McCarthy is an Los Angeles-based artist examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living. She is the creator of p5.js and Co-Director of the Processing Foundation. Lauren's work has been exhibited internationally, at places such as The Barbican Centre, Ars Electronica, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Haus der elektronischen Künste, SIGGRAPH, Onassis Cultural Center, IDFA DocLab, and Seoul Museum of Art. She has received numerous honors including a Creative Capital Award, a Sundance Fellowship, an Eyebeam Residency, and grants from the Knight Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Rhizome. Lauren is Associate Professor at UCLA Design | Media Arts.
Allison Parrish is a computer programmer, poet, educator, and game designer whose teaching and practice address the unusual phenomena that blossom when language and computers meet, with a focus on artificial intelligence and computational creativity. She is Assistant Arts Professor at NYU ITP, where she earned her master's degree in 2008. Named “Best Maker of Poetry Bots” by The Village Voice in 2016, she is also the author of @Everyword: The Book (Instar, 2015), which collects the output of her popular long-term automated writing project that tweeted every word in the English language—attracting over 100,000 followers along the way. Her first full-length book of computer-generated poetry, Articulations, was published by Counterpath in 2018.
Phœnix Perry creates embodied games and installations. Her work brings people together to explore their impact on each other and the environment. As an advocate for women in game development, she founded the Code Liberation Foundation. Presently, she leads an MSc in Creative Computing at University of the Arts London's Creative Coding Institute. Since 1996, she has exhibited in a range of cultural venues and game events including Somerset House, Wellcome Collection, Lincoln Center, GDC, A Maze, and Indiecade. She owned Devotion Gallery in Brooklyn, NY from 2009–2014. Devotion generated dialogue between art, technology, and scientific research.
Casey Reas is a professor of Design Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is co-founder of the UCLA Arts Conditional Studio. Reas’ creative work builds upon concrete art, conceptual art, experimental animation, and drawing; his projects range from generative prints to urban-scale installations, solo projects in studio to collaborations with architects and musicians. With Ben Fry, Reas is renowned for his development of Processing, an open-source, flexible software sketchbook and language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts. Reas is also co-author of Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010), a non-technical introduction to the history and practice of software in the visual arts, and Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists (MIT Press, 2007/2014).
Daniel Shiffman is Associate Arts Professor at NYU ITP. In his YouTube channel, The Coding Train, he publishes tutorials with subjects ranging from the basics of programming languages to generative algorithms like physics simulation, computer vision, and data visualization. Shiffman is a director of the Processing Foundation and the author of Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction and The Nature of Code: Simulating Natural Systems with Processing, an open-source book about simulating natural phenomenon with code.
Kyuha (Q) Shim is a computational designer and researcher based in Pittsburgh and Seoul. He is Assistant Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is also the director of Type Lab. Prior to CMU, he had worked as a researcher at Jan van Eyck Academie and MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory, and had been awarded residencies and fellowships at Frans Masereel Centrum and Facebook Analog Research Lab. His work has been exhibited internationally, at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Museu Nacional da República; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; and ggg Gallery, Tokyo. He has also been featured in design festivals such as AGI Open, Beijing Design Week, and London Design Festival. Q is the editor of GRAPHIC #37: Introduction to Computation (Propaganda, 2016) and is working on a forthcoming book entitled Computational Making in Graphic Design.
Denmark-based, Hong Kong-born artist-researcher Winnie Soon is interested in the cultural implications of technologies, specifically concerning internet censorship, data politics, real-time processing/liveness, invisible infrastructure, and the culture of code practice. Her current research focuses on critical technical and feminist practice, and she is working on two forthcoming books entitled Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies (with Geoff Cox) and Fix My Code (with Cornelia Sollfrank). She is Assistant Professor at Aarhus University.
Tatsuo Sugimoto works across multiple fields, including information design, media art, and media studies. A member of the faculty in the Graduate School of Systems Design at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Sugimoto has participated in exhibitions such as Picture Book Museum and the Sapporo International Art Festival, and has won awards from the Japan Media Arts Festival and the Exploratory IT Human Resources Project. He is co-author of the textbook History of Media Technology and a co-translator of the Japanese editions of Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists and Generative Design: Visualize, Program, and Create with Processing.
Jer Thorp is an artist, writer, and educator from Vancouver, Canada, currently living in New York. Coming from a background in genetics, his digital art practice explores the many-folded boundaries between science, data, art, and culture. He is Adjunct Professor at NYU ITP and is the co-founder of The Office for Creative Research. Jer was the New York Times's first Data Artist-in-Residence, and in 2017 and 2018 served as the Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress. He is a National Geographic Explorer and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow. In 2015, Canadian Geographic named Jer one of Canada's Greatest Explorers.