Aaron Koblin  

Aaron Koblin

Aaron Koblin is an artist specializing in data visualization. His work takes social and infrastructural data and uses it to depict cultural trends and emergent patterns. Aaron’s work has been shown at international festivals including Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, OFFF, the Japan Media Arts Festival, and TED. He received the National Science foundation's first place award for science visualization and is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Currently, Aaron is Technology Lead of Google’s Creative Lab where he helped to launch Chrome Experiments, a website showcasing JavaScript work by designers from around the world.

MFA Design|Media Arts UCLA

 

 
       
       

CV

Google Creative Lab
Yahoo! Design Innovation Team
MIT SENSEable City Laboratory
Stanford Spatial History Lab
Center for Embedded Networked Sensing UCLA

Festivals/Awards

Transmediale 2010
TED 2007 2009 2010
FutureSonic Manchester 2009 2010
Cannes Lions 2010
One Show 2009
SIGGRAPH 2005 2006 2009
South by Southwest 2007 2009
Coachella 2008
Japan Media Arts Festival 2005 2006 2008
Ars Electronica 2006 2008
Zero1 SJ01 2008
Shanghai eArts 2007
iDat Singapore 2007
Microwave International Hong Kong 2007
NetSci 1st pl. 2007
Media Art Friesland 2007
Animpact Korea 2007
Boston Cyber Arts 2007
National Science Foundation SVC 1st pl. 2006
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2006
ElectroFringe 2006

Talks

Transmediale - Berlin
DLD - Munich
O'Reilly ETech - San Jose
WebbyConnect - Laguna Niguel
PICNIC - Amsterdam
Web 2.0 Summit - San Francisco
Social Technology Summit - Manchester
OFFF - Lisbon
Science and Technology Museum - Shanghai
MediaMatic - Amsterdam
CCA - San Francisco
Today's Art - Den Haag
Database Aesthetics - UCLA
Spacial History Planning - Stanford University
<tag> Information Aesthetics Symposium - Den Haag
Network Science Center - Indiana University
SEE - Wiesbaden
Transmedia - Syracuse Univeristy
Palomar 5 - Berlin

Mention

NPR
NY Times
WIRED
Adult Swim
Science Magazine
BBC
Discover
National Geographic TV
ABC News
CNET
Creativity
Art Lies
LA Times
Bright
Salon
Art Review
AD: Architectural Design
Sterotype
New Scientist
El País
Der Spiegle
SEED
GQ
American Scholar
MSNBC
The Economist
Fast Company

Selected Exhibitions

Design and the Elastic Mind MoMA New York
Decode Victoria and Albert Museum London
Data+Art PMCA Pasadena
Creativity and Cognition Berkeley Art Museum
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts San Francisco
Center of Contemporary Art and Media Art Lab Kiev
net.culture.space Vienna
Science and Technology Museum Shanghai
Golan Levin's InfoVis:Data Art Sacramento
Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial Gijon Spain
Apex Gallery New York
Lumen Eclipse Harvard Square
Victory Plaza Dallas
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center Los Angeles
Z33 Belgium
New Wight Gallery UCLA
Maryland Institute College of Art
Sesnon Gallery Santa Cruz
Projections on Lake Pasadena

Classes

UCLA - DESMA 3 - Game Design For the Web
UCLA - DESMA 156A - 3D Design of Virtual Form TA
UCLA - DESMA 495 - TA Practicum
Media Lab Prado Madrid - Visualizar
Eyebeam Visual Music collaborative

Publications

Other Clients

MIT Technology Review
JPL (NASA)
MIT - OLPC
TOOL NA
Santa Fe Institute
Doug Aitken
Christian Moeller
Lehmann Maupin Gallery
Morphosis Architects
Epitaph Records
RES Media Group
Tree-Axis, BSSP

Portfolio PDF

  

Updates:

08-05-10 - Gallery show at W+K

07-19-10 - Visual Music at Eyebeam along w/ Aaron Meyers

06-11-10 - Chelsea Art Museum: Data Poetics

06-10-10 - Hans Ulrich Obrist interview in DU

06-10-10 - Re:Group exhibition at Eyebeam

05-26-10 - Fast Company Most Creative People in Business

05-26-10 - Google IO Ignite

04-23-10 - BMW Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este

04-22-10 - Print Magazine New Visual Artist 2010

04-22-10 - Rhizome 7x7 at the New Museum

03-27-10 - NYC - Resistor show

03-19-10 - Talk with Max Mathews at GAFFTA

02-20-10 - Transpose show at GAFFTA

02-19-10 - Multiplex Transnational Amsterdam

02-17-10 - Stanford Arts talk

02-09-10 - TED Active

02-06-10 - Transmediale Award ceremony

01-24-10 - DLD Munich

01-07-10 - Harvard/Stanford Law cyber law course

01-07-10 - Arkitip No. 0053X

12-17-09 - SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery

12-08-09 - V&A Decode

11-21-09 - Palomar 5

11-12-09 - Visualizar '09

10-28-09 - Berkeley Art Museum - C&C

10-20-09 - Web 2.0 Summit

10-01-09 - NSF NY Hall of Science workshop

08-20-09 - Google Creative Sandbox Sydney

08-06-09 - SIGGRAPH DIY Media panel

07-23-09 - TEDGlobal with Scanners

07-19-09 - Beautiful Data in Stores

06-28-09 - Z33 Work Now exhibition Belgium

06-03-09 - Speaking at CAT Creativity and Technology

05-27-09 - Chrome Experiments at Google I/O

05-13-09 - Speaking at FutureSonic Manchester

05-07-09 - Ten Thousand Cents takes home One Show Pencil

05-07-09 - Presenting at OFFF Lisbon

04-26-09 - Processing.org Interview

04-18-09 - Presenting at SEE conference Wiesbaden

04-02-09 - Speaking at Google Creative Sandbox

03-30-09 - Speaking at Indiana University

03-18-09 - Chrome Experiments launched!

03-13-09 - South by Southwest Web Awards

03-11-09 - Launched Bicycle Built For Two Thousand

03-10-09 - Speaking at O'Reilly ETech

03-05-09 - Speaking at CCA

02-23-09 - Wired Flight Map

02-11-09 - Creativity 50

02-08-09 - House of Cards Video Nominated for Grammy

01-25-09 - Visualizations in SEED Magazine

01-24-09 - Data + Art Exhibition: PMCA

11-08-08 - SFMOMA: Art of Participation Catalog

10-23-08 - Speaking at WebbyConnect

10-13-08 - Exhibition Multiverso Torino

09-24-08 - Speaking at PICNIC

09-07-08 - Live Visuals for Bruckner Orchestra

09-04-08 - 10,000 Cents at Ars Electronica

07-14-08 - Radiohead Video/App released on Google!

06-17-08 - Digital Senses Kiev

06-16-08 - SJA Airport install prototyping

06-11-08 - CNET Interview

06-04-08 - ZERO1 SJ01 Future Films

05-29-08 - Flight Patterns added to the MoMA Collection

05-06-08 - Interpol video

04-30-08 - Gray Area San Francisco gallery show

05-18-08 - NYTE in Processing Exhibition

05-09-08 - OFFF Lisbon panel discussion

04-25-08 - Work on the big screens at Coachella

04-22-08 - Exhibition at Gray Area Gallery

04-22-08 - Work at Web 2.0 Blogtropolis Lounge

04-17-08 - Sheep Market at Media Art Lab in Kiev

04-01-08 - Art Lies magazine

03-18-08 - net.culture.space in Vienna

02-24-08 - Design and the Elastic Mind at MoMA (NY)

02-20-08 - WIRED

02-18-08 - MIT Spotlight

01-07-08 - Best Practice: The Pros on Flash

12-05-07 - iDAT Singapore opens

11-24-07 - Sheep Market in Processing Exhibiton

11-21-07 - Added gallery more prints for sale soon.

11-21-07 - NY Times Dot Earth article

11-19-07 - Pasadena Projections on Lake

11-13-07 - NPR interview

11-02-07 - Y! Work at DUX 2007

10-28-07 - InfoVis 2007 Art Exhibit installation

10-13-07 - Shanghai Science and Technology Museum

10-01-07 - IDEA Conference in NYC

09-17-07 - To the Netherlands for Today's Art and more

09-12-07 - Wired NextFest in LA
 
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