Aaron Koblin  

Aaron Koblin

Aaron Koblin is an Artist|Designer|Researcher focused on creating and visualizing human systems.

Currently working out of San Francisco, California, Aaron creates software and architectures to transform social and infrastructural data into artwork. Koblin's work has been shown internationally and is part of the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

MFA Design|Media Arts UCLA

 

 
       
       
Research
  
Updates:

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

Festivals/Awards

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

Talks

OFFF - Lisbon
Science and Technology Museum - Shanghai
MediaMatic - Amsterdam
Today's Art - Den Haag
Database Aesthetics - UCLA
Spacial History Planning - Stanford University
<tag> Information Aesthetics Symposium - Den Haag
Transmedia - Syracuse Univeristy

Mention

NPR
NY Times
WIRED
Adult Swim
Science Magazine
Discover
Art Lies
ABC News
CNET
Bright
Salon
Art Review
AD: Architectural Design
Sterotype
New Scientist
GQ Mexico
El País
Der Spiegle

Exhibitions

Design and the Elastic Mind MoMA New York
Gray Area Gallery 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
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

Publications

The New York Talk Exchange
Built with Processing
Best Practice: The Pros on Adobe Flash (Chapter 8)

Other Projects

How Do I Say This?
(MTVu & Cisco Systems)

Other Clients

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

Portfolio PDF

 

10-13-08 - 10,000 Cents at Ars Electronica

10-13-08 - Exhibition Multiverso Torino

09-24-08 - Speaking at PICNIC

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 Collections

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 - Work up in Pasadena

11-13-07 - On NPR today

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

10-28-07 - InfoVis 2007 Art Exhibit installation

10-13-07 - Installation: 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 - Setting up for NextFest in LA
 
     

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