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Aaron Koblin

Photo by Christine Tatasciore	Aaron Koblin is an 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


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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 One Show 2009 SIGGRAPH 2005 2006 2009 FutureSonic Manchester 2009 Coachella 2008 Ars Electronica 2006 2008 Zero1 SJ01 2008 Shanghai eArts 2007 iDat Singapore 2007 Microwave International Hong Kong 2007 South by Southwest 2007 2009 NetSci 1st pl. 2007 Media Art Friesland 2007 Animpact Korea 2007 Boston Cyber Arts 2007 National Science Foundation SVC 1st pl. 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival 2005 2006 2008 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 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 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 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 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 Publications O'Reilly - Beautiful Data SFMOMA:Art of Participation The New York Talk Exchange Built with Processing Best Practice: The Pros on Adobe Flash 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	Updates: 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 - 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 - Wired NextFest in LA



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