Aaron Koblin  

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 examine cultural trends and emergent patterns. Aaron’s work has been shown at international festivals including Ars Electronica, Shanghai eArts, OFFF, Today's Art, 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. As Technology Lead of Google’s Creative Lab in San Francisco, Aaron helped to launch Chrome Experiments, a website showcasing JavaScript work from designers 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

One Show 2009
FutureSonic Manchester 2009
Coachella 2008
Ars Electronica 2006 2008
Zero1 SJ01 2008
Shanghai eArts 2007
iDat Singapore 2007
Microwave International Hong Kong 2007
TED 2007
South by Southwest 2007 2009
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 2008
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2006
ElectroFringe 2006

Talks

O'Reilly ETech - San Jose
WebbyConnect - Laguna Niguel
PICNIC - Amsterdam
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

Mention

NPR
NY Times
WIRED
Adult Swim
Science Magazine
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

Exhibitions

Design and the Elastic Mind MoMA New York
Data+Art PMCA Pasadena
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

Publications

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:

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 a 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 - 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 - Wired NextFest in LA
 
     

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