Char Davies, Virtual Reality Trailblazer (Sloane Townsend)
Char Davies is one of the earlier pioneers of artistic virtual reality experiences. She began her career as a painter, but began exploring digital media and 3D computer rendering in the mid-1980’s, founding the 3D software company Softimage in 1987.… Continue Reading
VR Pioneer, Chris Milk – by Melissa VanDeventer
Chris Milk, innovator, immersive artist, director, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of the AR, VR, and XR production company Within (formerly Vrse). Through his work with Within (and even before), Milk has been a pioneering leader of… Continue Reading
Janet Echelman – Charina Paras
Janet Echelman is a sculptor famous for her large-scale installations. Interestingly, this was not her first career choice. Echelman initially set out to be a painter; but when she traveled to India doing exhibitions for the US Embassy, her painting… Continue Reading
Jen Lewin: by Andrew Evans
Jen Lewin drew inspiration as a child by looking out over Maui where she was born and seeing moving light and clouds. She started creating as a child in a digital program that allowed her to create art through programing.… Continue Reading
Kaho Abe–Katie Hall
Chris Crawford – Tyler Farlow
Chris Crawford is a computer game designer and writer who operated mainly in the 80s. He received a B.S. in Physics from the UC Davis and an M.S. in Physics from Missouri. He is best known for innovating the early… Continue Reading
Kate Hartman – By Justice Dunne
Kate Hartman is an artist, technologist, and educator whose work spans the fields of physical computing, wearable electronics, and conceptual art. She is the co-creator of Botanicalls, a system that lets thirsty plants place phone calls for human help, and… Continue Reading
Irene Posch – Katie Brooks
Irene Posch is an artist + designer currently based in Austria. She describes herself as “a researcher and artist with a background in media and computer science.” Through the pieces she creates, Irene is aiming to explore how technology can… Continue Reading
Lea Albaugh — Jordan Pollard
Lea Albaugh What major art/design movement is this artist a part of? I struggle between categorizing Lea Albaugh’s work as fitting more comfortably in the school of the abstract versus digital or electronic. What is the most essential part… Continue Reading
Sophie Kahn – by Danny Schmidt
Sophie Kahn is a contemporary sculptor based in Melbourne, Australia, with a background in Photography. Her work primarily focuses on the concept of the human body and it’s clash with technology; specifically, the ways in which technology (and 3D scanners) cannot… Continue Reading