AARON KOBLIN

Aaron Koblin is an artist and designer specializing in data and digital technologies. His work takes real-world and community generated data and uses it to reflect on cultural trends and the changing relationship between humans and the systems they create. Koblin finds art through the unlikely confluence of massive data sets and personal intimacy. His work ranges from animating the paths of every North American airline flight, to using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform to pay workers to “draw a sheep facing left,” which were then placed in “The Sheep Market.” He has worked in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His projects have been shown at international festivals including TED, Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, OFFF and the Japan Media Arts Festival. He received the National Science Foundation's first place award for science visualization and two of his music video collaborations have been Grammy nominated.