Golan Levin

Golan Levin

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nationality = American
field = interactive art, programming, generative art, digital art, net art
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Golan Levin (born 1972) is an American new media artist, composer, performer and engineer interested in developing artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of reactive expression.

Biography

Levin received a self-designed Bachelor's degree in Art and Design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994, and a Master's degree in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab in 2000, as a student in John Maeda's Aesthetics and Computation Group (ACG). [ [http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/alumni.html acg :: alumni ] ] Between degrees, Levin worked as an interface designer at Paul Allen's Interval Research Corporation, where he was introduced to the field of interactive new media art by Michael Naimark, Brenda Laurel, and Scott Snibbe, among others.

After his graduate work at MIT, Levin taught computational design in various schools in New York City, including Columbia University, Cooper Union, and Parsons School of Design before accepting a position at Carnegie Mellon University in 2004. Levin is currently Associate Professor of Electronic Time Based Art in the CMU School of Art [ [http://artserver.cfa.cmu.edu/facultylist.jsp?Page=107&Section=106] ] , with courtesy appointments in the School of Computer Science and the School of Design.

Since 2002, Levin and Zachary Lieberman have collaborated on a variety of projects together, using the name Tmema to represent their collective work.

Work

Golan Levin's artwork focuses on the design of systems for the creation, manipulation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general inquiry into formal languages of interactivity and of nonverbal communication in cybernetic systems. Through performances, digital artifacts, and virtual environments, often created with a variety of collaborators, Levin applies creative twists to digital technologies that highlight our relationship with machines, make visible our ways of interacting with each other, and explore the intersection of abstract communication and interactivity.

Levin has exhibited, performed, and lectured widely in Europe, America and Asia. His work has been shown at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Kitchen, the Neuberger Museum, and The Whitney Biennial, all in New York; Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria [http://www.aec.at/en/mainSearch/test.asp?text1=Golan%20Levin#] ; The Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taiwan; The NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, Japan; and the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, Germany, among other venues. His funding credits include grants from Creative Capital, The New York State Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Rockefeller MAP Fund, The Greenwall Foundation, the Langlois Foundation, and the Arts Council England. His work is represented by Bitforms Gallery New York. [ [http://www.bitforms.com bitforms gallery web site - home ] ]

Projects

Levin's work combines equal measures of the whimsical, the provocative, and the sublime in a wide variety of online, installation and performance media.
* "Audiovisual Environment Suite" (2000) [ [http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/golan/aves/ Audiovisual Environment Suite (AVES) ] ] , interactive software, granted an Award of Distinction in the Prix Ars Electronica (Interactive Art category).
* "Scribble" (2000) [ [http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/golan/scribble/ Scribble ] ] , Audiovisual Environment Suite's accompanying audiovisual performance.
* "The Secret Lives of Numbers" (2002) [ [http://www.turbulence.org/Works/nums/ The Secret Lives Of Numbers ] ] , an interactive information visualization about the "popularity" of numbers on the World Wide Web, granted an Award of Distinction in the Prix Ars Electronica (Net Art category).
* "Dialtones: A Telesymphony" (2001) [ [http://www.flong.com/telesymphony/index.html Dialtones (A Telesymphony) - Interactive Art by Golan Levin and Collaborators ] ] , a concert whose sounds are wholly performed through the carefully choreographed dialing and ringing of the audience's own mobile phones.
* "Re:MARK" (2002) [ [http://www.flong.com/remark/index.html Re:MARK - Interactive Art by Golan Levin and Collaborators ] ]
* "Messa di Voce" (2003) [ [http://www.tmema.org/messa/ Messa Text ] ] , developed in collaboration with Zachary Lieberman
* "The Manual Input Sessions" (2004) [ [http://www.tmema.org/mis/ MANUAL INPUT SESSIONS - TMEMA 2004-2006 ] ] , developed in collaboration with Zachary Lieberman
* "Scrapple" (2005)
* "Ursonography" (2005)
* "The Dumpster" (2006) [ [http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/thedumpster/dumpster.shtml] ,] interactive information visualization.

Levin's most recent work centers around interactive robotics, machine vision, and the theme of gaze as a primary new mode for human-machine communication. [ [http://www.bitforms.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=91#id=26&num=1 bitforms gallery web site - Golan Levin ] ]

References

Further reading

* Bruce Wands, "Art of the Digital Age", Thames & Hudson, 2006. ISBN 0500238170.
* Mark Tribe and Reena Jana, "New Media Art", Taschen, 2006. ISBN 3822830410.
* Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito, "At the Edge of Art", Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500238227.

External links

* [http://www.flong.com/ Levin's website]
* [http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/bvs/manovich.htm Article on "The Dumpster" by Lev Manovich]
* [http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=13008&int_modo=1 Artdaily.org article on Messa di Voce]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/arts/design/28rhiz.html?_r=1&oref=slogin New York Times review of Rhizome ArtBase 101]


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