Golan Levin
Golan Levin is an artist, engineer, researcher and educator whose practice navigates the intricate intersections of machine code, visual culture and critical making. With over three decades of experience in technological research environments, including at the MIT Media Laboratory and Ars Electronica Futurelab, Levin's work merges the whimsical, the provocative and the sublime across divers mediums, including online platforms, installations and performance art.
Levin's creations employ responsive artifacts, virtual environments and media provocations to infuse digital technologies with creative twists that shed light on our relationship with machines and expand the possibilities of human action. By delving into themes like interactive gestural robotics, personal digital fabrication, nonverbal interaction aesthetics and information visualization as a means of critical inquiry, he pushes the boundaries of artistic expression and challenges participants to recognize their potential as creative agents.
Levin's extensive body of work has garnered recognition worldwide with exhibitions in Europe, America and Asia, including at major institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Whitney Biennial. As a professor of electronic art at Carnegie Mellon University, Levin is dedicated to reclaiming computation as a medium of personal expression, teaching studio courses in computer science, interactive art, generative form, critical making and audiovisual performance. He is also the co-author of Code as Creative Medium, a foundational text in the field of computational art education.
