Aaron Koblin (born January 14, 1982) is an American digital media artist and entrepreneur best known for his use of data visualization and his work in crowdsourcing, virtual reality, and interactive film. He is co-founder and president of virtual reality company Within (formerly Vrse[1]), founded with Chris Milk. The company created the popular virtual reality fitness app Supernatural, which was acquired by Meta in 2023.[2] Formerly he created and lead the Data Arts Team at Google in San Francisco, California from 2008 to 2015.[3]
Aaron Koblin | |
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 Aaron Koblin in 2013 | |
| Born | January 14, 1982 Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Known for | Digital art |
Biography
editKoblin received his MFA from UCLA's Design | Media Arts MFA program and BA from UC Santa Cruz. He is on the advisory board for the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture, and was previously on the board of the non-profit Gray Area Foundation For The Arts GAFFTA in San Francisco. He was the Abramowitz Artist in Residence at MIT in 2010 and the Annenberg Innovator in residence at USC in 2013.[citation needed][4]
Koblin's artworks are part of the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He has presented at TED, and The World Economic Forum, and his work has been shown at international festivals including Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, and the Japan Media Arts Festival. In 2006, his Flight Patterns project received the National Science Foundation's first place award for science visualization.[5] In 2009, he was named to Creativity Magazine's Creativity 50,[6] in 2010 he was one of Esquire Magazine's Best and Brightest and Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business,[7] and in 2011 was one of Forbes magazine's 30 under 30.[8] Koblin was an Eyebeam exhibiting artist.[9][10]
In 2014, Koblin was awarded the National Design Award for Interactive Design.[11]
Works
edit- The Johnny Cash Project, a music video for Johnny Cash[12]
- This Exquisite Forest, displayed 2012–2013 at Tate Modern[13]
- Radiohead's House of Cards music video with James Frost[14]
- The Wilderness Downtown, for Arcade Fire's We Used to Wait[15]
- Three Dreams of Black, for "Black" on Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi's album Rome[16]
References
edit- ^ Watercutter, Angela (2016-06-16). "The VR company Vrse is changing its name to Within, and about to spend $12.56 million of VC money". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ "Meta Completes Acquisition of VR Fitness Company Within". CNET. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
- ^ Hoffman, Jascha (2012). "Aaron Koblin Q&A: The data visualizer". Nature. 486 (7401): 33. doi:10.1038/486033a.
- ^ senseable.mit.edu https://senseable.mit.edu/bits/dl/fp/FloatingPixels-PressRelease.pdf.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "2006 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners". September 2006. Retrieved 2009-04-08.
- ^ "The 2009 Creativity 50: Aaron Koblin". Creativity Magazine; Crain Communications Group. February 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-08.
- ^ "The 100 Most Creative People in Business: Aaron Koblin". Fast Company. Dec 2010.
- ^ Adams, Susan (Dec 2011). "Forbes 30 under 30: Art & Design". Archived from the original on January 3, 2012. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
- ^ "Aaron Koblin | eyebeam.org". www.eyebeam.org. Archived from the original on 2016-02-05. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
- ^ "Visual Music: Aaron Koblin and Meyers' Visual Compositions, Eyebeam Call Due Today - cdm createdigitalmusic". cdm createdigitalmusic. 21 May 2010. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
- ^ "2014 National Design Award Winners | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum". Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. 2014-05-15. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ "THE JOHNNY CASH PROJECT". thejohnnycashproject.com. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ "This Exquisite Forest". exquisiteforest.com. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ Radiohead (2008-07-13), Radiohead - House of Cards, archived from the original on 2021-12-20, retrieved 2019-06-11
- ^ "Arcade Fire - The Wildnerss Downtown". Chrome Experiments. Archived from the original on 2012-01-01. Retrieved 2010-08-31.
- ^ "ROME "3 Dreams of Black"". ROME “3 Dreams of Black”. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
