Aaron Koblin

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American digital media artist

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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), founded with Chris Milk. The company created the popular virtual reality fitness app Supernatural, which was acquired by Meta in 2023. Formerly he created and lead the Data Arts Team at Google in San Francisco, California from 2008 to 2015.

Biography

Koblin 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.

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.{{cite web | url=https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108017 | title=2006 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners | date=September 2006 | access-date=2009-04-08 | url=http://creativity-online.com/?action=news:article&newsId=134508&sectionId=creativity_50 | title=The 2009 Creativity 50: Aaron Koblin | publisher=Creativity Magazine; Crain Communications Group | date=February 2009 | access-date=2009-04-08 | url=http://www.fastcompany.com/100/2010/23/aaron-koblin/ | title=The 100 Most Creative People in Business: Aaron Koblin | publisher=Fast Company | date=Dec 2010 | url=https://www.forbes.com/pictures/mkl45ffim/aaron-koblin-creative-director-data-arts-team-google-29/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120103152520/http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mkl45ffim/aaron-koblin-creative-director-data-arts-team-google-29/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 3, 2012 | title=Forbes 30 under 30: Art & Design | date=Dec 2011 | access-date=2011-12-19 | first=Susan | last=Adams

In 2014, Koblin was awarded the National Design Award for Interactive Design.

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References

References

  1. 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".
  2. "Meta Completes Acquisition of VR Fitness Company Within".
  3. (2012). "Aaron Koblin Q&A: The data visualizer". Nature.
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  5. "Aaron Koblin {{!}} eyebeam.org".
  6. (21 May 2010). "Visual Music: Aaron Koblin and Meyers' Visual Compositions, Eyebeam Call Due Today - cdm createdigitalmusic".
  7. (2014-05-15). "2014 National Design Award Winners {{!}} Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum".
  8. "THE JOHNNY CASH PROJECT".
  9. "This Exquisite Forest".
  10. Radiohead. (2008-07-13). "Radiohead - House of Cards".
  11. "Arcade Fire - The Wildnerss Downtown".
  12. "ROME "3 Dreams of Black"".

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