Scott Snibbe

Scott Snibbe (born 1969 in New York City) is an interactive media artist. He often works with projector-based interactivity, where a computer-controlled projection onto the floor or ceiling changes in response to people moving across its surface. His first full-body interactive work "Boundary Functions" (1998), premiered at Ars Electronica 1998 [ Stocker & Schöpf, ed.: "Cyberarts 98: International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica. Springer-Verlag, 1998."] . In this floor-projected interactive artwork, people walk across a four-meter by four-meter floor. As they move, "Boundary Functions" uses a camera, computer and projector to draw lines between all of the people on the floor, forming a Voronoi Diagram. This diagram has particularly strong significance when drawn around people's bodies, surrounding each person with lines that outline his or her personal space - the space closer to that person than to anyone else. Snibbe states that this work "shows that personal space, though we call it our own, is only defined by others and changes without our control" [Scott Snibbe: " [http://www.sonaresearch.com/recentinstallations.htm Boundary Functions description at Sona Research] "] .

Snibbe received undergraduate and masters degrees in computer science and fine art from Brown University, where he studied with Dr. Andries van Dam. Snibbe studied abstract film at the Rhode Island School of Design with Amy Kravitz. After making several hand-drawn animated shorts, he turned to interactive art as his primary artistic medium.

Snibbe's work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (California), The Kitchen (New York), Eyebeam (New York), the Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel), the NTT InterCommunication Center (Tokyo, Japan) and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London). His work is also shown and collected by science museums, including the Exploratorium (San Francisco, CA), the New York Hall of Science (Queens, NY), the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (Paris, France), and the Phaeno Science Center (Germany).

He has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation the National Endowment for the Arts, National Video Resources and awards from the Prix Ars Electronica Festival, the Stuttgart Trickfilm-Festival, the Black Mariah Film Festival, and the Student Academy Awards.

Snibbe has taught media art at UC Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute. He worked as a Computer Scientist at Adobe Systems from 1994-1996, where he contributed to Adobe After Effects. He was an employee at Interval Research from 1996-2000 where he worked on Computer Vision, Computer Graphics and Haptics research projects. Snibbe's studio is in San Francisco, California, where he lives and works.

References

ources

* Paul, Christiane (2003). "Digital Art" (World of Art series). London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-20367-9.
* Wilson, Steve Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology ISBN 0-262-23209-X
* Bullivant, Lucy (2006). Responsive Environments: architecture, art and design (V&A Contemporaries). London:Victoria and Albert Museum. ISBN 1-85177-481-5.
* Fiona Whitton, Tom Leeser, Christiane Paul (2005). Visceral Cinema: Chien. Los Angeles: Telic. ASIN: B000BFHTOE.
* "Better Living through Chemistry", San Francisco Examiner, November 8, 2001.
* [http://www.kqed.org/arts/people/spark/profile.jsp?id=4844 KQED TV documentary on Scott Snibbe, original airdate: April 2005]
* [http://www.snibbe.com/ Artist's website]

ee also

* Interactive art
* Electronic art
* Computer art
* Software art
* Abstract film

External links

* [http://www.kqed.org/arts/people/spark/profile.jsp?id=4844 KQED TV documentary on Scott Snibbe, original airdate: April 2005]
* [http://www.snibbe.com/ Artist's website]