Aaron Koblin
Day in The Life
As a grad student I had the resources, support and time to do what I needed to do. I was looking for an environment in which I would be exposed to many different forms of artistic and intellectual stimulation. Art school seemed cool, but at UCLA I worked with people across disciplines—people at the national science foundation, computer science students, engineers—and I had access to professors who changed my life. –Aaron Koblin, M.F.A. ’06, Design Media Arts
At 33, Aaron Koblin has already received numerous accolades: a National Design Award, an Emmy, a national Science Foundation award, two Grammy nominations and numerous honors for pioneering new ways to understand and experience the data that defines our world. Having founded and led Google Creative Labs’ Data Arts Team for the past seven years, he is now beginning an as yet unwritten chapter of his life.
As cofounder and chief technology officer of a new venture, Vrse, he will lead a collective of artists, technicians, thinkers and innovators striving to create the world’s best experiential media. Aarons goal? To explore how technology can make us more human; how new interfaces can bring us closer; how, through new modes of storytelling, we can stimulate more empathy, greater engagement and boundless delight.
Links:
http://www.unnumberedsparks.com
http://www.exquisiteforest.com
http://www.thesinglelanesuperhighway.com