New Media Art

Founder and director of the Cultural Analytics Lab, specializing in computational analysis of images and video. Commissioned by Google, New York Public Library, and MoMA for visualizations of cultural datasets.

Grant David Taylor is an Associate Professor of Art History at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania, USA. There he is a member of the Art and Art History Department. He is best known for his work on the history of early computer art. Although his remarkable doctoral thesis was defended already in the year 2005 (and became available as a pdf document on the Internet), it appeared as an easily accessible book only in 2014. This book is likely to become a standard reference for a thorough and well documented history of the early years of algorithmic (“computer”) art.

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (; German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈbɛnjamiːn] ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, Jewish mysticism, and Neo-Kantianism, Benjamin made enduring and influential contributions to aesthetic theory, literary criticism, and historical materialism. He was associated with the Frankfurt School, and also maintained formative friendships with thinkers such as playwright Bertolt Brecht and Kabbalah scholar Gershom Scholem. He was also related to German political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt through her first marriage to Benjamin's cousin Günther Anders. Among Benjamin's best known works are the essays "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935), and "Theses on the Philosophy of History" (1940). His major work as a literary critic included essays on Baudelaire, Goethe, Kafka, Kraus, Leskov, Proust, Walser, and translation theory. He also made major translations into German of the Tableaux Parisiens section of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal and parts of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. In 1940, at the age of 48, Benjamin died by suicide at Portbou on the French–Spanish border while attempting to escape from the invading Wehrmacht. Though popular acclaim eluded him during his life, the decades following his death won his work posthumous renown.

Theorist of media arts and politics, and a respected scholar in the history and theory of alternative cinemas. Best known for his book Expanded Cinema, credited with legitimizing computer art and media arts. Pioneering work in the media democracy movement.

Creative Technologist & New Media Artist. Featured in @google’s Black Women Techmakers Campaign. Bio art, black futures, code education. Toronto & New York