12. Aaron Koblin is an artist specializing in data and digital technologies.
Aaron's work takes real-world and community generated data and uses it to reflect on
cultural trends and the changing relationship between humans and technology. His
projects have been shown at international festivals including Ars
Electronica, SIGGRAPH, OFFF, the Japan Media Arts Festival, and TED. He received the
National Science foundation's first place award for science visualization and is part of the
permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, and the
Centre Pompidou in Paris. Two of his music video collaborations have been Grammy
nominated. He received his MFA in Design|Media Arts from UCLA. In 2010 Aaron was
the Abramowitz Artist in Residence at MIT and currently leads the Data Arts Team in
Google’s Creative Lab.