Todd Blair
Hybrid Arts
2200 Adeline Street, Suite 200
Oakland, CA 94607
U.S.A.
Email: todd@hybridarts.org |
Todd Blair has worked in multiple capacities on a wide range of
creative projectsódesigning, fabricating, managing and implementing
technology-based interactive artworks and exhibitions for nearly 20
years. The projects have included a diverse range of public art
projects, museum projects, performances, installations, workshops,
festivals as well as his own workóall with a special focus on the
convergence of art, technology, and interactive media emerging genres
and cross-disciplinary art practices. Most recently he was awarded a
public art commission for the City of Oakland California and he is
developing a responsive sculpture to visualize the energy of the
estuarine tidal flow. He also oversaw the acquisition, design and
fabrication of 40 innovative artworks for phÊno, a science center
designed by Zaha Hadid, which opened in November 2005 in Wolfsburg,
Germany. As an Adjunct Professor in the Media Arts and Sculpture
programs at the California College of Arts he teaches several studio
courses in emerging arts and technology-mediated art. In addition he
has served as a creative consultant/fabricator for numerous North
American and European artists including Lynn Hershmann, Chico
McMurtrie, Survival Research Labs, Gordon Monahan, Jim Whiting, Laura
Kikauka and Just Merritt to name a few. He was also the Program
Director and part of the curatorial team for "Rearview mirror to
reality" as part of the 1996 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz Austria.
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