10 Facts About Golan Levin

Golan Levin was born on 1972 and is an American new media artist, composer, performer and engineer interested in developing artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of reactive expression.

Golan Levin received a self-designed Bachelor's degree in Art and Design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994, and a Master's degree in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab in 2000, as a student in John Maeda's Aesthetics and Computation Group .

Between degrees, Golan Levin worked as an interface designer at Paul Allen's Interval Research Corporation, where he was introduced to the field of interactive new media art by Michael Naimark, Brenda Laurel, and Scott Snibbe, among others.

Golan Levin is currently Associate Professor of Electronic Time Based Art in the CMU School of Art, with courtesy appointments in the CMU School of Computer Science, School of Design, School of Architecture, and Entertainment Technology Center.

Since 2009, Golan Levin has held the position of Director of the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at CMU, an interdisciplinary research unit dedicated to supporting projects at the intersection of arts and technology.

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Golan Levin's artwork focuses on the design of systems for the creation, manipulation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general inquiry into formal languages of interactivity and of nonverbal communication in cybernetic systems.

Golan Levin led collaborations to develop Terrapattern, an open-ended tool to support visual query-by-example in satellite imagery, and Augmented Hand Series, a real-time interactive software system that presents playful, dreamlike, and uncanny transformations of its visitors' hands.

Golan Levin has exhibited, performed, and lectured widely in Europe, America and Asia.

Golan Levin's work has been shown at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Kitchen, the Neuberger Museum, and The Whitney Biennial, all in New York City; Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria; The Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taiwan; The NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, Japan; the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, Germany; and MoMA, among other venues.

Golan Levin's work combines equal measures of the whimsical, the provocative, and the sublime in a wide variety of online, installation and performance media.