Artists, Scientists, Researchers, Inventors, Organizations, Festivals, Exhibitions, and conceptual and technical reading sources.
The names and websites listed below are from artists/inventors who have situated themselves more in the physical.
Still, you will also find links to conceptual artists, installation artists, video artists, environmentalists, projection-based works, virtual artists, dance and technology artists, sound artists, theorists, scientists, and researchers who have figured prominently in the field of digital and interactive art installation, bioart and invention.
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Laurie Anderson performer, new media, robotics, sound
laurieanderson.com/
Lois Andison mechanical works dealing with the body and automation
loisandison.com
Suzanne Anker, author and imagery involving gene-culture, rapid prototyping
suzanneanker.com
Dr. Irina Aristarkhova feminist theory & aesthetics, technology, embodiment
personal.psu.edu
Roy Ascott, artist and theorist in the technologies of consciousness
Alice Aycock’s large-scale kinetic installation focused on mythic themes
aaycock.com
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Gregory Barsamian animated sculpture stroboscopic effects
gregorybarsamian.com
Laura Beloff
saunalahti.com
Maurice Benayoun
benayoun.com
Nick Baginsky; Sculpture robots and autonomous systems
baginsky.com
Johannes Birringer telematic dance performance
ruf.rice.edu
Marc Bohlen robotics installation and social commentary
realtechsupport.org/
Cynthia Breazeal
animated robotic characters
Sheldon Brown algorithmic sculptures, virtual environments
Sheldon-brown.com
Diana Burgoyne relationship between society, technology, and environment
eciad.ca
Annick Bureaud new media art critic and theorist
olats.org
Nao Bustamante video performance
hemi.nyu.html
Doug Buis kinetic and interactive installations, environmental concerns
babel.massart.edu
Dora Budor
sculptures and interactive installations inspired by cinematic metaverse and scientific research
Lee Bul
leebul.com
Jack Burnham, writer and theorist on interactive art404
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France Cadet robotics, a life, autonomy
Cadet.fr.html
Mariela Cadiz, video addict working with electronic body & memory
www.banquete.org/calarts
Alexander Calder mobiles and stabiles
calder.org
Remo Campaniano robotics and telecommunications
Jim Campbell, interactive video and projection installations
jimcampbell.tv/
Rejane Cantoni interactive virtual reality environments
op-era.com
Janet Cardiff and George Miller sound artists VR, AR narratives
http://www.tate.uk
Vinton Cerf
American Internet pioneer recognized as one of “the fathers of the Internet” and founding trustee of Interspecies. IO.
Kent Clelland interactive composition
banquete.org.com
Mel Chin’s multi-disciplinary and collaborative works conjoin cross-cultural aesthetics with complex ideas.
http://melchin.org/
Chris Csikszentmihalyi electronic installation critiquing science
/edgyproduct.org
Harold Cohen
Carlos Corpa y Ana Mara Garcia Serrano robotic painting machines
carloscorpa.net
Luc Courchesne experimental video installation
https://vimeo.com/courchesne/
Rachel Clarke digital and traditional media in drawings, video, and installation
rachelclarke.net/
Jody Culkin physical computing
parsons.edu
Merce Cunningham was a pioneer dance and technology choreographer
merce.org
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Charlotte Davies artist focused on virtual environments
immersence.org
Joe Davis bio artist
thegatesofparadise.com
Donald Day street plastic
well.com
Ernestine Daubner, art historian and cultural theorist
ciac.ca
Joseph DeLappe installation, fetishism, interaction
http://www.unr.edu/art/delappe.htm
Dead Chickens Mechanical creatures.
deadchickens.com
Manuel De Landa: on nonlinear dynamics, artificial intelligence, and self-organization
delanda.com
Maywa Denki theatrical robotics and experimental music
maywadenki.com
Beatrice DeCosta social robotics, biopolitics and the politics of surveillance
beatrizdacosta.net
Wim Delvoye digestive system simulation
cloaca.be
Paul DeMarinis sound and the computer installations, interactive electronic inventions
well.com
Federico Diaz Interactive installations
fcca.com
Peter Dittmer language-based computer interaction
artnews.info
Jason Ditmars electronic interactive sculptures neon
jditmars.net
Kelly Dobson speech recognition language of the machines
mit.edu
Jack Dollhausen machines that respond to change
wsu.edu
Margaret Dolinsky, virtual reality artist and educator
evl.edu/dolinsky
Ricardo Dominquez hacktivist and performer
thing.net
Doo Sung Yoo, Robotic art, video, installation, sound, bio art
https://doosungyoo.com
Heri Dono (Indonesia) Cinematic sculpture installation inspired by Indonesian culture
Alan Dorin generative artwork
csse.monash.edu
Tony Dove interactive video
tonidove.com/
Scott Draves artificial life works evolution
hifidreams.com
Erwin Driessen and Maria Verstappen poetic conceptual art, emergent processes of growth and form
xs4all.nl
John Dunn Artist-musician
geneticmusic.com
Kitsou Dubois experimental environment of altered gravity conditions/o:p>
spacearts.info
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Doug Easterly conceptually based robotic and interactive works
swamp.nu
David Eckard performance and kinetic sculpture
davideckard.com/
Electronic Disturbance Theatre
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
Sharon Engelstein’s massive inflatable forms and sculpture
sharonengelstein.com/
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Isabel Farnsworth’s kinetic sculpture installation
ifarnsworth.com
Jurgen Faust video installation
jfaust.com/
Jeff Federson
Ken Feingold robotic artificially intelligent talking heads and installations
kenfeingold.com
Mary Flanagan networked and computer-based works, gaming technology
maryflanagan.com
Monika Fleischmann’s identity changed in media culture.
mediamente.com
Larnie Fox kinetic sculpture, windmills, ornithopters
infoflow.com
Masaki Fujihata
fujihata.jp/
Noriyuki Fujimura field between interactive art and public space
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Naum Gabo pioneer constructivism
Peter Gabriel
Musician and founding trustee of Interspecies.IO
https://petergabriel.com/
Ulrike Gabriel emersion, robotics, virtual spaces
medienkunstnetz.gabriel/biography
Kit Galloway & Sherrie Rabinowitz Telematic art video environments
ecafe.com
Author Ganson’s kinetic sculpture
arthurganson.com
Christy Georg Kinetic sound sculpture and performances
http://www.christygeorg.com/
Dr. Neil Gershenfeld
Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms and founding trustee of Interspecies.io
http://ng.cba.mit.edu/
Nicholas Gessler:
Brian Goggin’s poetic site-specific works many involve time and light
metaphorm.org
Andy Gracie robotic installations that involve living systems
http://www.hostprods.net
Ken Gregory New Hybrid Soundscapes
http://www.cheapmeat.net/
Maties Groebel’s robot-assisted paintings involve cultural memory
http://www.eyewithwings.net
Jonah Brucker-Cohen custom interfaces for the web
coin-operated.com
Ken Goldberg Telematic performances
http://www.ieor.berkeley.com
Trademark Gunderson robotic art, mashup music, installations
http://trademarkg.com/
Seth Cluett architectural sound and light installation
onelonelypixel.or
Brian Gustafson empathy through interactive devices
bgustafson.net
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Hans Haacke, pioneer of the critiques of social institutions, kinetics, and process
mitpress.mit.edu
Ian Haig Fleshbot, unique and hilarious interfaces
ianhaig.net
Jennifer Hall interactive robotic installations
David Halsell’s interactive installations are concerned with body and biology
Georg Hartung kinetic art installation
Mona Hatoum sculpture installation video
Tim Hawkinson large scale sound installations
Michael Hayden Architectonic scaled sculptures
Katherine Hayles Research into virtual Bodies in Cybernetics
Barney Haynes symbiont, co-dependency, interactive installation
Jean-Pierre H≥bert algorithmic art robotics
Matt Heckert Mechanical sound orchestras and menacing machines
Agnus Hegedus interactive installation
Nigel Helyer Immersive sculpture and sound art
Paulo Henrique communications technologies and dance
Garnet Hertz reanimating insects
Craig Hickman physical computing
Gary Hill’s pioneering video installation
Christoph Hildebrand Neon installations
Rania Ho mobile robotic kitchen appliances
Michael Hirchner wind-powered kinetic sculpture
Marla Hlady’s sound and kinetic works
Tiffany Holmes large-scale interactive installations
Carsten Hoeller
Hobjin techno parasites
Perry Hoberman, installation artist defines unique and humorous interfaces
Rebecca Horn large-scale conceptually based kinetic and sound works
Jenny Holzer language-based installations involving LEDs and other mediums
Human product psycho morphic mutant theatre
Tim Hunkin’s automata and kinetic sculpture
makezine.comhunkins-giant-automat
Shih Chieh Huang inflatable technological gardens
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Tom Igoe design for human-machine interfaces networked art
Edward Ihnatowicz, creator of Senster interactive robot
Hiroshi Ishii tangible media group MIT
Troy Innocent a life works, generative art
annapappasgallery.com/troy-innocent
Institute for Applied Autonomy
http://www.appliedautonomy.com
Toshio Iwai experimental animation and projections
Milena Iossifova
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Will Jackson kinetic and interactive sculpture
Jim Jenkins, kinetic sculptor and editor of Kinetic Kinetic Recent Kinetic Art.
Pamela Jennings explores issues of identity
Franz John large-scale sound and web-based installation dealing with earth processes
Gary Justis Kinetic sculpture and installation
Natalie Jeremijenko biotech installations/mechatronic
Paul Ramirez Jonas Automaton sound sculpture
Jocelyn Robert sound and video environments
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Eduardo Kac Telematics, biological art, robotics, and conceptual installations
Ned Kahn kinetic and interactive
Hachiya Kazuhiko telematic and web works, immersion
Istvan Kantor action based media
Kerr (New Zealand) new media web, sound, film, video, and installation
Martin Kersels interactive, electronic sculpture installation, sound works
miandn.com/artists/martin-kersels
Zerek Kempf Sculptural interactive works inspired situationist art
Robert Kinoshita designer of Robby the Robot and The Robot B9 from Lost In Space
Yves Amu Klein interactive robotics utilizing neural networks for control
Myron Krueger Pioneer artificial reality to examine
Tammy Knipp mixed-media collage
Piotr Kowalski, architect, mathematician, biophysicist and town-planner
csw.art.pl/new/2000/kowalski_e
Richie Kuhaupt & Geoffrey Drake-Brockman Australia digital mirror, figuration
Ryota Kuwakubo
Heidi Kumao cinema machines for intimate installations
Machiko Kusahara media artist theorist Japan
http://www.f.waseda.jp/kusahara/aboutme.html
Hachiya Kazuhiko telematic installations
http://www.petworks.co.jp/~hachiya/works/index.html
Daniela Kutschat interactive virtual reality works
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Dr. Miu Ling Lam is a media artist and researcher of robotics, interactive media, and bioinformatics
http://www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/profile/MIU.LAM
Brenda Laurel computer interface design/theatre
http://www.tauzero.com/Brenda_Laurel/
Barbara Layne wearable computing
http://studio-arts.concordia.ca/progra/fibres/site.swf
Jorge La Ferla video artist theoretician, writer, curator
Diane Landry’s multidisciplinary sound and kinetic works
Sean Langlais sound sculptor
http://www.interreview.org/wetmore
Eve Andree Laramee Installation, Sculpture, Performance about art, science nature
Chris Larson kinetics, installations
Richard Lerman, sound artist and installations
Vincent Leclerc wearable instruments
Shawn Lawson
Lynn Hershman Lesson conceptual-based installations, film, early interactive, digital prints
George Legrady, conceptual artist working with language
Jen Lewin boundaries relationship, physical/analog & digital
Simon Lewandowski electronics kits to talk to dead people
http://www.lewandowski.lowtech.org
Philom≤ne Longpr interactive video and installations. Robotics
Margot Lovejoy installation artist/author
Len Lye’s kinetic sculpture
Paul Etienne Lincoln
Bernie Lubell kinetics and interactive installation
Diane Ludin converging the body and information
Kristen Lucas humorous spoofs on high technology
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Chico MacMurtrie’s large scales robotic installation often involves sound
John Marshal rapid prototyped sound works, the intersection of design, art & RP technologies
Jean-Marc Matos live multimedia performances that integrate technology into dance/o:p>
Jon McCormack generative modeling for electronic media environments
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy sound works, structures of thought through repetition
Turi McKinley interactive installation, mobiles:p>
Steve Mann cyborg research
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann
Michael Mateas art and artificial intelligence
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~mateas
Willy Le Maitre & Eric Rosenzweig A life generative video sculpture
Guy Marsden Audio electronic sculpture and kinetics as well as engineering services, green tech
Frank Malina Kinetic painting/o:p>
Feng Mengbo interactive virtual worlds utilizing game engines
Agnes Meyer-Brandis
Daniel Miller interactive systems, kinetic sculpture
Ricardo Miranda Zuniga’s tactical public intervention
Michael Mittelman Interactive video installation
Hans Morovic Author theorist about the emergence of the machine and robotic intelligence
Leonel Moura painting robots, architecture, bio-based art forms
Muntadas web art pioneer
Lauri Lynnxe Murphy Sculpture installation, natural processes, conceptual artist, material poiesis
http://www.laurilynnxemurphy.com
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Laszlo— Moholy-Nagy former director of New Bauhaus and early kinetic work
Gunalan Nadarajan theorist/curator artist, educator, robotics
Michael Naimark’s cinematography, interactive systems, and immersive projection
http://www.naimark.net/projects.html
Joseph Nechvatal artificial life virus code, computer-robotic assisted paintings
Shirin Neshat video installation
Andrew Neuman’s electronic sculpture, LCD works, deals with electric and metaphorical power
Kieth Newstead humorous mechanical and kinetic sculpture automata
Sally Jane Norman dance and technology, cultural theory, a life
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Michael Oliveri
Fernando Orellana’s interactive sculpture and installations
http://www.fernandoorellana.com/
Santiago Ortiz language, life, interaction research
Ed Osborn sound installation
Dan OSullivan connection between virtual and physical spaces
http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~dano/proj/#tele
Tony Oulser video installation
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Nancy Patterson electronic media artworks
Zen Parry electronic installation at the junction of primitive and high technology cultures
Patricia Piccinini’s new media technology and biological form.
Jim Pallas objects of desire, inflatable, interactive sculptures
http://www.jpallas.com/phone/phoneyvent.html
Mark Pauline destructive and violent robotics with a message of self-expression/o:p>
Nam June Paik was a pioneer in robotic art and video sculpture
Randal Packer, artist and author
http://www.zakros.com/wvr/wvr.html
Garth Paine sound works, installation artist
Christopher Palmer kinetic sculptor, kinetics, and electronics
http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbots
Peter Patchen electronic Installation
Gabor Papp, software art
Richard Pell contestational robotics
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~rp3h
Robin Pettrd sound installations, tactility, water, video
Simon Penny; interactive and robotic installations, theory, unique interfaces
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Penny
Carl Pisaturo robotic actors
http://www.carlpisaturo.com/index.html
Andrea Polli’s experimental approaches to interface eye tracking music installation
Corey Poole electronic and interactive sculpture
Jane Prophet site-specific installation, artificial life, theory
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Roger Quinn & Roy Ritzmann biorobots inspired by insects
biorobots.case.edu/projects/whegs/
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Sabrina Raaf robotic installation with sound and tactility
Melinda Rackam video installation, virtuality, artist, writer, curator
Alan Rath Robotic and video sculpture
http://www.alanrath.org/index.html
Casey Reas algorithmic works
Irving Douglas Repetto sound works, installation
http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas
Teri Reub embodied interaction
http://www.terirueb.net/i_index.html
Michael Rees digital sculpture, rapid prototyping, installation
Dr. Diana Reiss (Chair)
Professor at Hunter College, cognitive psychologist, and marine mammal scientist
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/psychology/people/faculty/physiological/reiss
Erwin Redl large-scale LED architectural installations
George Rhoads audio kinetic sculptures
Owain Rich environmental sound works
Katherine Richards
http://www.uottawa.ca/vr-recherche-research/Bios/richards_e.html
Martin Riches talking machines based on research into voice and vocal cords
http://www.floraberlin.de/soundbag/index53.html
Ken Rinaldo neo-conceptual sculptural robotic installations, biorobots, green technology, transspecies communication
Christian Ristow extreme robotics, testosterone, battling bots, fire
Robotlab, matthias gommel
Marcel. li Antunez Roca performance engaging technology
http://www.marceliantunez.com/
Ryan Ross, kinetics, installation, light art, robotics
Michael Rodemer; interactive environments, neon, cast objects
David Rokeby sound and video installation, image recognition,
Bryan Rogers conceptual and electronic sculpture installations
http://www.art-design.umich.edu
Philip Ross biological and electronic symbionts
Daniel Rozin wooden mirror that reflects the viewer
James Rouvelle, Experimental sound artist
Ben Rubin, sound designer and multimedia artist
hirdcoastfestival.org/ben-rubin
Jessica Rylan analog sound generation and experimentation
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Catherine Bechard & Sabin Hudon
Joachim Sauter interactive digital media and design
Asa Unander Scharin
Victoria Scott digitally controlled mechanical installations and sculptures
Bill Seaman large-scale interactive projection environments
Seemen audience directly controlled robotics and kinetic art
James Seawright is a pioneer in interactive electronic installation and sculpture
Jamy Sheriden, Esther Scholooleer, Ryan Mccabe
Gregory Shakar sculptural combinations of electric light and arcing electricity
Edward A. Shanken Theorist/writer/art historian specializing in art and technology
Jeffrey Shaw pioneered interactivity and virtuality in his art installations
Jill Scott interactive media wearable computing, hybrid environments and artificial intelligence
Bjoern Schuelke Interactive works often dealing with surveillance issues
schuelke.org
Nicolas Schsoffer’s; CYSP 1 (Cybernetic Spatiodynamic Sculpture)
cyberneticzoo.com/nicolas-schoffer
Tom Shannon
https://www.youtube.com/Tom Shannon
Thecla Schiphorst wearable computing, dance, media art
http://www.art.net/~dtz/schipo1.html
Andy Schuessler Electro-Mechanical Assemblage
http://www.electromechart.com/index.html
David Stout A visual artist, composer, electronic instrumentalist, AI artist and performance director.
https://davidstout.net/
Celestino Soddu, Architect Generative Design Lab
Sudarshan Shetty (India) Conceptually based electronic installation
Laetitia Sonami custom-made instruments
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau
interface.ufg.ac.at/Christa-Laurent
Jennifer Steinkamp’s immersive installations
Matthew Steinke kinetics, robotics
Michael Sturtz’s interactive kinetic sculpture
Karl Sims a life works virtual spaces
Eric Singer interactive performance systems
Laetitia Sonami experimental musical instruments, wearables
Todd Slaughter’s site-specific installation and kinetic sculpture
Martin Smith automata sculpture
Matt Smith kinetic art
Scott Snibbe interactive sculpture
Morten Søndergaard is an Associate Professor / Curator of Interactive Media Art at Aalborg University, Denmark. Co-founder of Erasmus Master in Media Arts Cultures.
Stelarc extends the concept of the body and its relationship with technology through human/machine interfaces
http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/index.html
Eva Sjuve sound sculpture
Sandy Skoglund interactive large-scale tableaux installations
Gerfried Stocker media artist, curator
Bruce Shapiro robotic egg painter and plasma cutter and XY table for making sculpture
Julia Scher surveillance in the cyber-sphere
Joel Slayton and Tellepresent Surveillance
Celestino Soddu & Enrica Colabella
Paul Spooner figurative mechanical sculpture
David Stairs Designer/Philanthropist surrounding altruistic issues
Subrosa cyberfeminist cell of cultural researchers
Ashok Sukumaran (India) Telematics, kinetic, electronic installation Survival Research Labs destruction, mayhem, obtainium technology
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Keiko Takahashi interactive sound drawing machines
Takis is a pioneer of kinetics and electromagnetic installation
Jeff Talman Soundspace installation
Julia Taymoor, Theater sets kinetic costuming puppet
www.angelfire.com/musicals/rafiki/taymor
K.D. Thornton installation
Marc Thorpe robot wars, design, and kinetic sculpture
Paul Thomas Sonic spaces, web interaction
David Tinapple
Jean Tinguely was a pioneer of kinetic sculpture
William Tomlinson ethical autonomous creatures
Troika Ranch Dance digital dance Theater Company
Jan Torpus & Michel Durieux
William Tremblay robotic sculpture installation
Joan Truckenbroad’s interactive installation is inspired by aspects of nature
Norman Tuck’s kinetic, interactive sculpture
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Ullanta performance robots theatre and dance
http://www.ullanta.com/ullanta
Camille Utterback’s interactive video installations
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Francisco Valera biologist, living systems – Autopoiesis theory with Humberto Maturana
Val Valgardson kinetic sculptures
Mari Velonaki robotic installation
youtube.com/robtic-instilation
Paul Vanouse’s interactive works that critique institutionalization and corporatization
art.buffalo.edu/people/vanouse
Steina Vasulka electro, Opto, mechanical, environments
Roman Verostko’s generative algorithmic prints
Bill Verplank
designinginteractions.com/BillVerplank
Victoria Vesna communication technologies affect collective behavior
Paul Virilio Theorist working with social implications of new technologies
Bill Vorn; theatrical interactive environmental robotics
fondation-langlois.org/billvorn
Wim Delvoye Digestive sculpture, humor, installations
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Grey Walter, neurophysiologist pioneering research in mobile autonomous robots
Gail Wight’s conceptual interplay between biology and art
Julian Weaver sound works installation
David Webber’s robotic sound sculpture, video, and interactive works.
Andy Webster
http://www.andywebster.info/machinista_submission.html
Michael Weisert robotics, sound, and video working with medical issues
Wen-Ying Tsai cybernetic sculpture
Norman White interactive sculpture in the form of robots
Steve Wilson conceptually driven interactive works and author
Ryan Wolfe’s interactive sculptures and designs
James Woodfill’s sonic sculpture
Grahame Weinbren interactive cinema
Peter Weibel Artist, exhibition curator, and art and medium theoretician
Adrian Wortzel theatrical robotics
Nancy Worthington kinetics, interaction, comedy
Nanette Wylde language-based works, haiku
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Hiro Yamagata laser light installation
Kenji Yanobe
Yianni Yessios interactive installation
Chang Young-hae (Korea), new media artist
Amy Youngs’ complex relationship between technology and concepts of nature and self.
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Joe Zane video LCD sculpture and installation
Carlos Zapata’s figurative mechanical sculpture
Adam Zaretsky bio-based art installations
Janet Zweig’s kinetic sculpture