Scott Snibbe is a media artist, an entrepreneur and is a pioneer in in gesture, interactive music and film. His creations are influenced by cinema and in particular animation and surrealist film and he often mixes live and filmed performances with real interaction. He has art work in permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art. In the 1990’s. Snibbe was one of the co-developers of the special effects software Adobe After Effects. His work is produced through two companies: Snibbe Interactive, developer of gesture and touch technologies and Snibbe Studio creator of innovative music apps.
“Snibbe was born in 1969 in New York City. He holds Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Fine Art, and a Master’s in Computer Science from Brown University. Snibbe studied experimental animation at the Rhode Island School of Design and his films have been widely shown internationally. He has taught media art and experimental film at Brown University, The San Francisco Art Institute, the California Institute of the Arts, the Rhode Island School of Design, and U.C. Berkeley. In addition to his work at Adobe and several startups, Snibbe worked at Interval Research, performing basic research in haptics, computer vision, and interactive cinema, and he currently serves on the Advisory Council to The Institute for the Future. Snibbe has published numerous articles and academic papers; is an inventor on over a dozen patents; and has received grants and awards from the National Science Foundation, Renew Media, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Prix Ars Electronica, and the National Endowment for the Arts.”
Snibbe conducted an art installation in the renovated part of the LAX airport in Los Angeles in 2010 entitled ‘Transit’ which featured real dancers who were filmed prior to the installation turned into silhouettes that danced and walked across the monitors attached to the roof of the airport. What I liked so much about this artwork was its simplicity. Its so simplistic to look at but I think that’s what makes it so captivating as well. Below is a link to the video that shows the installation in motion.
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