Golan Levin

Curriculum Vitae

Golan Levin
CMU School of Art
4919 Frew Street, CFA-300
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
United States

Contents

• Biography
• Employment & Academic Appointments
• Education
• Publications
• Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
• Group Exhibitions
• Public Lectures and Presentations
• Workshops
• Awards and Recognitions
• Grants
• Bibliography & Press

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Biography

(Extended biography linked here)

Golan Levin is an artist, engineer, researcher and educator interested in new intersections of machine code, visual culture, and critical making. His work combines equal measures of the whimsical, the provocative, and the sublime in an eclectic variety of online, installation and performance media. Through responsive artifacts, virtual environments, and media provocations, Levin applies creative twists to digital technologies that highlight our relationship with machines, expand the vocabulary of human action, and awaken participants to their own potential as creative actors.

Levin is Professor of Computational Art in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also holds courtesy appointments in Architecture, Computer Science, and Design. Golan’s pedagogy is concerned with reclaiming computation as a medium of personal expression; he teaches “studio art courses in computer science” on themes like interactive new media art, generative form, and machine drawing. With Tega Brain, Levin is co-author of Code as Creative Medium (MIT Press, 2021), a guide to creative coding for software arts educators.

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Employment & Academic Appointments

At Carnegie Mellon University

I am a Professor of computational and interactive new media arts. I have taught in the CMU School of Art since 2004, and hold courtesy (affiliate) appointments in the the CMU School of Architecture, School of Design, and the Computer Science Department. Over the past two decades, much of my work at CMU has focused on building institutional capacity for artistic engagement with emerging technologies and helping cultivate artists who are equally fluent in critical inquiry and technical practice.

Faculty, School of Art, College of Fine Arts. January 2004–Present:

• Professor of Computational Art, with Tenure. September 2017–Present.
• Associate Professor of Computational Art, with Tenure. September 2010–August 2017.
• Associate Professor of Computational Art. September 2007–August 2010.
• Assistant Professor of Computational Art, January 2004–August 2007.

Director, Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at CMU. January 2009-September 2022.

• From 2009-2022 I also served served as the Director of the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, the research laboratory of CMU’s College of Fine Arts and a flexible site for atypical, anti-disciplinary, and inter-institutional research at the intersection of arts, science, technology and culture. During this time I worked to expand the STUDIO as a platform for interdisciplinary artistic research: overseeing grants supporting more than 500 projects, hosting over 70 artists-in-residence, organizing hundreds of public events, and raising more than $2.5 million to support artist-led research initiatives.

Other Teaching Appointments

• Parsons School of Design, Department of Design and Technology. Adjunct Professor, 2001-2003.
• The Cooper Union, School of Art. Adjunct Professor, 2001-2002.
• Columbia University, Department of Art. Adjunct Professor, 2000.

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Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Media Laboratory. Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences, August 2000. Research area: Aesthetics and Computation (Advisor: John Maeda). MS Thesis: Painterly Interfaces for Audiovisual Performance.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bachelor of Science in Art and Design (Course IV-B), June 1994. Minor in Music Theory and Composition.

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Publications

Books

• Golan Levin and Tega Brain. Code as Creative Medium: A Handbook for Computational Art and Design. The MIT Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780262542043.
• Golan Levin, Lia, Adrian Ward, and Meta. 4x4 Generative Design: Beyond Photoshop (with Auto-Illustrator, Java, DBN, Lingo): Life/Oblivion. Friends of Ed, 2002. ISBN: 9781903450475.

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Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

• Golan Levin. Bantam Machine Arts Gallery, Peekskill, New York, 5/8/2026 – 6/12/2026.
• Golan Levin: Cytographia. Artblocks Curated Channel. 1/2024.
• Golan Levin. Aksioma Project Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2014.
• The Gesture in Paint and Software: Helen Levin and Golan Levin. Staten Island Museum, 2012.
• Eyecode: Works by Golan Levin. Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, CA. 2011.
• Golan Levin: Looking at Looking at Looking. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. 2011.
• Golan Levin. Arts West Gallery, Elon University, Elon, NC. 2011.
• Golan Levin. Kiasma Mediatheque, Kiasma Art Center, Helsinki, Finland, 2010.
• Golan Levin. bitforms gallery, New York City, 2007.
• Golan Levin / Zachary Lieberman. NTT InterCommunications Center (ICC), Tokyo, Japan, 2006.
• Golan Levin / Casey Reas. bitforms gallery, New York City, 2002.
• Golan Levin / Anne-Katrin Grotepass. Moving Image Gallery, New York City, 2001.

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Group Exhibitions

2026

• artport: A History of Internet Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, 11/2026–2/2027.
• Aberrant Creativity, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. 8/25/2026–10/17/2026.
• Drawing with Machines: Golan Levin and Students of the CMU Machine Drawing Lab. Bantam Machine Arts Gallery, Peekskill, New York, 1/9/2026 – 1/31/2026.

2025

• Pioneers Series. Objkt.com, Curated by Kika Nicolela. 11/2025.
• Art on Tezos: Berlin, Schlachter 151, Berlin, 11/6/2025 – 11/9/2025.
• Drawn to Teach: An Educators Showcase of Pen Plotting, Bantam Machine Arts Gallery, Peekskill, New York. 7/18/2025 – 8/3/2025.
• Pirouette: Turning Points in Design. Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 1/26/2025 – 11/15/2025.
• Designing the Computational Image, screening at Berlin STS-Hub 2025 3/11/2025-3/14/2025. Merce’s Isosurface.

2024

• Small Batch: A Dataset Farmer’s Market, LARPA, Brooklyn, 12/15/2024.
• INFLUENTIA: Le Random’s Collections and Digital Generative Art History. IEGO Art Gallery, Taipei. 12/8/2023 – 1/7/2024.
• Awaken, Metamagical Hands, Gazelli Art House, London, 7/19/2024 – 9/21/2024.

2022

• The Art of Tinkering, San Francisco Exploratorium, 6/18/2022 - 9/5/2022.
• Feral File: On Screen Presence. Online, curated by Regina Harsanyi. 6/2/2022. The Interfered Microscopy Plot.

2021

• The FEN (Coordinated NFT Drop). HicEtNunc.com, online; curated by Juliette Bibasse and Joanie Lemercier.
• Vers un imaginaire numérique, Centre de Design a l’UQAM, Montreal, Canada. 9/15/2021–11/7/2021. Curated by Daniel Cardoso-Llach and Theodora Vardouli. Merce’s Isosurface.

2020

• A2P (artist-to-peer network): An experiment in artist-to-artist collecting. Online; curated by Casey Reas, Iris Long, and Carol Sabbadini. 4/19/2020.
• AI Art Gallery: NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design. 12/7/2020 – 12/11/2020. Online; curated by Luba Elliott. Ambigrammatic Figures.
• ML × Art. Online; curated by Emil Wallner. Ambigrammatic Figures.

2019

• Intersections: 30th Anniversary of the CMU STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Miller ICA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 10/11/2019 – 11/17/2019. Teenie Harris Interactive.
• 3D. Imprimir el Mundo, Universum Museo de las ciencias de la UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico. 9/13/2019-2/2/2020.

2018

• Design Does at Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. (Free Universal Construction Kit) 3/23/2018 – 5/13/2018.
• An Atlas of Commoning, at The Institut for International Cultural Relations, Berlin, Germany. (Free Universal Construction Kit) 6/2018.
• Hello World: Code and Design, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Gallery, Sydney, Australia. 7/24/2018 – 9/14/2018.

2017

• Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design. Miller ICA Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Curated by Daniel Cardoso Llach. (Merce’s Isosurface) 9/22/2017 – 11/12/2017.
• Why Future Still Needs Us: AI and Humanity at Robotronica Festival, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia. (Terrapattern) 8/19/2017 – 10/29/2017.
• Gesten: Gestern - Heute - Übermorgen. Saxon/Chemnitz Museum of Industry, Chemnitz, Germany. (Augmented Hand Series) 11/16/2017 – 3/4/2018.
• NODE17 (Node Forum for Digital Arts). Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (Free Universal Construction Kit) 6/26/2017–7/2/2017.
• 3D, Printing the World. Curated by Carmen Baselga and Héctor Serrano. Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain. (Free Universal Construction Kit) 6/14/2017 – 9/14/2017.
• Affiliations Exhibition: Remix and Intervene: Computing Sound and Visual Poetry. At ELO (Electronic Literature Organization) Conference 2017. Palacete dos Viscondes de Balsemao, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal. Curated by Daniela Cortes Maduro and Alvaro Seica. (Ursonography) 7/19/2017 – 7/21/2017.

2016

• Day for Night Festival, Houston, Texas. (Ghost Pole Propagator II) 12/14/2016 – 12/18/2016.
• Why Future Still Needs Us: AI and Humanity. Art Center NABI, Seoul, Korea. Curated by DooEun Choi. (Terrapattern) 11/15/2016 – 1/20/2017.
• Climactic: Post Normal Design. Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. (The Free Universal Construction Kit) 11/4/2016 – 12/11/2016.
• Making a Difference / A Difference in Making. Red Dot Design Museum, Essen, Germany. 9/27/2016 – 10/30/2016.
• New Gameplay. Curated by Bernhard Serexhe / ZKM. Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, South Korea. (Messa di Voce) 7/20/2016 – 2/19/2017.
• HUMAN FACTOR – Endless Prototyping, organized by Ars Electronica. DRIVE. Volkswagen Group Forum, Berlin, Germany. (The Free Universal Construction Kit) 7/1/2016 – 8/27/2016.
• Alt-AI Exhibition. School for Poetic Computation, NYC. 5/20/2016 – 5/22/2016.
• Extra Fantômes, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris. (Augmented Hand Series) 4/1/2016 – 8/14/2016.
• Meta.Morf 2016: Nice to Be in Orbit! Trondheim Biennale for Art and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. (Moon Drawings) 3/10/2016 – 5/8/2016.

2015

• Ars Electronica Festival. Ars Electronica Center and Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria. (Augmented Hand Series) 9/1/2015 – 2/10/2016.
• This Is for Everyone: Design Experiments for the Common Good, MoMA (NYC), Curated by Paola Antonelli. 2/2015 – 1/2016.
• F.A.T. GOLD: San Francisco, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco. Curated by Lindsay Howard. 5/21/2015 – 5/31/2015.
• Making a Difference / A Difference in Making: Exploring the Added Value of 3D Printing, Bozar Center of Fine Arts, Palais Des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium. Curated by Marta Malé-Alemany, 4/24/2015 – 6/7/2015.
• Short Cuts, Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. 4/19/2015 – 6/14/2015.
• New Gifts: The Creative Technologies Exhibition, Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York City, 6/1/2015 – 6/22/2015.
• Komponiertisch (Scrapple), Universum Bremen, Germany. 3/2015 (acquisition).
• The Informed Body – NODE15 Exhibition, NODE 2015 Conference, Frankfurt, Germany. 4/27/2015 – 5/3/2015.

2014

• Beautiful Users. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York City. Curated by Ellen Lupton. 10/2014 - 4/2015.
• NeutraaL. Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. 4/17/2014 - 5/4/2014.
• Cinekid Festival MediaLab, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 10/14/2014 - 10/18/2014. (Augmented Hand Series.)
• Ars Electronica in the Knowledge Capital, Knowledge Capital, Osaka, Japan. 11/2014 - 12/2014. (Eidola; Eyecode)
• F.U.C.K. & QR Codes for Digital Nomads (Solo exhibition), Aksioma Project Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 4/23/2014 - 5/9/2014.

2013

• INTER[IN]VENTION / INTER[IN]VENÇÃO. Curated by Bernhard Serexhe / ZKM. Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal. (Messa di Voce) 11/29/2013 - 4/13/2014.
• F.A.T. Gold: Free Art and Technology. MU ArtSpace, Eindhoven, Netherlands. 11/2013 - 1/2014.
• Exposición: Render. Animación Digital: Cuerpos continuos. Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru. 9/5/2013 - 9/28/2013.
• Radical Fictions: IV Mostra de Arte Digital, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil. 10/9/2013 - 11/3/2013.
• Arte y Tecnología: Artists as Catalysts. AlhóndigaBilbao, Bilbao, Spain. 7/4/2013 - 9/1/2013.
• CLICK Festival: F.A.T. Lab (Too Lazy to Fail). Elsinore, Denmark, 5/8/2013-5/12/2013.
• Datascape. The Block, Queensland University of Technology’s Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane, Australia. 4/16/2013 - 4/27/2013. The Dumpster.
• Designs of the Year, London Design Museum, London. 3/20/2013 - 7/7/2013. (Free Universal Construction Kit)
• Digital Cultures in the Age of Big Data, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH. 5/13/2013 - 5/17/2013.
• F.A.T. Gold: Five Years of Notorious R&D. Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, New York City. 4/1/2013 - 4/20/2013.
• Flow, Just Flow: Variations on a Theme. University of Richmond Museum, Virginia, curated by Elizabeth Schlatter. 1/29/2013 - 6/28/2013. The Dumpster.
• Disruptions: Museum As Manufacturer, Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, 3/12/2013 - 6/09/2013.
• Scrapple, San Francisco Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA. Acquisition. 4/12/2013.
• See Yourself Sensing. San Jose State University, California. Curated by Madeline Schwartzman. 3/1/2013 - 3/20/2013. Eyecode.
• Singularité Exposition, Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne, France. 3/14/2013 - 3/31/2013.
• Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good, Chicago Cultural Center, 5/24/13 - 9/1/2013.
• The Lab, organized by Ars Electronica, at ITU Telecom World 2013, 11/19/2013 - 11/22/2013, Bangkok, Thailand.
• The Science of Digital Fabrication (Exhibition). Center for Bits and Atoms, MIT, 3/7/2013.

2012

• AI-Plus. National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan. 11/24/2012 - 2/17/2013. Curated by Hui-Ching Hsieh. Self-Adherence.
• Coded Perception, SETUP Medialab, Utrecht, the Netherlands. 10/26/2012 - 11/18/2012. Eyecode.
• SPEED SHOW: GML, part of Backjumps - Rock The Block. Berlin. Curated by Aram Bartholl. 10/3/2012.
• Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria. 8/30/2012 - 9/3/2012.
• Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good, United States Pavilion, 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy. 8/29/2012 - 11/25/2012. QR Codes for Digital Nomads.
• Lampo exhibition, Aurum Culture Center, Pescara, Italy, in association with Metro Olografix 2012. 8/25/2012.
• Mixed Signals: Boston Cyberarts at Atlantic Wharf. Atlantic Wharf, Boston. Curated by George Fifield and Heidi Kayser. (Eyecode) 2/27/2012 - 4/13/2012.
• Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA. 2/22/2012. Acquisition.

2011

• EyeCodes (Solo Exhibition). The Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, CA. 10/5/2011-1/28/2012.
• Distributed Collectives. Little Berlin gallery, Philadelphia: QR_HOBO_CODES. 8/5/2011 - 8/29/2011.
• Talk to Me. The Museum of Modern Art, NYC: Double-Taker (Documentation). 7/24/2011-11/8/2011.
• Robot Film Festival. 3LD Art and Technology Center, NYC: Double-Taker (Documentation). 7/16/2011.
• The Gesture in Paint and Software: Helen Levin and Golan Levin. Staten Island Museum, NYC. 7/7/2011 - 1/8/2012.
• Written Images Exhibition. Lab for Electronic Art and Performance (LEAP), Berlin, 7/1/2011 - 7/2/2011.
• See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception. Work Gallery, London: EyeCode. 6/23/2011 - 9/24/2011.
• Light on Hannover. Neues Rathaus Hannover: Ursonography Documentation. 6/18/2011.
• Mikser Festival 2011. Belgrade, Serbia: Re:Face. 5/25/2011 - 5/29/2011.
• Blink! Light, Sound and the Moving Image. Denver Art Museum, CO: IFP. 3/13/2011 - 5/1/2011.
• Golan Levin. Arts West Gallery, Elon University, Elon, NC. 3/14/2011 - 4/11/2011.
• Golan Levin: Looking at Looking at Looking. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 2/11/2011 - 3/20/2011.
• Pulse Art + Technology Festival, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, GA: MIS. 1/20/2011 - 1/29/2011.

2010

• SFR Player, DigitalArti Gallery, Paris: Messa di Voce Installation. 11/16/2010 - 12/2/2010.
• Cinekid Festival. Amsterdam: LiveWriter. 10/21/2010 - 10/30/2010.
• Data Mining. A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago: Dumpster. 9/30/2010 - 11/6/2010.
• Macht Musik, Technisches Museum Wien: Scrapple. 9/29/2010 - 6/26/2011.
• Bouillants #2, Brest, France: Reface. 6/29/2010 - 8/31/2010.
• Ocus Pocus, Visualiseringscenter C, Norrköping, Sweden. 5/27/2010 - 10/15/2010: Eyecode.
• Bouillants #2, Maison de la Bretagne, Paris, France: Reface. 5/19/2010 - 5/31/2010.
• Bouillants #2, Vern sur Seiche, Brittany, France: Reface. 4/20/2010 - 5/15/2010.
• PixelAche Festival. Kiasma Art Center, Helsinki, Finland: Merce’s Isosurface, Eyecode, Reface. 2/23/2010 - 3/28/2010.
• Vantage, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Portland, Oregon: Merce’s Isosurface. 1/12/2010 - 2/6/2010.
• LoveBytes Digital Arts Festival 2010, Sheffield Museums, England: Obzok. 1/1/2010 - 6/1/2010.

2009

• Decode: Digital Design Sensations, Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Opto-Isolator. 12/08/2009 - 4/11/2010.
• Hybrid Geographies, SUNY Stony Brook SAC Gallery: Dumpster. 10/22/2009 - 12/11/2009.
• Experimenta Playground National Tour. Pinnacles Gallery, Riverway Arts Centre Complex, Townsville, Queensland, Australia. MIS. 10/17/2009 - 11/29/2010.
• Tweak Festival, Limerick, Ireland. Reface. 9/21/2009 - 9/26/2009.
• Collider: Interactivity and New Media, University of Akron, Ohio: Eyecode. 9/21/2009 - 10/31/2009.
• See This Sound. Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria. MIS. 8/27/2009 - 1/10/2010.
• Experimenta Playground National Tour. Albury Library Museum, Albury, Australia: MIS. 7/25/2009 - 9/7/2009.
• Art and Electronic Media. Bitforms Gallery, New York City: Dialtones (Screening). 6/16/2009 - 7/10/2009.
• Gesto del Suono. Centro Trevi, Bolzano, Italy: Ursonography (Screening). 6/1/2009 - 6/30/2009.
• Direct Digital. Modena, Italy. Opto-Isolator I. 5/22/2009 - 6/21/2009.
• Experimenta Playground National Tour. Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Australia: MIS. 4/25/2009 - 6/7/2009.
• Loops Exhibition, Boston Cyberarts Festival 2009, MIT Museum, Boston: Merce’s Isosurface. 4/24/2009 - 5/10/2009.
• STRP Festival, Klokgebouw Eindhoven, Netherlands: Opto-Isolator II. 4/2/2009 - 4/13/2009.
• Pictopia Exhibition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany: Opto-Isolator I. 3/19/2009 - 5/3/2009.
• Notation: Kalkül und Form in den Künsten. ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany: MdV. 3/1/2009 - 7/26/2009.

2008

• Kibla Multimedia Center, Maribor, Slovenia: MIS. 12/29/2008 - 1/15/2009.
• Papalote Museo del Niño, Mexico City, Mexico: Reface. From 12/1/2008.
• Experimenta Playground National Tour, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Australia: MIS. 11/8/2008 - 1/27/2009.
• Version Bêta, Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine Saint-Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland: Opto-Isolator II. 10/31/2008 - 12/14/2008.
• PLUTO Festival, Nijdrop Center, Opwijk, Belgium: Reface. 10/31/2008 - 11/1/2008.
• YOUniverse: 3rd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla (BIACS3): MdV. Seville, Spain. 10/2/2008 - 1/11/2009.
• New Media Meeting 2008, Norrköping, Sweden: Reface. 9/18/2008 - 9/20/2008.
• Experimenta Playground National Tour, Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide: MIS. 8/29/2008 - 10/17/2008.
• Robot250 BigBots, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh: Double-Taker (Snout). 7/18/2008 - 8/3/2008.
• Licht Kunst Werke. Technorama Science Center, Winterthur, Switzerland: Manual Input Workstation, 7/4/2008 - 7/4/2009.
• Flirting with Sound. ELEMENTS Mall, Tsim Sha Tsui district, Kowloon, Hong Kong: MdV. 7/1/2008 - 8/28/2008.
• Magic Moments. NetCultureSpace, Vienna, Austria: Reface. 7/1/2008 - 8/25/2008.
• Under Surveillance, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI: Opto-Isolator II. 6/29/2008 - 9/28/2008.
• Shakerag Workshop Exhibition, St. Andrew’s-Sewanee University, TN: Floccular Prints. 6/9/2008 - 6/28/2008.
• Beaulab. Centre Beaulieu, Nantes, France: MdV, Footfalls. 5/24/2008 - 6/13/2008.
• Experimenta Playground National Tour, CarriageWorks, Sydney, Australia: MIS. 5/8/2008 - 6/7/2008.
• Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh: Opto-Isolator. 5/2/2008 - 8/24/2008.
• Digital senses - when digital data turns into art. Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine: Messa di Voce Installation. 4/18/2008 - 5/11/2008.
• Holy Fire: Art of the Digital Age, iMAL Gallery, Brussels, Belgium: Reface. 4/18/2008 - 4/30/2008.
• Update II Media Arts Biennial. Kunstenplatform Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium: Yellowtail. 4/20/2008 - 7/6/2008.
• Art in Mobile, Galerie De Meerse, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands: Dialtones documentation screening. 3/23/2008 - 4/30/2008.

2007

• Golan Levin, bitforms gallery, NYC. (Solo exhibition) 11/30/2007 - 1/12/2008.
• Ars Electronica Exhibition at Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy: AVES. 12/2007.
• iDAT (Interactive Design Art and Technology), Singapore Science Centre, Singapore: Scrapple. 11/9/2007 - 1/1/2008.
• Shanghai eArts, Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, China: Hidden Worlds of Noise and Voice.
• 10/19/2007 - 10/23/2007.
• FAD (Festival de Arte Digital), Casa do Conde, Belo Horizonte, Brazil: Floccus. 9/29/2007.
• Experimenta Playground: International Biennial of Media Art, Arts Centre BlackBox, Melbourne, Australia: MIS. 8/25/2007 - 9/23/2007.
• Agosto Digital 2007: Arte y nuevas tecnologías, Centro Cultural España Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina: MIS. 8/12/2007.
• Batteries Not Included, exhibition accompanying the Shrewsbury Darwin Summer Symposium 2007, Shrewsbury, UK, 7/13/2007. Meshy.
• Alive Liquid Interactive Creative Expressive (“A.L.I.C.E Museum”) exhibition, Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea: The Manual Input Workstation. 6/1/2007 - 6/22/2007.
• Source Code: 10th Anniversary Exhibition. Eyebeam.org Center, NYC: JJ. 5/31/2007 - 8/10/2007.
• Ars Electronica Museum of the Future, Linz, Austria: MIS, Scrapple. 5/15/2007 - 12/31/2008.
• “Cumulus” opening exhibition, Danfoss Universe, Nordborg, Denmark: Scrapple. 5/5/2007.
• Picture House. Belsay Hall Castle and Gardens, Newcastle, England: GPP. 5/3-10/18/2007.
• Touched Design, Artgadgets Center, Eindhoven, Holland: Dumpster. 5/2/2007- 6/30/2007.
• Open Space 2007, NTT InterCommunications Center, Tokyo: SLON. 4/19/2007 - 3/18/2008.
• Cell Phone: Art and the Mobile Phone, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore. 1/21/2007 - 4/22/2007.
• Pulse Art Fair, 69th Regiment Armory, New York City: GPP. 2/22/2007 - 2/25/2007.
• Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, Virginia: Messa di Voce. 2/13/2007 - 2/18/2008.
• The Dating Show, Gallery at 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NYC: The Dumpster. 2/9/2007 - 3/23/2007. Curated by Emma Brasó, Dan Leers and Margot Norton.

2006

• “Aura Spurt: Remoteness Nearby”: The First Taipei International Digital Art Festival. Zhong-Shan Hall, Taipei, Taiwan: Messa di Voce Installation. 11/10/2006 - 11/19/2006.
• Selections from the ComputerFineArts Collection, Berlin Digital Art Museum. 11/2006.
• Engaging Technology: A History and Future of Intermedia, Ball State Museum of Art, Muncie, Indiana: Messa di Voce Installation. 11/2006.
• Cybernetic Sensibility: The Computer and Art at the Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea, 11/2006.
• First IEEE InfoVis Art Exhibition, Baltimore: The Dumpster. 10/2006.
• www dot creative-capital dot org. Nathan Cummings Foundation Offices, NYC. 10/2006.
• Further Processing: Generative Art, Open Systems. Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz. 9/2006: The Dumpster.
• Donumenta2006: Bytes & Bodies – Von realen Körpern in digitalen Räumen. Regensburg, Germany: RE:MARK. 9/2006.
• Le NAME Festival. Lille and Mauberge, France: Messa di Voce Installation. 9/2006.
• Ars Electronica Museum of the Future, Linz, Austria: Manual Input Workstation. 9/2006.
• Time Shares Exhibition Series: Fault Lines. Rhizome.org and New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC: Dumpster. 8/2006.
• Tmema Projects. NTT ICC, Tokyo, Japan: Audiovisual Environment Suite, Messa di Voce, Scrapple (installation version), Manual Input Workstation. 8/2006.
• Emoção Art.ficial 3.0 Biennial, Itaú Cultural Institute, São Paolo, Brazil: Messa di Voce. 7/2006.
• Festival of the Fourth Dimension, Sophia Antipolis Foundation, Vallauris, France: Dialtones Documentation. 6/2006.
• The Algorithmic Revolution in Spazio Deformato at ArteScienza Festival, Casa dell’Architettura, Rome, Italy: Secret Lives of Numbers, Yellowtail, Messa di Voce Installation. 5/2006.
• BildMuseet. Umeå University, Sweden. The Dumpster. 5/2006.
• Before They Were Famous: CMU Faculty Artworks From Their Formative Years. Frame Student Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. 4/2006.
• CeBIT 2006. IDS (International Distribution System) booth. Hannover, Germany: Messa di Voce Installation. 3/2006.
• Net Art Commission, Whitney Museum Artport & Tate Online: The Dumpster. 2/2006.
• Digital Transit: Austria at ARCO, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain: Ursonography (Documentation). 2/2006.
• TED2006 Conference. Monterey, CA. Meshy, Floo. 2/2006.
• Generator.X. Tou Scene Culture Center, Stavanger, Norway. SLON & S S. 1/2006.
• Software Art, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Boston, MA: Stria, Floccus. 1/2006.

2005

• Digital Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan: Messa di Voce Installation. 12/2005.
• Busy Signals: Telephonic Art in Motion. Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California at Berkeley: Dialtones (video screening). 11/30/2005.
• Light Art from Artificial Light. ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany: Yellowtail. 11/2005.
• L’art de produire l’art. Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains.Tourcoing, France: Messa di Voce Installation. 11/2005.
• Cimatics’05: Brussels International Festival for Audiovisual Live Performance, Proce55ing Exhibition, MediaRuimte, Brussels, Belgium: Floccus, Meshy, Floo. 11/2005.
• SoftwareARTspace Inaugural Exhibition, Samsung Experience Store, Time Warner Center, NYC. Floccus. 10/2005.
• Sur le Fil. Biche de Bere Gallery, Union City, NJ: Floccus. 10/2005.
• Banquete: Comunicación en Evolución, Gran Canaria Espacio Digital, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. Messa di Voce Installation, 9/2005.
• Inaugural Exhibition, Seoul bitforms gallery, Seoul, Korea. Brillo. 9/2005.
• Generator.X.Exhibition. National Museum of Art, Architecture & Design, Oslo. The Secret Lives of Numbers & Segmentation Symptom. 9/2005.
• Upgrade! International Conference, Eyebeam Gallery Space, NYC. 9/2005.
• Ars Electronica Museum of the Future, Linz, Austria: Scrapple. 9/2005.
• Das digitale Bauhaus at Kunstfest Weimar, Bauhaus Universität, Weimar, Germany. 8/2005: MdV.
• Time in Jazz / Digital Trance. Cortili di Casa Sanna Meloni, Berchidda, Italy: Singlecell. 8/2005.
• Abstraction Now in White Noise. Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne: Yellowtail. 8/2005.
• ElectroScape. Duolun Zendai Art Museum, Shanghai, China: AVES. 6/2005.
• Rhizome ArtBase 101, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Chelsea Museum, NYC: The Secret Lives of Numbers. 6/2005.
• Sonarama. SONAR Festival, Barcelona, Spain: Messa di Voce Installation. 6/2005.
• Abstraction Now in Digital Art A La Carte. SONAR Festival, Barcelona, Spain: Yellowtail. 6/2005.
• Expo Art Numerique, Festival ArtRock, Saint-Brieuc, France. Messa di Voce Installation. 6/2005.
• Generative X: OneDotZero9. Institute for Contemporary Art, London. Skeletonia. 5/2005.
• Siemens Residence Projects at Ars Electronica. Siemens ArtLab, Vienna: RE:MARK. 5/2005.
• SONARFILES 2005. Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain: AVES. 5/2005.
• Cut and Splice. SonicArtsNetwork / The Jerwood Space, London: MdV Installation. 5/2005.
• Cybersonica 2005. The Dana Centre, London: AVES. 4/2005.
• Interactive Multimedia Culture Expo. Chelsea Museum, NYC: MIS Video. 4/2005.
• Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany: JJ. 3/2005.
• New Media: What. Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase, New York: MdV. 3/2005.
• Bis Repetita Placent. Rurart Espace d’Arts, Rouillé, France: SLON. 2/2005.
• You Are Here: The Design of Information. Design Museum, London. 2/2005: Yellowtail.
• Art meets Media: Adventures in Perception, NTT ICC, Tokyo, Japan: Yellowtail. 1/2005.
• Banquete_05: 2nd International ACTS Festival, Conde Duque Centre, Madrid, Spain: MdV. 1/2005.

2004

• Microwave International Media Art Festival. City Hall Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong. 11/2004.
• The Algorithmic Revolution: On the History of Interactive Art. ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, Germany: Secret Lives of Numbers, Yellowtail. 10/2004.
• Art Life. Seeing Gallery, San Francisco Exploratorium, San Francisco CA. Floo. 10/2004.
• Touch and Temperature. Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX: Dakadaka. 10/2004.
• Digital Selections. Kendall College of Art and Design Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI:AVES. 10/2004.
• Ars Electronica Museum of the Future, Linz, Austria: MdV Installation. 10/2004.
• Interact1. London College of Communication, London: MdV Video. 9/2004.
• Carnivore Survey at La Villette Numerique, Paris, France: JJ. 9/2004.
• Phonorama. ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany: MdV. 9/2004.
• Prix Ars Electronica. O.K. Centrum Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria: MdV. 9/2004.
• Ars Electronica Museum of the Future, Linz, Austria: Interactive Bar Table. 9/2004.
• A1 Media Lounge, Mobilkom Flagship Store, Vienna, Austria: Motion Traces. 8/2004.
• Navigator. Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan: SLON. 7/2004.
• Touch and Temperature: Art in the Age of Cybernetic Totalism. bitforms, NYC. 6/2004.
• Interactions/Art and Technology (a component of Digital Avant-Garde: Celebrating 25 Years of Ars Electronica). William Fox Gallery, American Museum of the Moving Image, 5/2004.
• Digital Sublime: New Masters of Universe (2nd Media City Seoul Biennale), Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan: Yellowtail, Fingerspies. 5/2004.
• Whitney Biennial 2004. Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC: SLON. 3/2004.
• Neen Today. MU Art Foundation, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 3/2004.

2003

• Microwave International Media Art Festival. Hong Kong. 12/2003.
• Synthetic Lightning: Complex Simulations of Nature. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY. 11/2003.
• Uijeongbu International Digital Art Festival. Nabi Art Center, Seoul. 11/2003.
• Replay. Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA. 11/2003.
• Beta Launch 03: Eyebeam Artists. Eyebeam Gallery Space, NYC. 10/2003.
• Abstraction Now. Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria. 9/2003.
• SAPPHIRE’03: Ars Electronica Media Art Lounge. Orlando, FL. 6/2003.
• Skip Intro/Replay: Tecnogeist Festival. Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City. 3/2003.
• Texture: 2nd Annual Showcase. Austin Museum of Digital Art, Austin, TX. 3/2003.
• CeBIT 2003. SAP Media Art Lounge. Hannover, Germany. 3/2003.
• Animations. Kunst Werke, Berlin, Germany. 2/2003.

2002

• Audiovisual Matrix. Space imA, Seoul, Korea. 12/2002.
• FutureScreen02: Data Terra. dLux Artspace, Sydney, Australia. 12/2002.
• DigitalMedia. American Museum of the Moving Image, NYC. 11/2002.
• Beta Launch 02: Eyebeam Artists. Eyebeam Gallery Space, NYC. 10/2002.
• Tempøral being: Microwave International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong. 10/2002.
• 911 1:The Perplexities of Security. Watson Institute, Providence, RI. 9/2002.
• CODeDOC. Whitney Museum of American Art: Artport, 9/2002.
• Net Narrative. San Francisco Camerawork.org. 9/2002.
• Hidden Worlds of Noise and Voice. Museum of the Future, Linz, Austria. 9/2002.
• Prix Ars Electronica. O.K. Centrum Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria. 9/2002.
• Contemporary Visions. ICA, London. 6/2002.
• Night Vision. White Columns Gallery, NYC. 6/2002.
• Special Effects. DaeJeon Municipal Museum of Art. DaeJeon, Korea. 5/2002.
• Impress//Yourself. Café_digital, Fondation Beyeler. Basel, Switzerland. 4/2002.
• Cibervisión 02: Dinamicas Fluidas. Madrid, Spain. 3/2002.
• Inside the Display: Inaugural Exhibition, Austin Museum of Digital Art, Austin, TX. 3/2002.
• Humana Festival PLAY annex, Swanson Cralle Gallery, Louisville, KY. 3/2002.
• TED2002 Conference. Monterey, CA. 2/2002.
• Golan Levin/Casey Reas. bitforms gallery, NYC. 2/2002.

2001

• bitforms Inaugural Exhibition. bitforms gallery, NYC. 11/2001.
• Net.Ephemera. Chapman Gallery, Salford University, Manchester, UK. 11/2001.
• The Interaction ’01 Bienniale. Softopia Center/IAMAS, Ogaki, Japan. 10/2001.
• Animations. P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, NYC. 10/2001. Dakadaka.
• Tirana Biennale. Tirana, Albania. 9/2001.
• Ars Electronica Festival. Linz, Austria. 9/2001.
• NY Digital Salon: Selected Works. The Corning Gallery, NYC. 7/2001.
• SONAR Interactive Gallery. Barcelona, Spain, 6/2001.
• Net.Ephemera. Rhizome Moving Image Gallery, NYC. 5/2001.
• Young Guns 3 NYC. Art Directors Club Gallery, NYC. 4/2001.
• Magnetics: Golan Levin/Katrin Grotepass. Moving Image Gallery, NYC. 4/2001.
• Media Lounge. Berlin Transmediale ’01, Berlin. 2/2001.
• Singlecell.org. Online Exhibition. 1/2001.

2000

• Digital2000. Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. 12/2000.
• BitByBit. Business of Art Center, Manitou Springs, CO. 11/2000.
• New York Digital Salon Exhibition, New York City, 10/2000.
• Digital2000. Technology Gallery, New York Hall of Science. 10/2000.
• MIT ACG Retrospective. Herb Lubalin Center, Cooper Union, NYC. 9/2000.
• Print on Screen. Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria. 9/2000. Dakadaka.
• Prix Ars Electronica. O.K. Centrum Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria. 9/2000.
• Siggraph 2000 Art Show. New Orleans, LA. 7/2000.
• New Work from MIT. SEGA Joypolis Center, Tokyo, Japan, 7/2000.
• Creative Play. American Museum of the Moving Image, NYC, 6/2000.
• Digital2000. Central Fine Arts Gallery, 596 Broadway, NYC, 6/2000.
• Tokyo Type Director’s Club Exhibition. Tokyo, Japan, 4/2000.

1999

• Organic Form. MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, 12/1999.
• Organic Information. Art Directors’ Club Gallery, NYC, 5/1999.
• Inventing Experience: Experiments in New Media at Interval Research Corporation. San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA.: Rouen Revisited. 4/1999.

-1998

• Numeric Photography. MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA. 12/1998.
• International Symposium of Electronic Art. Chicago, IL.: Rouen Revisited. 9/1997.
• Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria: Rouen Revisited. 9/1997.
• The Bridge: Siggraph 1996 Art Show. New Orleans, LA.: Rouen Revisited. 8/1996.
• Odd Ends. MIT Wiesner Gallery, Cambridge, MA. 4/1994.
• Human Images. MIT Wiesner Gallery, Cambridge, MA. 11/1991.

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Public Lectures and Presentations

2026

• “Datasets as Medium: Teaching the Full ML Pipeline from Collection to Synthesis”, 2026 Learning To Teach: (Re)Designing Creative Tech Pedagogy for the GenAI Era, NYU, 1/17/2025.

2025

• Artist talk, Master of Arts in Interaction Design (MAIND), Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI / University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland), 11/20/2025.
• Artist talk, Computation Technology & Culture Lecture Series, RISD, Providence, 10/16/2025.
• “Drawing with Machines”, visiting lecture to Drawing++ course, MIT Media Lab, 10/8/2025.
• “Generative AI in Creative Coding Education”, 2025 Learning To Teach Creative Technologies with Generative AI, NYU, 1/17/2025.

2024

• Software and Code as Media Art. “New Media Art” course visit, Columbia University (Host: Regina Harsanyi). 10/14/2024.
• Keynote Lecture. Eisemann Edge Symposium, University of Texas at Dallas. 9/18/2024.
• Artist Talk. Gray Area Festival, San Francisco. 9/14/2024.
• “Teaching Drawing with Machines: Plotting in Art Education”. PlotterFest24, Peekskill, NY. 7/27/2024.
• Creative Dialogues Episode 3: Golan Levin & Claire Hentschker. Runway Studios, 3/6/2004.
• “Integrating AI in Art Foundations”, 2024 Learning To Teach Creative Technologies with Generative AI, NYU, 1/19/2024.
• “Art of Algorithms: Golan Levin and Regina Harsanyi”, Art Blocks Official. 1/11/2024.

2023

• Artist Talk. Creativity in the Age of AI: AI Impacting Arts, Arts Impacting AI. Stanford University HAI, 5/24/2023.
• “Keynote Lecture: Media Art Histories, Education, and Futures: An Individual Perspective”. Future Ideations Camp Vol.1: Import, Civic Creative Base Tokyo (CCBT), Shibuya, Tokyo. Organized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Arts Council. 2/24/2023.

2022

• “Artist Talk: Cultivating the Improbable”. Eyeo Festival, Minneapolis. 6/17/2022.
• “Guest Faculty Lecture: Golan Levin”. Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO. 7/26/2022.

2021

• “Code as Creative Medium”. Graduate Seminar in Computational Media, UC Santa Cruz (Host: Noah Wardrip Fruin), 11/23/2021.
• “Code as Creative Medium”, Quarantime Episode 60. 2/26/2021.
• “DETI Deep Dive Keynote—Tega Brain & Golan Levin: Code as Creative Medium”. Design Educators Typography Intensive (DETI), ArtCenter College of Design. 8/13/2021.

2019

• “National Neighbors: Distant Viewing the National Gallery of Art’s Collection of Collections”, National Gallery of Art Datathon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. 10/25/2019.
• “Truth or Consequences: The Misperceptions of Human Perception”, Osher Fellow’s Talk, San Francisco Exploratorium, 2/19/2019.

2017

• Artist talk. Computational Design: Practices, Histories, Infrastructures Symposium, Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts, 10/7/2017.

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Workshops

• Guiding Stable Diffusion in ComfyUI with p5.js, RISD CTC, 10/16/2025.
• Computational Thinking with Drinking Games. Civic Creative Base Tokyo (CCBT), Shibuya, Tokyo. 2/2023.
• Drawing with Machines. Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado. 7/2022.
• OpenFrameworks, t-SNE, and Visual Culture. Art Center NABI, Seoul, Korea. 11/2016.
• Experimental Capture Workshop. Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado. 7/2016.
• Computational Thinking with Drinking Games. Osaka Knowledge Capital, Osaka, Japan. 11/2014.
• Critical 3D Printing Workshop. FutureEverything Festival, Manchester, 4/2014.
• Computer Vision in Interactive Arts (with Kyle McDonald). Resonate Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, 3/2013.
• Signal Processing Workshop. Eyeo 2012 Festival, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 6/5/2012.
• Computational Information Visualization Workshop. CIID, Copenhagen, Denmark, 3/2012.
• Interaction Design with Computer Vision. Eyeo Festival, Minneapolis. 6/2011.
• Computational Arts Workshop. Elon University. Elon, NC. 3/2011.
• Computational Arts Workshop. RIT, Rochester, NY. 3/2011.
• Computational Arts Workshop. Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 10/2010.
• Computational Arts Workshop. Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, Colorado. 10/2010.
• Computational Arts Workshop. Haute École D’Art et De Design, Genève, Switzerland. 5/2010.
• Computational Arts Workshop. Rice University, Houston, Texas. 4/2010.
• Computational Arts Workshop. Ontario College of Art and Design, Ontario, Canada. 2/2010.
• Computational Arts Workshop. Future Places Festival, Porto, Portugal. 10/2009.
• Computer Vision and Interactive Arts Workshop. Columbia College of Chicago. 9/2009.
• Computational Arts Workshop. Utah State University Visiting Artist Program, 4/2009.
• Information Visualization Workshop. Wallst.com, Colorado, 8/2008.
• Computational Arts Workshop. Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Colorado, 8/2008.
• Computational Arts Workshop. Shakerag Workshop Center, Tennessee, 6/2008.
• Computational Arts Workshop. DesignWeek Monterrey, Mexico, 11/2006.
• Computational Arts Workshop. Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (KHiO), Norway, 9/2005.
• Computational Arts Workshop. AIGA Digital Information Design Camp, 7/2005.
• Computational Arts Workshop. Fabrica Research and Development Centre, Treviso, Italy. 10/2004.

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Awards and Recognitions

• Honorable Mention, Computer Animation, Prix Ars Electronica 2015. 9/2015.
• Core77 Design Awards: Winner, DIY Category, 2014.
• Design Museum London, Designs of the Year 2013 (finalist), Digital category.
• FastCompany Design’s 32 Favorite Products from 2012
• Creative Application’s #1 of 10 Most Memorable Projects of 2012
• Finalist, 2012 World Technology Awards.
• Award of Distinction [2nd prize], Hybrid Art, Prix Ars Electronica 2012. 9/2012.
• Honorable Mention, Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica 2009. 9/2009.
• Grand Kam Fan Award, as contributor to McCann ELEMENTS campaign, 11/2008.
• Webby Award, NetArt Category, 2007 Webby Awards. 5/2007.
• Elected as WTN Fellow, Arts Category, 2005 World Technology Awards. 6/2005.
• TR100, Technology Review’s “100 Top Young Innovators Under 35”, 10/2004.
• Honorable Mention, Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica 2004. 9/2004.
• Award of Distinction [2nd prize], Net Vision / Net Excellence, Prix Ars Electronica 2003. 9/2003.
• Bronze Medalist, ID Magazine Interaction Design Awards. 11/2002.
• Honorable Mention, Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica 2002. 9/2002.
• Contributor to Carnivore, Golden Nica, Net Excellence, Prix Ars Electronica, 9/2002.
• New Artist Under 30, Print Magazine. 4/2002.
• Honorable Mention, Interactive Art Prize, Berlin Transmediale.01. 2/2001.
• Award of Distinction [2nd prize], Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica 2000. 9/2000.
• Best of Interactive Category, BitByBitDigital juried exhibition. 10/2000.
• Winner, Communication Arts Interactive Design Annual 6. 9/2000.
• Bronze Medalist, ID Magazine Interaction Design Awards. 6/2000.
• Winner, ASCI Digital2000 Competition. 6/2000.
• Honorary Mention, Tokyo Type Director’s Club Awards. 4/2000.
• Merrill-Lynch Student Fellowship. 1999-2000.
• IBM Student Fellowship, 1998-1999.
• National Semifinalist, Westinghouse Science Competition. 12/1989.

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Grants

• Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) 2008 Fellowship award, New Technologies / Other Genres, 2/2008.
• Berkman Faculty Development Grant, Carnegie Mellon University, 12/2006.
• Artist’s Grant, Emerging Fields Category, Creative Capital Foundation. 2/2006.
• Artist’s Grant, New York State Council on the Arts. 8/2003.
• Artist’s Grant, Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund. 7/2003.
• Artist’s Grant, The Daniel Langlois Foundation. 5/2003.
• Artist’s Grant, Arts Council England, National Touring Programme. 1/2003.
• Artist’s Grant, New York State Council on the Arts. 2/2002.
• Artist’s Grant, The Greenwall Foundation. 2/2002.
• Artist’s Grant, The Daniel Langlois Foundation. 5/2001.
• Artist’s Grant, The Greenwall Foundation. 5/2001.
• Artist’s Grant, MIT Council for the Arts. 11/1991.

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Bibliography & Press

Select Books

• Antonelli, Paola. Design and the Elastic Mind. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, 2008. ISBN: 0870707329.
• Antonelli, Paola. Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects. MoMA, 2011. ISBN: 0870707965.
• Austin, Tricia and Richard Doust. New Media Design. Laurence King Publishing, 2007. ISBN: 1856694313.
• Bay-Cheng, Sarah, et al. Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field. U. of Michigan, 2015. ISBN: 0472072900.
• Bard-Schwarz, David. An Introduction to Electronic Art Through the Teaching of Jacques Lacan. Routledge, 2014. ISBN: 0415500591.
• Birks, Kimberlie. Design for Children: Play, Ride, Learn, Eat, Create, Sit, Sleep. Phaidon Press, 2018. ISBN: 978-0714875194.
• Blais, Joline and Ippolito, John. At the Edge of Art. Thames and Hudson, 2005. ISBN: 0500238227.
• Bohnacker, Hartmut et al. Generative Gestaltung. Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz, 2009. ISBN: 3874397599.
• Boisselier, Charlotte. Synesthésie et Matérialisation du Son en Art à l’Ère du Numérique. Editions Universitaires Européennes, 2011. ISBN: 6131576149.
• Bullivant, Lucy. Responsive Environments: Architecture, Art and Design. V&A Contemporaries, 2006. ISBN: 185177481X.
• Cameron, Andy. IdN Special 04: The Art of Experimental Interaction Design. IdN, Hong Kong. 2004. ISBN: 988970658X.
• Cardoso Llach, Daniel, and Theodora Vardouli, eds. Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design. Applied Research & Design / ORO Editions, 2023. ISBN: 978-1954081345.
• Colson, Richard. The Fundamentals of Digital Art. Fairchild Books / AVA Publishing, 2007. ISBN: 2940373582.
• Fiell, Charlotte and Peter Fiell. Graphic Design for the 21st Century. Taschen Books, 2003. ISBN: 3822816051.
• Gopinath, Sumanth. The Ringtone Dialectic: Economy and Cultural Form. MIT Press, 2013. ISBN: 0262019159.
• Greene, Rachel. Internet Art. Thames and Hudson, 2004. ISBN: 0500203768.
• Havens, Henk et al. Theater & Technologie. Theater Instituut Nederland, 2006. ISBN: 9070892820.
• Hjorth, Larissa, Adriana de Souza e Silva, and Klare Lanson, eds. The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media Art. Routledge, 2020. ISBN: 978-0367197162.
• Hope, Cat and Ryan, John C. Digital Arts: An Introduction to New Media. Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. ISBN: 1780933231.
• Iwasaka, Mika. Beyond the Display: Phenomenal Art and Design in the 21st Century. BNN Publishing. 2015. ISBN: 4861009510.
• Johnston, David Jhave. Aesthetic Animism: Digital Poetry’s Ontological Implications. MIT Press, 2016. ISBN: 0262034514.
• Klanten, Robert, et al. A Touch of Code: Interactive Installations and Experiences. Gestalten, 2011. ISBN: 3899553314.
• Kwastek, Katja. Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art. MIT Press, 2013. ISBN: 0262019329.
• Lieser, Wolf. Digital Art. H.F. Ullmann Publishing, Germany, 2009. ISBN: 3833153385.
• Lupton, Ellen. Beautiful Users. Princeton Architectural Press, 2014. ISBN: 1616892919.
• Lupton, Ellen, and Jennifer Cole Phillips. Graphic Design: The New Basics. Princeton Architectural Press, 2008. ISBN: 1568987021.
• Marchessault, Janine, ed. Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema. University of Toronto Press, 2007. ISBN: 0802092977.
• Moulon, Dominique. Art Contemporain et Nouveaux Médias. Nouvelles Editions Scala, 2011. ISBN: 2359880386.
• Murano, Francesco. Light Works: Experimental Projection Mapping. Politecnico di Milano Press, 2014. ISBN: 8854871486.
• Navas, Eduardo. Remix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling. Springer Vienna Architecture, 2012. ISBN: 3990434993.
• Paul, Christiane. Digital Art (World of Art). Thames and Hudson, 2003. ISBN: 0500203679.
• Quaranta, Domenico. Beyond New Media Art. Link Editions, 2013. ISBN: 1291376976.
• Quaranta, Domenico and Geraldine Juárez. The F.A.T Manual. Link Editions, 2013. ISBN: 1291577912.
• Quaranta, Domenico and Yves Bernard. Holy Fire: Art of the Digital Age. Link Editions, 2011. ISBN: 147093874X.
• Reas, Casey et al. Form+Code. Princeton Architectural Press, 2010. ISBN: 1568989377.
• Ricardo, Francisco J. The Engagement Aesthetic. Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. ISBN: 1623560403.
• Salter, Chris. Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance. MIT Press, 2010. ISBN: 0262195887.
• Schwartzman, Madeline. See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception. Black Dog Publishing, 2011. ISBN: 1907317295.
• Shanken, Edward. Art and Electronic Media (Themes and Movements). Phaidon, 2009. ISBN: 0714847828.
• Simanowski, Roberto. Digitale Medien in der Erlebnisgesellschaft. Rowohlt Verlag, 2008. ISBN: 3499556960.
• Stern, Nathaniel. Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance. Gylphi Ltd., 2013. ISBN: 1780240090.
• Tresaco, Boyer. Best New York Art 2008. Theredoom Publishing, 2008. ISBN: 8493511250.
• Tribe, Mark and Reena Jana. New Media Art. Taschen Verlag Basic Art Series, 2006. ISBN: 3822830410.
• Vesna, Victoria, ed. Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow. University of Minnesota Press, 2007. ISBN: 0816641196.
• Wands, Bruce. Art of the Digital Age. Thames and Hudson, 2005. ISBN: 0500238170.
• Warnier, Claire, et al. Printing Things: Visions and Essentials for 3D Printing. Gestalten, 2014. ISBN: 3899555163.
• Wilson, Stephen. Art + Science Now. Thames and Hudson, 2010. ISBN: 0500238685.
• Wünsche, Isabel and Wiebke Gronemeyer, eds. Practices of Abstract Art: Between Anarchism and Appropriation. Cambridge Scholars, 2016. ISBN: 1443897345.

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Press

Owing to link rot, this section is currently undergoing reconstruction.

2025

• Simone Brauner, “Touching Grass: Golan Levin on Systems Re-Pairing” (PDF). The AI Art Magazine, 11/2025.
• Merve Güven Özkerim, “Beyond Representation: A Conversation with Golan Levin on Generative Art and Blockchain” (PDF). Hyperrhiz 29, 10/2025.

2016

• Anzilotti, Eillie. “Mapping the Hidden Patterns of Urban Life.” CityLab, June 7, 2016.
• Anzilotti, Eillie. “Mapeando los patrones ocultos de la vida urbana.” Univision, June 16, 2016.
• Blakemore, Erin. “This New Satellite Project Helps People Find Patterns in City Spaces.” Smithsonian, June 9, 2016.
• Bravo, Eduardo. “La web que encuentra lugares parecidos entre sí desde el cielo.” Yorokobu, May 27, 2016.
• Brien, Jörn. “Satellitenbilder durchsuchen mit Terrapattern: Suchmaschine arbeitet mit Künstlicher Intelligenz.” t3n, June 6, 2016.
• Brownlee, John. “This Neural Network Reveals Your City’s Secret Patterns.” Fast Company, June 1, 2016.
• Chen, Qi. “Open Source Terrapattern, the Public Use of Artificial Intelligence Nuggets Big Data from Remote Sensing (开源的Terrapattern, 让公众利用人工智能从遥感大数据中挖金).” 3sNews, June 12, 2016.
• Clarke, Keir. “Searching for Map Patterns.” Google Maps Mania, May 26, 2016.
• Cohen, Tanya. “НОВЫЙ ЛУЧШИЙ САЙТ: ПОИСКОВИК ПО ИЗОБРАЖЕНИЯМ СО СПУТНИКА.” Knife.Media, May 28, 2016.
• Coldewey, Devin. “Terrapattern Is Reverse Image Search for Maps, Powered by a Neural Network.” TechCrunch, May 25, 2016.
• “Cool Tech! Terrapattern, Open-Source Tool for Discovering ‘Patterns of Interest’.” GISUser, May 31, 2016.
• Dempsey, Caitlin. “Terrapattern: Search Engine for Satellite Imagery.” GIS Lounge, May 28, 2016.
• Freist, Roland. “Geo-Suchmaschine vergleicht Satellitenbilder.” MittelstandsWiki, June 13, 2016.
• Hagler, Jürgen. “Animation, Art and Technology: Tracking Developments on the Fringe.” In Im Wandel: Metamorphosen der Animation. Springer, 2016. In German.
• Heller, Piotr. “Suchmaschine für Satellitenbilder: Wir wissen, wo euer Flugzeug steht.” Spiegel Online, June 3, 2016.
• Hlács, Ferenc. “Az égbe költözik a gazdasági analitika.” HWSW, June 13, 2016.
• “How to Tame a Robot with High Performance Software.” Scientific Computing, March 2, 2016.
• Ibáñez, Álvaro. “Terrapattern, el buscador de imágenes de satélite similares.” Microsiervos, May 28, 2016.
• “Il motore di ricerca dei paesaggi.” Il Post, June 9, 2016.
• “In Addition to Image Recognition, Artificial Intelligence Can Accurately Locate GPS Coordinates (除了图片识别 人工智能还能准确定位GPS坐标).” TechWeb, June 12, 2016.
• Kohlstedt, Kurt. “Terrapattern: Satellite Image Search Engine Matches Similar Places.” WebUrbanist, May 30, 2016.
• Kottke, Jason. “Satellite Imagery Search Engine.” Kottke.org, May 25, 2016.
• Manaugh, Geoff. “Subverting Our New Space Overlords.” The Atlantic, June 9, 2016.
• Mandelbaum, Ryan F. “This Website Lets You Find the Hidden Similarities in Big Cities.” Popular Science, May 25, 2016.
• Meyer, Robinson. “The Thrill of Terrapattern, a New Way to Search Satellite Imagery.” The Atlantic, May 27, 2016.
• “Neuronales Netz: Mit Terrapattern die Welt erkunden.” Der Standard, June 4, 2016.
• Ouellette, Jennifer. “Aspiring Artists Can Make Like a Dutch Master with the LUCY Drawing Tool.” Gizmodo, April 5, 2016.
• Parlangeli, Diletta. “Le città nascoste su Terrapattern, il motore di ricerca di immagini satellitari.” Wired Italia, June 23, 2016.
• Pluta, Werner. “Terrapattern erkennt Strukturen auf Satellitenbildern.” Golem.de, June 6, 2016.
• Reese, Hope. “Google Maps Meets AI: Carnegie Mellon’s Terrapattern Can Find and Map Every Pool in New York City.” TechRepublic, June 8, 2016.
• Schieb, Jörg. “TerraPattern: Neue Such-Maschine für Satelliten-Aufnahmen.” Schieb.de, June 8, 2016.
• Scholz, Trebor. Uberworked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy. Polity, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-7456-5357-0.
• Singleton, Micah. “Terrapattern Is the First Open-Access Visual Search Engine for Satellite Maps.” The Verge, May 27, 2016.
• Stinson, Liz. “Terrapattern Is Like a Search Engine for Satellite Imagery.” Wired, May 27, 2016.
• “Terrapattern Berlin.” Nerdcore, June 5, 2016.
• “Terrapattern, il motore di ricerca intelligente per foto satellitari.” HDblog.it, June 9, 2016.
• “Terrapattern uydu haritasında görsel arama yapıyor.” TechInside, May 30, 2016.
• “Terrapattern: Webdienst durchsucht Satellitenbilder.” Futurezone, June 4, 2016.
• Toobin, Adam. “Kill Some Time with Terrapattern, Which Turns Satellite Images into Art.” Inverse, May 27, 2016.
• Twilley, Nicola. “Meet Terrapattern, Google Earth’s Missing Search Engine.” The New Yorker, May 25, 2016.
• Visnjic, Filip. “Terrapattern: Neural Network Visual Search Tool for Satellite Imagery.” Creative Applications Network, May 25, 2016.
• “Visual Search Map Advent of Neural Network Reverse Image Search (视觉搜索地图问世, 神经网络实现逆向图像搜索).” Lei Feng Network, May 26, 2016.
• Voon, Claire. “A Visual Search Engine for the Aerial Patterns of Cities.” Hyperallergic, July 6, 2016.
• Voon, Claire. “Immersive Art Installations Light Up Houston’s Day for Night Festival.” Hyperallergic, December 2, 2016.
• Voon, Claire. “At Day for Night Festival, a Surreal World of Light Provides Respite from the Music.” Hyperallergic, December 20, 2016.
• “When Google Maps Experiences AI: Terrapattern AI Finds and Locates Swimming Pools in New York City (当谷歌地图遇到人工智能: Terrapattern AI能找到并定位纽约市的游泳池).” cnBeta, June 12, 2016.
• Whitehead, Timothy. “Terrapattern, the search engine for imagery.” Google Earth Blog, May 27, 2016.
• Worms, Anne-Cécile. “Terrapattern, le nouveau moteur de recherche des images satellite.” Makery, May 31, 2016.
• Wünsche, Isabel, and Wiebke Gronemeyer, eds. Practices of Abstract Art: Between Anarchism and Appropriation. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-4438-9734-1.
• Yau, Nathan. “Visual Search Tool for Satellite Imagery.” FlowingData, June 1, 2016.

2015

• Alfa.lt. “Košmariškos, bet visai nebaisios: plaštakos su 6, 4 ar net 25 pirštais.” May 9, 2015.
• Behrends, Jakob. Interreaction: Interaktive Medien und Kommunikation im Raum. Eine Einführung für Gestalter. AV Edition, April 2015. ISBN: 978-3-89986-212-6. In German.
• Brack, Jeb. “9,000 Sketches to Be Immortalized on the Moon.” PSFK, June 22, 2015.
• Bromwich, Jonah. “Will Our Future Computer Overlords Appreciate Art?.” Vice, April 20, 2015.
• Cutler, Kim-Mai. “An Interview with a Drone Painter Who Made a Poop Portrait of Eric Schmidt.” TechCrunch, May 21, 2015.
• Demirtaş, Kamil. “Ellerinizi 4 Parmaklı Olarak Gösteren Arttırılmış Gerçeklik Kutusu.” WebTekno, May 2015.
• Freidel, Morten. “Was den Menschen zur Maschine macht.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 1, 2015.
• Glentzer, Molly. “‘Shadow Monsters’ Creator Keeps It Simple, Fun.” Houston Chronicle, May 29, 2015.
• Grba, Dejan. “Get Lucky: Cognitive Aspects of Generative Art.” In Proceedings of the XVIII Generative Art Conference, 200–213. Venice, December 2015.
• Heater, Brian. “‘Augmented Hand Series,’ a Box That Creates Trippy Visual Manipulations of a User’s Hand in Real Time.” Laughing Squid, January 8, 2015.
• Iwasaka, Mika. Beyond the Display: Phenomenal Art and Design in the 21st Century. BNN Publishing, May 2015. Bilingual Japanese and English edition. ISBN: 978-4-86100-951-8.
• Joho, Jess. “This Augmented Reality Installation Will Melt Your Brain and Your Hand.” Kill Screen, January 7, 2015.
• Keats, Jonathon. “MoMA Envisions a Future in Which Designers Become Political Philosophers.” Forbes, March 23, 2015.
• Keats, Jonathon. “The ‘This Is for Everyone’ Exhibition Reveals Future of Philosophy.” New Scientist, December 27, 2015.
• Kelliher, Aisling. “Machines Learning Culture.” IEEE MultiMedia, April–June 2015, 19.
• Kottke, Jason. “Augmented Hands.” Kottke.org, May 6, 2015.
• Krawczyk, Natalie. “Gross! These Augmented Hands Will Give You Nightmares for Days.” Pixable, May 7, 2015.
• “Konkurs na rysunki, które zostaną narysowane na Księżycu.” Money.pl, April 30, 2015.
• Madrigal, Alexis C. “Insert Hand into Box, Watch It Become a Surreal Digital Object.” Fusion, January 6, 2015.
• Manilève, Vincent. “Attention, dernier jour pour envoyer votre dessin sur la Lune.” Slate.fr, May 7, 2015.
• Mersmann, Birgit. Schriftikonik: Bildphänomene der Schrift in kultur- und medienkomparativer Perspektive. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2015. ISBN: 978-3-7705-5912-1.
• Mills, Chris. “These Augmented Reality Hands Are Giving Me Nightmares.” Gizmodo, May 6, 2015.
• Montañez, Amanda. “Art Can Highlight Climate Change, but Where Is the Data?.” Scientific American, November 27, 2015.
• Peterson, Ivars. “Shaping Sounds.” Muse, May 2015, 10.
• Popeson, Pamela. “This Is for Everyone: Free Play.” Inside/Out, Museum of Modern Art, March 27, 2015.
• Quito, Anne. “Today Is the Last Chance to Send Your Drawing to the Moon.” Quartz, May 7, 2015.
• República. “La historia se repite: vamos a mandar un pene a la Luna por segunda vez.” May 11, 2015.
• Richardson, Andrew. Data-Driven Graphic Design: Creative Coding for Visual Communication. Fairchild Books/Bloomsbury, November 2015. ISBN: 978-1-4725-7830-3.
• Rinck, Jonathan. “Democratizing Design.” Sculpture, October 7, 2015.
• Schmidt, Christian. “Data Culture.” ARCADE 33, no. 1, April 2015. p.33,41.
• Scholz, Alexander. “Short Cuts: CentrePasquArt Maps 50 Years of Invention and Influence in Art and Design.” Creative Applications Network, June 1, 2015.
• Shirky, Clay, and Anne VanderMey. “China’s Version of the ‘Maker Movement’ Puts the U.S. to Shame.” Fortune, October 21, 2015.
• Stinson, Liz. “Inspiring Objects Designed for Everyone, from Arduino to a Soy Sauce Bottle.” Wired, February 19, 2015.
• Stinson, Liz. “We Sent a Dick Pic to the Moon—and We’re Doing It Again.” Wired, May 7, 2015.
• Stinson, Liz. “Watch an Experiment That Turns People’s Hands into Creepy Visuals.” Wired, January 6, 2015.
• Subyen, Pattarawut. “Mapping, Meaning, and Motion: An Artistic Framework for Visualizing Movement Quality.” Doctoral thesis, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, 2015.
• Tickle, Glen. “New Grotesque Real-Time Visual Manipulations of Augmented Hands.” Laughing Squid, May 6, 2015.
• Visnjic, Filip. “How to Create Interactive Loops Using Lenticular Animation and GifPop.” Creative Applications Network, April 9, 2015.
• Visnjic, Filip. “The Augmented Hand Series: Playful, Dreamlike and Uncanny.” Creative Applications Network, January 6, 2015.
• Walasek, Dobromila. “Malen Sie den Mann in den Mond.” Zeit Online, May 6, 2015.
• Weller, Chris. “Augmented Hands Project Visualizes Extra Fingers, Missing Knuckles in Real Time.” Medical Daily, May 8, 2015.
• Bay-Cheng, Sarah, Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, and David Z. Saltz. Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field. University of Michigan Press, October 2015. ISBN: 978-0-472-05290-5.

2014

• Bard-Schwarz, David. An Introduction to Electronic Art Through the Teaching of Jacques Lacan: Strangest Thing. Routledge, February 2014. ISBN: 978-0-415-50059-3.
• Bosco, Roberta. “Évora despliega la historia del arte interactivo.” El País, January 6, 2014.
• Boulton, Jim. 100 Ideas That Changed the Web. Laurence King Publishing, August 2014. ISBN: 978-1-78067-370-7.
• Core77 Design Awards. “Core77 Design Awards 2014: The Best DIY Designs of the Year.” Core77, July 30, 2014.
• Demers, Louis-Philippe. Machine Performers: Agents in a Multiple Ontological State. Doctoral thesis, Plymouth University, 2014.
• Downes, Larry, and Paul Nunes. “How Art Historians’ Kickstarter Project Redefined Business Strategy.” Upstart Business Journal, January 9, 2014.
• Faster by Sprint. “200 Words: Golan Levin.” January 20, 2014.
• Gonzalez, Leah. “Chrome Plug-In Offers a Visual Map of Your Internet Activity.” PSFK, March 21, 2014.
• Gunn, Ali. “FutureEverything 2014: Tools for the Unknown Future.” The Skinny, April 9, 2014.
• Hope, Cat, and John Charles Ryan. Digital Arts: An Introduction to New Media. Berg New Media Series. Bloomsbury Academic, June 2014. ISBN: 978-1-78093-323-8.
• Karlovits, Bob. “Sounds of Nature Get a ‘Remix’ for Phipps Project.” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, June 21, 2014.
• Koster, Rick. “Connecticut College Holds Arts & Science Symposium.” The Day, February 27, 2014.
• Krassenstein, Brian. “Free 3D Printable Adapters Allow Kids to Connect LEGOs, K’Nex, Tinkertoys, and Seven Other Construction Sets.” 3DPrint.com, July 14, 2014.
• Lange, Alexandra. “The New Cooper Hewitt.” The New Yorker, December 12, 2014.
• McKeand, Kirk. “Twist and Shout: The Making of Blek.” PocketGamer.biz, June 25, 2014.
• Murano, Francesco. Light Works: Experimental Projection Mapping. Aracne Editrice, 2014. ISBN: 978-88-548-7148-9.
• Panzeri, Chiara. “Artware.” la Repubblica, July 27, 2014. In Italian.
• RTV Slovenija. “Golan Levin – F.U.C.K. & QR kode za digitalne nomade.” April 17, 2014.
• “Top 10 Most-Funded Chicago Design & Tech Kickstarter Campaigns of 2013.” Chicago Tribune, January 13, 2014.
• Vanhemert, Kyle. “Blek: An iPad Game with Brilliant, Unique Mechanics.” Wired, January 10, 2014.
• Warnier, Claire, Dries Verbruggen, Sven Ehmann, and Robert Klanten, eds. Printing Things: Visions and Essentials for 3D Printing. Gestalten, April 2014. ISBN: 978-3-89955-516-5.