David Em
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David Em (born 1952) is an American computer artist.
[edit] Life and Work
David Em was born in Los Angeles and grew up in South America. He studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and film directing at the American Film Institute.
Em produced his early art work in research laboratories. He created digital paintings at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) in 1975. He made an articulated digital insect in 1976 at Information International, Inc. (III). He produced his first navigable virtual worlds in 1977 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he was Artist in Residence from 1977 to 1984. He also created artwork at the California Institute of Technology (1985 – 1988), and Apple Computer (1991). Em has worked independently since the early nineties.
His art has been exhibited in museums, including the Centre Pompidou, the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Seibu Museum in Tokyo.
[edit] Bibliography
- Zelanski, Paul and Mary Pat Fisher. The Art of Seeing. 7th Ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.
- Kleiner, Fred S. and Christin J. Mamiya. Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.12th Ed., March 2004.
- Ross, David. The Art of David Em. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988.
- Bradbury, Ray. “Em Squared”. David Em at OCCA. Orange County Center for Contemporary Art exhibition catalogue,1984.
