American Artist and Tommy Martinez

American Artist makes thought experiments that primarily take the form of sculpture, software, and video. Artist is a recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in Visual Art and has exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and The Museum of Modern Art, NY. Artist is a co-director of the School for Poetic Computation and a faculty at Yale School of Art. Their work, Untitled (2019) is currently on display in MoMA’s collection galleries. Immersing the viewer within the digital interfaces of predictive policing — a contemporary technology used by law enforcement — the video installation highlights biases inherent in seemingly neutral tools.

Tommy Martinez is an artist and programmer working primarily through research, sound, and code. He creates software and musical systems for the internet, for embedded devices, and for live multi-channel performance. Martinez has performed at MoMA PS1, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Fridman Gallery, and Pioneer Works. He has lectured on sound and electronic art at School for Poetic Computation, UC Berkeley (CNMAT), Stanford University (CCRMA), NYU (IDM and ITP), and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Martinez and Artist created the performance Integrity Protocol/Lower Limb Lecture, which was originally performed at Pageant in Brooklyn, NY on January 7, 2023, and subsequently recorded later that year.