Benjamin De Kosnik
benjamin.dekosnik.com
United States °1971
affiliation: California College of the Arts
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Benjamin De Kosnik is an artist working with hybrid media in multiple disciplines: one to three channel video art, animated GIF, new media, installations, experimental writing and publishing, documentation systems, legal instruments, horticulture, and works on paper.
He has participated in juried group shows in Tokyo, Hong Kong, California, and Texas.
He is an artist and software engineer, a member of the GNU project, and has served as a technical expert for the International Standards Organization working groups on the C and C++ languages, The Austin Group, and Linux Standard Base. He incorporates this technical background and his free software aesthetic of computation into his art experiments. His current interests are visual forms of metadata augmentation for computer vision, media remix and fan production, horticulture, and mapping global media piracy flows.
He currently lives and works as an artist and engineer in San Francisco, California.