Neri Oxman

Neri Oxman
נרי אוקסמן
Oxman in 2017
Born (1976-02-06) February 6, 1976 (age 48)
Haifa, Israel
NationalityIsraeli, American
EducationHebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel Institute of Technology (BA)
Architectural Association (MA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Occupation(s)Designer and academic[1]
Spouses
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    (m. 2011; div. 2015)​
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    (m. 2019)​
Children1
MotherRivka Oxman
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsArchitectural design
ThesisMaterial-based design computation (2010)
Doctoral advisorWilliam J. Mitchell
Military career
Allegiance Israel
Service/branch Israeli Air Force
Rank First lieutenant
Websiteoxman.com

Neri Oxman (Hebrew: נרי אוקסמן; born February 6, 1976) is an Israeli-American designer and former professor known for art that combines design, biology, computing, and materials engineering.[2] She coined the phrase "material ecology" to define her work.[3][4]

Oxman was a professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, where she founded and led the Mediated Matter research group.[5] She has had exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA),[6] Boston's Museum of Science, SFMOMA, and the Centre Pompidou, which have her works in their permanent collections.[7]

Many of Oxman's projects use new platforms and techniques for 3D printing and fabrication, often incorporating nature and biology. They include co-fabrication systems for building hybrid structures with silkworms,[8][9] bees, and ants; a water-based fabrication platform that built structures such as Aguahoja out of chitosan;[10] and the first 3D printer for optically transparent glass.[11] Other projects include printed clothing, wearables, and furniture.[12]

  1. ^ Waddoups, Ryan (March 8, 2021). "Neri Oxman Is Opening a Design and Research Lab in New York". SURFACE. Retrieved February 9, 2024.
  2. ^ "5 Women at the Forefront of Next-Gen Innovation". Architectural Digest. November 18, 2021. Retrieved September 8, 2023.
  3. ^ "Group Overview ‹ Mediated Matter". MIT Media Lab. Retrieved February 9, 2024.
  4. ^ "Material Ecology". The Dirt. August 20, 2009. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
  5. ^ "Person Overview ‹ Neri Oxman". MIT Media Lab. Retrieved September 8, 2023.
  6. ^ "No Joints Needed: By Experimenting with Materials in an Open Ended Manner, Neri Oxman Reshapes the Look and Feel of Architecture Yet to Come". Mark Magazine. December 1, 2008. Retrieved August 9, 2021.
  7. ^ "SFMOMA Collection". SFMOMA.
  8. ^ Silkworms and Robot work together to weave silk pavilion, Dezeen, June 3, 2013.
  9. ^ Green, Penelope (October 6, 2018). "Who Is Neri Oxman?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 8, 2023.
  10. ^ Mogas-Soldevila, Laia; Duro-Royo, Jorge; Lizardo, Daniel; Kayser, Markus; Patrick, William; Sharma, Sunanda; Keating, Steven; Klein, John; Inamura, Chikara; Oxman, Neri (2015). "DESIGNING THE OCEAN PAVILION: Biomaterial Templating of Structural, Manufacturing, and Environmental Performance" (PDF). Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 4, 2018. Retrieved September 16, 2016.
  11. ^ "Glass I". Mediated Matter Group. Archived from the original on July 7, 2020.
  12. ^ "Björk to perform the world's first 360 VR stream – Dancing Astronaut". Dancing Astronaut. June 28, 2016. Retrieved August 2, 2016.