Theo Watson

Theo Watson
Born
London, England
NationalityBritish / American
EducationBFA Design and Technology, Parsons School of Design
Known forVideo, interactive art, programming, digital art

Theo Watson is a British artist and programmer.[1][2] His art work includes interactive video, large-scale public projections, computer vision projects, and interactive sound recordings which have featured in museums and galleries across the world including Museum of Modern Art,[3] New York Hall of Science,[4] Tate Modern amongst others.[5] Watson is a partner at Design I/O, a Cambridge-based interactive design firm[6] known for cutting edge, immersive installations.[7] He is also co-founder of the programming toolkit openFrameworks,[8] co-creator of the EyeWriter[9] and a virtual fellow at Free Art and Technology Lab.

  1. ^ "Low-cost glasses win award and help paralyzed artists draw with their". The Independent. 16 March 2010. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  2. ^ Mancuso, Marco (3 June 2008). "The Wonderful Ideas Of Theodore Watson • Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture". Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Zach Lieberman, James Powderly, Evan Roth, Chris Sugrue, TEMPT1, Theo Watson. EyeWriter. 2009 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  4. ^ VanHemert, Kyle (3 August 2015). "The Key to Digital Learning? Bring It Into the Real World". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  5. ^ VanHemert, Kyle. "The Key to Digital Learning? Bring It into the Real World". WIRED. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  6. ^ "Design I/O's Mimic – Putting emotional machines within arm's reach". CreativeApplications.Net. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  7. ^ Whyte, Chelsea. "Augmented reality brings Beatie Wolfe's new songs to life". New Scientist. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  8. ^ "Theo Watson". FITC. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  9. ^ "Theo Watson: Auto Smiley". Creativity Online. Retrieved 5 October 2017.