Camille Utterback

Bio

Camille Utterback is an internationally acclaimed artist whose interactive installations and reactive sculptures engage participants in a dynamic process of kinesthetic discovery and play. Utterback’s work explores the aesthetic and experiential possibilities of linking computational systems to human movement and gesture in layered and often humorous ways. Her work focuses attention on the continued relevance and richness of the body in our increasingly mediated world.

Her work has been exhibited at galleries, festivals, and museums internationally, including The Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN; The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; ZERO1 The Art & Technology Network, San Jose, CA; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The American Museum of the Moving Image, New York; The NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo; The Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Netherlands Institute for Media Art; The Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art; The Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine; and the Ars Electronica Center, Austria. Utterback’s work is in private and public collections including Hewlett Packard, Itaú Cultural Institute in São Paolo, Brazil, and La Caixa Foundation in Barcelona, Spain.

Awards and honors include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2009), a Transmediale International Media Art Festival Award (2005), a Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowship (2002) and a commission from the Whitney Museum for the CODeDOC project on their ArtPort website (2002). Utterback holds a US patent for a video tracking system she developed while working as a research fellow at New York University (2004). Her work has been featured in The New York Times (2010, 2009, 2003, 2002, 2001), Art in America (October, 2004), Wired Magazine (February 2004), ARTnews (2001) and many other publications. It is also included in Thames & Hudson’s World of Art – Digital Art book (2003) by Christiane Paul.

Recent public commissions include works for the Liberty Mutual Group, the FOR-SITE Foundation, The Sacramento Airport, The City of San Jose, California, The City of Fontana, California, and the City of St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Other commissions include projects for The American Museum of Natural History in New York, The Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, The Manhattan Children’s Museum, Herman Miller, Shiseido Cosmetics, and other private corporations.

Utterback is currently an Assistant Professor in the Art and Art History Department at Stanford University. She holds a BA in Art from Williams College, and a Masters degree from The Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She currently lives and works in San Francisco.

Academic Appointments

• Associate Professor, Art & Art History
• Associate Professor (By courtesy), Computer Science
• Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

Honors & Awards

• Artist Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (2009)
• MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, MacArthur Foundation (2009)
• Master Artist in Residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL (2008)
• Artist Residency, Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (2007/2008)
• IBM Innovation Merit Award, The Boston Cyberarts Festival, Boston, MA (2007)
• Nominee, New Media Art Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation (2006/2007)
• Nominee, Society for the Encouragement of Contemporaty Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (2005)
• Transmediale Award, International Media Art Festival, Berlin (2005)
• Nominee, CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts (2003)
• New Media Art Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation (2002)
• Artist Residency, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA (2001)
• OLB Media Art Prize, European Media Art Festival Award, Osnabruck (2000)
• Interval Research Fellowship, New York University (1998-2000)

Professional Education

• MPS, New York University, MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1999)
• B.A., Williams College (1992)