Scott Snibbe
Scott Snibbe creates immersive interactive art known for its positive social effects: fostering a sense of interdependence, promoting social interaction among strangers, and increasing viewers’ concentration. His artworks have been installed in institutions worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the InterCommunications Center in Tokyo, Austria’s Ars Electronica, the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Science Museum in London, the Phaeno Science Center in Germany, and the Cité de Science in Paris. He has been awarded a variety of international prizes, including the Prix Ars Electronica and a Rockefeller New Media Fellowship. In 2007, he became one of only a few artists ever to have been awarded a National Science Foundation Grant, for research in interactive narrative. He is the founder of Snibbe Interactive, Inc., a company that sells and distributes interactive installations for public spaces; and Sona Research, a company that engages in educational and cultural research.
Snibbe was born in 1969 in New York City. He holds Bachelor’s degrees in computer science and fine art and a Master’s in computer science from Brown University. Snibbe studied experimental animation at the Rhode Island School of Design, and his films have been widely shown internationally. He has taught media art and experimental film at Brown University, the San Francisco Art Institute, California Institute of the Arts, the Rhode Island School of Design, and UC Berkeley. Snibbe worked at Adobe Systems as a computer scientist, where he made substantial contributions to the special effects software Adobe After Effects and other research projects. Snibbe has also held research positions at Interval Research, where he performed basic research in haptics, computer vision, and interactive cinema. Snibbe’s research is documented in a number of academic papers. He holds over a dozen patents.