Associate Professor
Visual Art & Technology
Stevens Institute of Technology
mail@jeffreythompson.org
Born: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Lives: Bloomfield, New Jersey, USA
Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of Art (2006)
Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2004)
Universal Approximator (2020)
SPACES; Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Human Computers (2020)
Locust Projects; Miami, Florida, USA
First There Is A Mountain, Then There Is No Mountain, Then There Is (2018)
King's College, University of Cambridge; Cambridge, England
I Touch You And You Touch Me (2017)
Harvestworks; New York, New York, USA
White Noise Boutique (2015)
Brighton Digital Festival; Brighton, England
Impossible In Another Form (2014)
George Mason University Gallery; Fairfax, Virginia, USA
A Very Deep Saxophone And A Very Long Guitar (2013, with Damon Lee)
Sheldon Museum of Art; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Seam Sorting (2013)
LEVEL Gallery, Lawrence Technological University; Detroit, Michigan, USA
Glistening Waves (2011)
Harvestworks; New York City, New York, USA
Lamination (2008)
Local Project; Long Island City, New York, USA
Wavering Cedar and 100,000 Blades of Grass (2007)
Department of Safety; Anacortes, Washington, USA
Recording Exchange (2006)
Hogar Collection Gallery; Brooklyn, New York, USA
Total Information Awareness
Grizzly Grizzly; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition
ArtWorks; Trenton, New Jersey, USA
Athens Digital Art Festival
Athens, Greece
Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts Exhibition
University of Hartford; Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Also Tubes
Unrequited Leisure; Nashville, Tennessee, USA
The Virtual is (Always) Already Real
Bronx Art Space; New York City, New York, USA
e/co,li:b-re.bel
Piksel Festival for Electronic Art and Free Technologies; Bergen, Norway
Future Relics
Vector Festival/InterAccess; Toronto, Canada
Do or Delegate
Onomatopee; Eindhoven, Netherlands
Who Does What
Drugo More Gallery; Rijeka, Croatia
Machine Learning for Creativity and Design
NeurIPS 2018 Conference; Montréal, Canada
Tufts Public/Wave Farm in Residence
Tufts University; Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Digital Spring Festival
Salzburger Kunstverein; Salzburg, Austria
Future Perfect
Hygienic Gallery; New London, Connecticut, USA
Wave Farm 1997–2017: Twenty Performances for Twenty Years
Fridman Gallery; New York, New York, USA
0x
Terra Gallery/Ethereal Summit; San Francisco, California, USA
Radical Networks
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Mind-Body Dualism
SIGGRAPH Asia 2017; Bangkok, Thailand
Root Signals Festival
Georgia Southern University; Statesboro, Georgia, USA
Arts on Division Video Festival
Somerville, New Jersey, USA
Sound_Attempt_Error
Like A Little Disaster/Omphalos Gallery; Terlizzi, Bari, Italy
Art of Bots
Somerset House/Abandon Normal Devices; London, England
Art2Code
College Art Association Conference; Washington DC, USA
Game On! El Arte En Juego
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Technologism
Monash University Museum of Art; Melbourne, Australia
/mit ðe dete/: Source Materials Visualized
The Center for Book Arts; New York, New York, USA
Somewhere In-Between
ArtHelix; Brooklyn, New York, USA
Inverted Normals
Rowan University; Glassboro, New Jersey, USA
Into Thin Words
LALD Space; Polignano a Mare, Italy
Weird Science
Kunsthalle Galapagos; Brooklyn, New York, USA
INTERP
Turbulence (online)
Code Poetry Slam 1.1
Stanford University; Stanford, California, USA
First Annual Invitational Exhibition
Kunsthalle Galapagos; Brooklyn, New York, USA
Net.Works 2.0
Vector Game + Art Festival; Toronto, Canada
Computers on Law & Order
Rhizome/Museum of the Moving Image; Queens, New York, USA
Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup: People Make Things That Make Sounds
Lux Center for the Arts; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Code Conference: Media, Games, and Art
Swinburne University of Technology; Melbourne, Australia
10th Annual Piksel Festival
Bergen, Norway
Redact/Froth/Expand/Smash/Stitch: New Video Works
Sheldon Museum of Art; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
WATCH IT!
Taubman Museum of Art; Roanoke, Virginia
A Very Long Guitar
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art; Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Clattering Bits (with Angeles Cossio)
Not Festival; New York City, New York, USA
Bring Your Own Beamer
grrrilla galleries; Linz, Austria
{SØNIK} v2.0 Festival
Bronx Art Space; New York City, New York, USA
One Night Stand (part of the The Dissolve biennial)
SITE Santa Fe; Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Sounding Landscapes
Shu-box Theatre, University of Regina; Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
The Product of Exchange
Sudhaus; Berlin, Germany
New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
Graduate Center, City University of New York; New York, New York, USA
Wyatt Nash and Jeff Thompson
Local Project; Long Island City, New York, USA
Reduplication of the Real
Tactile Bosch Gallery; Cardiff, Wales
13th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA
Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina; Novi Sad, Serbia
Kunstfilmtag
Malkasten Theater; Düsseldorf, Germany
… a very loud silence
Le Flash; Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Academia Invitational
Museum of Nebraska Art; Kearney, Nebraska, USA
Investigations of Place
Jersey City Museum; Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Material Reciprocity
Possible Projects; Brooklyn, New York, USA
Resonance in Residence
3rd Ward; Brooklyn, New York, USA
Dis-Echo-Nance
Hunter College Times Square Gallery; New York, New York, USA
Altered Landscapes
Salisbury University Electronic Gallery; Salisbury, Maryland, USA
Transart Institute Faculty Exhibition
BV Gallery; Linz, Austria
Music Reclamation Project
Hogar Collection Gallery; Brooklyn, New York, USA
Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art
Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Performance for Oranges
White Box Gallery; New York, New York, USA
Re-Surfacing
Hopkins Hall Gallery, Ohio State University; Columbus, Ohio, USA
All the Kings Horses
Asterix Gallery; Cleveland, OH
SoundLab – Memoryscapes
Al Kahf Art Gallery; Bethlehem, Palestine
Contemporary Art Museum; Casoria/Naples, Italy
Museo Arte Contemporaneo; Santa Fe, Argentina
Offizyna Art Space; Szczencin, Poland
The Whole is the Sum of Its Parts
Hogar Collection; Brooklyn, New York, USA
Stolen Time
Dam Stuhltrager; Brooklyn, New York, USA
Fresh Meat/Young Blood
Shore Institute for Contemporary Art; Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
Crossed Circuits
Hogar Collection; Brooklyn, New York, USA
First Look
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts; Summit, New Jersey, USA
Diagram and Scribble Archives
Stony Brook University Gallery; Stony Brook, New York, USA
Spectrum: Works on Paper
Hogar Collection; Brooklyn, New York, USA
Sight/Sound: New Performance
Rutgers University; New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper Exhibition
Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University; New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
ISC 2004 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture
Grounds for Sculpture; Hamilton, New Jersey, USA
Box Fresh
Soap Factory; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
MacDowell (2022)
Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA
SPACES (2020)
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
University of Nevada, Reno (2019/21)
Reno, Nevada, USA
Visiting Fellow, King's College (2018)
University of Cambridge; Cambridge, England
Willipa Bay (2018)
Oysterville, Washington, USA
Wave Farm (2017)
Acra, New York, USA
Bell Labs (2016)
Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA
Center for New Art (2016)
William Patterson University; Wayne, New Jersey, USA
Impakt (2014)
Utrecht, Netherlands
Holland Computing Center (2009-2013)
University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Internet Archive Curatorial Residency (2012, online)
Elsewhere Artist Collaborative (2007, 2009)
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
Vermont Studio Center (2006)
Johnson, Vermont, USA
Department of Safety (2007)
Anacortes, Washington, USA
Artist book commission (2021)
Black Rock Press/University of Nevada, Reno; Reno, Nevada, USA
Emergency Grant (2019)
Foundation for Contemporary Art; New York, New York, US
New Jersey Individual Artist Fellowship (2019)
Nokia Bell Labs Faculty Fellow in the Arts (2018)
Digital Spring Festival commission (2018)
Salzburg, Austria
Lumen Prize (2017)
Short-listed for the Still Image award
Nominated and long-listed for the British Computer Society award for Art and AI
Brighton Digital Festival commission (2015)
Brighton, England
Turbulence.org commission (2014)
New York/Massachusetts, USA
Creativity + Technology = Enterprise Grant (2013)
Harvestworks; New York, New York, USA
Research Council Grant-in-Aid (2013)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Rhizome commission (2012)
New York, New York, USA
Nebraska Research Initiatives Grant (2012)
Co-PI with Holland Computing Center; University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Van Lier Fellowship (2008)
Harvestworks; New York, New York, USA
Dispatx.com commission (2007)
Nadine Goldsmith Fellowship (2006)
Vermont Studio Center; Johnson, Vermont, USA
VanDerlip Travel Award (2004)
Minneapolis College of Art and Design; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Selected reviews and interviews include...
Chairs and Supercomputers: Artists and AI
O'Reilly AI Conference; New York, New York, USA
Building Next-Step Resources
Processing Community Day/New School; New York, New York, USA
Chairs and Supercomputers: Artists and AI
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence; Cambridge, England
Empty Apartments
Photo History/Photo Future Conference 2018; Rochester, New York, USA
Chairs and Supercomputers
Bell Labs (2016); Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA
Computers on Law & Order
Digital Humanities Conference 2016; Kraków, Poland
Computers on Law & Order
Keystone Ditigital Humanities Conference 2015; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Computers on Law & Order
HASTAC Conference 2015; East Lansing, Michigan, USA
The 12-Hour Class Period: Game Jams and Hackathons as a Classroom Model
FATE Conference 2015; Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Transmission and Openness: Strategies for the Geographically and Economically Disadvantaged
FATE Conference 2013; Savannah, Georgia, USA
Art and Supercomputers
TEDxUNL; Sheldon Museum of Art; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Data, Poetics, and Supercomputers
SECAC Conference 2011; Savannah, Georgia, USA
Data as Medium (panel chair)
College Art Association Annual Conference, 2011; New York, New York, USA
Data as a Creative Visual Medium (panel chair)
Harvestworks; New York, New York, USA
Sound and Data
College Art Association 2008; Dallas, Texas, USA
Artist talks include...
Associate Professor (2019–present)
Assistant Professor (2013–2019)
Program Director (2013–2021)
Visual Arts & Technology
Stevens Institute of Technology; Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Courses include...
PhD advisor
Transart Institute; Liverpool, England
Georgette and Richard Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts
University of Hartford; Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Assistant Professor of Digital Arts/New Genres
University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Adjunct Professor of Digital Art and Video
Montclair State University; Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Faculty and mentor
Transart Institute MFA Program; Linz, Austria
Chance and Randomness (2021)
Transart Institute PhD seminar; online
View Source: A Web Digging Workshop (2016, 2019)
Digital Humanities Conference; Kraków, Poland
New York Electronic Arts Festival; New York, New York, USA
Instrument-a-thon (2018)
Organized with Seth Cluett and Lainie Fefferman
Stevens Institute of Technology; Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Games++ (2014–2016)
Organized with Alex Myers; various locations
Drift Station (2010–present)
Co-founder with Angeles Cossio
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA and various other locations/online
Texas Firehouse (2007-2009)
Co-founder
Long Island City, New York, USA
* notes exhibitions curated with Angeles Cossio as part of Drift Station
Printed Data (2021)
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
Exhibition of books of printed data and related ephemera from my own collection and gathered from the UNR libraries
Empty Apartments (2017)*
Drift Station (online at emptyapartments.net)
Online exhibition of 125,000 images of apartments for rent, scraped from Craigslist and sorted by visual similarity
Texts from the Network (2016)
Radical Networks; Brooklyn, New York, USA
An evening of readings from texts found online by Allison Parrish (selections from Wikidata’s ontological labels and a sorted list of face emoji), Ranjit Bhatnagar (Google’s automatic transcription of a low-quality scan of an issue of Filth, a zine from the 1980s), Daniel Temkin (selections from Internet Directory, a phonebook-style listing of 115-million .com domains in alphabetical order)
Field Guide (2012)*
Drift Station; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Publication of a practical handbook for starting and artist-run space
Bookstore (2012)*
Drift Station; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Exhibition of nearly 1,200 artist books, zines, and other print publications
10,000 Pixels (2012)
Art Micro-Patronage, online
International online exhibition of works exploring extreme limitation
Chopped & Stretched (2011)*
Drift Station; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Show of sound art and music using very short and very long sounds; exhibition included release of a limited edition compilation CD
mailto: (2011)*
Drift Station; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
An email address turned into an exhibition; anything sent was printed and hung in the gallery
Find & Replace (2011)
Drift Station; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Exhibition exploring the atomistic units of digital media
Work Makes the Work (2010)
Eisentrager Howard Gallery; University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Exhibition of work by artists exploring how the physical means of production creates meaning in their work
Stored & Filtered: Time, Technology, and the Landscape (2009)
Texas Firehouse; Long Island City, New York, USA
Show examining the landscape through the lens of technology