1. Associate Professor, Program Director
  2. Visual Arts & Technology
  3. Stevens Institute of Technology
  4. studio@jeffreythompson.org
  1. Born ⤳ Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
  2. Lives ⤳ Bloomfield, New Jersey, USA

Education

2006
MFA ⤳ Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of Art
2004
BFA ⤳ Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Solo exhibitions

2023
Slough of Despond ⤳ The Mudroom; Lawrenceville, NJ, USA
2020
Universal Approximator ⤳ SPACES; Cleveland, OH, USA
2020
Human Computers ⤳ Locust Projects; Miami, FL, USA
2018
First There Is A Mountain, Then There Is No Mountain, Then There Is ⤳ King's College, University of Cambridge; Cambridge, UK
2017
I Touch You And You Touch Me ⤳ Harvestworks; New York, NY, USA
2015
White Noise Boutique ⤳ Brighton Digital Festival; Brighton, UK
2014
Impossible In Another Form ⤳ George Mason University Gallery; Fairfax, VA, USA
2013
A Very Deep Saxophone And A Very Long Guitar ⤳ Sheldon Museum of Art; Lincoln, NE, USA
2013
Seam Sorting ⤳ LEVEL Gallery, Lawrence Technological University; Detroit, MI, USA
2011
Glistening Waves ⤳ Harvestworks; New York, NY, USA
2008
Lamination ⤳ Local Project; Long Island City, NY, USA
2007
Wavering Cedar and 100,000 Blades of Grass ⤳ Department of Safety; Anacortes, WA, USA
2006
Recording Exchange ⤳ Hogar Collection Gallery; Brooklyn, NY, USA

Selected exhibitions

2023
GUI/GOOEY ⤳ Plexus Projects; online
Recode (PCD23) ⤳ University of Porto, Faculty of Fine Arts; Porto, Portugal
2022
Total Information Awareness ⤳ Grizzly Grizzly; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition ⤳ ArtWorks; Trenton, New Jersey, USA
2021
Athens Digital Art Festival ⤳ Athens, Greece
2020
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
2019
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
2018
Machine Learning for Creativity and Design ⤳ NeurIPS 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
2017
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
2016
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
2015
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
2014
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
2013
Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup: People Make Things That Make Sounds ⤳ Lux Center for the Arts; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
2012
Code Conference: Media, Games, and Art ⤳ Swinburne University of Technology; Melbourne, Australia
10th Annual Piksel Festival ⤳ Bergen, Norway
2011
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 (w/ Angeles Cossio) ⤳ Not Festival; New York City, New York, USA
Bring Your Own Beamer ⤳ grrrilla galleries; Linz, Austria
2010
{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
2009
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
2008
Altered Landscapes ⤳ Salisbury University Electronic Gallery; Salisbury, Maryland, USA
Transart Institute Faculty Exhibition ⤳ BV Gallery; Linz, Austria
2007
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
2006
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
2005
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
2004
ISC 2004 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture ⤳ Grounds for Sculpture; Hamilton, New Jersey, USA
Box Fresh ⤳ Soap Factory; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Residencies

2024
Stove Works ⤳ Chattanooga, TN, USA
2023
New Jersey Craft Artist Residency ⤳ Peters Valley School of Craft; Layton, NJ, USA
2022
MacDowell ⤳ Peterborough, NH, USA
2020
SPACES ⤳ Cleveland, OH, USA
2019, 2021
University of Nevada, Reno ⤳ Reno, NV, USA
2018
Visiting Fellow ⤳ King's College, University of Cambridge; Cambridge, UK
2018
Willipa Bay ⤳ Oysterville, Washington, USA
2017
Wave Farm ⤳ Acra, NY, USA
2016
Bell Labs ⤳ Murray Hill, NJ, USA
2016
Center for New Art ⤳ William Patterson University; Wayne, NJ, USA
2014
Impakt ⤳ Utrecht, Netherlands
2009–2013
Holland Computing Center ⤳ University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Lincoln, NE, USA
2012
Internet Archive Curatorial Residency ⤳ online
2007, 2009
Elsewhere ⤳ Greensboro, NC, USA
2006
Vermont Studio Center ⤳ Johnson, VT, USA
2007
Department of Safety ⤳ Anacortes, WA, USA

Awards

2024
HASS Faculty Research Fellowship
2021
Artist book commission ⤳ Black Rock Press/University of Nevada, Reno
2019
Emergency Grant ⤳ Foundation for Contemporary Art
2019
New Jersey Individual Artist Fellowship
2018
Nokia Bell Labs Faculty Fellow in the Arts
2018
Digital Spring Festival commission ⤳ Salzburg, Austria
2017
Lumen Prize ⤳ Short-listed for the Still Image award
2017
Lumen Prize ⤳ Nominated and long-listed for the British Computer Society award for Art and AI
2015
Brighton Digital Festival commission ⤳ Brighton, UK
2014
Turbulence.org commission ⤳ New York/Massachusetts, USA
2013
Creativity + Technology = Enterprise Grant ⤳ Harvestworks; New York, NY, USA
2013
Research Council Grant-in-Aid ⤳ University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2012
Rhizome commission ⤳ New York, NY, USA
2012
Nebraska Research Initiatives Grant
2008
Van Lier Fellowship ⤳ Harvestworks; New York, New York, USA
2007
Dispatx.com commission
2006
Nadine Goldsmith Fellowship ⤳ Vermont Studio Center; Johnson, VT, USA
2004
VanDerlip Travel Award ⤳ Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Selected press

  1. ANIMAL
  2. The Atlantic
  3. AV Club (The Onion)
  4. Boston Globe
  5. Brooklyn Rail
  6. CNET
  7. Comedy Central
  8. Creator’s Project
  9. Gizmodo
  10. Huffington Post
  11. Hyperallergic
  12. Kill Screen
  13. Laughing Squid
  14. MAKE
  15. Marketplace (National Public Radio)
  16. Neural
  17. Paste Magazine
  18. PetaPixel
  19. SciArt Magazine
  20. Sculpture Magazine
  21. Spark (CBC)
  22. Time.com
  23. The Verge
  24. Washington Post
  25. Wired.co.uk
  26. Yahoo Tech

Selected lectures

  1. Chairs and Supercomputers: Artists and AI ⤳ O'Reilly AI Conference (2019); New York, NY, USA
  2. Building Next-Step Resources ⤳ Processing Community Day/New School (2019); New York, NY, USA
  3. Chairs and Supercomputers: Artists and AI ⤳ Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (2018); Cambridge, UK
  4. Empty Apartments (w/ Angeles Cossio) ⤳ Photo History/Photo Future Conference (2018); Rochester, NY, USA
  5. Chairs and Supercomputers ⤳ Bell Labs (2016); Murray Hill, NJ, USA
  6. Computers on Law & Order ⤳ Digital Humanities Conference (2016); Kraków, Poland
  7. Computers on Law & Order ⤳ Keystone Digital Humanities Conference (2015); Philadelphia, PA, USA
  8. Computers on Law & Order ⤳ HASTAC Conference (2015); East Lansing, MI, USA
  9. The 12-Hour Class Period: Game Jams and Hackathons as a Classroom Model ⤳ FATE Conference (2015); Indianapolis, IN, USA
  10. Transmission and Openness: Strategies for the Geographically and Economically Disadvantaged (w/ Angeles Cossio) ⤳ FATE Conference (2013); Savannah, GA, USA
  11. Art and Supercomputers ⤳ TEDxUNL (2012); Sheldon Museum of Art; Lincoln, NE, USA
  12. Data, Poetics, and Supercomputers ⤳ SECAC Conference (2011); Savannah, GA, USA
  13. Data as Medium ⤳ College Art Association Annual Conference (panel chair, 2011); New York, NY, USA
  14. Data as a Creative Visual Medium ⤳ Harvestworks (panel chair, 2008); New York, NY, USA
  15. Sound and Data ⤳ College Art Association (2008); Dallas, TX, USA

Artist talks include

  1. Anglia Ruskin University
  2. Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, University of Cambridge
  3. Harvestworks
  4. Heong Gallery, University of Cambridge
  5. New York Electronic Arts Festival
  6. Ohio University
  7. Princeton University
  8. University of Cincinatti
  9. University of Hartford
  10. University of Nevada, Reno
  11. University of North Texas
  12. University of Pennsylvania
  13. Webster College
  14. William Paterson University

Teaching

2013–present
Stevens Institute of Technology
Visual Arts & Technology
Hoboken, NJ, USA

Associate Professor (2019–present)
Assistant Professor (2013–2019)
Program Director (2013–2021, 2023–present)

Courses include...
Creative Programming 1, 2, and 3 ⤳ Designing with Data ⤳ Physical Computing ⤳ Digital Fabrication ⤳ Professional Practices ⤳ Capstone 1 and 2
2022–present
PhD advisor
Transart Institute ⤳ Liverpool, UK
2019
Georgette and Richard Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts
University of Hartford ⤳ Hartford, CT, USA
2009–2013
Assistant Professor of Digital Arts/New Genres
University of Nebraska, Lincoln ⤳ Lincoln, NE, USA
2008–2009
Adjunct Professor of Digital Art and Video
Montclair State University ⤳ Montclair, NJ, USA
2006–2007
Faculty and mentor
Transart Institute MFA Program; Linz, Austria

Workshops and other teaching

  1. Chance and Randomness ⤳ Transart Institute PhD seminar (2021); online
  2. View Source: A Web Digging Workshop ⤳ Digital Humanities Conference; Kraków, Poland (2016) ⤳ New York Electronic Arts Festival; New York, NY, USA (2019)
  3. Instrument-a-thon (w/ Lainie Fefferman and Seth Cluett) ⤳ Stevens Institute of Technology (2018); Hoboken, NJ, USA
  4. Games++ (w/ Alex Myers) ⤳ Various locations (2014–2016)

Selected curatorial

2021
Printed Data ⤳ University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
2017
Empty Apartments (w/ Angeles Cossio) ⤳ Drift Station; online
2016
Radical Networks ⤳ Brooklyn, NY, USA
2012
Field Guide (w/ Angeles Cossio) ⤳ Drift Station; Lincoln, NE, USA
2012
Bookstore (w/ Angeles Cossio) ⤳ Drift Station; Lincoln, NE, USA
2012
10,000 Pixels ⤳ Art Micro-Patronage; online
2011
Chopped & Stretched (w/ Angeles Cossio) ⤳ Drift Station; Lincoln, NE, USA
2011
mailto: (w/ Angeles Cossio) ⤳ Drift Station; Lincoln, NE, USA
2011
Find & Replace ⤳ Drift Station; Lincoln, NE, USA
2010
Work Makes the Work ⤳ Eisentrager Howard Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Lincoln, NE, USA
2009
Stored & Filtered: Time, Technology, and the Landscape ⤳ Texas Firehouse; Long Island City, NY, USA