Ben Hooker
Meet our artist
Lucas Artists Fellow
- Architecture & Design
About
Residency Dates
- July 2005 – August 2005
- April 2006 – April 2006
- July 2006 – August 2006
Region
UK
Ben Hooker is a multimedia designer who divides his time between consultancy (www.dataclimates.com), research, and teaching. His projects typically involve collaboration with architects and industrial designers and explore the consequences of intangible computer-generated ‘datalandscapes’ merging with real spaces. He is especially interested in finding ways to articulate the overlaps between the phenomenal and ephemeral worlds of materiality and data. Ben has a part-time post as a research fellow in the Interaction Design Research Studio (www.interaction.rca.ac.uk) at the Royal College of Art and also tutors final-year students on the Graphic Design course at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (University of the Arts,London).
Ben is in residence at L.A.P. as part of the ISEA2006 Symposium/Zero One San José: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, to be held in August 2006 in San Jose. He is here working with Shona Kitchen on a project for the Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport.
Links to recent projects:
Electroplex Heights, 2006
Datanature, 2006