Brendan Dawes
Data & Technology Artist / Manchester, UKDecember 5 – Anchorage Museum Auditorium, 7pm
December 6 – Fairbanks: The Blue Loon, 6pm
December 7 – CANCELLED (Juneau)
Brendan Dawes is a MoMA exhibited artist, designer, author, maker, self-confessed generalist and the founder of Beep Industries. Over the years he has helped realize projects for a wide range of brands including Sony Records, Diesel, BBC, Fox Kids, Channel 4, Disney, Benetton, Kellogg’s, The Tate and Coca-Cola.
Brendan explores the interplay of people, code, design and art. One of Brendan’s more famous pieces of work is “Cinema Redux.” This project distills whole movies down to a single image using specially written software that samples a single frame of a movie every second. The Museum of Modern Art in New York featured Cinema Redux as part of “Design and the Elastic Mind” in 2008 and later acquired two pieces for the permanent MoMA collection.
In 2009 he was listed among the top twenty web designers in the world by .Net magazine and was featured in the “Design Icon” series in Computer Arts. In 2010 he released The Accidental News Explorer – an iPhone app for serendipitous news discovery that was featured as “new and notable” in the US app store and was featured amongst the eighty projects in the Taschen book Mobile Case Studies published in 2011. And in 2011 his Doodlebuzz news interface was featured in the Talk to Me exhibition at MoMA in New York.
Brendan also creates physical things. MoviePeg, the super simple stand for iPhone is a physical product he invented in 2010, has now shipped to over eighty countries and is sold in retail stores all over the world through Beep Industries.
