IAN INGRAM


4317 1/2 Marmion Way
Los Angeles, CA 90065
Phone: 412-352-0680
Email: ian@ianingram.org
Website: www.ianingram.org
Note: These are .org as in organism

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021-2022 Ian Ingram, Beall Center for Art + Technology, University of California, Irvine, CA
2015 Ian Ingram: Next Animals, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 Lizard Panopticon, Barbara Hinshaw Gallery, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
2008 YOU'RE #1, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
2006 Just Your Garden Variety Automata, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 The 2020 Ars Electronica Festival, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2019 Neuhaus, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2019 The Drowned World, Roger's Office, SPRING/BREAK: Fact and Fiction, Los Angeles, CA
2018 It Passes Like a Thought, Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, CA
2018 Manifesto: A Moderate Proposal, Lenzner Gallery, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
2018 Machine Wilderness, Het Glazen Huis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016 Digital Design Weekend, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
2015 ROBOT OR NOT: Hvad synes du, Krydsfelt Skive Museum, Skive, Denmark
2015 2015 Robot Film Festival, Row House Cinema, Pittsburgh, PA
2014 2014 Robot Film Festival, Bot & Dolly, San Francisco, CA
2013 Peaceable Kingdom, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
2013 The 2013 Robot Film Festival, Bot & Dolly, San Francisco, CA
2010 Robots and Representation, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2010 Rock, Paper, Scissors, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2010 Signal-to-Noise Patio, Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2009 Tough Art, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2009 Roboworld, Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2009 Collision Collective 14, Axiom Gallery, Boston, MA
2009 Fusion, Pittsburgh Filmmakers Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 CAC.2, Museum of Modern Art, Toluca, Mexico
2008 Hide and Seek, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2007 The Uncanny Valley Rally, Brew House Space 101, Pittsburgh, PA
2007 Hothouse, Sprout Fund, Pittsburgh, PA
2007 NewInSight, Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
2007 Findings, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2007 Mechanosphere, Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2007 Birds Leap to Fly, Highmark Building, First Night, Pittsburgh, PA
2006 Showing Signs of Life, Future Tenant Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2006 Whole Other Kettle of Fish, TAI+LEE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, with Thomas Sturgill
2005 Life or Something Like It, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2005 TRANSIT Karakuri Art, Yada Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
2005 Vaguely Positive, Future Tenant Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS

2017-2022 Artist in Residence, Beall Center for Art + Technology, University of California, Irvine
2018 Ars Bioarctica Residency, Host: FoAM's Random Forests Project, Kilpisjarvi Biological Research Station, Kilpisjarvi, Finland
2018 Artist in Residence, Zone2Source, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016 Ars Bioarctica Residency, Host: FoAM's Machine Wilderness Project, Kilpisjarvi Biological Research Station, Kilpisjarvi, Finland
2014-2015 Andrew W. Mellon Art+Environment Artist-In-Residence, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
2014 Artist in Residence, CPH AIR, Host: Robot Culture and Aesthetics Project, Institut for Kunst og Kulturvidenskab, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2013-2014 Artist in Residence, Iridescent, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Visiting Artist in Residence, PLATFORM, Munich, Germany
2009 Fred Rogers Early Career Fellow, Fred Rogers Center, Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA
2009 Tough Art Residency, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Artist in Residence, CREATE Lab, Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

Remote Visiting Artist, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, 2018-2020
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Media Studies, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, 2017-2018
Visiting Professor, Media Studies, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, 2015-2016
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Art & Media Studies, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, Spring 2015
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Media Studies, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, Spring 2014
Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2007-2010
Teaching Assistant, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2004-2007
Pre-college Art Instructor, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2006

SELECTED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

2019 Telling Animals, Free Radicals: On the Provocations of Awe, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2019 Telling Animals, Border Sessions Japan, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Telling Animals, Border Sessions, The Hague, The Netherlands
2019 Animal Looking, Designing for Nature, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2018 Animal Looking, To Hunt and Forage in LA: The biology and social lives of urban animals in Los Angeles, Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Animal Looking, The Laboratory for Embodied Intelligences: Experiments in Physical Thinking, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2018 Wild Robots, Robotanica Exhibition Opening, Tolhuistuin, Transnatural: Art and Design, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018 Animal Looking, LASER Talks in Pasadena, Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2018 Animal Looking, Digital Studies Symposium, Media Arts + Practice, U. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Avian Looking, LASER: Bird Song, Center for Applied Innovation, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
2018 Animal Looking, Bay Area Engineering Club, Iridescent, Redwood City, CA
2018 Animal Looking, Entertainment Design Program: Animal Anatomy, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2017 Animal Looking, Center for Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts,, Valencia, CA
2017 Wild Robots: Bodies and Signs, Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2017 Animal Looking, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2017 Animal Looking, Contemporary Topics in Computing and the Arts, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA
2017 Animal Looking, Westridge School for Girls, Pasadena, CA
2016 Animal Looking, Popinn Park, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016 Worms in Space and Woodpecker Sexbots, Art and Design Center, California State University, Northridge, CA
2015 On Doctor Maggoty, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 Explorations in Teledildonics #1: Ian Ingram’s Robotic Lizards, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Robot Safari with Machine Project, The Fallen Tree, Elyria Canyon Park, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Animal Looking, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
2015 Animal Studies, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
2014 Animal Looking, Fabrikken for Kunst og Design, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 Worms in Space and Woodpecker Sexbots, Robot Culture and Aesthetics Project, Institut for Kunst og Kulturvidenskab, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 Worms in Space and Woodpecker Sexbots, Obel Guest Lecture, Aalborg University, Denmark
2013 Animal Looking, Robot Culture and Aesthetics Project, Institut for Kunst og Kulturvidenskab, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 Worms in Space and Woodpecker Sexbots, Field Robotics Lab, University of Hawaii, Manoa, HI
2012 Just Your Garden Variety Automata, SMART Gallery, LIB, Orange, CA
2011 Animal Looking, Wainwright Retreat, Hastings Reserve, Carmel Valley, CA
2011 Worms in Space and Woodpecker Sexbots, Mindshare, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Animal Looking, Little Green, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Inspiration Expo, Hasbro, Pawtucket, RI
2010 The Elusive Woodpecker, PLATFORM, Munich, Germany
2008 Letting Machines Be Themselves, ARTSI Alliance, Pittsburgh, PA.
2008 Swirls/Squirrels in the Assembly Line, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
2008 Nature Inside and Outside the Machine, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.
2007 New Results in Lammettrian Geppettoism, Olin College, Needham, MA.
2007 Ingram Clockworks, Department of Transmedia, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2005 Lamettrian Geppettoism, Eyelevel Gallery and the Center for Art Tapes at NSCAD, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
2001 Minimum samples sizes required to minimize variance and bias of geoacoustic estimates of seafloor properties, 141st Acoustical Society of America Convention, Chicago, IL.

CONFERENCE TALKS

2019 Random Forests: A Field Guide to Environmental Machine Learning, with Theun Karelse, Green Intelligence And Environment, 2019 RIXC Festival: UN/GREEN, The Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

2018 Machine Wilderness & Random Forests, Machines & Atmospheres, Politics of the Machines: Art and After, Aalborg University in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2018 Robots Performing for Animals and Vice Versa, Robots and Art, Politics of the Machines: Art and After, Aalborg University in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2017 A Cacophony of Signals: Woodpecker Sexbots, Squirrel NORAD, and Other Robotic Systems, Strange Signals: Timing, Humor, Scale and the New Communication Continuum, 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Phoenix, AZ

2017 Animal Looking, Toward an Artist-in-the-lab Framework, 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vancouver, Canada

2015 Animal Looking, Hidden Signals: Electronic Sculptures in the Information Age, 25th International Sculpture Conference, Phoenix, AZ

2015 Having Breath, Workshop on Enabling Rich, Expressive Robot Animation, 2015 Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Portland, Oregon

2013 The Uncanny Glen, Workshop on Art and Robotics: Freud's Unheimlich and the Uncanny Valley, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany

2010 Walks in the Parks with Robotic Creatures, New Work Showcase, Fred Forward Conference, Latrobe, PA.

2009 Exploring Play, Engaging Creativity, Making Sparks, Pittsburgh, PA.

2008 Arts Preservation in the Digital Age, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

2007 Working with Artists to Create Innovative Museum Experiences, Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums' 2007 Annual Conference, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2008 Gestures 11: Meet the Made, The Mattress Factory Museum's 1414 Space, Pittsburgh, PA with Carl DiSalvo
2008 Golan Levin: Double-Taker (Snout), Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Grisha Coleman: Reach, Robot, PPG Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Gregory Witt and Joey Hays: Green Roof Roller Coaster, The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Jacob Ciocci and Matt Barton: Extreme Animals: The Video Game, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
2008 Ally Reeves: Look-See Tree, City of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Osman Khan: Mower, Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Garth Zeglin: Shelter, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Keny Marshall: prototype for an infinite array of semi-autonomous percussive devices, The Mattress Factory Museum
2008 Jennifer Gooch: Rise and Fall, Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Mashings, Pittsburgh Filmmakers Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

PRESS & REVIEWS

2018
 https://artandcakela.com/2018/05/24/it-passes-like-a-thought-at-beall-center-for-art-technology/ It Passes like a Thought: A Celebration of Winged Things
Genie Davis, Art and Cake, May 26th.

 https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2018/06/20/hoe-een-machine-communiceert-met-eekhoorns-a1607290 Hoe een machine communiceert met eekhoorns
Tracy Metz, NRC, June 20th

 https://www.vice.com/nl/article/kzkyym/robot-kunstenaar-eekhoorn Een robotkunstenaar vond een manier om met eekhoorns te communiceren
Janna Reinsma, www.vice.com, June 15th.

 https://www.24oranges.nl/2018/05/22/amsterdam-exhibition-has-robots-interacting-with-animals/ Amsterdam exhibition has robots interacting with animals
24 Oranges, May 22nd.

 https://www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/nature-reports/message/?msg=24342 Wat heeft een robot met eikenprocessierupsen?
Kars Veling and Theun Karelse, Nature Today, May 17th.

 https://www.ronifeinstein.com/2627/birds-of-a-feather-beall-center-exhibition/ Birds of a Feather/Beall Center Exhibition
Roni Feinstein, March 28th.

2017
 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/robotics-and-girls-its-not-about-gender_us_5907aca9e4b084f59b49fbdc Robotics and Girls. It’s not about gender.
Tara Chklovski, www.huffingtonpost.com, May 1st.

2016

 https://reallifemag.com/selfless-devotion/ Selfless Devotion
Janna Avner, Real Life, December 7th,

 https://reallifemag.com/creature-suite/ Creature Suite: The future of zoos is animatronic
Tiffany Sum, Real Life, November 15th,

 Robot Animal Collective
Video interview at my studio produced by Intel to promote their show “America's Greatest Makers”

2015
 https://www.information.dk/520475 Maskiner med en plan
Lone Nikolajsen, Information, January 6th, Copenhagen, Denmark

 https://kunsten.nu/journal/social-praksis-for-dyr-robotter-og-mennesker/ Social praksis for dyr, robotter og mennesker
Jonas Jørgensen, kunsten.nu, January 13th, Copenhagen, Denmark

 https://www.e-pages.dk/ku/1143/29 Hvad denne robot kan laere et egern og dig
Anders Fjeldberg, Universitets Avisen, Nr. 4 September pgs 28-29, Copenhagen, Denmark

2014
 https://videnskab.dk/teknologi/skor-robot-skal-kommunikere-med-danske-dyr Skør robot skal kommunikere med danske dyr
Videnskab.dk, November 20th, Copenhagen, Denmark

 Interview on culture show, AK 24syv
Radio24syv 102.3FM, November 25th, Copenhagen, Denmark

 https://forskning.no/2014/12/robot-skal-kommunisere-med-dyr Robot skal kommunisere med dyr
Forskning.no, December 11th, Oslo, Norway

 https://www.magasinetkunst.dk/Blog/Detail/MjA4NQ%3D%3D Robotkunstner besøger København
Magasinet Kunst, December 17th, Copenhagen, Denmark

2010
 “Three art venues join for winning 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 31st, Pittsburgh, PA

 “Fred Rogers' inspiration lives on in the child-friendly technologies around us”
Pop City, March 24th

2009
 https://www.fosters.com/article/20090618/GJLIFESTYLES/906089926 “Robots take center stage at Pittsburgh museum”
Foster's Daily Democrat, June 18th, Portsmouth, NH

2008
 https://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/museums/s_581452.html “Mattress Factory's 'Gestures' exhibit lets visitors meet the robots”
Pittsburgh Tribune Review, August 7th, Pittsburgh, PA

 “Off the Wall-e”
Philadelpia Weekly, July, Philadelphia, PA

 “Creative projects push technological envelope as part of city's 250th anniversary”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 9th, Pittsburgh, PA

 “Robot says 'You're No. 1'”
Beaver County Times, July 9th, Beaver, PA

 “Creative invasion of BigBots will tweak art, tech concepts”
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, July 6th, Pittsburgh, PA

 https://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25338 “The Mattress Factory and Robot 250 Partner to Present Eleventh Installment of Exhibition Series”
artdaily, August, Web

 “Robot love all over Pittsburgh”
Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof's artblog, July 31st, Web

 https://news.cnet.com/8301-17912_3-9990152-72.html?tag=mncol “BigBots at Robot 250”
Planetary Gear: A CNET Blog, July 14th, Web

 “The Invasion of the BigBots”
Pop City, June 25th, Web

 https://io9.com/5024522/meet-pittsburghs-bigbots “Meet Pittsburgh's Bigbots”
io9, July 12th, Web

2007
 https://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A23067 “State of the Art”
Pittsburgh City Paper, Feb 22nd, Pittsburgh, PA

 https://www.thetartan.org/2007/4/16/pillbox/student_art “Finding art on campus”
The Tartan, April 16th, Pittsburgh, PA

2006
 https://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/museums/s_461602.html “Lawrenceville crawl”
Pittsburgh Tribune Review, July 13th, Pittsburgh, PA

ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, & CATALOGS

2020
 Machine Wilderness, Tenetz, Antti, Ian Ingram and Theun Karelse, Art As We Don't Know It, Berger, E., Maki-Reinikka, K., O'Reilly, K., Sederholm, H., (Eds.), Aalto ARTS Books, Espoo, Finland, p. 124-133,

2019
 A Cacophony of Signals: Woodpecker Sexbots, Squirrel NORAD, and Other Robotics Systems, PUBLIC 59: Interspecies Communication, Tromble, M., Olynyk, P., (Eds.), Toronto, Canada

2018
 Making New Minds That Love Trees, https://fo.am/publications/fieldguide-random-forests/Field Guide to Random Forests (ed. Theun Karelse), p. 45-49

2017
 AN S.O.S. TO THE WORLD: JOIN THE AI GANG!: A Thought Experiment on the Social Implications of AI
Avner, Janna, Corley Miller and Ian Ingram, Lookie-Lookie, Web

2016
 Engineering the Future
Papadimitriou, I., Prescott, A. and Rogers, J., (Eds.), uniform.net, London, U.K.

2015
 https://www.nikolajkunsthal.dk/sites/default/files/pdf/misc/ian_ingram_-_katalog_next_animals.pdf Ian Ingram: Next Animals
Exhibition Catalog, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark

2012
 Kardambikis, C., Khaira, J., Silver, S. (Curators), Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities, Encyclopedia Destructica and The Institute of Extraterrestrial Sexuality 2012, p. 184-187

2008
 Meet the Made
Exhibition Catalog, Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

COMMISSIONS

2014 Bipolar Lizard Molecule, Iridescent, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Lizardless Legs, Iridescent, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Danger, Squirrel Nutkin!, collection of Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2009 Lunar Excursion Module, permanent display, Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2003 Orbish Teekometer, Private collection, Seoul, Korea

EDUCATION

2010, Carnegie Mellon University, MFA, Visual Art
2007, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2002, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MS, Ocean Acoustics
1999, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BS, Ocean Engineering