John F. Simon Jr.
Software art pioneer known for Every Icon
Biography
John F. Simon Jr. was born in 1963 in Shreveport, Louisiana. He is a software art pioneer with degrees in fine art, geology, planetary science and computer art, working across plotter drawings, acrylic sculptures, charcoal, LCD screens and web based systems. His work Every Icon was in the 2000 Whitney Biennial, and his work is in the collections of MoMA, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, SFMOMA and LACMA. He collaborated with Bjork on an app for her album Biophilia (2011). Six Java applets excerpted from Mobility Agents let users draw with their cursor to explore the range of marks the Hatch Tool can generate.
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