Bio:

Sterling Crispin (born 1985) is a conceptual artist and software engineer who creates smart contracts, generative art, machine intelligence, and techno-sculpture. Crispin’s artwork oscillates between the computational beauty of nature, and our conflicting cultural narratives about the apocalypse. His work asks, “Are we going to merge our bodies with machines and become gods that live forever? Or will we face a global climate collapse and all go extinct?” Somehow, we are moving towards both of these conclusions at once.

Crispin’s artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, including ZKM Karlsruhe, The Mexican National Center for the Arts, The Seoul Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, The Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden, and the Venice Biennale. As well as published in The New York Times, Frieze, Wired, MIT Press, BOMB, Rhizome, ARTNews and Art in America.

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Select Press

2021 - Art in America - “NFT as Joke”

2021 - Art News - “No NFT Is an Island”

2020 - New York Times - Art Reviews

2018 - We Make Money Not Art - “Does Art Have Any Relevance “In The Age of AI?” 

2017 - Art Space - “7 Favorites From Untitled, Miami Beach 2017”

2017 - Creative Applications - “Inside the Artist’s Headset – Sterling Crispin’s Cyber Paint” 

2017 - MIT Press - “Technologies of Vision: The War Between Data and Images” 

2016 - International Sculpture Center -  "Inside the Artist’s Studio: Sterling Crispin" 

2015 - Art in America - ”The Biennial of the Americas Puts Colorado at the Center of the Map” 

2015 - Contemporary Art Daily - "‘Tulipomania’ at Del Vaz Projects (offsite)" 

2015 - Bomb Magazine - “Sterling Crispin - Data Masks and The Technological Other.”

2015 - Complex - “The Greatest Digital Artists of the 21st Century”

2014 - Fast Company - “Creepy Data Masks Show the Monstrous Side of Facial Recognition” 

2014 - Wired Magazine Italy - “Facebook ti vede così”

2014 - Matter - “This Is What Your Face Looks Like to Facebook”  

2014 - Forbes - “What's Next For Art In The Digital Age”

2013 - The Creators Project - “Sterling Crispin Weaves Virtual Algorithmic Landscapes” 

Research

Data-Masks: Biometric Surveillance Masks Evolving in the Gaze of the Technological Other
A Master's Thesis addressing biometric surveillance technology, resulting in 3D printed face masks that were algorithmically evolved to satisfy facial recognition algorithms, titled "Data-masks".

CHARON: The Self and the Technological-Other
A Master's Thesis addressing technical considerations, and philosophical reflections on the use of autonomous robotic agents in art, society, and warfare. Specifically, this paper addresses the use of an autonomous quadrocopter in a CAVE-like immersive virtual reality environment with motion tracking capabilities. Also described are several approaches for preparing highly non-conformal generative geometries for rapid prototyping and 3D printing..

Open Drone Control - 2013
A technical paper describing an open source software platform for developing interactive artworks and research projects with aerial robotics.

Essays