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Eric Gunther

Eric Gunther

Origin: 
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Type:
transmediale award nominee

Eric Gunther (b. 1978) is a designer, programmer, and musician based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From nine to five he works at the Small Design Firm, creating interactive installations for museums and institutions around the world. He graduated MIT with a BS and MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Working with the Interactive Cinema Group and Sile O'Modhrain at the MIT Media Lab, he began his research into using the sense of touch as a compositional medium.

Eric has performed internationally with Sosolimited, a three-man crew of audiovisual artists (together with Eric Gunther and John Rothenberg)and a transmediale Award 2010 nominee with their audiovisual performance ReConstitution. Under the guise of Cephalopod, he is also a dancer - working with the illusory styles of popping - and a beatboxer, weaving intricate musical compositions with his mouth.

>http://www.ericgunther.info/

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Founded in 2003 Sosolimited is an art and design collective specialising in interactive installation and audiovisual performance. Sosolimited create immersive performances often drawing from live media sources to manipulate the material in real time, seamlessly blending it with their own soundtracks.

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Justin Manor has a BS and MA in Physics and Media Art both from MIT. With specialisation in software systems he is a founding member of the art and design collective Sosolimited with is nominated for the transmediale.10 Award and with which he has exhibited and performed internationally.

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John Rothenberg has a background in Architecture from MIT. With specialisation in interactive media he is a founding member of the art and design collective Sosolimited with is nominated for the transmediale.10 Award and with which he has exhibited and performed internationally.