Everest Pipkin
Everest Pipkin is a drawing, game, and software artist who works with networks and internet spaces.[1]
Education
[edit]Pipkin graduated from Westlake High School in 2008,[2] studied on a Young Masters grant at the Art Academy of San Francisco and Paris American Academy[2] and finished by receiving a BFA at the University of Texas and an MFA Carnegie Mellon University.[3] Pipkin also studied and teaches at the School for Poetic Computation.
Work
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Pipkin makes drawings, computational artwork, generative poetry and other software, including games.[4]
From 2011 to 2013, Pipkin ran Wardenclyffe Gallery, an Austin multidisciplinary art space.[5] In 2013, Pipkin was a part of exhibitions at Greyduck Gallery, The Texas Biennial, and Fusebox Festival.[3] From 2014 to 2015, Pipkin was the Gallery Director at The Museum of Human Achievement, a community driven arts space, where they curated group shows and events.[6]
In 2015, Pipkin exhibited work at Babycastles, Now Play This Festival, and the Electronic Literature Organization.[7][8] In 2016, Pipkin contributed to the art game anthology Triennale Game Collection with the piece The Worm Room, using images from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Their Twitterbot project Moth Generator was a finalist for Beazley Design of the Year 2016.[9]
In 2020 Pipkin created a tool called "Image Scrubber" in response to Black Lives Matter protests that allowed protesters to blur out faces and remove metadata from their images, this tool became widely used during the movement to protect protesters' safety.[10] That same year they also created Lacework, a video cycle that looks at the conditions of production of artificial neural networks, and Shell Song, an interactive audio narrative game that explores deepfake voice technologies and the data sets behind them.[11]
Since 2021 Pipkin has been working primarily in videogames, with a focus on artist tools, hyperlinks, and ecology. [12] In 2022 they released the idle clicker game The Barnacle Goose Experiment, which was followed up by the solar-powered point and click adventure Drift Mine Satellite in 2023. [13] Their tabletop roleplaying games The Ground Itself and World Ending Game are about creating and ending stories, respectively. [14]
Awards
[edit]As an undergraduate student, Pipkin was named All State Artist by the Texas Art Education Association.[15] In 2012, Pipkin won Artist of the Year - Early Career in the Austin Visual Arts Awards. Pipkin was a Hunting Art Prize finalist in 2015 and 2016.[16] Pipkin has completed residencies at MASS MoCA, the Media Archeology Lab, Galveston Artist Residency,[17] Signal Culture, and Squeaky Wheel. They received a NYU Game Center No Quarter Commission in 2023,[18] and won the Robert Coover Prize in Electronic Literature 2023[19] and the Chris Meade Memorial Main Prize from the New Media Writing Prize 2022 for their interactive poem Anonymous Animal.
References
[edit]- ^ "Everest Pipkin - Data as Culture - ODI - The Open Data Institute". Data as Culture. 2020-10-29. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
- ^ a b Anderson, Dane (February 26, 2010). "Eyes of Katie Rose". Westlake Picayune. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ a b Irwin, Matthew (August 9, 2013). "Techno-Artistic: Katie Rose Pipkin and the new art". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
- ^ Bucher, Taina (July 12, 2015). "About a bot: Interview with Katie Rose Pipkin". Furtherfield. Archived from the original on April 2, 2016. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
- ^ Fraser, Michael (April 24, 2012). "Roommates develop creative hub for artists". The Daily Texan. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
- ^ "Good Job MoHA - MoHA Wiki". moha.wiki. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
- ^ "Babycastles Living". www.babycastlesliving.com. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
- ^ "2015 Festival". Now Play This. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
- ^ Voon, Claire (2015-07-17). "A Twitter Bot That Generates Beautiful, Imaginary Moths". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
- ^ "You Can Blur Protesters' Faces in Photos Using This Tool". PAPER. 2020-06-05. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
- ^ "Shell Song - Data as Culture - ODI - The Open Data Institute". Data as Culture. 2020-11-02. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
- ^ Nayyar, Rhea (2023-07-03). "Everest Pipkin on the Utopian Potential of Gardens". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
- ^ Editor, Alice O'Connor Former Associate; O'Connor, Alice (2023-04-13). "Grow a whole world from your spit, tears, and piss in this weird idle clicker game". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
{{cite news}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ Kunzelman, Cameron (2022-09-13). "How to end a tabletop campaign with karaoke". Polygon. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
- ^ "Texas Cultural Trust: Young Masters Program" (PDF). Texas Cultural Trust. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ "Hunting Art Prize: News". 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ^ "Imaginative Installations". OutSmart Magazine. 2021-07-01. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
- ^ "No Quarter 2023". NYU | Game Center. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
- ^ Marino, Author Mark (2023-08-01). "Announcing 2023 ELO Prize Winners – Electronic Literature Organization". Retrieved 2024-12-02.
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