Friday, August 27, 2004
Zack Booth Simpson
Zack Booth Simpson, born 1970, lives in Austin Texas. He has worked as a software engineer since he dropped out of high-school in 1987. Working as a game developer from 1990 to 1997, he served as the Director of Technology for Origin / Electronic Arts and Titanic Entertainment creating games such as Ultima, Wing Commander, and NetStorm. He began creating interactive artwork in 1999 while living in Barcelona, Spain where he founded the group “Mine-Control” which, with the help of many game developer friends, has created an array of interactive artworks installed in museums worldwide such as The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, The Tech Museum of San Jose, Sony Museum of New York, Eyebeam NYC, and many others. His series “Shadow Garden” was shown in the art gallery of SIGGRAPH 2002 in San Antonio. He currently works as a molecular biology researcher investigating biological computation in metabolic networks and synthetic biology at the Marcotte Lab, University of Texas at Austin, as well as continuing to produce new artwork.