Golan Levin
Professor | Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES
Golan Levin is an artist, engineer, researcher and educator interested in intersections of machine code, visual culture and critical making.
Biography
Golan Levin is an artist, engineer, researcher and educator interested in new intersections of machine code, visual culture and critical making. His work combines equal measures of the whimsical, the provocative and the sublime in an eclectic variety of online, installation and performance media. Through responsive artifacts, virtual environments and media provocations, Levin applies creative twists to digital technologies that highlight our relationship with machines, expand the vocabulary of human action and awaken participants to their own potential as creative actors. His projects have engaged themes and materials such as interactive gestural robotics; the tactical potential of personal digital fabrication; new aesthetics of nonverbal interaction; and information visualization as a mode of critical inquiry.
Areas of Expertise (6)
Digital Technologies
Visual Culture
Human-Machine Interaction
Human Action
Critical Inquiry
Critical Making
Media Appearances (1)
5 Andy Warhol NFTs Are Heading to Auction. Art Experts Question Their Authenticity
Yahoo! Life online
2021-05-23
Golan Levin, who heads Carnegie Mellon’s Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry lab, which recovered the files from Warhol’s computer, said that the NFTs being sold at Christie’s are far from the originals. In an interview, Levin said that these NFTs derive from images reproduced at a higher resolution and reformatted using modern technology after the restoration, altering them in the process.
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