Affiliation: MIT Media Lab - Future Sketches Group
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Char Stiles is a computational artist, educator, and programmer based in New York City, NY. She works creatively in the lower levels of graphical computational systems & makes jokes about how computers work. She is currently at the MIT Media LabĘžs Future Sketches group researching the future of creative coding in performance. She is a part of the Livecode.nyc collective where she organizes shows. She co-founded Hex House, an artist studio and event space in East Williamsburg. She has performed internationally, including festivals such as Electric Forest, Portola, SXSW and Mutek Nexus. She has lectured and led workshops at Carnegie Mellon University, Duke University, University of Limerick, MIT, and NYU.
Char's GLSL and IDE-based performance has reached a wide audience, doing visuals for DJ_DAVE opening for JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown, to performing at the Whitney Museum to speaking at the Museum of the Moving Image and showing at ARTECHOUSE during Art Basel.