Artist Jenn Karson uses scientific processes and technologies as creative catalysts. She earned a full fellowship to attend the San Francisco Art Institute, where she completed an MFA in Design + Technology. A senior lecturer at the University of Vermont (UVM), where she also earned her BA, her current research employs studio-sourced datasets and speculative design frameworks that imagine symbiotic plant and machine relationships. In 2020 she founded and has since led the art and AI research project, Plant Machine Design. She exhibits nationally and internationally, recent solo exhibitions include The Generative Tree and Liquid Architectures.
Karson is well known for bridging the worlds of art and engineering. In the mid 2000s she founded the art/science collective Vermont Makers and, as director of the UVM FabLab for over a decade, she oversaw the significant expansion of its footprint and interdisciplinary reach.
Leading up to her work with art and technology, Karson created numerous site-specific sound installations and released four musical recordings including the solo album Bad Ju Ju.
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact:
jennifer.karson@uvm.edu
