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, where she also earned her BA, her current research and practice employs studio-sourced datasets and speculative design frameworks that imagine symbiotic plant and machine relationships. Bridging the worlds of art and engineering, she founded the art/science collective Vermont Makers and, as director of the UVM FabLab for a decade, oversaw the significant expansion of its footprint and interdisciplinary reach. Karson teaches digital fabrication and generative design, and in 2020 she founded and has since led the art and AI research project, Plant Machine Design.
Karson exhibits her work nationally and internationally and has secured funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Science Foundation. Recent solo exhibitions include The Generative Tree and Liquid Architectures. She’s 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
