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Sterling Crispin (born 1985) is a conceptual artist and software engineer who creates smart contracts, generative art, machine intelligence, and techno-sculpture. Crispin’s artwork oscillates between the computational beauty of nature, and our conflicting cultural narratives about the apocalypse. His work asks, “Are we going to merge our bodies with machines and become gods that live forever? Or will we face a global climate collapse and all go extinct?” Somehow, we are moving towards both of these conclusions at once.

Crispin’s artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, including ZKM Karlsruhe, The Mexican National Center for the Arts, The Seoul Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, The Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden, and the Venice Biennale. As well as published in The New York Times, Frieze, Wired, MIT Press, BOMB, Rhizome, ARTNews and Art in America.


For more info see CV / Resume

Select Press

2021 - Art in America - “NFT as Joke”

2021 - Art News - “No NFT Is an Island”

2020 - New York Times - Art Reviews

2018 - We Make Money Not Art - “Does Art Have Any Relevance “In The Age of AI?” 

2017 - Art Space - “7 Favorites From Untitled, Miami Beach 2017”

2017 - Creative Applications - “Inside the Artist’s Headset – Sterling Crispin’s Cyber Paint” 

2017 - MIT Press - “Technologies of Vision: The War Between Data and Images” 

2016 - International Sculpture Center -  "Inside the Artist’s Studio: Sterling Crispin" 

2015 - Art in America - ”The Biennial of the Americas Puts Colorado at the Center of the Map” 

2015 - Contemporary Art Daily - "‘Tulipomania’ at Del Vaz Projects (offsite)" 

2015 - Bomb Magazine - “Sterling Crispin - Data Masks and The Technological Other.”

2015 - Complex - “The Greatest Digital Artists of the 21st Century”

2014 - Fast Company - “Creepy Data Masks Show the Monstrous Side of Facial Recognition” 

2014 - Wired Magazine Italy - “Facebook ti vede così”

2014 - Matter - “This Is What Your Face Looks Like to Facebook”  

2014 - Forbes - “What's Next For Art In The Digital Age”

2013 - The Creators Project - “Sterling Crispin Weaves Virtual Algorithmic Landscapes” 

2011 - Revolver Publishing, Katja Novitskova’s  “Post Internet Survival Guide 2010”

Research

Google Scholar Page
A list of public patents, papers and citations

Data-Masks: Biometric Surveillance Masks Evolving in the Gaze of the Technological Other
A Master's Thesis addressing biometric surveillance technology, resulting in 3D printed face masks that were algorithmically evolved to satisfy facial recognition algorithms, titled "Data-masks".

CHARON: The Self and the Technological-Other
A Master's Thesis addressing technical considerations, and philosophical reflections on the use of autonomous robotic agents in art, society, and warfare. Specifically, this paper addresses the use of an autonomous quadrocopter in a CAVE-like immersive virtual reality environment with motion tracking capabilities. Also described are several approaches for preparing highly non-conformal generative geometries for rapid prototyping and 3D printing..

Open Drone Control - 2013
A technical paper describing an open source software platform for developing interactive artworks and research projects with aerial robotics.

Essays

Deconstructing the Image-Object - 2013
An essay regarding the post-internet condition, the over use of irony, novelty, attention as currency, persona as product and the embrace of the spectacle of society.

Liberate Our Minds by Any Means Necessary - 2013
A Manifesto to disarm, destroy and remake the society of the spectacle. Weaponized rhetoric as a call to action. Modern society must reawaken, the guardian of sleep must die.

 
Del Complex
Del Complex - 2024
Like a Ship Without A Sail
Like a Ship Without A Sail - 2024
Ginsbergs Moloch - AI Nightmare Edition
Ginsbergs Moloch - AI Nightmare Edition - 2023
Flourish
Flourish - 2023
Spectacle
Spectacle - 2022
Not Audited
NotAudited.xyz - 2022
Codex 3 - Neophyte
Codex 3 - Neophyte - 2022
Neophyte MMXXII
Neophyte MMXXII - 2022
Message
Message - 2021
Sundial
Sundial - 2021
Graphs
Graphs - 2021
Morphogenesis 3
Morphogenesis 3 - 2021
Morphogenesis 2
Morphogenesis 2 - 2021
Morphogenesis 1
Morphogenesis 1 - 2021
Ideas of Mountains
Ideas of Mountains - 2021
Codex 2 - Fierce Compassion
Codex 2 - Fierce Compassion - 2021
Codex 1 - Horizon
Codex 1 - Horizon - 2021
Entropy Extropy
Entropy Extropy - 2021
Voice VS Exit
Voice VS. Exit - 2021
NFT Concepts
NFT Concepts - 2021
GPT Paintings
GPT Paintings - 2020
Softbank 30-300 Visions
Softbank 30-300 Visions - 2020
Escape Vehicle 001
Escape Vehicle 001 - 2020
Inherent Dignity
Inherent Dignity - 2020
Authoritarian Deceleration to Nature
Authoritarian Deceleration to Nature - 2020
Collective Deceleration to Nature
Collective Deceleration to Nature - 2020
Collective Acceleration of Technology
Collective Acceleration of Technology - 2020
Extinction
Extinction - 2020
A004
A004 - 2020
A003
A003 - 2020
A001
A002 - 2020
A001
A001 - 2020
Hope
Hope - 2020
Recovery
Recovery - 2020
Transcendence
Transcendence - 2020
No Fate
No Fate - 2019
20XX
20XX - 2018
Dont Panic
Dont Panic - 2018
Cyber Paint
Cyber Paint - 2017
Amazon Alexa Powerwave Obelisk
Amazon Alexa Powerwave Obelisk - 2017
Alkaline-Cooled Life and Entropy Growth Index
Alkaline-Cooled Life and Entropy Growth Index - 2016
Entropy Extropy
Entropy Extropy - 2016
N.A.N.O. , B.I.O. , I.N.F.O. , C.O.G.N.O.
N.A.N.O. , B.I.O. , I.N.F.O. , C.O.G.N.O. - 2015
Self-Contained Investment Module and Contingency Package
Self-Contained Investment Module and Contingency Package - 2015
DATA-MASKS
Data-Masks - 2013-2015
Entropy Extropy
Entropy Extropy - 2014
Cardiac
Cardiac - 2014
A Particular Nowhere
A Particular Nowhere - 2014
Territory
Territory - 2013
Charon
Charon - 2013
Psyche Techne
Psyche , Techne - 2013
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Plein Air 001 - 2012
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Inversion - 2012