Jer Thorp

Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada, currently living in New York. He has launched The Office For Creative Research and is an adjunct professor in New York University’s ITP program. Thorp is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Design Innovation. Coming from a background in genetics, his digital art practice explores the many-folded boundaries between science, data, art, and culture. Recently, his work has been featured by the Guardian, Scientific American, the New Yorker, and Popular Science. Thorp’s award-winning software-based work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, including in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. Thorp has over a decade of teaching experience: in Langara College’s Electronic Media Design Program at the Vancouver Film school, and as an artist-in-residence at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Recently, he has presented at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Art, at the National Academies in Washington, and at IBM’s Center for Social Software in Cambridge.