Shawn Lawson

Most Recent Known Affiliation:
Arizona State University
Personal Website:
https://www.shawnlawson.com/
Profile in ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive:
https://history.siggraph.org/person/shawn-lawson/
Location:
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community Roles:
SPARKS Presenter

Shawn Lawson is an artist and researcher creating the computational sublime. He performs under the pseudonym Obi-Wan Codenobi where he live-codes real-time computer graphics and neural nets with his open source software. Lawson has performed, exhibited, or screened in museums, galleries, festivals, and public space across five continents. Lawson has published in a wide range of international technical and arts conferences and journals. His work has been funded by national and international agencies. Lawson studied fine arts at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris and received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a Professor of Art at Arizona State University.