Ben Bogart
Ben Bogart (they/them) is a neurodivergent non-binary agender adisciplinary artist working for over two decades with generative computational processes and has been inspired by knowledge in the natural sciences in the service of an epistemological inquiry. Ben has produced processes, artifacts, texts, images and performances that have been presented at galleries, art festivals and academic conferences nationally and internationally. Notable exhibitions include shows at the Canadian Embassy at Transmediale in 2017, the TechLab at the Surrey Art Gallery in 2018, and the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2022. They have been an artist in residence in Canada at the Banff Centre, New Forms Festival, Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen, Deer Lake Park and internationally at Montalvo (United States of America) and Videotage (Hong Kong). Their research and practice have been funded by the SSHRC, and provincial and federal arts councils. Ben holds both master’s and doctorate degrees from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. Ben is a settler of Dutch and French ancestry and lives and works on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̍əm (Musqueam), Sk̠wx̠wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Peoples, also known as Vancouver.
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