Jer Thorp

Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada, currently living in New York. 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.

Jer has over a decade of teaching experience, in New York University’s ITP program, at Langara College, and as an artist-in-residence at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Recently, he has presented at a White House forum on the future of Artificial Intelligence, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratories, and at The Aspen Ideas Festival. Jer is a National Geographic Fellow, an adjunct Professor in New York University’s ITP program, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Design Innovation. He is a co-founder of The Office For Creative Research, a multi- disciplinary research group exploring new modes of engagement with data. From 2010 – 2012, Jer was the Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times.