Neri Oxman
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Neri Oxman in Montreal, 2013
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| Native name | נרי אוקסמן | ||||||||
| Born | 1976 Haifa, Israel |
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| Nationality | Israeli, American | ||||||||
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Technion Hebrew University Architectural Association MIT |
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| Occupation | Associate professor of media arts and science | ||||||||
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Silk Pavilion (2013) Wanderers (2015) |
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| Spouse(s) | Osvaldo Golijov (divorced) | ||||||||
| Awards |
Vilcek Prize, 2014 Earth Award, 2009 |
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Neri Oxman (נרי אוקסמן, Hebrew pronunciation: neʁi ˈoksman; born 1976) is an American–Israeli architect, designer, and professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she leads the Mediated Matter research group. She is known for art and architecture that combine design, biology, computing, and materials engineering.
Her work embodies environmental design and digital morphogenesis, with shapes and properties that are determined by their context. She coined the phrase "material ecology" to define her work, placing materials in context. Stylistic trademarks include brightly colored and textured surfaces with structure at many scales, and composite materials whose hardness, color, and shape vary over an object. The results are often designed to be worn or touched, and inspired by nature and biology.
Many of Oxman's projects use 3D printing and fabrication techniques. They include the Silk Pavilion, spun by silkworms released onto a nylon frame,Ocean Pavilion, a water-based fabrication platform that built structures out of chitosan,G3DP, the first 3D printer for glass and a set of glasswork produced by it, and collections of 3D-printed clothing and wearables worn in couture shows and by performers such as Björk.
She has held regular exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and Boston's Museum of Science, which have some of her pieces in their permanent collections. She has been recognized for contributing to new ways of thinking about making things, both within and outside of the design world. MoMA curator Paola Antonelli called her "a person ahead of her time, not of her time", and Bruce Sterling called her work "shatteringly different from anything before".
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