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David Em is a digital art pioneer. He is one of the first artists to work with pixels.
In 1975 he made digital paintings at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, then transitioned to building articulated 3D creatures at Information International Incorporated in 1976.
From 1976 to 1988, he was Artist-in-Residence at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and at Caltech, where he became the first artist to construct navigable virtual worlds.
Em’s work has been published internationally and exhibited in museums in America, Europe, and Japan. He is the first digital artist to have his working papers collected by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
Since the 1990s, Em has worked independently. His recent creations incorporate AI.
You can read about his life and work here.