About the artist
Robert Edgar creates and employs software engines to examine mediated artifacts forged at his zone of proximal development. Robert’s computer-based art engines include Simultaneous Opposites (2008 – present), The Duchamp Examinations (2006), Memory Theatre Two (2003), Sand, or How Computers Imagine Truth in Cinema (1994), Living Cinema (1988), and Memory Theatre One (1985). Robert holds an MFA from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. He grew up in Cocoa Beach, Florida during the birth of the NASA Space Program (1958-1970). Robert is Sr. Instructional Designer at Stanford University.