bio
john carpenter is an artist and designer who uses immersive installations to explore how people interact with complex natural spaces. based in santa monica, he works for morphosis architects (2005-present) as the visual and interactive designer, and teaches programming at loyola marymount university. john recently earned his MFA from the department of design | media arts in the school of the arts and architecture at UCLA (2009) where his thesis work, Shoreline Equivalent: Qualitative Spaces in Interactive Art, uses qualitative observations of sand patterns at the beach to convey the fluid, dynamic and emergent nature of the shoreline.

prior to joining morphosis, john worked with davidkremers, the caltech conceptual artist, and dr. scott fraser in the brain and biological imaging centers at the california institute of technology (2001-2005). john graduated from the university of arizona in 2001 with a BS in molecular and cellular biology and minors in studio art and psychology.

education/distinctions
graduate
university of california, los angeles, 2009
design | media arts, the school of the arts and architecture
master of fine arts

john neuhart scholarship 2008-2009

undergraduate
university of arizona, 2001
bachelors of science
major: molecular and cellular biology
minors: studio art, psychology

summa cum laude with honors (cumulative GPA: 4.00)
highest academic distinction / dean’s list with distinction 1997-2001
arizona board of regents scholarship 1997-2001
phi beta kappa national honorary
golden key national honor society
phi eta sigma national honorary
mortar board national senior honorary

experience
morphosis architects / santa monica, CA 10/2005 – present
california institute of technology (biological and brain imaging centers, digital media center)/ pasadena, CA 07/2001 – 08/2005
barrow neurological, st. joseph's hospital / phoenix, AZ 2000
maricopa county hospital / phoenix, AZ 1999
university of texas MD anderson cancer center / houston, TX 1998

publications
john carpenter. A Melding of Art and Science. tucson: university of arizona, 2001.
john carpenter. Shoreline Equivalent: Qualitative Spaces in Interactive Art. los angeles: university of california los angeles, 2009.
davidkremers. WHITE PAPER black space (see Chapters 5-6). cold spring harbor: cold spring harbor laboratory press, 2010 forthcoming.

exhibitions
2010/09/25-26 Glow santa monica
2009/05/14-28 2009 D|MA MFA thesis exhibition, wight gallery at the broad art center, UCLA
2008/04/03 2009 mfa candidates exhibition, david bermant gallery at the experimental digital arts building, university of california, los angeles
2008/01/07 wight gallery at the broad art center, UCLA
2007/11/28 david bermant gallery at the experimental digital arts building, university of california, los angeles
2007/10/24 david bermant gallery at the experimental digital arts building, university of california, los angeles
2001 a melding of art and science senior show, life sciences south, university of arizona, tucson

lectures and teaching
2010 LMU (Loyola Marymount): ART 182 Programming for Creative Applications / spring / visiting professor
2009/07/06-17 UCLA SCI|ART NANOLAB 2009
2009 UCLA: visual communication design studio / spring / teaching assistant with professor carla barr
2009 UCLA: art, science & technology / winter, also 2007 fall / teaching assistant with professor victoria vesna
2008/07/07-18 UCLA SCI|ART NANOLAB 2008
2008/05/29 peripeteia, consortium of literature, theory, and culture's sixth annual graduate conference, mccune seminar roon, university of california, santa barabara
2008 UCLA: senior projects design studio / winter + spring / teaching assistant with professors rebecca allen and willem henri lucas
2008/12/30 northText v 1.0 poster presentation, MLA 2008: San Francisco
2008 UCLA: communication 1: infographics design studio / fall / teaching assistant with professor willem henri lucas