Amber Frid-Jimenez is an
artist and researcher working towards a masters in Media Arts and Sciences with
Professor John Maeda in Physical Language Workshop at the MIT Media Laboratory.
Prior to beginning her degree, she spent a year as a research designer in the
Cognitive Machines Group at MIT, where she designed software systems visualizing
large bodies of literature. The Document Icons, a collaboration with Philip DeCamp,
are being presented at the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2005.
Frid-Jimenez
was a visiting artist at the Banff New Media Institute in 2005 and artist-in-residence
at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2003. Her work has been exhibited
in galleries in New York, Washington D.C., and Boston. She has received grants
from MIT Council for the Arts for her collaborative work with Joe Dahmen, Ben
Dalton, and Noah Fields. She has won awards from the Art Director's Club, the
American Association of University Presses and the Smithsonian for her book and
exhibit designs.
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