Lisa Jevbratt

Associate Professor
MAT and Art
University of California, Santa Barbara

Jevbratt is a Swedish born new media artist, currently an associate professor in the Art Department and the Media Art Technology program at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work, ranging from Internet visualization software to biofeedback and interspecies collaboration, is concerned with collectives and systems, the languages and conditions that generate them, and the exchanges within them. The projects explores alternative, distributed and unintentional collaborations and the expressions of the collectives they create. Her work has been exhibited extensively in venues such as The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), The New Museum (New York), The Swedish National Public Art Council (Stockholm, Sweden), and the Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York); and it is discussed in numerous books, for example in "Internet Art" by Rachel Greene, "Digital Art" by Christiane Paul and "Art + Science Now" by Stephen Wilson (Thames and Hudson). Jevbratt also publishes texts on topics related to her projects and research, for example in the anthology "Network Art - Practices and Positions" ed. Tom Corby (Routledge). Last year her current project "ZooMorph" was awarded a Creative Capital grant.

Class Homepages


Winter 11
Art Science and Technologies (ART 7D)
Mapmaking as Art: using Google Maps/Earth and other online tools and data to create artistic maps. (ART 122)

Fall 10
Digital Media Toolbox - intro to Programming for Art Students (with focus on the Web and data) (ART 102)

Spring 10
Department of Art 2010 Symposium (Art 1C)
Interspecies Collaboration (ARTS 130), (also see interspeciescollaboration.net)

Winter 10
Art Science and Technologies (ART 7D)
Mapmaking as Art: using Google Maps/Earth and other online tools and data to create artistic maps. (ART 122)

Fall 09
Digital Media Toolbox - intro to Programming for Art Students (with focus on the Web and data) (ART 102)