Daniel Temkin
- Year of birth, place
- 1973, Boston
- lives and works in
- New York City
- Biography
Daniel Temkin makes images, programming languages, and interactive pieces that use the machine as a place of confrontation between human thought and logic. His blog and research project esoteric.codes documents the history of programming languages as an art medium and other experiments in language and code. It received the 2014 ArtsWriters.org grant from Creative Capital and the Warhol Foundation and is currently being developed at New Inc, the New Museum’s cultural incubator. Daniel has published with journals including World Picture Journal, Leonardo, and Media-N Journal, and presented at SXSW, GLI.TC/H, SIGGRAPH, and Media Art Histories among others. He has been an artist-in-residence at Pioneer Works, Harvestworks, and Signal Culture, and has exhibited work at the Whitney Museum, Museau do Chiado, Haus der elektronischen Künste, TRANSFER Gallery, and Higher Pictures. His work has been featured in ArtNews, the New York Times, and the Boston Globe.
