Don Hanson

b. 1990, California
Lives & works in Brooklyn, New York.

Don Hanson is a designer, electronic musician and Internet artist building experimental websites, tools and electronic artifacts connected to the world wide web. He is the founder of virtual art space New Art City.

Press

2024 Renaissance Artists of the Multiverse [Frequenzy, Rotterdam The Netherlands]
2023 What Just Happened: New Art City Virtualizes The Gallery, Abolishes Gatekeepers, and Increases Access [HOLO, Toronto Canada]
2023 Future-Proof Podcast with guest Don Hanson [Blessed Foundation, London UK]
2022 F.U.V. with Don Hanson, Sammie Veeler and Benny Lichtner of New Art City [Off Site Project, London UK]
2021 2ser Radio Interview (Audio) [2SER Radio, Sydney Australia]
2021 Don Hanson on Internet Art and How To Exhibit It [Gray Area Foundation, San Francisco CA]
2020 The Future of Online Exhibitions (Video) [Art in America, Online]
2019 How to stand out by using .xyz in your brand name [.XYZ, Online]
2018 Interview: Interacting with Code [Nebulae Magazine, Online]
2018 Look at this internet art — if you can. It moves every time someone sees it (Audio) [CBC Radio, Ottowa Canada]
2018 Don Hanson - Permanent Redirect [I Had 10 Dollars, Online]
2018 We’d love to link you to this website but it’s impossible [The Outline, Online]
2017 Things Go Awry at ‘Desert X,’ as Shy Bot Disappears [The New York Times, NYC]

Residencies / Incubators

2023-2024 NEW INC Year 10 [NEW INC, NYC]
2022-2023 NEW INC Year 9 [NEW INC, NYC]
2017 Artist in Residence [Museum of Capitalism, Oakland CA]
2016 Matchbox Artist [CounterPulse, San Francisco CA]

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Æesthetic Fragments [The Wrong Tv, Online]

Group Exhibitions

2024 LiveCodeNYC x Harvestworks [LivecodeNYC, NYC]
2024 Reverse Tar Pit: Sludge Room [New Art City, NYC]
2023 Reverse Tar Pit [Onassis ONX Studio, NYC]
2023 NEW INC Extended Realities Showcase [ONX Studio, NYC]
2023 Club Code [Persona, NYC]
2023 Subjective Session 003 [Subjective Art, NYC]
2023 Playhouse [:iidrr Gallery, NYC]
2022 Machining the Ghost [AV Club, San Francisco CA]
2020 SJSU MFA Collective Exhibition [SJSU, San Jose CA]
2020 Exhibition 2 [Ain't no Gallery, Online]
2020 Nexus [Mutek, Online]
2020 Well Now WTF? [Silicon Valet, Online]
2019 Found Repurposed Vol. 2 [Center for New Music, San Francisco CA]
2018 Obfuscating Ownership: Privacy & Sousveillance [University Hertfordshire, Hatfield UK]
2017 Radical Networks Exhibition [Radical Networks, NYC]
2017 Scene with Shybot [The Lab, San Francisco CA]
2017 The Wrong Biennale [The Wrong, Online]
2017 STABLE Experimental Art & Music [STABLE, Oakland CA]
2017 Desert X Biennial [Desert X, Palm Springs CA]
2015 ART+TECH Festival [CODAME, San Francisco CA]
2014 ART+TECH Festival [CODAME, San Francisco CA]
2014 ObTech Obsolete Technology [B4BEL4B, Oakland CA]
2011 Now in Pixel [Martin Wong Gallery, San Francisco CA]

Speaking

2023 Gray Area Festival: Plural Prototypes [Gray Area, San Francisco CA]
2023 Future-Proof Series [Blessed Foundation, London UK]
2023 DEMO2023 [NEW INC, NYC]
2023 NOT.GLI.TC/H [GLI.TC/H, Chicago IL]
2023 p5.js Community Salon [NYU ITP, NYC]
2023 Virtual Museum Platforms & Strategies for Online Mediation [ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe Germany]
2022 The Adventures of Dots & Dashes [Elephantspace, Seoul South Korea]
2022 Critical Data Futures: Art, Life, and Data in the Metaverse [BAMPFA, Berkeley CA]
2022 Algorithmic Art Assembly [Gray Area, San Francisco CA]
2022 Net Art & Accessibility Guest Lecture [In Transit, Online]
2022 Metaverse Imaginaries, Tokenomics: A New Economy of Art [DACS, Online]
2021 Gray Area Festival: Worlding Protocol [Gray Area, San Francisco CA]
2020 LASER Leonardo Artist Talk [The Life Art Science Tech (L.A.S.T.) dialogues, Online]
2018 Binary Salon [The Midway, San Francisco CA]
2018 SF Tech Poetics [Github, San Francisco CA]

Teaching

2023 WebXR Development Studio [The New School, NYC]
2023 Computational Studio: Simulation [The Cooper Union, NYC]
2020 Intro to Digital Media Art [SJSU, San Jose CA]

Education

2019-2020 MFA (Dropout) Digital Media Art [San Jose State University, San Jose CA]
2008-2013 Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication Design [San Francisco State University, San Francisco CA]

Performance

2024 SXSW AV Algorave [SXSW, Austin TX]
2024 Livecode / dadaLab [dadaLab, Austin TX]
2024 Black Box: NYFW [Artifice, NYC]
2024 New Aesthetic [Chemistry Creative, NYC]
2023 Public Visuals & Friends [Lume, NYC]
2023 Verciverse [Verci, NYC]
2023 Livecode Algorithmic Art [Spectra Studio, Los Angeles CA]
2023 Proof of People x Refraction Festival [Zerospace, NYC]
2023 NOT.GLI.TC/H [GLI.TC/H, Chicago IL]
2023 Download: Cyberrave & Live AV [SXSW, Austin TX]
2023 Rave by Design [Mayday, Providence RI]
2023 Parallel Play [Persona, NYC]
2022 Pixel Worship [Zerospace, NYC]
2022 PHONOSYNTHESIS II [Synesthesia, NYC]
2022 Algotrek II [LiveCode.NYC, Cold Spring NY]
2022 Body, Embodiment, Digital Self [:iidrr Gallery, NYC]
2022 Algodreams [The Center, San Francisco CA]
2022 Portal Refractions [Gray Area, San Francisco CA]
2022 Download: Algrorave & Live AV [SXSW, Austin TX]
2021 Symmetry Algorave [AV Club, San Francisco CA]
2021 A Rift i the Matrix Algorave [AV Club, San Francisco CA]
2019 Galvanize [Gray Area, San Francisco CA]
2019 ART+TECH Festival [CODAME, San Francisco CA]
2019 Other Futures [Gray Area, San Francisco CA]
2019 Illum Art Tech Music [The Midway, San Francisco CA]

Leadership

2021-2022 Co-Organizer [AV Club SF, San Francisco CA]
2020-Ongoing Founder & Team Lead [New Art City, Online]
2015-2018 Technical Director [B4BEL4B Gallery, Oakland CA]
2014-2018 Technical Director [CODAME Art+Tech, San Francisco CA]
2010-2020 Founder & Lead Organizer [Gridwalk Electronic Music Label, Online]

Virtual Exhibition Producer

2021 New Art City Festival [New Art City, Online]
2021 Format International Photography Festival [Derby QUAD, Derby UK]
2021 Other Skies: Exoplanetary Dust [CLOT Magazine & SciArt Initiative, Online]
2021 Alchemical by Casey Reas & Jan St. Werner [bitforms gallery, NYC]
2020 Disembodied Behaviors [bitforms gallery, NYC]