Todd Blair

Todd Blair has worked in multiple capacities on a wide range of creative projects, designing, fabricating, managing, and implementing technology-based interactive artworks and exhibitions for nearly 20 years. These have included a diverse range of public artworks, museum projects, performances, installations, workshops, and festivals as well as his own work, all with a special focus on the convergence of art, technology, interactive media, emerging genres, and cross-disciplinary art practices.

Recently he was awarded a public art commission for the city of Oakland, for which he is developing a responsive sculpture that visualizes the energy of the estuarine tidal flow.

Todd oversaw the acquisition, design, and fabrication of 40 innovative artworks for phaeno, a science center designed by Zaha Hadid that opened in 2005 in Wolfsburg, Germany. He has served as a creative consultant and fabricator for numerous North American and European artists, including Lynn Hershman, Chico McMurtrie, Survival Research Labs, Gordon Monahan, Jim Whiting, Laura Kikauka, and Just Merritt, to name only a few. He was also the program director and part of the curatorial team for Rearview Mirror to Reality, part of the 1996 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria.