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Circuit Bent Robotic Bear moves his hands, head, ears and eyes.
Nathan VillicaƱa-Shaw creates installations that explore and question our ever changing relationship with technology. Interested in defining new boundaries for human-circuit interaction, Nathans previous installations have featured armies of circuit bent toys, circuit bent Super Nintendoās as well as relay grids that sonify global weather data. Nathan spends most of his time creating interactive installation art, composing, hacking and working as a Python developer and creative technologist. Nathan is a MFA and BFA alum from the MTIID department at CalArts where his research focused on developing and working under the philosophy of OpenHacking; a discoverist framework for art creation via the exposure of electronic systems for subversive injection. Before studying at CalArts, Nathan played Bass in various punk and surf bands from the SF East Bay such as The Molestations and The Machetes.
Nathan is employed by Kadenze Inc. as a Researcher in the R&D department.