{"data":{"id":"8181","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":8181,"topgoose_id":6243,"tms_id":8181,"display_name":"Benjamin Fry","sort_name":"Fry Benjamin","display_date":"1975–","begin_date":"1975","end_date":"0","biography":"\u003cp class=\"large\"\u003eBenjamin Fry (b. 1975; Ann Arbor, Michigan) creates work combining computer science, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization to explore information. With \u003ca href=\"/artists/9612\"\u003eCasey Reas\u003c/a\u003e in 2001, he created \u003ca href=\"https://processing.org/\"\u003eProcessing\u003c/a\u003e, an open-source programming language and environment. His work has been shown in the \u003ca href=\"/exhibitions/biennial-2002\"\u003e2002 Whitney Biennial\u003c/a\u003e and the 2003 and 2006 Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum National Design Triennial, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography in New York; Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; and in the films \u003cem\u003eMinority Report\u003c/em\u003e (2002) and \u003cem\u003eHulk\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e(2003). Fry was selected as one of Fast Company’s Fifty Most Influential Designers in America (2011) and as one of Slate’s Top Right (2011) and received the National Design Award for Interaction Design (2011).\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":true,"artport":true,"biennial":true,"collection":true,"ulan_id":null,"wikidata_id":"Q4888685","created_at":"2023-11-17T18:10:30.879-05:00","updated_at":"2026-04-14T16:31:00.096-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/8181/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/8181/exhibitions"}}}}