David Crawford

David Crawford (1970–2009) received several Turbulence.org (1996–2016) commissions, including Here and Now (1998), National Velvet (2000), and Stop Motion Studies – Tokyo (2003). His Light of Speed project was a finalist for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Webby Prize for Excellence in Online Art (2000). Crawford’s Stop Motion Studies project received an Award of Distinction in the Net Vision category of the Prix Ars Electronica (2003) and entered the collection of the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. In 2004 he received an MSc degree from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Crawford received a PhD in fine, applied, and performing arts from Gothenburg University in 2009. His art has been featured in publications such as the Guardian, United Kingdom, and Leonardo, and his writing has been published by Princeton Architectural Press and Springer.