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Maja Petrić is a contemporary new media artist who works primarily in interactive art that combines light, sound and cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, computer vision, and robotics to expand the multi-sensory apparatus through which art can be experience. She was born in 1981 in Zagreb, Croatia. She lives and works in Madrid, Seattle, New York City, and Zagreb. She received a PhD in new media art from the University of Washington Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media and Masters from the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).

Maja has conceived and produced interactive art environments for Microsoft, interactive experiences for Hong Kong Landmark, permanent light installations for Google, etc. Her commissions include tour of the immersive installation We Are All Made Of Light across the US, and series of interactive installations that take place in public parks, commercial, and private venues.

Maja is the recipient of The Lumen Prize for Art and Technology for Interactive Art, Microsoft Research Residency Award, Richard Kelly Light Art Award, Doctoral Fellowship from National Science Foundation, and was nominated for International Light Art Award, Arts Innovator Award, and FastCo. Innovation by Design Awards.

She has been teaching about light and art at the University of Washington, Complutense University of Madrid, Technical University of Madrid, and European Institute of Design. In 2016 she designed and directed the first-of-its-kind graduate program “Creative Lighting” at European Institute of Design in Madrid, Spain.

Notable works

• We Are All Made of Light (2018-19)
• Lost Skies (2017-19)
• I Saw My Birth, Love, and Death in the Sky (2017)
• A Panorama of The Skies (2013)
• The Skies Epitomized (2013)
• Horizon is an Imaginary Line (2013)
• Skies (2013)
• Skies Epitomized of War and Peace, featured by City Arts Magazine: a collection of creative writings and art, along with works from artists including Ari Glass, Gabriel Teodros and others.

References

1. "Maja Petric". University of Washington Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS). Retrieved December 6, 2017.
2. "Maja Petric". ITP People Directory. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
3. ^ "Home". Microsoft.
4. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1815745238443872
5. "Light is a Wave".
6. "Maja Petrić". 16 May 2019.
7. "We Are All Made Of Light • Lumen Prize". lumenprize.com. Archived from the original on 2019-11-18.
8. https://www.usmodernist.org/AL/AL-2010-11-12.pdf
9. International Light Art Award
10. "All the Ways AI Didn't Revolutionize Our Lives in 2016". 22 December 2016.
11. "La luz y el espacio: Paleta y lienzo de Maja Petrić - IED Madrid".
12. "A light installation by Maja Petrić shows AI can foster human connection".
13. "Artist Maja Petric Creates a Cosmos at MadArt Studio".
14. "Maja Petric's installation at MadArt transports us to the stars". 29 August 2018.
15. "This Trippy Light Installation is Like Being Inside Carl Sagan's Brain". The Stranger.
16. "How to see climate change through other eyes".
17. ^ "Microsoft Uses Machine Learning to Construct the Perfect Sky". 7 June 2016.
18. "Horizon is an Imaginary Line | Maja Petrić". Archived from the original on 2014-09-05. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
19. "Skies | Maja Petrić". Archived from the original on 2014-09-04. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
20. "LIGHT - City Arts Magazine". City Arts Magazine. 27 November 2017.

External links

• Official website

• 1981 births
• Living people
• Academic staff of the Complutense University of Madrid