Ben Fry,
Designer, Cambridge

Ben Fry received his doctoral degree from the 'Aesthetics and Computation Group' (ACG) of John Maeda at the MIT Media Lab. Together with Casey Reas, he developed the open source programming language 'Processing' and was awarded with a Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica 2005. His personal work has been shown at the MoMA in New York, it has appeared in the films 'Minority Report' and 'The Hulk' and illustrated articles for magazines like Seed or the New York Magazine. Ben Fry's background is a mixture of computer science, graphic design and data visualization. His fascinating work includes projects like 'Anemone', a tool for organic data visualization, and 'Genome Valence', a genomic cartography project to represent the data found in the human genome. In December 2007 he will release his new book 'Visualizing Data'.