The Enemy of Good: Making Dangerous Art from Tooth and Nail
Maker Faire Bay Area 2018
May 18th-20th
Matt Gordon, founder of Hydrocarbon Collective, will give a technical tour of Torch Song, a 15' kinteic fire art sculpture. He will also discuss the learning process involved in making novel, complex art from the standpoint of a generalist, and the question of what it means to "be an artist".
Matthew Gordon
Matt Gordon is the founder of Hydrocarbon Collective, an art organization with the motto “Because Art Should Be Dangerous.” He holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the author of a 10-minute musical about the life of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, and is the head of Machine Learning for Kairos Aerospace. He likes to learn to do new things.
