Michael Takeo Magruder is an American artist based in the UK deploying New and Technological Media within Contemporary Art contexts. He is a long-standing member of King's Visualisation Lab located in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London. His artworks have been showcased in over one hundred and sixty exhibitions and thirty countries.

His interests concern the simultaneous utilisation and dissection of new technologies as a means to explore the formal structures and conceptual paradigms of the digital realm. He seeks to create artworks in which there are no divisions between technologies, aesthetics, and concepts.

Monolith[s]

Composed: 05.2006
Requirements: PC browser with Cortona 4.2+, Flash 8+, Windows Media 10+ plugins and 5.1 audio.
Commissioned by: Turbulence.org with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, USA.

Dimensions of a viewer's own immediate environment rearranged into an evolving virtual realm in which icons of pre-history are juxtaposed with complex refractions of the information age.

World[s]

Composed: 05.2006
Requirements: PC browser with Cortona 4.2+, Flash 8+ plugins and 5.1 audio.
Commissioned by: Soundtoys.net with funding from Arts Council England.

A series of dynamic virtual sculptures generated exclusively from the word ‘world’ translated into the native script of society’s most common languages.

Data_cosm

Composed: 07.2005
Requirements: PC browser with Cortona 4.2+ and Flash 8+ plugins.
Commissioned by: Arts Council England for Net:Reality.

An examination of the chronological archives generated by news media and of the dynamic information structures that mediate this process.