Scott Kildall

SYMPHONIC FOREST
Symphonic Forest creates improvised soundscapes arrangements from tree data
BOTANIC QUARTET
Botanic Quartet is a live generative audio performance between four plants.
UNNATURAL LANGUAGE
Unnatural Language is a network of electronic organisms (“Datapods”) that create sonic improvisations from physical sensors in the natural environment.
CONTAGIOUS WHISPER
This film envisions a “Viral Communication Network” in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Collaboration with Manu Luksch.
RIGGED
Rigged is a series of sculptures which play with the formal qualities of territory, capturing the oddities of selected gerrymandered districts.
SONAQUA
An electronic installation that sonifies water quality.
FLAGSCAPE
A virtual reality artwork that constructs a surreal world of economic exchange between nations, based on United Nations data and explores data-navigation techniques.
EXOTOPIA
Exotopia is a virtual reality installation where visitors can explore all the known exoplanets
STREWN FIELDS
Strewn Fields is a data-visualization of meteorite impacts at different sites, etched into stone
WATERWORKS
Water Works is a data-visualization of the water infrastructure of San Francisco using digital fabrication techniques
Celebrity Asteroid Journeys

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Featured Works

Soundscapes from Live Tree Data

SYMPHONIC FOREST

Live audio performance by plants

BOTANIC QUARTET

Audio synth from sensors in nature

UNNATURAL LANGUAGE

Future Speculation Film

CONTAGIOUS WHISPER

Sonifies water quality

SONAQUA

Exoplanet Map in VR

EXOTOPIA

Gerrymander
Sculptures

RIGGED

Meteorite impacts etched into stone

STREWN FIELDS

About Scott Kildall

Scott Kildall is a new media artist who looks at the interplay between territory and technology. He sees this as a dynamic relationship, which changes as the dissemination of new inventions shift and then resettle structures of power.

His work often spatializes data to create experiences where viewers can move and interact with the data itself. Because data has physical consequences, his work generates meaningful real-life experiences for the viewer. Recent artworks range from stone tablets etched with meteorite impact data to interactive sound installations based on water quality to virtual reality installations where viewers can fly around data involving the artificial construct of the nation-state.

Scott has been working with art + technology + education for over 15 years. In 2017, he worked as an American Arts Incubator Artist, where he led a 1-month workshop in Bangkok to teach data-visualization and sculptural techniques to local Thai educators and students involving water quality in that city. Additionally, he has worked as a New Media Exhibit Developer (2012-13) at The Exploratorium in the Life Sciences Gallery. He has also taught coursework involving data-visualization and digital mapping at the University of San Francisco.

He has received fellowships, awards and residencies from organizations including the SETI Institute, ZERO1, Santa Fe Art Institute, Impakt Works, Autodesk, Recology San Francisco, Turbulence.org, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, The Kala Art Institute and The Banff Centre for the Arts.

His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the New York Hall of Science, Transmediale, the Venice Biennale, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the San Jose Museum of Art. He currently resides in San Francisco.

Twitter: @kildall
Instagram: @kildall