Photo by Karl Rabe, courtesy of Vassar College.
Courtney Starrett is a multimedia artist, designer, and associate professor in the Visualization program of the College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Art at Texas A&M University, where she holds the Harold L. Adams ’61 Interdisciplinary Endowed Professorship in Visualization. Working with data as a raw material, Starrett develops sculptural objects and forms through a unique workflow she terms data materialization—embedding numerical into the physical, she advances craft while preserving its fundamental connection to human experience.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in permanent collections including the Museum of Fine Arts - Houston (TX), Mint Museum (NC) and the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture (OR). Her projects and writing have appeared in publications such as Metalsmith Magazine, HOW Design, Taiwan Craft Magazine, Art Jewelry Magazine, Cast: Art and Objects, 500 Necklaces, and 500 Plastic Jewelry Objects. Her research on data materialization has been published in Leonardo (MIT Press) and cited in the Handbook on Human-Computer Interaction (Springer, 2023).
Starrett has also contributed more than a decade of service to ACM SIGGRAPH—serving as Studio Chair (2014), Emerging Technologies Chair (2019), Community Engagement Chair (2022), and SIGGRAPH Labs Chair (2023)—and currently serves on the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee as a director-at-large.
She sorts her thoughts and revives her creative energy biking and swimming.