Bio – Marius Watz
 

Marius Watz (NO) is an artist working with visual abstraction through generative software processes. His work focuses on the synthesis of form as the product of parametric behaviors. He is known for hard-edged geometrical forms and vivid colors, with outputs ranging from pure software works to public projections and physical objects produced with digital fabrication technology.

Watz has exhibited at venues like the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Todaysart (The Hague), ITAU Cultural (Sao Paulo), Museumsquartier (Vienna), and Galleri ROM (Oslo). In a curating capacity, he founded Generator.x in 2005 as a platform for a events related to generative art and computational design, starting with a conference at Atelier Nord in Oslo and a touring exhibition with the National Museum of Art. In 2010 he co-curated the exhibition “abstrakt Abstrakt: The Systemized World” with Eno Henze at the Frankfurter Kunstverein.

As an educator, Watz has taught workshops at international schools including Universität der Künste (Berlin), Merz Akademie (Stuttgart) and Hyperwerk (Basel). In 2013 he was an adjunct professor and resident researcher at NYU ITP. He was a visiting lecturer in Interaction Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design 2005-2015.

He is currently based in Oslo.

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