Ira Greenberg

Director, Center of Creative Computation, Southern Methodist University

Ira Greenberg holds a joint appointment as professor of computer science and engineering in the Meadows School of the Arts and the Lyle School of Engineering at SMU. Previously, he was on the faculty of Miami University (Ohio)’s School of Fine Arts and Interactive Media Studies program and was an affiliate member of the Department of Computer Science and Systems Analysis.

Greenberg earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from Cornell University and master of fine arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Greenberg’s eclectic background includes work as a painter, 2D and 3D animator, print designer, web and interactive designer/developer, programmer, art director, creative director, managing director, art and computer science professor and author.

He was affiliated with the Flywheel Gallery in Piermont, New York, and the Bowery Gallery in New York City, and was a managing director and creative director for H2O Associates in New York’s Silicon Alley. He has lectured and held residencies at numerous locations around the world, including Dublin, Edinburgh and Florence (Italy), as well as across the United States, from Pennsylvania to Iowa, to California and Washington.

Greenberg’s research and teaching interests include aesthetics and computation, expressive programming, emergent forms, net-based art, artificial intelligence, physical computing and computer art pedagogy. He is currently building a new 3D graphics library, called Protobyte, for developing artificial life forms.