Lorin Roser is a Chinese American New York–based multifaceted animator, painter, musician and multimedia artist. As an architect and artist his animation work uses "random manipulations to explore a world of hitherto unseen shapes and structural possibilities." Roser is partners with

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Early life

Lorin Roser was born on the East Coast of the United States. He studied architecture with Kenneth Frampton,

Emilio Ambasz Emilio Ambasz (born June 13, 1943, in Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina) is an Argentinian-US architect and award-winning industrial designer. From 1969 to 1976 he was Curator of Design at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. Ambasz has been labele ...

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, and Craig Hodgetts at Princeton University and earned an MA at UCLA.

Career

Roser moved to New York in the 1980s where he met artist

and began many artistic

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s with her. Participating in the New York City downtown art scene, he has been a sought-after musician and performer since the 1980s, performing at CBGB's, Franklin Furnace,

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, the WhiteBox art center with Elliott Sharp, events for curator/ performance artist Arleen Schloss and composed music for Verneta Nemec's performance art works. He has also written music for Larry Litt and Hector Canonge. He participated in the "Digital Art Symposium" at Lightbox, NYC in 2019. Besides animations and music, he also designs book covers, most recently for ''Digital Media: Transformations in Human Communication'' by Paul Messaris and Lee Humphries. As he continues making art, Roser is moving into

3D animations Animation is a method by which still figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most anima ...

, melding music and form with the digital world. He states, "Visualization is a great tool for architecture because building bricks and mortar is so expensive and computer animation mimics the unfolding of space as you walk through a building. Now I am obsessed with using math to create music and form. The computer excels at this type of exploration." Roser's work is in the collection of major international museums, galleries, and archives including Franklin Furnace Archives, Museum of Modern Art, Otis Art Institute, and the Chicago Art Institute Library. Architopia Boat Liquified

Collections

* Franklin Furnace Archives * Museum of Modern Art * Chicago Art Institute Library * Otis Art Institute

Select exhibitions and performances

* "Eastern Margins' Respect Our Elders," online, London, 2021 * “Outscape Escape,” Gallery 456 in New York City, 2021 * "Make America Great" WhiteBox, NYC, 2016 * New Museum, IDEAS City, 2015 *"Re-wired/Re-wired": Event for Dismembered Body, with Stelarc, PICA and online, 2015 * "Protests Performance"

Bronx Museum The Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), also called the Bronx Museum of Art or simply the Bronx Museum, is an American cultural institution located in Concourse, Bronx, New York. The museum focuses on contemporary and 20th-century works created by A ...

, NYC curated by Hector Canonge, 2015 * Harvestworks, NYC performance, 2015 * Electronica Performance with Elliott Sharp entitled "Klang", WhiteBox art space, NYC * Bowery Poetry Club – Zen Loopology with Jason Hwang, Helen Yee, Daniel Carter, and John Marino *

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– Tang Loopology

Awards

* 2014 Art Award Catalog Sumei Multidisciplinary Art Center "Ironbound/Unbound" issue, NJ art video with

References

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