John Simon’s work has been included in the Whitney Museum’s 2000 Biennial and Bitstreams in 2001. He was selected to receive the Aldrich Museum Trustee’s Award for an Emerging Artist in fall 2000. His software panel works have been collected by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.

He holds an MFA degree from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and a Masters degree in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Washington University in St. Louis.

He lives in New York City with his wife Elizabeth.

Brad did his first computer graphics in 1973, founded Digital Image Design Incorporated (didi.com) in 1982, and started doing financial & statistical data visualization in 1986. He has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art; he created TextArc.org; he is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art; has received multiple grants and awards for both art and design, and his designs are at work every day in the hands of brokers on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He is an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University, and is director of Information Esthetics: a fledgling interdisciplinary group exploring the creation and interpretation of data representations that are both readable and esthetically satisfying.

“…Lacan reminds his students over and over to stop trying to understand everything, because understanding is ultimately a form of defense, of bringing everything back to what is known. The more you try to understand, the less you hear—the less you can hear something new and different.”

Rama has had a studio in São Paulo Brazil focusing on product development in Latin America. He has been a Senior Project Manager/Designer with ECCO Design, helped found the Swatch Lab New York as well as worked for DM9 / DDB Brazil. He has designed for: Herman Miller, Cisneros Group, Carlos Miele, Hewlett Packard, and Colgate.

Rama’s work has been shown in Central Park in collaboration with ‘assue vivid astro focus’ for the 2004 New York Public Art Fund and Whitney Biennial. His works have also been exhibited in the Bienal da Prata in Portugal with Frank O Ghery, Alvaro Siza and the Campana brothers, TKNY, as well as the Museum of Modern Art show, ‘Workspheres: Design and Contemporary Work Styles’.

Rama received his BFA from the California College of Art (CCA) in 1993. He is an assistant professor at the University of the Arts as well as an outside critic and lecturer.

This fear and love we have, our will assuaged by our private domain. Consciousness then exists in a place, as when you visit an apartment of someone recently died, their presence still rests there.
Marek Walczak