Gretchen is a designer, artist, and researcher from Nebraska. She
works primarily with interactive installation design, light-based sculpture, creative coding, and education research.
She received her PhD in Innovative Learning Technologies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL) in 2024, with a focus on teaching creative coding in arts contexts. She also received her MFA in Sculpture and Emerging Media from UNL. She currently teaches at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts.
Contact:
g retchenk athleenl arsen@g mail.com
She received her PhD in Innovative Learning Technologies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL) in 2024, with a focus on teaching creative coding in arts contexts. She also received her MFA in Sculpture and Emerging Media from UNL. She currently teaches at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts.
Contact:
g retchenk athleenl arsen@g mail.com
“I’m concerned with transforming spaces through the objects I dream and build, and with building objects that are themselves transformable.
In my work I explore how light and the form it emanates from interact— how the two create form and how the form (which is sometimes capable of interaction) is in relationship with the environment. I freqently work with LEDs, microcontrollers, lamp parts, code, digital fabrication and traditional building techniques to create light-based sculptures for domestic and public spaces.
My creative practice is intimately interwoven with the technologies I work with, some of which have their own dark history. I use code and electronics to illuminate new possibilities for technology and for myself.”