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Mike Wirth is a designer, educator and artist, who specializes in information design and visualization. Mike holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Long Island University in Digital Art and Design. Currently, Mike is an Assistant Professor of Art and directs the New Media Design major at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina.
A few notable exhibition spaces include: Rockefeller Center and the Chelsea Art Gallery in New York, NY, Split New Media and Film Fest in Split, Croatia, The WRO Wroclaw Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland, and The Institute of History and Art in Albany, New York. In 2010 Mike was a featured artist at the inaugural TEDxCharlotte conference. Mike has won two awards for his historical documentary about the language of gesture, including “Best Short” and “Official Selection” at the Ed Wood film festival (2004 Albany, NY) as well as “Official Selection” at the DigIt New Media Fest (2005 Narrowsburg, NY).
Professionally, Mike has operated his own freelance design business since 2000, during which time he has worked on unique projects with notable clients, including: Mozilla, Lookout Mobile Security, Hubspot, Siemens Building Technologies, Anheuser Bush, John F. Kennedy Center, PBS via Interactive Knowledge, Pints for Prostates, York County Museum, Lightfactory Museum of Film and Photography, ESPN-Outdoors, Columbia University Teachers College.
In 2009 Mike was a part of a research project called Dance.Draw, that received a National Science Foundation Creative IT grant ($250K.)
In 2010 Mike and Dr. Suzanne Cooper-Guasco took home a $5K first prize in the Sunlight Foundation “Design for America Competition”. Their “How Our Laws Are Made” infographic took top honors and has been featured on HuffingtonPost.com, WashingtonPost.com, TheAtlantic.com, and Comedy Central.com.
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