Master of Architecture, Princeton University, 2003
Bachelor of Architecture, Cornell University, 1998
2024
“What is a Drawing Machine?” MakerFaire, San Francisco, CA
“Analog/Digital Drawing Technology,” Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China
“The Camera Lucida,” MAKE: Magazine Retro Technology Panel
“Optical Drawing,” Bergen Public Library, Bergen, Norway
“La camera lucida: voir le monde avant la photo,” Barges, France
2023
“Architects Make Buildings, & Other Popular Myths,” The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust, Chicago, IL
2021
"NFTs and the Conquest of Ubiquity,” RMIT University School of Art, Melbourne, Australia
2020
“Imaging Futures.” RMIT University School of Art, Melbourne, Australia
“Full-Contact Capitalism,” RMIT University School of Art, Melbourne, Australia
2018
"Creative Independence,” AICAD 2018 Symposium, Chicago, IL
2017
“Tales of Fakery,” TEDx Vienna, Vienna, Austria
“Reinventing Creative Tools,” Maker Faire, San Mateo, CA
2016
“Context is the Only Medium That Matters,” KIKK Festival, Namur, Belgium
“Within the Context of all Contexts,” OFFF Festival, Barcelona, Spain
“Drawing Machines,” MVR (Eyebeam and Pioneer Works), New York, NY
“Within the Context of all Contexts,” Gray Area Festival, San Francisco, CA (Keynote)
“Within the Context of all Contexts,” Resonate Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
“Virtual Reality: Process and Perspective in Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street; Rainy Day,” (with Kelly Keegan), New Lens Art History Symposium, Chicago, IL
2015
“Beyond Patronage: Reconsidering Models of Practice,” SAIC Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
“Drawing with the NeoLucida,” Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO
2014
“Adventures in Virtuality,” KIKK Festival, Namur, Belgium
“Adventures in Virtuality,” Carleton College Lecture Series, Carleton, MN
“The NeoLucida Project,” XOXO Festival, Portland, OR
“Adventures in Virtuality,” Strelka Institute/Polytechnic Museum, Moscow, Russia
“The NeoLucida Project,” xCoAx International Conference on Computing and Aesthetics, Porto, Portugal (Peer-Reviewed Juried Conference)
“Ten Adventures in Virtuality,” The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
“Product-As-Provocation: The NeoLucida Project,” Kickstarter HQ, New York, NY
“Ten Adventures in Virtuality,” Resonate Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
“Adventures in Virtuality,” Aksioma Gallery, Ljubljana Slovenia
“Drawing Machines,” FH Joanneum University of Applied Arts, Graz, Austria
“Drawing Machines,” Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, New York, NY
2013
“The NeoLucida Project,” American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA
“A Brief History of Drawing Machines,” MIT Architecture Computation Lectures, Cambridge, MA
“The NeoLucida Project” Open Hardware Summit, Cambridge, MA
“Profilography,” xCoAx International Conference on Computing and Aesthetics, Bergamo, Italy (Peer-Reviewed Juried Conference)
“Hacking, c.1600AD” Ignite Talks, Eyeo Festival, Minneapolis, MN (Juried Competition)
“What I Did Next,” Princeton University Architecture Lecture Series
2022
Data Dating Desire, Mo.Ca Centro per le Nuove Culture, Brescia, Italy
2021
Swipe Right!, iMAL Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology, Brussels, Belgium
2020
Data Dating, Watermans Art Center, London, UK
2019
Data Dating, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
2018
Data Dating, Galerie Charlot, Tel Aviv, Israel
Remote Reality Residency, Hubweek Festival, Boston
Data Dating, Galerie Charlot, Paris, France
2017
Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Seoul, Korea
G.I.S. Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe, Athanor No.5 (Curated digital space)
Privacytopia Binary, De Markten, Brussels, Belgium (Two-Person Show)
2016
The Gig is Up, V2 - Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Collective Misnomer Film Festival, Denver, CO
Edinburgh Digital Entertainment Festival, Edinburgh, UK
Bleeding Edge: Filmmaking and the Virtual World, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Glasgow, UK
2015
F.A.T. GOLD: San Francisco, The Grey Area Festival, San Francisco, CA
Panopticon, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
Festival Explicit, Montpelier, France
44th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2014
Solo Exhibition: Flat, Novella Gallery, New York
Solo Exhibition: Adventures in Virtuality, Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Critical Perspectives on Pornography, Carroll/Fletcher Gallery, London, UK
UNLIMITED, KFFK Kurzfilmfestival (Cologne Short Film Festival), Cologne, Germany
LikeJacking, Gamerz Festival, Aix-en-Provence, France
The Big Draw, Burke Museum, Seattle, WA
MIX Copenhagen LesbianGayBiTrans Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
Chasseurs de Fantômes, Galerie Verney-Carron, Lyon, France
Gizmodo House of the Future, New York Design Week Exhibition, New York, NY.
2013
The Alternate Takes, International Streaming Film Festival 8th Edition, The Hague, The Netherlands/Zagreb, Croatia
Homeostasis Lab, The Wrong: Digital Art Biennale, São Paolo, Brazil
Hardware Softcore, Team Titanic Gallery, Berlin, Germany
The eye, the ear, the hand and the heart, Click Festival, Elsinore, Denmark
Festival Bouillants #5, Rennes, France
F.A.T. GOLD, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York, NY
Fast Connection Search: Recent Works from Eyebeam, Internet Week NY, New York, NY
Kinetica, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Copie Copains Club, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France (online)
Computing the Physical, LEAP (Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance), Berlin, Germany
2012
Gestures: Intimate Friction, The Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
2024
Garcia, P., “DIY Camera Lucida,” MAKE Magazine, Vol. 89.
Garcia, P., “The Stereoautograph,” Drawing Matter Journal—Architecture and Representation No. 2
2023
Garcia, P., “A Brief History of Drawing Machines”, Introduction to Tracing the Line - The Art of Drawing Machines and Pen Plotters, Vetro Editions
2022
Garcia, P., “In Isolation,” foreword to Daniel Maidman: Isolation Drawings (Forthcoming)
2015
Groom, G., Keegan, K., Garcia, P. (Special Contributor) Caillebotte: Paris Street, Rainy Day, The Art Institute of Chicago Online Scholarly Catalogue Series
Garcia, P., Ettinger, O., Observations on Virtuality, Aksioma Press, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2014
Garcia, P., “The NeoLucida Project”, Proceedings of the Second Conference on Computation, Communication Aesthetics and X, Porto, Portugal
Garcia, P., “Pictus Interruptus and Other Notes on the Selfie”, Creative Applications Network
2013
Garcia, P., “Hackers of the Renaissance” OMNI Magazine, 8/13/2013
Garcia, P., “Profilography” Proceedings of the First Conference on Computation, Communication Aesthetics and X, Bergamo, Italy
2011
Grover, A., Garcia, P., Evans, C., Debatty, R., New Art-Science Affinities, Miller Gallery/STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Publishers
2023
Tracing the Line - The Art of Drawing Machines and Pen Plotters, Luca Bendandi, Pierre Paslier, eds. Vetro Editions
2021
Data Dating: Love, Technology, Desire, Ania Malinowska, Valentina Peri, eds. Intellect Books, UK
2020
Atlas of Digital Architecture: Terminology, Concepts, Methods, Tools, Examples, Phenomena, Urs Hirschberg, Ludger Hovestadt, Oliver Fritz, eds. Birkhauser Architecture
2018
L'art au-delà du digital, Dominique Moulon, Nouvelles éditions Scala, France
2017
Faceless: Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive Media Strategies, Bogomir Doringer, Brigitte Felderer, Matthias Tarasiewicz, eds. (Forthcoming), De Gruyter
XXL - XS: New Directions in Ecological Design, Michael Silver, Mitchell Joachim, ed. DAP
2015
Academic Writing: Concepts and Connections, Teresa Thonney, ed. Oxford University Press. p565-72
2014
Highlike: Global Contemporary Art and Culture Yearbook, FILE—Electronic Language International Festival, ed. SESI-SP Editora, Sao Paulo
Speculative Scenarios, or What Will Happen to Born-Digital Art in the (near) Future, Annet Dekker, ed. Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven, Netherlands, p122-3.
Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation, Larry Downes, Paul Nunes, Portfolio/Penguin, New York, p107-11.
2013
F.A.T. The Manual, ed. Domenico Quaranta & Geraldine Juárez, Link Editions, Brescia, p201-3.
Kinetica, Manifest Gallery Press (Catalog), Cincinnati. p11-12.
International Drawing Annual 8, Manifest Gallery Press, Cincinnati. p73 and Front Cover
From over 220 articles from 25 countries written in 21 languages about my work since 2010.
2023
Grace Ebert, “A New Camera Lucida Redesigns a Centuries-Old Artist’s Secret that Lets Users Draw What They See,” Colossal, 6/08/2021
Periodismo, “La nueva cámara que rediseña un secreto artístico centenario del arte,” 6/14/2023
Angie Carel, “The Optical Drawing Tool: Unlocking Artistic Precision and Perspective,” Simple Daily Drawing, 6/13/2023
2022
Nina Sieverding, “Codes der Kontrolle,” Form Magazine (Germany), 4/2022
Giulia Ottavia Frattini, “Insight: SWIPE RIGHT! Data, Dating, Desire, how a perpetual bodiless connection reshapes love”, Clot Magazine, 1/07/2022
2021
Regine Debatty, “Who Said Romance Was Dead?” We Make Money Not Art, 12/27/2021
Rain Noe, “Cheat Code for Drawing: The NeoLucida Lets You Trace 3D Objects onto Paper.” Core77, 5/02/2021
2020
NerdTechy, “The Best Art Projector for Tracing Images,” 7/13/2020
Lauren Wadowsky, “Best Creative Gadgets for Artists and Art Enthusiasts,” Gadget Flow, 4/23/2020
Neil Slavin, “Drawing: The Muse of Photography,” The Eye of Photography, 04/02/2020
Contemporary Lynx, “What does it mean to love in the internet age?” 2/14/2020
Furtherfield, “Data Dating” 2/07/2020
Princeton University Graphic Arts Bulletin, “Pre-Digital Humanities”, 2/05/2020
2019
Gadgenda, “NeoLucida XL”, 11/23/2019
2018
Jessica Miley, “Drawing Machine Creates Scintillating Work of Art,” Interesting Engineering, 2/24/2018
2017
Norman Chan, “Hands-On with the NeoLucida XL Drawing Tool,” Tested, 05/19/2017
Michael Hemsworth, “The 'NeoLucida XL' Drawing Tool Reflects Images to Your Paper,” TrendHunter, 05/12/2017
Cool Things, “NeoLucida XL Updates An Obsolete Drawing Tool For Modern Times,” 05/09/2017
Nerd Invention, “NeoLucida XL - An Accurate and Portable Tracer,” 05/04/2017
Fresh Gadgets, “Met de NeoLucida XL kan iedereen realistisch tekenen,” 05/03/2017 (Dutch)
Camryn Rabideau, "This Portable Device Can Help Improve Your Live Drawing Skills,” Martha Stewart, 05/02/2017
Kate Sierzputowski, “The New ‘NeoLucida XL’ Camera Lucida Makes it Easier to Trace What You See,” Colossal, 04/29/2017
Jeroen Bouweriks, “G.I.S. Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe,” Athanor No. 5, 02/04/2017
2016
Amber Dance, “Science and Culture: High-tech tries to reveal artistic motivations,” Front Matter: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (US), 05/24/2016
Allison Meier, “Hans Holbein’s Anamorphic Skull as a Temporary Tattoo,” Hyperallergic, 03/21/2016
2015
Daniel Casillas, “Chicago art professor creates self-portraits from emojis and selfie stick,” Metro World News, 06/24/2015
Conde Nast Live (Italy), “Il gadget per aggiungere gli emoji al tuo selfie stick,” 06/22/2015
Beckett Mufson, “Never Pose Alone with the Optical Illusion Selfie Stick,” The Creators Project, 06/01/2015
Timothy J. Seppala, “Artist adds poop emoji to selfie sticks to remind us of mortality,” Engadget 05/22/2015
Santi Araujo, “Coloca estas ilusiones ópticas en tu palo selfie, y así no aparecerás solo en las fotos”, Conetica.com 05/22/2015 (Spanish)
La boite verte, “Des accessories anamorphiques pour Selfie stick”, 05/21/2015 (French)
Nerdcore.de “Anamorphic Skull Selfie-Stick-AddOn,” 05/21/2015 (German)
Prosthetic Knowledge, “Memento Mori, and Other Selfie Stick Add-ons,” 05/20/2015
Victoria Rogers, “Creating Amazing Kickstarter Campaigns,” Chicago Artists Resource, 04/14/2015
Pete Prodoehl, “A Brief History of Drawing Machines,” RasterWeb, 03/25/2015
Sydney Perkowitz, “Illuminating Light and Darkness,” Physics World, 2015
2014
Katie Hagar, “NeoLucida Drawing Aid”, Better Living Through Design, 08/20/2014
Jordan Pearson, “Sex Cams and Voyeurism Make for Great Art,” Motherboard, 08/08/2014
Core77, “The Best DIY Designs of the Year,” 07/30/2014
Polytechnic Museum (PolyMus.ru) “NeoLucida — изобретение, которое сделает вас,” 07/18/2014 (Russian)
Julia Pugachevsky, “This Billboard In Pittsburgh Is Completely Controlled By Internet Strangers,” BuzzFeed, 06/16/2014
Rachel Weaver, “'Last Billboard' project shares ponderable messages," Pittsburgh Tribune (Tribune Total Media), 06/23/2014
Kim van Poelgeest, “Draw what you see with NeoLucida,” The Open Draw, 05/19/2014
Leslie Clagett, “Curated or Crowd-Sourced? MoMA Taps into Vox Pop via Kickstarter,” The Architect’s Newspaper, 05/16/2014
Jordan Kushins, “This Drawing Device Lets You Sketch Like Da Vinci,” Gizmodo, 05/15/2014
Liz Stinson, “9 Nifty Kickstarter Designs That You Can Buy Right Now”, WIRED.com 05/14/2014
Stephanie Coffee, “MoMA Design Store Presents Products Brought to Life by Kickstarter,” MoMA Inside Out, 05/13/2014
Dezeen Magazine, “MoMA Design Store presents Kickstarter-funded products at New York Design Week,” 05/13/2014
Larry Downes, Paul Nunes, “How art historians’ Kickstarter project redefined business strategy”. Upstart Business Journal, 1/9/2014
2013
Pier Luigi Pisa, “Webcam erotiche, le stanze vuote del porno. Il progetto artistico mostra gli ambienti senza i protagonisti dell’eros”, Huffington Post, 11/3/2013 (Italian)
Rob Walker, “Sexcams without Sex,” Yahoo! News, 11/1/2013
Casey Chan, “Seeing the empty rooms of cam girls is completely sobering,” Sploid/Gizmodo, 11/1/2013
Cory Doctorow, “Hackers of the Renaissance” BoingBoing, 8/16/2013
Christopher Borrelli, “When Kickstarter Kicks Back,” Chicago Tribune, 8/4/2013
Chiara Ciociola, “Webcam Venus: Honestly Beautiful,” Neural, Issue 45/Summer 2013
Brian Riley, “Kickstart Your Art” Drawing Magazine (blog), 6/25/2013
Norman Chan, “Augmented Reality Camera Lucida for Inking (Tracing).” Tested.com, 6/19/2013
Liz Stinson, “This Amazing Tool Helps You Draw Pictures Like an Old Master, “ WIRED Design, 6/19/2013.
Tomoko Mukai, 本物そっくりのスケッチが描ける、35ドルの「カメラ‧ルシダ」WIRED Japan, 5/21/2013 (Japanese) John Anderson, “The NeoLucida: Artists Revive an Old Master Tool,” Art in America, 5/21/2013
Colette Bennett, “Kickstart This!“ HLN Television, 5/20/2013
Anita Li, “200-Year-Old Device Makes Comeback With Kickstarter's Help,” Mashable, 5/19/2013
Blaine Brownell, “When Resurrected Tech Goes Viral,” Architect Magazine, 5/14/2013
Margaret Rhodes, “Kickstarting: A $30 Optical Tool For Drawing With Camera-Like Accuracy,” Fast Company/Co.Design 5/13/2013
Ian Steadman, “The NeoLucida could help you draw like an Old Master,” WIRED UK, 5/9/2013
Christina Bonnington, “New Order: On Kickstarter, Old Tech Is Finding Second Life,” WIRED GadgetLab, 5/9/2013
Michelle Starr, “Bringing the Camera Lucida back from the dead” c|net Australia, 5/9/2013
Cory Doctorow, “NeoLucida: kickstarting a new version of the Old Masters' favorite drawing gadget” BoingBoing, 5/9/2013
Bruce Sterling, “Dead Media Beat: The NeoLucida Kickstarter” WIRED.com Beyond the Beyond, 5/8/2013
Christopher Jobson, “Trace What You See: The NeoLucida is the First Portable Camera Lucida to be Manufactured in Nearly a Century,” Colossal, 5/8/2013
Raymond Hu, “Lucida Dreams Come True: Kickstart a 21st-Century Version of a 19th-Century Optical Drawing Aid“ Core77, 5/8/2013
La Repubblica.it, “L'arte incontra la pornografia: il progetto diventa mostra a New York”, 3/19/2013 (Italian)
Claire L. Evans, “‘Webcam Venus’ Turned Sexcam Performers into High-Art n00dz” Motherboard/Vice, 3/8/2013
Kyle VanHemert, “A Spinning Wheel that Brings Renaissance Sketches to Life” Fast Company/Co.Design, 1/28/2013
Benjamin Sutton, “Artist Turns Albrecht Durer’s Profile Studies Into Kinetic Sculpture,”ArtInfo, 1/15/2013
Robert T. Gonzalez. “How a designer turned Renaissance woodcuts into an amazing high-tech optical illusion,” io9, 1/15/2013
2012-Present
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Dept. of Contemporary Practices, Chicago, IL
Associate Professor
2019-20
RMIT University School of Art, Melbourne, Australia
Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
2008-12
Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture, Pittsburgh, PA
Lucian & Rita Caste Professor in Architecture/Assistant Professor
2007-08
University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, Ann Arbor, MI
2007-2008 William Muschenheim Fellow & Lecturer in Architecture
2005-07
Parsons The New School for Design Department of Architectural Design, New York, NY
Adjunct Professor