Camille Utterback (b. 1970 in Bloomington, Indiana) is an interactive installation artist. Initially trained as a painter, her work is at the intersection of painting and interactive art.
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Camille received her undergraduate degree from Williams College and her Masters degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Examples of her work include Text Rain (1999),[1][2] in which participants use their bodies to lift and play with falling letters projected on a wall, and Abundance (2007),[3] a public installation in San Jose, California that creates interactive projects based on the movements of pedestrians.
Her work has been exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), the American Museum of the Moving Image (New York), GAFFTA (San Francisco), the Ars Electronica Center (Linz, Austria) and the NTT InterCommunication Center (Tokyo, Japan).
She has received several grants and awards including the Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowship and the Transmediale International Media Art Festival Award and, most recently, a "genius award" from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Camille has taught media art at Parsons School of Design, and the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.