California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Hillary Mushkin is a visual artist and Research Professor of Art and Design at California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She started Incendiary Traces, an art, research, and media initiative, to reverse-engineer the politics of landscape visualization. Her work has been exhibited at the Getty Museum (Los Angeles), Freud Museum (London), Museum Ludwig (Cologne), nGbK (Berlin), and Ex Teresa Arte Actual Museum (Mexico City). Mushkin also co-director of the Caltech/NASA-JPL/Art Center Data Visualization Group. In parallel to Incendiary Traces, this project engages visual practices to influence the production of scientific knowledge. Projects include visualization software to control the Mars Rover, NASA satellites, and autonomous robot swarms in space.