Building an iPad App for Björk: a Creator’s Project documentary on interactive artist Scott Snibbe.

HOLLYWOOD 2.0 PODCAST, MAY 27, 2012

Scott Snibbe, founder of Snibbe Interactive and Scott Snibbe Studio, discusses the creation of Biophilia, Bjork's interactive album.

THE CREATORS PROJECT, MAY 22, 2012

“If you listen to the lyrics, you realize the song is about the financial bubble, so we used this fractured bubble-like imagery to suggest that, and to evolve towards the uplifting feeling Passion Pit suggests as the song progresses – moving from simplicity, to complexity, to simplicity again.”

The “Passion Pit: Gossamer” App is is a new interactive music app for iPad and iPhone released in conjunction with their new album Gossamer. We started with a project at the Webby Awards a couple months ago, doing a video backdrop to their new single “Take a Walk.”

MARANDA PLEASANT, ORIGIN, MAY 10, 2012

One of my motivations was to create experiences that counter the neuroses that you typically have with computers and with mobile devices.

JASCHA HOFFMAN, NATURE, MAY 10, 2012

"Other fields are limited by money, equipment and the laws of nature. But with computers, the only limits are technical ability, ingenuity and imagination."

REDDIT AMA, 2012

"I'm Scott Snibbe, interactive artist, entrepreneur, and designer of apps for Björk and Passion Pit. AMA."

THITH, 2012

"When I saw an Apple II computer when I was ten years old running Apple Logo, I knew that I wanted to spend my life making interactive graphics and sound."

MotionPhone, a new app for the iPhone and iPad, enables a unique form of visual communication, allowing people to create animations together on iPads and iPhones. The app, created by Scott Snibbe Studio, is the company’s first release since producing Björk’s groundbreaking Biophilia App Album last year, and is a similarly innovative combination of interactive visuals with music.

Scott Sona Snibbe licensed his first software at the age of 11 and his career has never stopped soaring. This brilliant Interactive Artist and Software Composer has achieved International acclaim for his work. His exhibits have appeared throughout the United States and Europe and he continues to push the edge of Interactive Art. Here's your chance to hear his story, his thoughts about art, his mentor Gary Kildall's influence, his initial work and his meteoric rise in the world of Art & Technology. One of Scott's latest artistic ventures is with Icelandic Performance Artist Bjork which he discusses during his presentation. Recorded in March 2012 at the Creative & Technology Expo on the Monterey Peninsula in California.

I just came back from New York for the Biophilia Concerts and was blown away by the power of her performance that, at times, had me in tears. Marching from end to end of the 360 degree stage, with the 24 choir girls of Graduale Nobili following in otherworldly accompaniment, her songs tell an entrancing story of the power of nature and our ability to connect to her through technology.

JULIA KAGANSKIY, THE CREATORS PROJECT, FEBRUARY 21, 2012

“It’s possible to create any form of reality from a combination of visuals, sound and other senses. That’s why we love movies. Interactivity is even further along the spectrum from cinema towards the way our perception works because we can actually change and affect it rather than just sit back and watch it.”

MotionPhone is now available as an app for the iPad and iPhone. The app lets people create abstract animations together over a network, choosing colors, shapes, and forms that follow their fingers’ most subtle movements. By moving again-and-again in the same animated canvas, people can create layers and rhythms of abstract form and color, much like musicians layer track after track of audio in the studio sessions.

Scott Snibbe was featured in a half-hour program last Sunday on CNN’s The Next List, which profiles forward-looking thinkers in the fields of technology, science and social change.

Host Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and producer Tracy Dorsey brought her crew to Snibbe’s studio in San Francisco for a three-day shoot that resulted in an intimate and extensive portrait to discuss, among other projects, recent work with James Cameron’s interactive “Avatar” exhibition at the EMP Museum, Bjork’s breakthrough Biophilia App, and the future of interactivity.

Scott Snibbe is a media artist, filmmaker, and researcher in interactivity. Whether on mobile devices or in large public spaces, his interactive art spurs people to participate socially, emotionally, and physically. His works are strongly influenced by cinema: particularly animation, silent, and surrealist film; and often mix live and filmed performances with real-time interaction. Snibbe's artwork is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) and The Museum of Modern Art (New York); and has been shown in several hundred solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including a solo retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. His large-scale interactive projects have been incorporated into concert tours, Olympics, science museums, airports, and other major public spaces and events, and he has collaborated on interactive projects with musicians and filmmakers including Björk and James Cameron.

CNN THE NEXT LIST, DECEMBER, 2011

“The mobile app gives us the chance to return to falling in love with music. Because an app fills our visual and tactile senses in a way that goes far beyond a cardboard sleeve, we’re able to give it our undivided attention.”

THE GUARDIAN, OCTOBER 21, 2011

“An app can demand all of your senses and attention at once. That’s something exciting for musicians. A lot of them lament the demise of the album experience due to digital distribution. But one thing about the app-album is it reclaims people’s attention for an entire album.”

SCOTT SNIBBE, CNN THE NEXT LIST BLOG, DECEMBER, 2011

“Apps are not just a return to our interactive past. They also represent something fundamentally new. With the ability to create an experience that is neither as open-ended as an instrument, nor as closed as a music video, apps let us play in a customized, highly designed world created by a musician that never existed before. Like the birth of cinema or opera, musical apps represent a synthesis of formerly separate media—videos, instruments, interactivity, and performance—into a seamless whole.”

SETH SCHIESEL, THE NEW YORK TIMES, OCTOBER 24, 2011

“’Biophilia’ is among the most creative, innovative and important new projects in popular culture. ‘Biophilia’ essentially turns an album into a sort of audiovisual game, delivering a miniature production studio into the world’s willing hands.”

Scott Snibbe talks at Dublin's Science Gallery on interactive art and app art