Dan Goods Bio
While creating a pipe organ out of soda pop bottles, gardening at the Huntington Gardens and designing four-dimensional objects, I developed a passion. It is to give people experiences where they interact with something beautiful, meaningful, and/or possibly profound. I now get to do this as the Visual Strategist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where I create ways of communicating ideas, and through art commissions, where I am currently developing a 108ft data driven sculpture for the San Jose airport and a window installation for the National Academies of Sciences Koshland Museum in Washington DC.  I live in South Pasadena with my wife and 3 children.


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Contact
dan (at) directedplay.com


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Activites
2011
Presenting at the
University of Minnesota's
Visual Arts Lecture Series
February 8th, 2011

Presenting at the
Aquarium of the Pacific
Long Beach
February 2nd, 2011

2010
Presenting at UCSD
San Diego
October 18th

Showing work at the Exploratorium's “After Dark” Program
San Francisco
September 2nd

Presenting at Big City Forum/Broodwork
This will focus on artists who have families
Los Angeles
August 12th, 6:30pm

Attended Siggraph
July, 29th in Los Angeles

Opening of “eCloud”
Centerpiece sculpture for the new concourse at the San Jose International Airport.
June 26th

Work installed at the Summit Series / DC10
Same aerogel piece as done at TED Active
Washington DC
May 13th - 16th

Work installed at TED Active
New work based upon my aerogel and Hidden Light pieces. The aerogel was done with Gilad Lotan.
Palm Springs
February 10-13

2009
Presented at Science Café at the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences
Washington DC
November 5

Presented at Trade&Row's Saturday Fantasy Festival
Los Angeles
October 24th

Presented at IDEA Project
Barrndall Art Park, Hollywood
October 17th

Attended the International Storytelling Festival
Jonesborough, Tennessee
October 2nd-4th

Attended Siggraph
New Orleans
August 4th-6th

Presented at Postopolis
Los Angeles
April 4th

Presented at Dorkbot
Los Angeles
March 8th

Opened “Data + Art” Exhibition
Co-curated a show about data and art in the age of information at the Pasadena Museum of California Art.
Jan - April 12th 2009

2008
Opening of
“The Past Is Present”
New installation for OBSERVE, a group show about infrared astronomy at Art Center College of Design.
Oct 10 - Jan 9th

Presented at Art + Environment
Discussed data and art at the Nevada Museum of Art.
Oct 3

Presented at Sidfest 2008
A symposium of artists and scientists to comemorate Sid Nagel's contributions to granular matter, fluids, jamming and glassiness.
September 27-28

Attended Siggraph
Los Angeles
August 12-14th

Opening of “Solid Smoke”
Aerogel installation at the Technorama in Winterthur Switzerland.
July 4th, permanentely installed

Attended 01SJ
Media arts festival in San Jose.
June 4th - 8th

Presented at Yuri’s Night Los Angeles
April 12th

2007
Presented at Pixar
August 27th

2004
Showed “The Big Playground” at TED 2004