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A SHORT HISTORY OF DAN GOODS
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1995 |
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Graduated with honors from The Art Institute of Seattle with an AA in Visual Communication. GPA 3.98
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96 |
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Freelanced 60-80 hours a week making lots of money and wanting to take over the world.
Traveled through Europe. Realized that I needed to stop and smell the roses and that there was more to life than making money.
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97 |
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Got married.
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97-99 |
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Designed brochures, catalogs, signage and web sites for various high tech companies.
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00-01 |
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Went to Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California on a half scholarship.
Met Roland Young and Lou Danziger and learned that I knew nothing about communicating.
Designed a psychological map of people in a topographical format for Hewlett Packard... Invented a pipe organ made of soda pop bottles... Designed a four-dimensional object about Einstein and Picasso dealing with the fourth dimension.
Received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to Caltech. Worked with David Kremmers, the Conceptual Artist at Caltech, developing ways of visualizing complex information for the Mouse Atlas. I was one of the first three artists accepted into the program.
Realized that I could use my visual communication skills in the scientific field.
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02 |
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Became a father to Spencer Lewis Goods.
Was Valedictorian and graduation speaker for Art Center College of Design.
Received my BFA in Graphic Design. GPA 3.96
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03- |
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Hired as a “Visual Strategist” at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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04-05 |
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Became a father to Ellie Madeline Goods.
Installations for JPL include “The Hidden Light”, about finding planets around other stars, and “The Big Playground”, where I had a hole drilled a hole into a grain of sand to show the scale of the universe.
Was on the cover of Leonardo and written about in Forbes and the LA Times. Wrote papers that were presented at various space conferences and workshops. Cochaired a workshop on collaborations between artists and space scientists at AMES research center in the Bay Area.
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06 |
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Became the father of Heather Leigh Goods. Our third.
Finished “Faraway Does Not Exist” an installation about dreams. For this I project on aerogel which is 99.8% air. It has been used to catch the dust of a comet and insulate robots on Mars. It is installed at the vonKarman museum at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
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07-09 |
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Installed “Solid Smoke”, an interactive aerogel exhibit at Technorama in Switzerland, “The Past Is Present”, an insteractive sound sculpture about time and space, and starting installation on “eCloud”, a 108’ data driven sculpture at the San Jose airport.
Curated “Data +Art: Art and Science in the Age of Information” for the Pasadena Museum of California Art.
On the board of the Caltech Management Association (CMA), and the IAF Technical Activities Committee for the Cultural Utilization of Space (ITACCUS).
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