Taylor Hokanson
Associate Chair, Art And Design
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolTaylor Hokanson is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and open-hardware advocate with 12 years of academic experience and a long history in the Maker movement. As Associate Chair of Art and Design at Columbia College Chicago, they bridge creative practice and technical pedagogy, teaching and researching computer-aided fabrication, HCI, and collaborative authorship. Their work uses humor and absurdity to make critical examinations of technology and consumption accessible—examples include 3D-printed sculptural objects that interrogate eating, punishment, and design. A practicing engineer-artist, Taylor maintains open-source projects and resources (diylilcnc.org, GitHub) that support DIY fabrication communities. Based in Chicago, they combine studio practice, curriculum leadership, and public-facing toolmaking to shape how new media is produced and shared.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MFA, Art & Technology, MFA, Art & Technology at School of the Art Institute of ChicagoBFA, Sculpture, BFA, Sculpture at Washington University in St. Louis
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Github Skills (41)
greasemonkey6
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java6
twitter6
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dmx5125
artnet5
midi5
solidworks5
neopixel5
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orange4
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TaylorHokanson/PiCTA
Jul 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
TaylorHokanson/CAAint
Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:253 commits, 226 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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