About Ian Callender : Ian is a New York City-based artist and designer exploring the intersection of the built environment and digital technologies. As he grew up in New York City, Central Park was his backyard and the city his playground. He developed loves for architecture and urbanism early, as well as a critical engagement with the issues that underly them. Simultaneously, through computer science, he became fascinated by the active and responsive manipulation of virtual space. Through physical computing he learned to merge the two: the playground, so to speak, became of his own derivation. Its logic was easy to adjust and explore, and working in the physical domain, to him, meant working in grounded and veritably human experience.