About
Jayme Cochrane is an interaction designer from Vancouver. He is proudly Canadian. He has exhibited interactive artwork in North America and throughout Europe, as well as working as an interaction designer on both continents. He currently resides in Linz, Austria.
He is a founding member of both slant design + creative and artistic research group Social Bits. He worked in the Ars Electronica Futurelab as an interaction designer from 2008 – 2010, and previously worked at SAP BusinessObjects.
photo: Rob Seebacher
Contact
jayme.cochrane (at) gmail (dot) com
+43 0650 4808590
twitter.com/jaymecochrane
flickr.com/_jayme
vimeo.com/jaymecochrane
Education
Kunstuniversität Linz – Linz, Austria
MA, Interface Cultures
2008 – Present
Artistic focus: real-time social data in urban environments and architecture.
Simon Fraser University – Vancouver, Canada
B.Sc, Interactive Arts – Interaction Design
2002 – 2007
Member of the 2006 ItaliaDesign field school, a 7.5 week study of design, culture, and architecture in Italy.
Work
slant design + creative – co-founder
2008 – present
Freelance branding, art direction, graphic design, web work for slant design + creative (formerly Action Adventure Squad)
KitchenBudapest – Artist in Residence
April 2010
Artist in residence and guest researcher at KitchenBudapest. Project: Newsleak – A Hybrid Media Publication.
Ars Electronica Futurelab – Interaction Designer
2008 – 2010
Responsible for physical and digital prototypes, 3d and graphic design, industrial design and engineering for interactive art, specifically media art in architecture projects.
SAP BusinessObjects – Interaction Designer
2007
Creating wireframes, information architecture guidelines and design documents on the User Experience team. Conducted in situ user testing, created design prototypes and contextual design strategies.
Simon Fraser University – Researcher
2006 – 2007
Researcher for visceral reaction and instinctive human behaviour in SFU’s Biomedia Lab.
Teaching & Lectures
Tech-Tea @ MOME – Budapest, Hungary
04/2010
Invited lecturer for a talk at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest. Topic: Artistic Output of Social Interactions.
Simon Fraser University – Vancouver, Canada
09/2009
Invited guest lecturer for senior interaction design students. Topic: Ars Electronica 2009 and emerging trends in interactive media art.
ItaliaDesign, SFU – Rome, Italy
2008 – Present
Recurring invited lecturer for the ItaliaDesign field school, providing project support and critique for students.
Simon Fraser University – Vancouver, Canada
2006 – 2007
Teaching assistant for senior level undergraduate interaction design and interactive installation courses.
Exhibitions
09/2010 Newsleak, Ars Electronica, Linz
09/2010 PlayfulNESs, Ars Electronica, Linz
05/2010 Social Bits Istanbul, Kasa Galeri Istanbul
05/2010 Punch-Out, Speculum Artium, Trbovlje
04/2010 Newsleak, KitchenBudapest, Budapest
11/2009 NewsFireHose, Uncuratable ART, Paris
11/2009 Fluid Data, Amber 09 Festival, Istanbul
11/2009 Punch-Out, Over the Game, Sevilla
09/2009 Papermind Fanzine, Vancouver
09/2009 Glific, Ars Electronica, Linz
09/2009 Invisible AEC, Ars Electronica, Linz
02/2009 Glific, SantralIstanbul, Istanbul
02/2007 Meatbook, TEI 07, Baton Rouge