Hugh Scott-Douglas

Hugh Scott-Douglas (b. 1988) is a British-born Canadian artist and researcher whose work engages the intersections of the philosophy of technology, theoretical computer science, interdisciplinary practice and machine/human collaboration. His work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions in both commercial galleries and public institutions, and are held in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada), the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, TX), the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, IL), the Pinault Collection (Venice, Italy), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA).

Hugh is currently working toward an M.S. at MIT in the Art, Culture, and Technology program and a graduate certificate in the Critical Philosophy program at the New Centre for Research and Practice. He is researching the history of interdisciplinary practice toward speculative knowledge production with an emphasis on Alexander Bogdanov, the Macy Conferences and complexity theory. He is a founding member of the research collective Disintegrator.