Speaker

Daniel Leighton

Artist

• 114 - Art & Technology Café
• 172 - Art and Tech for the Greater Good
• 242 - Wellbeing Center Panel: The Power of Mindfulness at Work, at Home and in Every Aspect of Your Life
• 244 - Art & Technology Café

Daniel Leighton is an Augmented Reality artist, iPad painter, filmmaker, and technologist who started programming at the age of eleven. Having Crohn’s Disease since birth, Daniel faced his mortality from a very young age. He creates emotional portraits with simple lines and brilliant colors to capture complex states of the human psyche, while exploring the possibilities of technology and human emotion being harnessed for the greater good.
 Daniel adds Augmented Reality (AR) to his paintings by combining his backgrounds in filmmaking and computer programming. His work has been featured by Timothy Potts, Director of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Bryan Barcena Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Nicholas Barlow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Victoria and Albert Museum in London, where he recently spoke, the LA Center for Digital Art (LACDA), Technarte, the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA) and more.