Techno Firma

John Fitzgerald is a New York-based artist and filmmaker whose large-scale immersive works navigate the relationship between humans and technology. He is the Innovation Director of Onassis ONX in New York and a cofounder of the experiential studio Sensorium. His work has premiered at Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca, SIGGRAPH, IDFA and the Panama Biennial, with credits including "Metamorphic" (Sundance 2020) and "Zikr: A Sufi Revival" (Sundance and IDFA 2018). He holds an honors degree in media studies from Brown University and has been a Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology, a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism, a Pulitzer Center grantee and an inaugural member of NEW INC. With Godfrey Reggio, he created "Techno Firma" at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, a monumental interactive sculpture that uses a custom machine learning model trained on the Reggio Foundation Archive.

Godfrey Reggio (b. 1940, New Orleans) is a filmmaker known for the QATSI trilogy, essays of image and sound that chronicle the destructive impact of the modern world on the environment. Raised in southwest Louisiana, he entered the Christian Brothers, a Roman Catholic order, at age 14 and spent 14 years in fasting, silence and prayer. Based in New Mexico in the 1960s, he taught and co-founded community projects including Young Citizens for Action, which aided juvenile street gangs. In 1972 he co-founded the Institute for Regional Education in Santa Fe. His directorial debut, "Koyaanisqatsi" (1983), takes its title from a Hopi word meaning "life out of balance", followed by "Powaqqatsi" (1988) and "Naqoyqatsi." He also directed "Anima Mundi" (1991) for the World Wide Fund for Nature. With John Fitzgerald, he created "Techno Firma" at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, an interactive AI sculpture that reimagines "Koyaanisqatsi."