David Mcallister

I am a computer scientist and digital artist. I have been using math, physics, and computer software as my art medium for thirty years. My art requires enormous amounts of computing power and I have spent years designing the computer graphics chips that have the horsepower that my art requires.

I have always been fascinated by light, geometry, and the interaction between the two. My wife is never surprised to find me entranced by some shiny object, moving my head back and forth to see the reflections travel across its surface. Much of my art focuses on complex illumination, novel geometric forms, and "photographing" this virtual space.

My wife and I enjoy raising our seven wonderful children in the beauty of Salt Lake City, Utah.

I hold a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Computer Science department, the top ranked school in Computer Graphics, and a B.S. from the University of Utah Computer Science department, the birthplace of Computer Graphics, where the founders of Adobe, Pixar, Silicon Graphics, Atari, and Netscape were educated.