Fabian Winkler is a new media artist and educator. He frequently collaborates with Dr. Shannon McMullen as Studio McMullen_Winkler. They define their art practice as “critical gardening” using art, digital media and social inquiry to investigate contemporary relationships, intersections and tensions between nature and technology. Their unconventional gardens are sites with expressive, conceptual and speculative qualities.

Winkler’s solo and collaborative work has been featured in exhibitions around the world including venues such as: Ars Electronica Linz (Austria), Videonale Kunstmuseum Bonn (Germany), National Museum of China, Beijing; International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Netherlands); Science Gallery Dublin (Ireland); Art Center Nabi, Seoul (Korea); ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (Germany), Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA; ISEA/ZeroOne San Jose, CA and SIGGRAPH Los Angeles, CA. Together with Dr. Shannon McMullen he has co-authored essays in journals and book chapters published by Springer, MIT Press, Berg Publishers, and Routledge. For their large-scale artist-led investigation into “Images of Nature” they were awarded a National Science Foundation grant 2010-12.

From 2003-2006 Winkler was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. He is currently a faculty member in the Department of Art and Design at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana where he founded the area of Electronic and Time-Based Art (ETB) in 2006.