Esteban Garcia Bravo, MFA, PhD, is a Colombian-American artist and scholar specializing in computational art, digital media, and public art technology. He is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media Art & Spatial Art at the CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San José State University.

Garcia Bravo’s research explores the “lost histories” of early computer art, critically examining aesthetics within media-cultural contexts. His book Cybernethisms (Purdue Press, 2015) investigates the work of computer art pioneer Aldo Giorgini, while his studies on José María Yturralde document Spain’s first computational designs from 1968. His writings appear in leading journals, including Leonardo, The Design Journal, Artnodes, Acoustic Space, and CITAR Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts.

His work has been presented at major international conferences such as SIGGRAPH (2011, 2015, 2017, 2022, 2023), ISEA (2012, 2013, 2015, 2017), Media Art Histories (2013), Expressive (2016), and EVA London (2015). In 2022, his research on the preservation of traditional African dances using deep learning techniques won the Best Art Paper Award at SIGGRAPH.

Beyond research, Garcia Bravo is actively engaged in the computational art community, serving as a reviewer for ACM SIGGRAPH Art Papers since 2016 and as Art Exhibition Co-Chair for the IEEE Visualization Conference in 2017.

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