BC [ heavy ] Biermann is an educational technologist, academic, and digital artist living in Southern California. Deriving his pseudonym from his penchant for philosophical discussion, Heavy possesses an interdisciplinary background that comprises technology, academia, and the arts. With a PhD in Humanities [ Intermedia Analysis ] from the Universiteit van Amsterdam, he has worked as both a university professor and a tech developer in Anaheim, Prague, and Saint Louis. Since 2007, Heavy has internationally presented his academic work, which explores the intersection of emerging technologies and semiotics in public space. As a kind of synthesis between scholarly inquiry and emerging media, he founded The Heavy Projects to investigate how the fusion of creativity and technology can uncover new modes of relaying ideas. Building upon existing technological and theoretical frameworks, he creates innovative interfaces between digital design and physical worlds in ways that provoke the imagination and problematize existing modes of communication and current styles of art, design, and interaction. Heavy’s work has appeared in such publications as Juxtapoz, Fast Company, CNet, Vice: Creator’s Project, IEEE Spectrum, Hi Fructose, The Atlantic, Complex, and the New York Times.
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