
- mcconvi2@uwm.edu
- Kenilworth Square East 436
Andrew McConville
- Lecturer, Design & Visual Communication
Education
Graduate Certificate, User Experience Research & Design, UW-Madison
BFA, Design & Visual Communication, UW-Milwaukee
Biography
Andrew McConville is an artist, designer, and programmer who builds digital and physical interfaces.
McConville earned his AAS from the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha in 2008, a BFA in Design from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2013, a graduate certificate in User Experience from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018, and a certificate in User Experience Research from the Nielsen Norman Group in 2020. He is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, expected to graduate in 2025.
Drawing on a background in user experience design, digital fabrication, and new media, McConville develops input and output devices that challenge the assumption that interactions with user interfaces should always be intuitive, invisible, and frictionless. His work transfers digital interfaces from the flattened, sensory-deprived, two-dimensional screens where they are traditionally experienced into physical, sensory-rich mechatronic sculptures, prompting a reconsideration of how digital interactions and their underlying data should be or could be experienced.
His ongoing research and studio practice highlight the value that is often placed on efficiency over depth, as well as the loss of sensory experience as our computing tools continue to shrink and retreat behind a glass surface. In challenging familiar interfaces and the experiences they mediate, McConville’s practice reconsiders our relationship with the digital world and the devices through which we encounter it.
Accolades
- ISEA2012 Web Grant, 516 ARTS & The New Mexico Tourism Department (2012)
- Student Start-up Challenge Quick Pitch Winner, UW-Milwaukee (2013)
- User Experience Research Certificate, Nielsen Norman Group (2020)