Margaret Warren - a hippie chick computer geek. An artist who creates work which mostly involves photographic processes. She helps people use, understand and sometimes just "cope" with technology. She repairs & rebuilds computers & sets up networks for individuals and small businesses along the Gulf Coast. She works on websites for a select clientele and is most interested in the cognitive sciences. Currently she is working on research that combines all of her prior experience in art and technology.

Margaret Warren – Biography

Margaret Warren was born to visual artist Suzanne Brown and Pulitzer Prize nominated photographer Earl Warren. Early childhood contact with the many varied artistic disciplines both of these artists practiced in her home led to the formation of a unique plastic arts perspective that informs her creative vision.

Ms. Warren’s photographic work began at the age of 2, and as her father recently verified, it is difficult to find a picture of her as an adolescent without a camera in her hands. Her photography was first published in the Tallahassee Democrat at age 10 and at age 12, she won the first of numerous awards she has received since with her art & photography.

As a teenager, she also developed an interest in audio engineering that lead her to join the Coast Guard to travel and study electronics. She served in the Coast Guard as an Electronics Technician for 4 years. After leaving the Coast Guard she worked in a custom photography lab for professional and advanced amateur photographers as a darkroom and copy work technician (as well as in accounts receivable and payroll) while she continued to work as a photographer and began her education in the computer sciences. Throughout the 1990’s she began to explore other artistic mediums in addition to her photography and began selling her watercolor and mixed media pieces while also working as a computer programmer, systems administrator, multimedia specialist, software trainer, audio engineer, music promoter and manager.

In 1992, she formed her own company, which she still owns and operates. Through CARMA (CyberArts, Research Music and Audio Productions), she provides multimedia, computer and network consulting while continuing to create, exhibit and sell her art and photography. She produced a concert with Brazilian guitarist, Carlos Barbosa-Lima at the Okaloosa-Walton College in October, 2001; with record breaking walk-up ticket sales. She has produced a benefit dinner, “An Evening with the Surrealists” for the Arts and Design Society in Fort Walton Beach, FL and has served on the board of the Arts and Design Society. In February of 2006, she began work on an exciting new research project with the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola Florida, in which all of her experiences in art and the computer sciences are synthesized. She jointly published a first paper with IHMC in July, 2006 reporting on a project which will attempt to bring a new level of contextual search capabilities for artist’s work to the internet. Most recently she presented this work, along with Pat Hayes - (Senior Research Scientist, IHMC) at the 1st International HASTAC Conference at Duke University, April 2007.