About Quark Nova
Quark Nova is an art studio and production company in Columbia South Carolina, owned by Simon Tarr. It's where all his own artwork gets churned out, and it's also where Simon and his minions do other gigs... interface/UX creation, projections design, site-specific media, and other strange mis-uses of screens. Quark Nova also creates the long-running tutorial series One From Zero.
About Simon Tarr
Simon Tarr is an artist, writer, and educator in South Carolina. He made his first movie at the age of eight using a strip of film fashioned from sandwich bags taped together, with spaceships drawn on it. The projector was a shoebox with a lamp in it, the lens was a magnifying glass on the end of a toilet paper tube. The movie premiered on the wall of his bedroom, where the film melted after a few seconds.
Since then, Simon Tarr’s films have been screened on every continent (yes, even Antarctica) in hundreds of film festivals. His work is available on DVD from Netflix and Amazon. He has given live performances at conferences, festivals and clubs from Tokyo to New Orleans and everywhere in between.
Tarr is an associate professor of art at the University of South Carolina. He received the 2010 University Film and Video Association Teaching Award for achievements in pedagogy that contribute to the field of film and video education.