Chandler makes up the mythical Barbarian “LA Office.” He is a full time employee specializing in some serious technical stuff. He won’t leave LA because he is also a professor at UCLA. He keeps telling us that this will lead to awesome young Barbarians, but it never seems to happen. We’re patient, though.

Chandler McWilliams studied photography, film, and political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago and later went on to study philosophy at The New School For Social Research in New York City.

It was during this time that he also began working on the web and developed an even wider range of skills in all aspects of developing for the internet. The demand for increasingly creative and complex websites led him to become intimately familiar with database design, PHP, and a host of other technologies. While in New York, Chandler began teaching at the School of Visual Arts and later became an adjunct professor at The Cooper Union.

After moving to Los Angeles in 2004, Chandler began to focus on his work as an artist and writer. He began working for The Barbarian Group and helped create a number of award winning websites, kiosks, and installations for clients such as Comcast, Apple, and Saturn. In addition to working for The Barbarian Group, Chandler has begun a teaching career at the University of California Los Angeles in the Design | Media Arts department. At UCLA, he is teaching and designing the bulk of the web design curriculum as well as courses on interactive design using the Processing programming environment.