Event | Ernest Edmonds: Art, Interaction and the Active Audience
Wed, 05 Jan 2011
The Institute of Creative Technologies and the Computer Arts Society have the pleasure of hosting a talk by Ernest Edmonds at 5pm on 19th January at the IOCT Lab at De Montfort University.
Ernest Edmonds was born in London and studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Leicester University. He has a PhD in logic from Nottingham University, is a Fellow of the British Comuter Society, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a Charted Engineer. He is a practicing artist.
He lives and works in Sydney Australia. His art is in the constructivist tradition and he first used computers in his art practice in 1968. He first showed an interactive work with Stroud Cornock in 1970. He first showed a generative time-based computer work in London in 1985. He has exhibited throughout the world, from Moscow to LA. The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is collecting his archives within the National Archive of Computer Based Art and Design.
He has over 200 refereed publications in the fields of human-computer interaction, creativity and art. Artists Bookworks (UK) has recently published his book "On New Constructs in Art". Ernest Edmonds is Professor of Computation and Creative Media at the University of Technology, Sydney where he runs a multi-disciplinary practice-based art and technology research group, the Creativity and Cognition Studios. In Sydney, he is represented by the Conny Dietzschold Gallery.
Ernest Edmonds has held the position of University Dean, has sat on many funding and conference committees and was a pioneer in the development of practice-based PhD programmes. He founded the ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference series and was part of the founding team for the ACM Intelligent User Interface conference series. He has been an invited speaker in, for example, the UK, France, the USA, Australia, Japan and Malaysia.
The talk free is open to all. Contact Sean Clark at seanc@cuttlefish.com for further information. You can find the IOCT Lab at point 21 on the following map. This is the first in what we hope will be a regular programme of CAS talks to be held in the Midlands.
http://www.ernestedmonds.com/
http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/
http://www.computer-arts-society.org/
