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Simon Biggs

Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts

s.biggs@ed.ac.uk

+44 (0) 131 651 5890

Research, Evolution House, 78 West Port, Edinburgh, EH1 2LE

Outline Biography

Simon Biggs (born Australia 1957, UK since 1986) is a new media artist, writer and curator with interests in digital poetics, auto-generative/interpretive (affective) systems, interactive and performative environments, interdisciplinary research and co-creation. His work has been widely presented, including at Tate Modern, ICA, CCA, Kettles Yard, Pompidou Centre, Academy de Kunste Berlin, Kulturforum Berlin, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Maxxi Rome, Macau Arts Museum, San Francisco Cameraworks, Walker Art Center Minneapolis and the Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney. He has been keynote at many conferences and lectured internationally. Publications include Remediating the Social (2012), Autopoeisis (with James Leach, 2004), Great Wall of China (1999), Halo (1998), Magnet (1997) and Book of Shadows (1996).

Personal website http://www.littlepig.org.uk/

He is a member of the CIRCLE research group: http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/

and the Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts

Research in a nutshell video: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/srodnes/RVID/?p=3881

Research Interests

Digital arts, interactive environments, digital poetics, electronic literature, augmented reality, performance environments and interdisciplinary research.

Principal Investigator: Developing a Network-Based Creative Community: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice, a collaborative research project funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area Joint Research Programme for Creativity and Innovation. Partners include University of Bergen (lead), Blekinge Institute of Technology, University of Amsterdam, University College Falmouth, University of Jyrvalska and University of Ljubljana. Value 1 million Euros for the period 2010-2013. http://www.elmcip.net/

Principal Investigator: Moving Targets seeks to create an innovative and sustainable knowledge exchange mechanism, which fulfils the Scottish Creative Media sector's need to respond to the emerging market trends of global consumers by devising and developing new models to engage new audiences. Funded by the Scottish Funding Council. Partners include University of Abertay (lead). Value £1.2 million for the period 2010-2013. http://movingtargets.org.uk/

Co-Investigator: Design in Action, an AHRC funded Knowledge Exchange Hub focused on the transformational potential of design in the ICT, food, sport, health and rural economy sectors. Partners include University of Dundee (lead), Glasgow School of Art, Robert Gordon University, University of Abertay Dundee and St Andrews University. Value £5 million for the period 2012-2016. http://designinaction.com/

Research activity

exhibitions, screenings, performances, festivals since RAE2008

2012

Book of Shadows, Meine Wunderkammer, DAM Projects, Berlin, Germany

Bodytext (with Sue Hawksley and Garth Paine), Mondavi Theatre, University of California Davis, Gaming the Game, USA

2011

Conjunctions and Propositions, performance as part of the ELMCIP Digital Poetics conference at the University of Amsterdam.

Blowup (with Sue Hawksley), Bonhoga Gallery, near Lerwick, Shetland Islands, UK

Conjunctions and Prepositions, performance at the eLiterature and Media Art conference, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Tower, Poetry Beyond Text, Dundee Contemporary Arts/The Hive, Dundee, UK

reRead, Electronic Literature in Italy, Palazzo della Arti, Naples, Italy

2010

Bodytext, (with Sue Hawksley and Garth Paine), Dance Live, Banchory, UK

Bodytext, (with Sue Hawksley and Garth Paine), Figures of the Visceral, University of Edinburgh, UK

Bodytext, (with Sue Hawksley and Garth Paine), SEAM2010, Critical Path, Sydney, Australia

reRead, McCormack Theatre, Brown University, Electronic Language Organization conference, Providence, USA

You turn me on and on and on, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

2009

Oracle, Morumbi University, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Utter and Oracle, Landmark, Kunsthalle Bergen, Norway

reRead, Language Games, Akademy der Kunste, Berlin, Germany

A New Life, Computer Baroque, Tate Modern, London

2008

Blowup (with Sue Hawksley), Alt-W, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK

Blowup, with articulate animal/Sue Hawksley, Dance Base, Edinburgh, UK

symposia since RAE2008

2012

Remediating the Social, conference chair, University of Edinburgh, UK

P{e/a}r{i/a}meter 2012, Inspace, University of Edinburgh, UK

Gaming the Game, University of California Davis, USA

2011

Preservation of Complex Objects Symposium, Keynote, Glasgow University, Lighthouse, UK

International Symposium of Electronic Art, Panel co-Chair and reviewed paper, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

Connected Communities, Reviewed paper, Culture Lab, University of Newcastle, UK

Motion in Place workshop, Invited presentation, Sussex University, Brighton, UK

Expert meeting on implantable smart technologies, Prague, Czech Republik

P{e/a}r{i/a}meter, Inspace, University of Edinburgh, UK

Electronic Literature in Italy, Panel Chair, Palazzo della Arti, Naples, Italy

2010

Workshop in Speckled Computing, invited speaker, Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK

Ways of Knowing, invited speaker, University of Hertfordshire, UK

Figures of the Visceral, invited speaker, University of Edinburgh, UK

Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity in Practice communities seminar, University of Bergen, Norway

Society for Science, Literature and the Arts conference, School of Economics, Riga, Latvia

Electronic Literature Organization conference, Brown University, Providence, USA

Critical Mobilities, keynote, Society for the Humanities Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

Art, Design and Architecture Research Festival, keynote, University of Huddersfield, UK

2009

First South American Conference on Interaction Design, keynote, Morumbi University, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Institute of Converging Arts and Sciences Conference, invited speaker, University of Greenwich, London, UK

HCII2009, San Diego, USA

Interrogations, keynote speaker, Loughborough University, UK

Digital Poetics, invited speaker, University of Dundee, UK

2008

Augmented Reality, invited speaker, Metal Culture, Liverpool, UK

Electronic Literature in Europe, invited speaker, University of Bergen, Norway

UK Dance Science Conference, keynote speaker, University of Edinburgh, UK

Talking in Text, invited speaker, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK

Publications

Publications list for Simon Biggs

Supervision

Projects supervised by Simon Biggs

Teaching

Programme Director, MSc by Research in Interdisciplinary Creative Practices.

http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees?id=656&cw_xml=details.php

Current PhD supervision topics include site specific intermedia, electronic literature, interaction design, expanded moving image and open source approaches to activist practice.

This article was published on Oct 21, 2011