Ernest Edmond’s great topic is color and interaction. His career has taken him from hand drawing to interactive computer-based installations, from England to Australia, from author to keynote speaker.
He studied mathematics and philosophy at Leicester University. He holds a Ph.D. in logic from Nottingham University, is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a Chartered Engineer. He is a researcher, author, and practicing artist. He lives and works alternatingly in Sydney, Australia, and in the UK. His art is clearly and purely in the constructivist tradition.
Edmonds’ first use of a computer in his art practice dates back to 1968. He first showed an interactive work, titled “Datapack”, with Stroud Cornock in 1970. His first generative time-based computer work was on display in London in 1985. He has exhibited throughout the world, from Moscow to Los Angeles. The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has acquired his archives as part of the National Archive of Computer Based Art and Design.
Ernest Edmonds is a 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, called the Creativity and Cognition Studios. He has over 200 refereed publications, mainly in the fields of human-computer interaction, creativity, and art. 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 Ph.D. 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 lectured in the UK, France, the USA, Australia, Japan, Malaysia, and elsewhere.
Professor of Computation and Creative Media, University of Technology, Sydney
Director of Creativity and Cognition Studios, University of Technology, Sydney
Editor-in-Chief, Leonardo Transactions
Founding Editor, Knowledge-Based Systems
Visiting Professor Sussex University
Visiting Research Fellow Goldsmiths College, University of London
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