Simon Penny
is an artist, theorist and teacher in the field
of Interactive
Media Art. His art practice consists of interactive
and robotic
installations, which have been exhibited in the US,
Australia and Europe.
Current and recent projects include:
Bedlam, a telerobotic/telematic interactive installation
with machine
vision, spatialised interactive sound and custom pneumatic
robotics. (A
collaboration with Bill Vorn, Concordia University Montreal.
2001-)
Body Electric, immersive interactive installation in
collaboration with Dr
Malcolm McIver, the Center for Neuromorphic Systems
Engineering, CalTech,
and Art Center College of Design Pasadena.
FugitiveII, a machine vision driven interactive video
installation
commisioned by the Australian Center for the Moving
Image.
Previous projects include:
Petit Mal, an Autonomous Robotic Artwork (1992-5)
Sympathetic Sentience, a multi agent interactive sound
invironment (with
Jamieson Schulte, 1994-6)
Fugitive, a machine vision driven interactive video
installation (1996-7)
Traces, a project for the CAVE immersive environment
with custom
multi-camera machine vision (1998-9)
Professor Penny curated Machine Culture (arguably the
first international
survey exhibition of digital interactive art) at SIGGRAPH
'93 in Anaheim
CA. His essays on Digital Culture and Electronic Media
Art have been
translated into seven languages. He edited the anthology
Critical Issues in
Electronic Media (SUNY Press 1995).
Recent awards include a grant from the Langlois Foundation
(with Bill Vorn,
2001), first prize in the Cyberstar 98 awards (GMD/WDR,
Germany) and a
residency at the Institut fur Bildmedien, ZKM Karlsruhe,
spring97.
Penny is Professor of Arts and Engineering at University
of California
Irvine (a joint appointment between the Henry Samueli
School of Engineering
and the Claire Trevor School of Arts). He is Director
of the newly
established graduate program in Arts, Computation and
Engineering
(www.ace.uci.edu).
He is Layer Leader for the Arts in the California Institute
for
Telecommunications and Information Technology, CAL(IT)2.
For further information, see www.ace.uci.edu/Penny
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