http://www.littlepig.org.uk/
Adjunct Research Professor
Artist's website: http://www.littlepig.org.uk/
Amazon author's page: http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs
From 2014 to 2023 Simon Biggs was Professor of Art and Director of the South Australian School of Art at the University of South Australia.
Simon Biggs is a visual artist, writer and curator working with new media. He creates interactive immersive environments, electronic literature, machine-learning augmented performance environments, internet-based art and computer animation. Recognising the creative affordances offered by working across disciplines, but also aware of his own limitations, Biggs often collaborates with creative practitioners in dance and music, and experts in software engineering,... Read more
About me
Adjunct Research Professor
Artist's website: http://www.littlepig.org.uk/
Amazon author's page: http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs
From 2014 to 2023 Simon Biggs was Professor of Art and Director of the South Australian School of Art at the University of South Australia.
Simon Biggs is a visual artist, writer and curator working with new media. He creates interactive immersive environments, electronic literature, machine-learning augmented performance environments, internet-based art and computer animation. Recognising the creative affordances offered by working across disciplines, but also aware of his own limitations, Biggs often collaborates with creative practitioners in dance and music, and experts in software engineering, physical sciences and social sciences.
Biggs’s work has been presented in over 40 countries, including at Tate Modern (London), Tate Liverpool, Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Academy de Kunste (Berlin), Rijksmuseum (Twenthe), Maxxi (Rome), Seoul Museum of Art, Macau Arts Museum, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Arizona State Art Museum, Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney) and Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide). His work is held in public collections in the UK, USA, France, Spain, Netherlands, New Zealand, Germany, Canada, Austria and Belgium. Publications include Remediating the Social (2012), Autopoiesis (with James Leach, 2004), Great Wall of China (1999), Halo (1998), Magnet (1997) and Book of Shadows (1996).
Principal Investigator: Developing a Network-Based Creative Community: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (2010-2013), funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area Joint Research Programme for Creativity and Innovation. Partners: University of Bergen (lead), University of Edinburgh (Biggs), Blekinge Institute of Technology, University of Amsterdam, University College Falmouth, University of Jyvaskyla and University of Ljubljana. Value 1 million Euros.
Principal Investigator: Moving Targets (2010-2013), funded by the Scottish Funding Council. Partners: University of Abertay (lead) and Edinburgh (Biggs). Value £1.2 million.
Co-Investigator: Design in Action (2012-2016, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Partners: University of Dundee (lead), Edinburgh (Biggs), Glasgow School of Art, Robert Gordon University, University of Abertay Dundee and St Andrews University. Value £5 million.
Chief Investigator: Collaborative Embodied Movement Design Network, (2017-2018) Australian Research Council LIEF funded project. Partners: Swinburne University (lead), UniSA (Biggs), UNSW, QUT and Melbourne University. Value $350,000.
Chief Investigator: The Australian Emulation Network: Born Digital Cultural Collections Access , (2023-2025) Australian Research Council LIEF funded project. Partners: Swinburne University (lead), UniSA (Biggs), and others. Value $751,723.
About me
Peer review assessor, Australian Research Council
Austrian Science Foundation, Peer Review College, Vienna, Austria
European Science Foundation, College of Expert Peer Reviewers, Strasbourg, France
Electronic Literature Organization, USA
Crucible research network, University of Cambridge, UK
About me
2014 - on.... University of South Australia - Adjunct Research Professor
2014 - 2024 University of South Australia - Professor of Art
2006 - 2014 University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh College of Art - Professor of Interdisciplinary Art
1996 - 2006 Sheffield Hallam University - Research Professor of Art
2002 - 2004 University of Cambridge: Computer Laboratory - Research Fellow
1997 - 1997 University of Canterbury, New Zealand - Visiting Artist
1995 - 1995 Oxford Brookes University - Visiting Artist
1991 - 1995 Academy Minerva, Netherlands - Lecturer
1987 - 1991 Middlesex University - Part-Time Lecturer
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
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2011 |
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2010 |
Biggs, S 2010, 'Publish and Die', Spiel, vol. 29, no. 1-2, pp. 343-354. |
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2014 |
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2013 |
Biggs, S 2013, Polymorph, Bundanon Trust, Nowra, NSW, 2013, Littlepig Production.
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Biggs, S 2013, Tate 25, Tate 25th Birthday exhibition, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool UK, 17 May 2013.
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2011 |
Biggs, S & Shovman, M 2011, Tower, Poetry Beyond Text, Dundee, UK, 5 March-1 April 2011.
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Biggs, S 2010, Between Zero and One, Ways of Knowing, Ways of Knowing 2010, 7 September 2010.
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Biggs, S 2009, A New Life, Computer Baroque online exhibition, 2009-04-14, UK. |
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Biggs, S 2009, Utter, Network as Space and Medium, Network as Space and Medium, 8-9 November 2009. |
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2014-2019 Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh, UK
2013-14 Visiting Professor, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA
2011-14 Arts and Humanities Research Council, Digital Transformations Advisory Group, UK
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Arizona State University | UNITED STATES |
Australian Network For Art And Technology | AUSTRALIA |
Glasgow School of Art | UNITED KINGDOM |
Private Individual | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
University of Bedfordshire | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Edinburgh | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Maia | PORTUGAL |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
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Executive MemberAustralian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) |
2018 |
External Peer-review Board MemberJournal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research |
2018 |
Executive MemberAustralian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) |
2017 |
External Peer-review Board MemberJournal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research |
2017 |
Honorary ProfessorshipUniversity of Edinburgh |
2015 |
ResidencyArizona Art Museum |
2015 |
ResidencyBundanon Trust |
2015 |
Member, Digital Transformations Advisory GroupArts and Humanities Research Council, United Kingdom |
2014 |
Visiting AcademicArizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA |
2014 |
Member, Digital Transformations Advisory GroupArts and Humanities Research Council, United Kingdom |
2013 |
Visiting AcademicEuropean Science Foundation, Strasbourg, France |
2013 |
Visiting AcademicArizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA |
2013 |
Member, Digital Transformations Advisory GroupArts and Humanities Research Council, United Kingdom |
2012 |
Visiting AcademicAustrian Science Foundation, Vienna, Austria |
2012 |
Member, Digital Transformations Advisory GroupArts and Humanities Research Council, United Kingdom |
2011 |
Visiting AcademicAustrian Science Foundation, Vienna, Austria |
2011 |
Artistic Practice Program Committee, 2020 International Conference on Movement and Computing, New Jersey, USA
2019 Higher Degree by Research Supervisor of the Year, Education, Arts and Social Sciences, University of South Australia
Postgraduate Writing Editorial Board, Art + Australia, Melbourne, Australia
Member, Helpmann Academy, grant assessment panel, Adelaide, Australia
Member, CIRCLE research group, University of Edinburgh, UK
Member, Crucible research network, University of Cambridge, UK
Chair, selection panel, Samstag Scholarships, Adelaide, Australia
Peer review assessor, Australian Research Council
European Science Foundation, College of Experts, Strasbourg, France
Austrian Science Foundation, Peer Review College, Vienna, Austria
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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Every breath you take; art and surveillance in the post-internet age | Current |
The audience¿s experience of empathy within theatrical narratives: the bridges between performer and public in a sonically augmented live performance environment | Current |
Agents of incongruity: glassmaking embraces nonsense to navigate monsters, wonders and dread | Completed |
Art and attention restoration theory: how landscape-themed art may contribute to a restorative environment in windowless workplaces | Completed |
Artefacts from the black box: understanding post-digital glitch aesthetics through intermedial practice | Completed |
Curries, kurtas & burqas: encountering artistic practices of emplacement in postmigration societies | Completed |
Encounter and obligation: repositioning the portrait as a socially engaged practice | Completed |
Improvisational creativity and collaborative play in virtual environments | Completed |
Inside, outside, passing through: queer passages in a contemporary sculpture-based practice | Completed |
Linear landscapes of the imagination: a studio-based enquiry into an ontology of line in a contemporary drawing practice. | Completed |
Queer embodiment and network-based media: reconfiguring cartesian understanding of the body and technology within a visual arts practice | Completed |
So near, that we can touch the spaces. A practice-based investigation exploring how the gestural line informs our bodily knowledge of spatial perception and materiality. | Completed |
Staging storyworlds: transmedia theatre and designing audience experience | Completed |
Symbiosis and strife: laboratory cultures in Australian art/science projects | Completed |
The great shroud: exploring the sublime as oceanic otherness through a contemporary visual arts practice | Completed |
Transfiguring the terrain: variation through serial iteration | Completed |