Professor Simon Biggs

Professor of Art

Director: South Australian School of Art (est. 1856)

Artist's website: http://www.littlepig.org.uk/

Amazon author's page: http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs

Simon Biggs is a visual artist, writer and curator working with new media. His work manifests as interactive immersive environments, electronic literature, machine-learning augmented performance environments, human-machine co-creation, internet-based art and computer animation. Recognising the creative affordances allowed by working across disciplines, but also aware of his own limitations, Biggs often collaborates with creative arts practitioners in dance and music, and scientists in software engineering, materials-science and neuroscience.

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.

Work history

University of South Australia - Professor of Art

University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh College of Art - Professor of Interdisciplinary Art

Sheffield Hallam University - Research Professor of Art

University of Cambridge: Computer Laboratory - Research Fellow

University of Canterbury, New Zealand - Visiting Artist

Oxford Brookes University - Visiting Artist

Academy Minerva, Netherlands - Lecturer

Middlesex University - Part-Time Lecturer