Professor Simon Biggs

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.

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

Work history

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