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Personaggio

Simon Biggs

Simon Biggs è un artista australiano, da anni si occupa di studiare la tematica dell’identità e quella della realtà intesa come costrutto sociale.

Biografia

Nasce nel 1957 ad Adelaide, nel sud dell’ Australia. Fin da bambino dimostra una grande passione per l’arte e dal 1976 lavora come artista. Nel 1978 tiene la sua prima mostra personale e inizia a fare pittura sperimentando e modificando immagini col computer. Nel 1979, sviluppa insieme al padre, che era un informatico, sistemi per computer dedicati alla grafica. Dal 1979 al 1981 studia musica elettronica e musica per computer al Conservatorio dell’Università di Adelaide e nel 1980 inizia a produrre animazioni on-line, esibendole per la prima volta nel 1982. Nel 1983 lascia la pittura e si dedica alle installazioni interattive basate sul computer e successivamente sul web. La prima installazione col computer è del 1984 e la prima installazione interattiva è del 1985. Dal 1986 vive e lavora in Europa dove si stabilisce in Inghilterra. Le sue opere si avvicinano verso l'arte concettuale e si interessa allo studio del linguaggio e ai sistemi di controllo in chiave metaforica, simbolica e poetica, spesso basati su testi. Diventa professore di arte digitale all’Università di Hallam a Sheffield, e poi al College of Art di Edinburgo. Partecipa a diversi programmi di ricerca sullo studio della pratica dell’arte contemporanea che impiega mezzi digitali avanzati, sistemi interattivi, tecnologie di telerilevamento, e reti distribuite e svolge una ricerca interdisciplinare fra le scienze, le arti e le scienze umane. Nelle sue opere continua a usare il computer e tutti i media digitali avanzati , sistemi interattivi, network distribuiti e poetica digitale. La sua arte non è riconducibile ad un singolo genere e si colloca in uno stadio intermedio tra l’installazione di arte sperimentale, la videoarte, l’animazione tradizionale e computer art .

Sito web

Opere

Artworks

  • Metropolis
  • IDfone
  • Stream
  • Parallax
  • The Visible Genome Project
  • The Waiting Room
  • Halo
  • Magnet
  • The Reading Room
  • As Falling Falls
  • Document
  • The Castle
  • Presence
  • The Living Room
  • Angels
  • Shadows
un'immagine dell'installazione













  • Voices
  • Heaven
  • Solitary
  • Pandaemonium
  • On Sight
  • Rosenberg Variations
  • Alchemy
  • Temptation of St Anthony
  • A New Life
  • Golem
  • Archipelagos
  • Le Desir
  • Recombinant Figure
  • Torso
  • CSIRO research 1984
  • Reproductive System
  • Computer Graphics 1984
  • Computer Pieces 1982
  • Computer Pieces 1981
  • Computer Pieces 1979

Webworks

http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=3493&page=1#6343

  • Echelon
  • Precession of the Equinoxes
  • Babel

http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?2676

http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?1733

  • Book of Shadows

Textworks

  • Networks, Margins and Centres
  • Computing the Sublime
  • Multiple Perspectives/Readings
  • on Navigation and Interactivity
  • Art and/or New Media Art
  • Multimedia: CDROM and Net
  • Speaking With The Other
  • The Sentient Sign
  • Culture, Technology and Creativity
  • Media Art and its Virtual Futures
  • The Art of Computer Art
  • Hybrids
  • Video and New Technologies
  • Cybernetics in a Post-Structuralist Landscape
  • Machine Power*

Bibliografia

  • CD-ROM's Great Wall of China and Book of Shadows (both Ellipsis, London);
  • monographs Halo (Film and Video Umbrella, London) and Magnet (McDougall Art Gallery, NZ);
  • Autopoeisis (with James Leach, Artwords, London). His work is featured in Internet Art (Thames and Hudson World History of Art series, USA), Medienkunst (Daniels, ZKM, Germany), Web Fictions (Fassler/Hentschlagen, Austria), Clicking In (Hershman, Bay Press, USA), Art and Animation (Channel 4, London), Digital Aesthetics (Cubitt, London), British Film and Video Artists (Curtis, London), Les Lieux de Video (United Media Arts, Canada) and Pioneers of Interactive Art (Dinkla, ZKM, Germany).
  • Simon Biggs, Words and Visions, n.4, Adelaide, Australia, 1980.
  • Simon Biggs, Words and Visions, n.7 & n.9, Adelaide, Australia, 1981.
  • Simon Biggs, Artlink, V3 n.6, Adelaide, Australia, 1983.
  • (review), CSIRO Yearbook, Sydney, Australia, 1983.
  • Simon Biggs, Artlink, V5 n.2, Adelaide, Australia, 1984.
  • Simon Biggs, Artlink, V5 n.5, Adelaide, Australia, 1984.
  • (interview), Arts Illustrated, ABC-FM National Radio, March, 1984.
  • (review), Photofile, Winter, Sydney, Australia, 1984.
  • (review), Artforce, n.45, Sydney, Australia, 1984.
  • (review), Sydney Morning Herald, 9th Feb, Sydney, Australia, 1984.
  • Simon Biggs, Artlink, V6 n.4, Adelaide, Australia, 1985.
  • "Avago 1975-85", Simon Biggs, Sydney, Australia, 1985.
  • (review), Sydney Morning Herald, 5th July, 1985.
  • (review), Kurt Bereton, Art Network, n.19, Sydney, Australia, 1985.
  • Simon Biggs, Simon Biggs 1986 (Artist's Book), Adelaide, Australia, 1986.
  • (review), Pamela Waite, Art Network, n.20, Adelaide, Australia, 1986.
  • (review), Artlink, V7 n.1, Adelaide, Australia, 1986.
  • Simon Biggs, Artlink, Art and Technology Issue, Adelaide, Australia, 1987.
  • "Problems in Pluralism", Simon Biggs, Performance Magazine , n.46, UK, 1987.
  • "Dreamtime", Simon Biggs, Mediamatic, V2 n.2, Amsterdam, Holland, 1987.
  • "Byzantine (E)Valuations", Simon Biggs, Mediamatic, V2 n.1, Amsterdam, Holland, 1987.
  • "Oedipus Rex - The Duvet Bros. and Television", Simon Biggs, Mediamatic, V1 N4, Amsterdam, Holland, 1987.
  • "The Primal Code", Simon Biggs, Mediamatic, V1 n.3 , Amsterdam, Holland, 1987.
  • "Ars Electronica", Simon Biggs, Performance Magazine , n.43 , London, UK, 1987.
  • "Ars Electronica", Simon Biggs, Mediamatic, V1 n.2, Amsterdam, Holland, 1987.
  • (review), Independent Media, n.70, UK, 1987.
  • "World Wide Video Festival", Simon Biggs, Mediamatic, V3 n.3, Amsterdam, Holland, 1988.
  • "The Bonn Videonale", Simon Biggs, Mediamatic, V3 n.3, Amsterdam, Holland, 1988.
  • "Video/Architecture", Simon Biggs, Mediamatic, V2 N4 , Amsterdam, Holland, 1988.
  • "The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men", Simon Biggs, Mediamatic, V2 n.4 , Amsterdam, Holland, 1988.
  • "Reclamations: To the Artists Voice", Simon Biggs, Tolosa Video Festival Catalogue, Tolosa, Spain, 1988.
  • Simon Biggs, Jeremy Welsh - Video, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, 1988.
  • (review), Osnabrucker Zeitung, 6th Sept, Germany, 1988.
  • (review), Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Holland, 1988.
  • (review), Nik Houghton, Independent Media, Dec, UK, 1988.
  • Simon Biggs, Alchemy (Artist's Book), UK, 1989.
  • "Hybrids - Towards an Imaginary Ecology", Simon Biggs, Mediamatic, V3 n.3, Amsterdam, Holland, 1989.
  • "Art and Technology Exhibitions in Europe", Simon Biggs, Praxis, M (Summer), Perth, Australia, 1989.
  • (review), John Lansdown, The Computer Bulletin, Cambridge University Press, 1989.
  • (review), The Yorkshire Post, 24th March, Leeds, UK, 1989.
  • (review), The Guardian, 16th June, UK, 1989.
  • (review), Stephen Bode, Videographic, No. 4, n. 5, UK, 1989.
  • (review), Mainscreen, n.1, UK, 1989.
  • (review), Computer Images, July/August, London, UK, 1989.
  • (review), Bilder Digital, Jan, Germany, 1989.
  • “Showroom Texts & Distant Voices”, Nik Houghton, Independent Media, n.85, UK 1989.
  • (review), City Limits, Dec 8-15, UK, 1989.
  • "New Media Developments", Simon Biggs, London Video Arts Catalogue, London Video Arts, 1990.
  • (review), Independent Media, Jan-Feb, UK, 1990.
  • (review), City Limits, Dec 6-13, London, 1990.
  • "Computing in Art and Design Education", Simon Biggs, European Media Art Festival Catalogue, Osnabruck, Germany, 1991.
  • Infermental, Osnabruck, Germany, 1991.
  • (review), Independent Media, n.115, UK, 1991.
  • (review), Debbie Cawkwell (ed.), Directions Magazine, BFI, UK, 1991.
  • (review), The Daily Telegraph, 19th April, UK, 1991.
  • (review), Stephen Partridge, Variant Magazine, autumn, Glasgow, UK, 1991.
  • (review), Art Monthly, June, UK, 1991.
  • Interactive Art, Gallery Otsu, Helsinki, Finland, 1992.
  • (review), Sean Cubitt, Variant Magazine, Spring, Glasgow, UK, 1992.
  • (review), John Conomos, Sydney Morning Herald, 14th Nov, 1992.
  • "Computing in Art and Design Education at Academy Minerva", Simon Biggs, MediaScape Catalogue, Musea Mimara, Zagreb, Croatia, 1993.
  • "Les Lieux de Video", Diderot 4, United Media Arts, Ontario, Canada, 1993.
  • (review), Neue Presse, 15th May, Hanover, Germany, 1993.
  • (review), Hannoverische Allgemeine, 5th May, Hanover, Germany, 1993.
  • "Speaking with the Other", Simon Biggs, European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany, 1994.
  • "Speaking with the Other, Ex Orient Lux", Simon Biggs, ArtA, Bucharest, Romania, 1994.
  • Allgemeines Kunstlerlexicon, KG Saur Verlag, Reed Reference Pub, Leipzig, Germany, 1994.
  • (review), Observer, 4th Sept, UK, 1994.
  • (review), Parallelogramme, vol 19, n.4, Canada, 1994.
  • (review), Time Out, 6th Sept, UK, 1994.
  • (review), Artists Newsletter, May, UK, 1994.
  • (review), MacUser Magazine, 1st June, UK, 1994.
  • "Multimedia Program Notes", Simon Biggs, Berlin Videofest Catalogue, Germany, 1995.
  • (review), Tim Ireland, The Weekender, 19th Aug, Wollongong, Australia, 1995.
  • (review), Lars Movin, Information, March, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1995.
  • "Multimedia Program Notes", Simon Biggs, Berlin Videofest Catalogue, 1996.
  • "The Sentient Sign", Simon Biggs, Magazyn Sztuki, Poland, 1996.
  • Lars Movin (ed), Electronic Undercurrents: Art and Video in Europe, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1996.
  • Bode, Frieling, Cubitt, Book of Shadows, Ellipsis, UK, 1996.
  • "Simon Biggs", Sean Cubitt, A Directory of British Film & Video Artists, The Arts Council of England University of Luton Press, 1996, 1-86020 003 6
  • (review), Coil, n.3, UK, 1996.
  • (review), Wired Magazine, June, UK, 1996.
  • (review), MacUser Magazine, May, UK, 1996.
  • (review), Arena, May, UK, 1996.
  • (review), Artists Newsletter, May, UK, 1996.
  • (review), The Tate Magazine, May, UK, 1996.
  • (review), The Observer, 24th March, UK, 1996.
  • (review), Highbury and Hampstead Journal, January, UK, 1996.
  • (review), Time Out, 10th January, UK, 1996.
  • Simon Biggs, The Reading Room (Artist's Book), Christchurch, New Zealand, 1997.
  • Soke Dinkla, Pioneers of Interactive Art, ZKM, Germany, 1997.
  • Cubitt, Gunn, Magnet, McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1997.
  • (review), Racunaliskva Zabava, 13th Oct, Maribor, Slovenia, 1997.
  • (review), Art News, Spring, Auckland, New Zealand, 1997.
  • (review), Log Illustrated, Spring, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1997.
  • Bode, Maclellan, Cubitt, Jones, Halo, Film+Video Umbrella/Harewood House, UK, 1998.
  • (review), The Guardian, 5th Dec, UK, 1998.
  • (review), The Guardian, 5th Nov, UK, 1998.
  • (review), The Times, 29th Aug, UK, 1998.
  • (review), The Sunday Times, 2nd Aug, UK, 1998.
  • (review), Yorkshire Evening Post, 30th July, 1998.
  • (review), Arts Review - July, UK, 1998.
  • (review), New York Times, 9th April, 1998.
  • "Immediate!", Simon Biggs, Exhibition Catalogue Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK, 1999.
  • Sean Cubitt, Digital Aesthetics, UK, 1999.
  • Simon Biggs, Great Wall of China CD-ROM and prints, Ellipsis, UK, 1999.
  • (review), Art Monthly - October, UK, 1999.
  • (review), Independent on Sunday, 19th Sept., UK, 1999.
  • (review), The Guardian, 16th Sept., UK, 1999.
  • (review), Artforum September, New York, 1999.
  • (review), The Times, 18th Sept, UK, 1999.
  • (review), The Guardian, 11th Sept, UK, 1999.
  • (review), Arte In Magazine, February-March, Italy, 2000.
  • (review), The Age, 6th March, Melbourne, Australia, 2000.
  • (review), The Age, 28th Feb, Melbourne, Australia, 2000.
  • "Hostess", Simon Biggs, MFA exhibition catalogue, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, 2001.
  • Scholder and Crandall (ed), Interaction: Artistic Practice in the Network, DAP inc, New York, USA, 2001.
  • (review), Art Monthly, Nov, UK, 2001.
  • (review), The New Republic, 7th September, New York, 2001.
  • (review), The Guardian, 30th August, UK, 2001.
  • (review), The New York Times, 6th August, New York, 2001.
  • (review), Dance Theatre Journal, Vol 17 n.2, London, UK, 2001.

Interviste

  • Questions Our Questions. Sara Schultz

http://209.32.200.23/salons/shockoftheview/sv_intro_biggs.html

  • Technology, Aura, and the Self in New Media Art

http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/0420-Biggs.htm

  • Symbolic Value in Artifacts and the Self as Illusion in "Babel"

http://www.brown.edu/Research/dichtung-digital/2002/04/20-Biggs/index3.htm

Webibliografia

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