[rohrpost] Simon Biggs featured by the Archive of Digital Art

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Simon BIGGS featured by the ARCHIVE of DIGITAL ART
Simon Biggs’ artistic interest in electronic and digital media goes
back to the 1970s. Since then, he has evolved into one of the leading
artists of the field and works as scholar, writer and curator who
explores a multitude of subjects within Digital Art such as digital
poetics, interactive and performative environments and posthumanity. His
art works have been exhibited all over the world (including Tate Modern,
Centre George Pompidou, Walker Art Center, Akademie der Kuenste Berlin)
and he has held keynotes at conferences worldwide (including ISEA 2015
and ICA 2008). He was principal investigator of the HERA-funded research
project ELMCIP, which developed an open.access, contributory database
for electronic literature. Publications include "Remediating the
Social"(2012) and "Autopoeisis" (with James Leach, 2004).
His earliest works in the genre of Digital Graphics consisted of
minimalistic real-time computer animations constructed algorithmically.
Today, his research topics vary from augmented reality, performance
environments to electronic writing and data analysis, where he focuses
on the influence of digitisation on our bodily perception between
artificial intelligence, phenomenology and semiotics. His works give
insights into the production and reception of meaning within a
socio-technical system. The manifold expressions of his art vary from
digitally mediated performance installations to computer programmes.
"The Great Wall of China" (1996) is a real-time interactive language
machine, which was shown in a website, a CD-ROM and an interactive
installation. Through object-oriented and behavioural programming
techniques and based on a basic grammar system, text emerges from the
formation of the language itself as something simultaneously written and
read. In "Dark Matter" (2016), multi participants interact with textual
fragments and become inferred from the physical and cultural information
around it to question the meaning of a "collective unconscious" within
individual knowledge and identity.
Sean CUBITT: Unlike the familiar human-computer interface, Biggs opens
up the body to the experience of the digital: moves the corporeal from
the stasis of cinema (and the railway carriage) to the movement of
architecture, ghosting in the secular the Gothic’s divine architecture
of light, but preserving the escape from destiny so long fought for and
so weakly held.
Wolf LIESER: As one of the first artists ever, Simon Biggs has not only
made his net art works available online, but pioneered in publishing a
CD-ROM with interactive software art in 2000, which sold out
immediately. 
Find out more about Simon BIGGS from his early works to new
installations, or search for related topics and art on the keyword
index:
www.digitalartarchive.at/database/artists/general/artist/biggs.html 
ADA keywords: Artificial intelligence, Algorithm, Digital Graphics,
Installation, Representation of Knowledge, Literature, Performativity.
www.digitalartarchive.at 
The ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (ADA), the first web 2.0 based online
archive in the humanities, expands its scope of documentation by
including scholars to the database. 
ARTISTS and SCHOLARS are invited to become members of the online
community and set up their ADA profile! 
To ensure a high academic standard, five published articles and/or
exhibitions are required to become members of the ADA community. Apply
for an account here:
www.digitalartarchive.at/support/account-request.html
SHARE YOUR RESEARCH WITH PEERS AND THE COMMUNITY 
Community members can upload publications and PDFs, announce upcoming
events, post comments, document exhibitions, conferences and other
relevant news. 
ADA: THOUSANDS OF ARTWORKS
Since its foundation in 1999, the ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (former
Database of Virtual Art) has grown to be the most important online
archive for digital art. In cooperation with established media artists,
researchers and institutions it has been documenting the rapidly
evolving world of digital art and its related fields for more than a
decade and contains today a selection of thousands of artworks at the
intersection of art, science and technology. ARTISTS and SCHOLARS are
invited to join the community and set up their own archive pages. 
COLLABORATIVE ARCHIVING OF DIGITAL ART
The large assortment of information on Jeffrey SHAW and hundreds of
other leading artists and their artworks were carried out by the artists
themselves in assistance with members of the ADA community. The new ADA
web tool allows members to archive artist statements, works
descriptions, literature, information on exhibitions, high resolution
images, blueprints, videos etc. Artists and scholars are invited to
contribute actively to the archive and to work collaboratively on the
documentation and analysis of digital art. 
EXPANDED DOCUMENTATION FOR THE NEEDS OF DIGITAL ART
Due to the processual, ephemeral, interactive, technology-based and
fundamentally context-dependent character of digital art, it is at risk
for becoming extinct without an adequate documentation. Therefore, the
ADA is based on an expanded concept of documentation, which takes
account of the specific conditions of digital art. 
ARTISTS represented, among many others: Rebecca ALLEN, Suzanne ANKER,
Cory ARCANGEL, Roy ASCOTT, Louis BEC, Maurice BENAYOUN, Paolo CIRIO,
Charlotte DAVIES, FLEISCHMANN & STRAUSS, Masaki FUJIHATA, Ken GOLDBERG,
Agnes HEGEDÜS, Lynn HERSHMAN LEESON, Ryoji IKEDA, Eduardo KAC, Ken
RINALDO, KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH, Lev MANOVICH, George LEGRADY, Golan LEVIN,
Rafael LOZANO-HEMMER, Joseph NECHVATAL, Michael NAIMARK, David ROKEBY,
Jeffrey SHAW, Julius v. BISMARCK, Paul SERMON, Karl SIMS, SOMMERER &
MIGNONNEAU, STANZA, Nicole STENGER, THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD, Peter WEIBEL,
et al.
Advisory board: Christiane PAUL, Roy ASCOTT, Erkki HUHTAMO, Gunalan
NADARAJAN, Martin ROTH, et. al.
ADA team:
Oliver GRAU 
Janina HOTH (Editor, Community Admin)
Wendy COONES, Ann-Christin RENN, Viola RÜHSE, Devon SCHILLER (Editorial
Team)
digitalart.editor at donau-uni.ac.at