Ernest Edmonds
Ernest Edmonds is a British artist, a pioneer in the field of computer art and its variants, algorithmic art, generative art, interactive art, from the late 1960s to the present. His work is represented in the Victoria and Albert Museum, as part of the National Archive of Computer-Based Art and Design.
Life and work
Ernest Edmonds is a pioneer of digital art. In 2017, he received the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement In Digital Art. He also is an international expert on Human-Computer Interaction who specialises in creative technologies for creative uses. In 2017, he received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award for the Practice of Computer Human Interaction. He was one of the first to predict the value of iterative design and a very early advocate of iterative design methods and Agile software development. He founded the ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference series and was part of the founding team for the ACM Intelligent User Interface conference series.Edmonds studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Leicester University. He has a PhD in logic from the University of Nottingham, is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He has nearly 300 refereed publications in the fields of human-computer interaction, creativity and art and was a pioneer in the development of practice-based PhD programmes. Ernest Edmonds is Emeritus Professor of Computational Art at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
Art
Edmonds’ art is in the constructivist tradition and he first used computers in his art practice in 1968. He first showed an interactive work with Stroud Cornock in 1970. He first showed a generative time-based computer work in London in 1985. He has exhibited throughout the world, from Moscow to Los Angeles. The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, holds some of his artwork and is collecting his archives within the National Archive of Computer Based Art and Design.In 2014, Edmonds curated a seminal historical exhibition, Automatic Art, at GV art gallery, London.
Selected exhibitions
- 2017
Constructs, Colour, Code: Ernest Edmonds 1967–2017
- 2013
Transformations: Digital Prints from the V&A collection, Royal Brompton Hospital, UK
- 2012/3
Selected New Acquisitions. Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- 2012
Transformations: Digital Prints from the V&A collection, Great Western Hospital, Swindon, UK
Visualise Poetry, Language, Code, Cambridge, UK
- 2010
- 2009
Cities Tango, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney and ISEA, Belfast
- 2007
Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary, National Academy of Sciences Gallery, Washington DC
ColorField Remix, WPA\C Experimental Media Series, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
- 2005
Ernest Edmonds and David Thomas, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
Minimal Approach… Concrete Tendencies, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney
- 2004
SIGGRAPH Art Exhibition, Los Angeles
GRAPHITE Art Exhibition, Singapore
Sonar2004Festival, Barcelona
- 2000
Constructs & Reconstructions, Loughborough University
2000: Relativities, Bankside Gallery, London, and tour
- 1999
Science in the Arts—Arts in Science, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
- 1994
Friends of Mesures. Vervier and Antwerp
- 1990
Avant Garde 1990, Manege, Moscow
Art Creating Society. Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Heads and Legs. Liege including a collaborative performance
- 1989
Re-Views: Contemporary systematic and constructive arts. The Small Mansion Arts Centre, London
- 1988
- 1985
- 1975
- 1972