Simon Penny
Australian artist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Simon Graeme Penny is an Australian artist, theorist, curator and teacher in the fields of digital cultural practices, embodied interaction and interactive art. Early life Penny was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1955. Penny is the older brother of Benjamin Penny an academic specialising in religious and spiritual movements in modern and contemporary China. He attended Newington College before receiving an undergraduate diploma in Fine Art from the South Australian School of Art in 1979. He then went on to get his graduate degree form the Sydney College of the Arts in 1982 after which he began focusing on electronic and time-based media.
Simon Penny's Published Works
Published Works
- From Bacteria to Bach and Back (2019) (76)
- Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology (1994) (53)
- Critical Issues in Electronic Media (1995) (51)
- 15. Agents as Artworks and Agent Design as Artistic Practice (2000) (44)
- Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience by Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch (review) (2017) (39)
- Traces Embodied Immersive Interaction with Semi-Autonomous Avatars (2001) (33)
- Resisting the Virtual Life (1995) (30)
- Making Sense - Cognition, Computing, Art, and Embodiment (2017) (29)
- Power, space and the new stadium: the example of Arsenal Football Club (2013) (28)
- Embodied Cultural Agents : at the intersection of Robotics , Cognitive Science and Interactive Art (2002) (28)
- We're not really here: Manchester City, mobility and placelessness (2009) (22)
- From A to D and back again : The emerging aesthetics of Interactive Art (2005) (20)
- Rigorous Interdisciplinary Pedagogy (2009) (19)
- The Virtualization of Art Practice: Body Knowledge and the Engineering Worldview (1997) (18)
- Sonic panoramas: experiments with interactive landscape image sonification (2005) (15)
- Art and robotics: sixty years of situated machines (2013) (14)
- Experience and Abstraction : the Arts and the Logic of Machines (2008) (11)
- Robotics and Art, Computationalism and Embodiment (2016) (10)
- Virtual Bounds: a teleoperated mixed reality (2006) (9)
- Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman (review) (1997) (9)
- Emergence, Agency, and Interaction—Notes from the Field (2015) (6)
- The Pursuit of the Living Machine (1995) (6)
- Virtual Bodybuilding (1993) (5)
- Twenty years of artificial life art (2010) (4)
- FCJ-132 Towards a Performative Aesthetics of Interactivity (2011) (4)
- Critical Issues in Electronic Media: SUNY Series in Film History and Theory. (1995) (3)
- Art and Artificial Life – a Primer (2009) (3)
- Improvisation and Interaction, Canons and Rules, Emergence and Play (2016) (2)
- Introduction to the special issue DAC09 After media: embodiment and context (2010) (2)
- Bridging Two Cultures : Towards an Interdisciplinary History of the Artist-Inventor and the Machine-Artwork . (2008) (2)
- What next? A provocative look at curriculum, creativity and organization in teaching artists and designers to use computers (1991) (2)
- Self-organization and novelty: Pre-configurations of emergence in early British cybernetics (2014) (2)
- Sensorimotor debilities in digital cultures (2021) (2)
- Enactive–performative perspectives on cognition and the arts (2019) (1)
- Embodied Cultural Agents and Synthetic Sociology. (1998) (1)
- Traces: Semi-Autonomous Avatars (2008) (1)
- Embodied cultural agents and synthetic sociology (poster) (1998) (1)
- What Robots Still Can't Do (With Apologies to Hubert Dreyfus) or: Deconstructing the Technocultural Imaginary (2018) (1)
- Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation by Anita Flynn and Joseph Jones (review) (2017) (1)
- 'The Intelligent Machine as Anti-Christ' (2002) (1)
- Subtle Technologies 03 (2003) (1)
- The Elephants In The (Server) Room: Sustainability And Surveillance In The Era Of Big Data (2015) (1)
- Smart Bombs, Foolish Strategies (1992) (0)
- Tangled reality (2008) (0)
- Twist-hands and shuttle-kissing (2021) (0)
- What Computers StillCan’t Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason by Herbert Dreyfus (review) (2017) (0)
- Artsat by Richard Kriesche (review) (2017) (0)
- Review of Art in the Age of Machine Learning by Sofian Audry (2022) (0)
- Canoe-carving, Lamotrek style (2021) (0)
- Traces (2001) (0)
- Sensorimotor debilities in digital cultures (2021) (0)
- Making as critical interrogation – An autobiographical reflection (2020) (0)
- What Is artful cognItIon ? (2012) (0)
- Two Decades of Digital Art and Culture: An Introduction to the LEA DAC 09 Special Edition (2012) (0)
- Resisting The Virtual Life ed. by James Brook, Iain A. Boal (review) (2017) (0)
- Art and robotics: sixty years of situated machines (2012) (0)
- Working in electronic media (1994) (0)
- Enactive–performative perspectives on cognition and the arts (2018) (0)
- From Bacteria to Bach and Back (2018) (0)
- Comment on npg-2021-8 (2021) (0)
- DAC09: After Media: Embodiment and Context (2012) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2001) (0)
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