Simon Penny

 a brief biography for ars electronica 96





Simon Penny is an Australian artist, theorist, teacher and curator in
the field of Electronic and Interactive Media Art. His art practice
consists of interactive and robotic installations, which have been
exhibited in the US, Australia and Europe. His most recent project, the
Autonomous Robotic Artwork  ~Petit Mal~ has been exhibited in Paris
(Voyage Virtuel), Luxembourg (Telepolis), Montreal (ISEA95), New London
CT (5th Biennle of Art and Technology), and Pittsburgh,PA (CMU).

He is Associate Professor of Art and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon
University  where, among other things, he teaches Robotic Art Studio.
During his 6 years in the USA he has: established the Electronic
Intermedia Program at the University of Florida;  curated Machine
Culture, a world survey of interactive art (at SIGGRAPH 93 in Anaheim
CA); and has edited the anthology Critical Issues in Electronic Media
(SUNY Press 1995). He publishes and speaks widely on Culture and
Technology and Electronic Media Art in the US and internationally. 



Selected Bibliography

In English

Simon Penny / Petit Mal. (interview by KD Davis) World Art 1/96
Living Machines. in Scientific American, USA 150th anniversary issue, 1995
Consumer Culture and the Technological Imperative: The Artist in
Dataspace. in Critical Issues in Electronic Media. Ed Simon Penny, SUNY
Press 1995
Virtual Reality as the End of the Enlightenment Project. in Culture on
the Brink: Ideologies of Technology anthology. Eds Bender and Druckrey.
Bay Press 1994 
The Colonisation of Cyberspace. in Multimdiale 4 proceedings, ZKM 
Karlsruhe Germany (forthcoming)
	The Darwin Machine : Artificial Life and Interactive Art. in New
Formations, UK (Forthcoming 1996)


In German

Body Knowledge, Digital Prostheses and Cognitive Diversity, Kunstforum,
Germany 
Paradigms in collision, a tentative taxonomy of interactive art: in
Schöne Neue Welten, Ed F. Rötzer, pub Boer Germany 1995 


In Japanese

Twenty Centuries of Virtual Reality. in Intercommunication 14, Japan.


In Finnish

Twenty Centuries of Virtual Reality. in Media Archeology, Ed E. Huhtamo.
Elizas Children. in anthology, Ed Minna Tarka, (forthcoming 1996)