Jon McCormack

  • Artist (New Media Artist)
Jon McCormack is an Australian-based electronic media artist and researcher in Artificial Life and Evolutionary Music and Art. He is Associate Professor in Computer Science, an ARC Australian Research Fellow and co-director of the Centre for Electronic Media Art (CEMA) at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
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participated in
Re-Designing Nature
Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/3484
Note
Spoke at
exhibited at
Stealing the Senses
Date
12 March 2011 - 6 June 2011
Place
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Turbulence: an interactive museum of unnatural history
Date
1995
Place
Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

Produced in association with the Australian Film Commission. A menagerie of synthesised forms generated within the computer using a process of random selection from a video laserdisc containing over 30 minutes of computer generated animation. sequences accessed via a touch-screen interface. The interactive is a collection of poems, ideas, information and imagery relating to the philosophical impact of evolution on contemporary thought. The work took over three years to produce; the production process included authoring of a large body of special purpose software to evolve the artificial life forms contained on the disc.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Ian Potter University of Melbourne exhibition archive; UTAS catalogue; archive; http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/research.html (27/08/03)
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/projects/turbulence.html
Exhibition Catalogue:
Tubulence: tan interactive museum of unnatural history. Parkville, Vic : University of Melbourne Museum of Art, [1995], c1994.
ISBN 0732512239

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Digital media, Installation
participated in
1994 National Summer School
Date
1994
Description

The Fifth National summer School in Computer Aided Art & Design was staged at Curtin University, Perth …

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/4981
Note
Spoke at