Ernest Edmonds

Ernest Edmonds started out using software to make art in 1968 and has since made a landmark contribution to the field of generative and interactive art. He is the recipient of the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art as well as the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award for the Practice of Computer-Human Interaction. He has exhibited globally, including in Venice in 2017 where his work was exhibited alongside pioneering computer artists such as Manfred Mohr, Vera Molnar, Frieder Nake, and Roman Verotkso. He has had multiple retrospectives, including at Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing; De Montfort University, Leicester; and Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney. He has written extensively on computer art, human-computer interaction, and creativity. His most recent publication is art: notes + works (2022).

From The Generations of Generative Art, September 2023