Professor Jon McCormack

Brief description

Jon McCormack is an electronic media artist, theorist and computer science researcher. Since the late 1980s McCormack has worked with computer code as a medium for creative expression. His research is concerned with developing new forms of creativity through technology. His artworks have been widely exhibited at leading galleries, museums and symposia, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), Tate Gallery (Liverpool, UK), ACM SIGGRAPH (USA), Prix Ars Electronica (Austria) and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Australia). His has received over 15 international awards for research and new media art including prizes at Ars Electronica (Austria), Images du Futur (Canada), New Voices, New Visions (USA), Alias/Wavefront (USA), The John Lansdown Award for Interactive Media (UK), and Nagoya Biennial (Japan). McCormack led the team that was awarded the 2012 Eureka Prize for innovation in computer science. The monograph, "Impossible Nature: the art of Jon McCormack", was published by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in 2005. The book documents McCormack�s creative achievements over the last 15 years and reflects on the philosophical and creative ideas behind his unique work. McCormack is Associate Professor, ARC Australian Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Electronic Media Art, Monash University, Melbourne. He also holds a Visiting Research Fellow position at Goldsmiths, University of London and was recently artist in residence at the Ars Electronica Future Lab, in Linz, Austria.

Jon McCormack is an electronic media artist, theorist and computer science researcher. Since the late 1980s McCormack has worked with computer code as a medium for creative expression. His research is concerned with developing new forms of creativity through technology. His artworks have been widely exhibited at leading galleries, museums and symposia, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), Tate Gallery (Liverpool, UK), ACM SIGGRAPH (USA), Prix Ars Electronica (Austria) and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Australia). His has received over 15 international awards for research and new media art including prizes at Ars Electronica (Austria), Images du Futur (Canada), New Voices, New Visions (USA), Alias/Wavefront (USA), The John Lansdown Award for Interactive Media (UK), and Nagoya Biennial (Japan). McCormack led the team that was awarded the 2012 Eureka Prize for innovation in computer science. The monograph, "Impossible Nature: the art of Jon McCormack", was published by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in 2005. The book documents McCormack�s creative achievements over the last 15 years and reflects on the philosophical and creative ideas behind his unique work. McCormack is Associate Professor, ARC Australian Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Electronic Media Art, Monash University, Melbourne. He also holds a Visiting Research Fellow position at Goldsmiths, University of London and was recently artist in residence at the Ars Electronica Future Lab, in Linz, Austria.