Jon McCormack
JON MCCORMACK is one of Australia's most acclaimed digital media artists.
McCormack is a researcher, computer scientist and electronic media artist whose work is strongly influenced by the new science of Artificial Life and the mediation of nature through technology. He is currently a senior lecturer in Computer Science at Monash University, and co-director of the Centre for Electronic Media Art.
With a background in filmmaking and computer science, he is one of the few artists in Australia who develops his work primarily through writing computer software. His interactive installation, Turbulence: A Museum of Unnatural History (1994), is widely regarded as a defining work in new media art.
Recent exhibitions
Colorfield:warming, Embassy of Australia, Washington DC
www.impactbydegrees.net
Eden, Asian Art Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
www.asianartbiennial.org/2009