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Bio

Simon Biggs (born Adelaide, Australia 1957) is a media artist, writer and curator with interests in digital poetics, auto-generative and interactive systems, interdisciplinary research and co-creation. His work has been widely presented, including at Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool, Tate Britain, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Kettles Yard Cambridge, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Academy de Kunste Berlin, Berlin Kulturforum, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Kunsthalle Bergen, Maxxi Rome, Palazzo della Arti Naples, Macau Arts Museum, Oi Futuro Rio de Janeiro, Arizona State Art Museum, San Francisco Cameraworks, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Queensland Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He has presented at numerous international conferences, including the International Symposium on Electronic Arts, ePoetry, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Electronic Literature Organization and Festival International Literature Electronica Sao Paulo and guest lectured at Cambridge, Newcastle UK, Cornell, UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, Ohio State, Paris 8, Sorbonne and Bergen Universities, amongst others. Publications include Remediating the Social (2012, editor), Autopoeisis (with James Leach, 2004), Great Wall of China (1999), Halo (1998), Magnet (1997) and Book of Shadows (1996). He has been principal investigator on a number of significant international research projects and has supervised and examined PhD students in the UK and Australia. He has held lecturing posts at Middlesex University and Academy Minerva Groningen and Professorships at Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Edinburgh. He is currently Professor of Art at the University of South Australia and Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh. His URL is http://www.littlepig.org.uk