IS 2003 / 3rd Digital Sculpture
Competition / Jury
Paul HIGHAM
BIOGRAPHY
Paul Higham
Born 1953
A long time new media artist, born in the UK and now living in America,
Paul Higham has used digital technology in his art for over twenty years.
Since the early 70s whilst studying at Goldsmiths College of Art London University
, his endeavour has remained consistent, to propogate a new
form of sculpture based on theories of artificial life, His residencies include
working with mainframe computers at the University of London 1986 & Rank
Xerox, UK in 1989: using mainframe computers and CNC processes to make
large sited works.
In 1995 he independently initiated a collaboration with
Stratasys Rapid prototype Corp. USA, and at this time was invited to
join the Advanced Visualization Lab as part of the Human machine design lab
team at the University of Minnesota developing and building his
own data gloves for interacting with VR worlds also using holography,
haptics,mo-cap, 3d scanners and coding. In 1996 he was awarded the Jerome
Mcknight for his V.R work and remains a pioneering advocate of computers in
sculpture and Rapid Prototyping and continues to exhibit and lecture Internationally
including the New York Digital Salon in 96, Circulo de Beaux Arts, Madrid,
Intersculpt 99 at the French Senate, Paris, I.S.C: Chicago, Pittsburg and
Houston,{providing R.P machines as co-organiser}, Walker Art Center, Mpls,
USA.Manchester City Art Gallery UK and most recently at the Contemporary
Art Center in New Orleans. And has sited work at the Wedgewood memorial
sculpture park, UK.
Franconia sculpture grounds,USA, New York Mills sculpture Park , USA. Pirkkala
Sculpture park Helsinki,Finland and has been sponsored by
Hewlett Packard, Micron, Sensable Tech , S.G.I, Stratasys Rapid prototype
corporation,Spaceward computer corps
Paul HIGHAM
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