Jill Scott (media artist)

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Jill Scott (* 1952 in Melbourne ) is an Australian media artist who lives in Switzerland.

Life

Jill Scott was born in Melbourne in 1952. She has lived in Switzerland since 2003, where she teaches as a professor at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK). She lived on three continents. She lived on the west coast ( USA ) from 1975 to 1982 , in Down Under ( Australia ) from 1982 to 92 and in Europe from 1992 to 2002. Since then she has lived and worked in Switzerland as a professor and researcher. She founded the Artists-in-Labs Program .

Career

From 1970 to 73, Jill Scott studied art and design at Victoria College of Advanced Education , Melbourne , Australia. She received her diploma in education in 1975 from Melbourne Teachers College at Melbourne University in Australia. She then completed her master's degree in communication from 1976-77 at San Francisco State University in California, USA. After studying in Australia, she did her PhD in England. Her dissertation is entitled: Digital Body Automata. Exploring the relations between Media, Philosophy and Science . She graduated from the Center for Advanced Inquiry into the Interactive Arts, University of Wales, Great Britain. The V2 describes her as a video and performance artist.

Works

Jill Scott works at the intersection of new technology and art. She worked on artificial intelligence . Your works are archived internationally. In Germany she is represented in the media art network and at the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM). She had her retrospective at the Experimenta Festival in 1996. The works exhibited there deal with cognitive processes of the body.

Exhibitions

  • 2005: Museum of Contemporary Art ( Culture and Convention Center Lucerne ), Lucerne, Switzerland
  • 2004: Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  • 2003: Media Banquet, Barcelona and uMadrid, Spain
  • 2002: E-Phos Media Art Festival, Athens, Greece
  • 2001: “Future Bodies” conference. Cologne, Germany; VIPER New Media Festival, Basel, Switzerland
  • 2000: Beyond Hierarchy: Vision Ruhr, Zech Zollern 11, Industrial Museum, Dortmund, Germany
  • Digital Body Automata. 'WRO Media Festival Fundacia ”, Warsaw, Poland
  • History of the Future. Franklin Furnace Archives, New York, USA

Teaching

From 1998 to 2002 she was a professor in the media department at the Bauhaus University Weimar . Since 2003 she has been Professor of Art and Research at the Zurich University of the Arts , (CH) ZHDK . She is also Vice Director of the Z-node Program, a graduate program in cooperation with the University of Plymouth in the UK. She is co-director for the "Artistsinlabs Residency Program".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography from 2017 , accessed on January 24, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Official website of Jill Scott. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  3. ↑ Dr. Jill Scott. Website of the Zurich Node of the Planetary Collegium. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  4. ^ Jill Scott in the media art network. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  5. ↑ Jill Scott on the Center for Art and Media Technology website. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  6. ↑ Jill Scott: The Body Remembers. Australian Center for Contemporary Art . Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  7. ↑ Information brochure on The Body Remembers (PDF). Australian Center for Contemporary Art. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  8. ↑ Selection of exhibitions on Videoartchive.org.au. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Scott, Jill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian media artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne