Simon Penny

Simon Graeme Penny (born October 19, 1955) is an Australian artist, theorist, curator and teacher in the field of Interactive Media Art. Penny was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1955. He attended Newington College (1968-1973) before receiving an undergraduate diploma in Fine Art from the South Australian School of Art in 1979. He then went on to get his graduate degree form the Sydney College of the Arts in 1982 after which he began focusing on... more

Simon Graeme Penny (born October 19, 1955) is an Australian artist, theorist, curator and teacher in the field of Interactive Media Art. Penny was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1955. He attended Newington College (1968-1973) before receiving an undergraduate diploma in Fine Art from the South Australian School of Art in 1979. He then went on to get his graduate degree form the Sydney College of the Arts in 1982 after which he began focusing on electronic and time-based media. Penny has held positions as Lehrauftrag at City Art Institute, Sydney from 1984 to 1988, Professor at the University of Florida in 1989 and Professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 1993 to 2001. In addition to creating numerous artistic installations, he edited the anthology Critical Issues in Electronic Media (1995). Since the 1980’s Penny has been creating electronically sophisticated robotic installations, curating shows such as Machine Culture at Siggraph ’93, and writing about Digital Culture and... less