Ernest Edmonds (born 1942,

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, England) is a British artist, a pioneer in the field of

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and its variants,

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, from the late 1960s to the present. His work is represented in the

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, as part of the National Archive of Computer-Based Art and Design.

Life and work

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. He founded the ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference series and was part of the founding team for the ACM Intelligent User Interface conference series. Edmonds studied Mathematics and Philosophy at

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. He has a PhD in

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from the

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, is a Fellow of the

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, and a Fellow of the

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. He has nearly 300 refereed publications in the fields of human-computer interaction, creativity and art and was a pioneer in the development of practice-based PhD programmes. Ernest Edmonds is Professor of Computation and Creative Media at the

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and Professor of Computational Art at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He is a cousin of

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Art

Edmonds’ art is in the constructivist tradition and he first used computers in his art practice in 1968. He first showed an interactive work with Stroud Cornock in 1970. He first showed a generative time-based computer work in London in 1985. He has exhibited throughout the world, from Moscow to LA. The

, London, holds some of his artwork and is collecting his archives within the National Archive of Computer Based Art and Design. In 2014, Edmonds curated a seminal historical exhibition, ''Automatic Art'', at GV art gallery, London.Ings, Simon. (2014-08-02
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''. Retrieved on 2016-05-17. The show included works by Harold Cohen, Anthony Hill, Malcolm Hughes,

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, William Latham, Kenneth Martin,

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, Sean Clark and Susan Tebby.

Selected exhibitions

* 2017 Ernest Edmonds, De Montfort University Gallery Leicester UK
Constructs, Colour, Code: Ernest Edmonds 1967–2017 * 2013 Ernest Edmonds, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
Transformations: Digital Prints from the V&A collection, Royal Brompton Hospital, UK * 2012/3 Light Logic. Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Selected New Acquisitions. Victoria and Albert Museum, London * 2012 Intuition and Integrity, Kinetica, London; Lighthouse, Brighton; Lovebytes, Sheffield, Phoenix, Leicester
Transformations: Digital Prints from the V&A collection, Great Western Hospital, Swindon, UK
Visualise Poetry, Language, Code, Cambridge, UK * 2010 Grid Gallery, Vivid festival, Sydney * 2009 When Ideas Become Form—20 Years, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
Cities Tango, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney and ISEA, Belfast * 2007 Ernest Edmonds and Alf Loehr, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary, National Academy of Sciences Gallery, Washington DC
ColorField Remix, WPA\C Experimental Media Series (performance), Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC * 2005 White Noise,

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, Melbourne
Ernest Edmonds and David Thomas, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
Minimal Approach… Concrete Tendencies, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney * 2004 Australian Concrete Constructive Art, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
SIGGRAPH Art Exhibition, Los Angeles
GRAPHITE Art Exhibition, Singapore
Sonar2004Festival, Barcelona * 2000 Global Echos. Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort
Constructs & Reconstructions, Loughborough University
2000: Relativities, Bankside Gallery, London, and tour * 1999 Galerie Jean-Mark Laik, Koblenz Science in the Arts—Arts in Science, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest * 1994 Digital Arts, The Mall Gallery, London
Friends of Mesures. Vervier and Antwerp * 1990 SISEA, Groningen—collaborative performance
Avant Garde 1990, Manege, Moscow
Art Creating Society. Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Heads and Legs. Liege (one-person) including a collaborative performance * 1989 Constructivism versus Computer. Galerie FARO, World Trade Centre, Rotterdam
Re-Views: Contemporary systematic and constructive arts. The Small Mansion Arts Centre, London * 1988 Null-Dimension. Galerie New Space, Fulda (and 1989, Gmunden, Austria) * 1985 Duality and Co-existence. Exhibiting Space, London (one-person). * 1975 2nd International Drawing Biennale. Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Cleveland, and tour * 1972 Cognition and Control. Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham

References

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External links

Ernest Edmonds website

List of Edmonds' works
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Digital Art Museum

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Database of Digital Art
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Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT), School of Media and Communication,

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, UK
Oral History Interview with Ernest Alan Edmonds (2021)Charles Babbage Institute
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University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy
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