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Jill Scott
Born01 January 1952 (1952-01) (age 72)
Mellburn, Australia
NationalityAustralian
EducationVictoria College of Advanced Education, Melbourne San Francisco State University in California
Known formedia art, neuroscience, ecology, electronics, performative instalations, sculpture
Notable worke-skin (2003-06), The Electric Retina (2008), Dermaland (2008-09), Somabook (2010-11), Auralroots (2015)
Movementmedia art

Jill Scott (born 1952 in Melbourne) is an Australian media artist who lives in Switzerland. [1]

She has been living and working in Switzerland as an artist, professor and researcher since 2002. [2] She founded the Artists-in-Labs Residency Program. [3]

Biography

From 1970 to 1973, Jill Scott studied art and design at the Victoria College of Advanced Education, Melbourne Australia. She received her diploma in pedagogy at the Melbourne Teachers College at the Melbourne University in Australia in 1975. After that, he lived from 1975 to 1982 on the west coast (USA). She completed her Master's degree in Communication at the San Francisco State University in California, USA from 1976 to 1977. From 1982 to 1992 in Down Under she lived and studied in Australia. She graduated from the Center for Advanced Inquiry into the Interactive Arts, University of Wales, UK. Her dissertation has the title: Digital Body Automata. Exploring the relations between Media, Philosophy and Science . Since 1992 she has been living in in Europe. From 1998 to 2002 she was a professor at the Department of Media 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 Great Britain. She is co-director for the "Artists in labs Residency Program" [2].

Work

Jill Scott works at the frontier of new technologies, art and science. She has been described as a video, sculpture and performance artist. Her artwork is focused on the human body. She has also worked on artificial intelligence. Her works are archived internationally. In Germany she is represented in the Media Art Network and the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM). [4] [5] She had her retrospective at the Experimenta Festival in 1996. [6] The works exhibited deal with cognitive processes of the body. [7]

Exibitions

  • 2005: Museum of Contemporary Art (Lucerne, Switzerland), Lucerne, Switzerland
  • 2004: Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  • 2003: Media Banquet, Barcelona and Muadrid, 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 [8]

Books authored by Jill Scott

  • Artistsinlabs - Recomposing Art and Science. De Gruyter. 2016 (Eds: Jill Scott and Irene Hedige)
  • Transdiscourse 2. Turbulence and Reconsruction. De Gruyter. 2015
  • Neuromedia. Art and Science Research. Springer. 2012 (Eds: Jill Scott and Esther Stoeckli)
  • Artists-in-labs Networking in the Margins. Springer. 2010 (Editor: Jill Scott)
  • Transdiscourse Book Series. Mediated Environments. Springer. 2010 (Eds: Jill Scott and Angelika Hillbeck)
  • 'Artists-in-labs Processes of Inquiry. Springer. 2006. (Editor: Jill Scott)
  • Coded Characters. Media Art of Jill Scott. Monograph Stuttgart. 2002 Monograph: Hatji Cantz. (Ed. Marille Hahne)

References

  1. ^ Biography of 2017, called on 24 January 2017
  2. ^ a b Official website of Jill Scott. Retrieved on 12 April 2017.
  3. ^ Dr. Jill Scott. Website of the Zurich Node of the Planetary Collegium. Retrieved on March 20, 2016.
  4. ^ Jill Scott im Medienkunstnetz. Retrieved on April 12, 2017.
  5. ^ Jill Scott on the website of the Center for Art and Media Technology. Retrieved on April 12, 2017.
  6. ^ Jill Scott: The Body Remembers. Australian Center for Contemporary Art. Retrieved on April 12, 2017.
  7. ^ The Body Remembers' (PDF). Australian Center for Contemporary Art. Retrieved on April 12, 2017.
  8. ^ Selection of Exhibitions at Videoartchive.org.au. Retrieved on March 20, 2016.
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