Expertise

Leading academic specialists with interests in computing, art, music, design and culture staff the Studios

Professor Janis Jefferies

Professor Janis Jefferies (MFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland) is
an artist, writer and curator. She is director of the Constance Howard
Resource and Research Centre as well as Artistic Director of Goldsmiths
Digital Studios. She was trained as a painter and later pioneered the
field of contemporary textiles within visual and material culture,
internationally through exhibitions and texts. In the last five years she
has been working on technological based arts, including Woven Sound (with
Dr. Tim Blackwell) and has been a principal investigator on projects
involving, for example, new haptics technologies and generative software
systems for creating and interpreting arts objects. She is PI on an AHRC
funded E-Static Shadows practice-based research project (2007-2009), with
Dr. Zane Berinza as primary Research Fellow. The project investigates how
electrostatic energy can be utilised to play a part in the development of
responsive and interactive intelligent systems. Jefferies is an associate
researcher with Hexagram (Institute of Media, Arts and Technologies,
Montreal, Canada) on two projects, electronic textiles and new forms of
media communication in cloth. She is a member of AHRC Peer review College
and Visual Arts and Media Research panel.

Professor Frederic Fol Leymarie

Professor Frederic Leymarie (BSc, MSc McGill, PhD Brown) A world expert on
3D graphics modelling. Was instrumental in setting up the SHAPE Lab at
Brown University, exploring virtual reconstructions of archaeological
places and artefacts. He continues that work here and is also principal
investigator on projects using computers to generate art and evolving
three-dimensional shapes to be used in art, computer games, and medical
visualisation.

Professor Jane Prophet

Professor Jane Prophet. Her work includes large-scale installations,
digital prints and objects. Her art reflects her interest in science,
technology and landscape. Among her past projects is the award-winning
website, TechnoSphere, inspired by complexity theory, landscape and
artificial life.Prophet works across disciplines on a number of
internationally acclaimed projects that have broken new ground in art,
technology and science. In CELL (2002--) she collaborates with Mark
d'Inverno, a mathematician, and Neil Theise, a scientist whose
ground-breaking research into stem cells and cell behaviour is changing
the way that we understand the body. For 2005--2006 she was a NESTA Dream
Time Fellow, spending a year developing her interdisciplinary
collaborations.

Professor Andrew Shoben (Greyworld)

Andrew Shoben (Greyworld)
Greyworld is a group of artists founded by Andrew Shoben in Paris in 1995.
They create large-scale interactive installations in public spaces,
working in a wide range of media from robotics to digital media,
animatronics to film. Their work embraces new technology but is driven by
a desire to explore the boundaries of social interaction within the urban
surround. They have exhibited their work around the world, with permanent
installations in 12 countries.

Greyworld work explores ways to ‘short circuit' both the environmental and
social expectations supplied by the urban environment. They create works
that articulate public spaces, allowing some form of self-expression in
areas of the city that people see every day but usually ignore. They aim
to establish special intimacies through the unexpected articulation of
objects installed in these spaces. They offer people passing through these
spaces an opportunity to join an unexpected ‘community of presence'
initiating an intimate communication with often leads to a personalization
of the environment.

Stanza (AHRC Creative and Performing Arts Fellow 2006-2009)

Stanza is AHRC Creative and Performing Arts Fellow, GDS (2006-2009). is a
London-based artist, who specialises in net art, multimedia, and
electronic sounds. His award winning online projects have been invited for
exhibition in digital festivals around the world, and Stanza also travels
extensively to present his net art, lecturing and giving performances of
his audiovisual interactions. His works explore artistic and technical
opportunities to enable new aesthetic perspectives, experiences and
perceptions within the context of architecture, data spaces and online
environments. He was a NESTA Fellow (2003-2005) and has received many
awards and exhinited his work widely at, Videoformes Multimedia First
prize France 2005, Nesta Dreamtime 2004, Art In Motion V.First prize USA
2004, Vidalife 6.0 first prize 2003, Fififestival Grand Prize France 2003,
New Forms Net Art Prize Canada 2003, Fluxus Online first prize Brasil
2002, SeNef Online Grand Prix Korea 2002, Links first prize Porto 2001,
Videobrasil Sao Paulo 2001 http://www.stanza.co.uk .

www.amorphoscapes.com
www.soundcities.com
www.thecentralcity.co.uk
www.genomixer.com
www.theemergentcity.com
www.soundtoys.net

Professor Robert Zimmer

Professor Robert Zimmer (SB MIT, MA Cambridge, PhD Columbia) Co-Director
of Goldsmiths Digital Studios and Head of the Department of Computing.
Studied mathematics and, after his Phd, moved towards the mathematics of
verifying software and hardware systems. This research led to the
formation of a company that, at its peak had over 100 employees in the UK
and the US. For the last five years he has worked with artists on several
projects and has directed research on software for non-linear film
production and hardware/software for touch interfaces to computing
systems.