Biography

Education: BSc Computers & Cybernetics, MA Fine Art.

1995 - 2001 Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, Computer Related Design.
Development and exhibition of interactive works Alembic, Biotica and the Neural Net Starfish.
Book publication "Biotica: Art, Emergence and Artificial-Life".
Documention of RCA website: Art as a Mode of Enquiry and Virtual Unrealities

Awards and grants: Intel, The Arts Council, Sci-Art Wellcome Trust, Nesta Fellowship (2002).

2002 - 2003 Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the VCA and Melbourne University.
2004 - 2005 EPIS entrepreneurial scheme, Edinburgh University. Ideasmart award for proximity controlled interactive lighting invention.
2005 - 2008 Research Artist in Residence at Edinburgh Informatics.
2008 - 2011 mimelight development of interactive lighting product, Quantum Pearl.
2012 - ongoing: PhD Research at Horizon DTC Nottingham University; research blog: Kinectic.net

email: rb"at"mimetics.com