Ernest Edmonds' art is in the constructivist tradition and is a pioneer in the use of computers and computational ideas in art. He first used computers in his practice in 1968. He first showed an interactive artwork 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 Victoria and Albert Museum, London, holds some of his artwork and is collecting his archives within the National Archive of Computer Based Art and Design.
He has around 300 refereed publications in the fields of human-computer interaction, creativity and art. Ernest Edmonds is Professor of Computational Art at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK and Founding Director of the Creativity and Cognition Studios at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Ernest Edmonds was born in London and studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Leicester University. He has a PhD in logic from Nottingham University. He has held the position of University Dean, has served on many funding and conference committees and was a pioneer in the development of practice-based PhD programmes. He founded the ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference series and was part of the founding team for the ACM Intelligent User Interface conference series. He has been an invited speaker in, for example, the UK, France, the USA, China, Australia, Japan and Malaysia. He received the 2017 SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement In Digital Art.
