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Professor Jane Prophetis Co-Director of CARTE (Centre for Art Research Technology and Education), an interdisciplinary research centre based at University of Westtminster. Her research (as evidenced by both exhibitions and publications) addresses how creative collaborations between different disciplines take place.
She is a visual artist whose artworks include the award-winning website, TechnoSphere, which used artificial life to simulate the behaviour of up to 70,000 Alife agents living in a dynamic 3D graphic environment. TechnoSphere was nominated for a BAFTA in interactive arts (2001). The website won a Distinction in Prix Ars Electronica and was part of the DTI and British Council international touring show High Definition: British Design for a Digital Future, launched in Hong Kong (1998). In 1999 it won a Special Mention for Innovation in Alife research and was recognised by the international jury for Life 2, and as ”one of the first examples of an online Alife ecosystem . . . pioneering work in the area.” A real time 3D version is permanently exhibited at the National Museum of Photography, Film and TV, Bradford.
Many of her artworks are produced in collaboration with computer rogrammers and engineers. For example, TechnoSphere with the graphics and Alife programmer Dr Gordon Selley, and Distinctions and Counterposes, which used 3D rapid prototyped models with a nano-coating of silver made from MRI’s of human hearts, with Dr Adrian Bowyer. The latter was undertaken as part of a Leverhulme residency at Bath University in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In 2004, she was nominated as one of thirty international innovators and mentors in digital design for the lab.3000 Digital Design Biennale. She has recently been awarded a NESTA Dream Time Fellowship.
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