Ernest Edmonds
Ernest Edmonds
Artist, Researcher, CASCOM
Ernest Edmonds is a pioneer in Generative Art, making his first artwork using a computer in 1968. In 2017, he received lifetime achievement awards from ACM SIGGRAPH for Digital Art and from ACM SIGCHI for Computer-Human Interaction. Recent retrospectives have been shown at Microsoft Research Asia Beijing, De Montfort University Leicester and Mosman Art Gallery Sydney. He has published widely on creativity, computer-human interaction and generative art. His work was described in the book by Francesca Franco, Generative Systems Art: The Work of Ernest Edmonds, Routledge, 2017. Ernest is an Emeritus Professor of Computational Art at De Montfort University, Leicester.