Adjunct Research Professor
Artist's website: http://www.littlepig.org.uk/
Amazon author's page: http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs
From 2014 to 2023 Simon Biggs was Professor of Art and Director of the South Australian School of Art at the University of South Australia.
Simon Biggs is a visual artist, writer and curator working with new media. He creates interactive immersive environments, electronic literature, machine-learning augmented performance environments, internet-based art and computer animation. Recognising the creative affordances offered by working across disciplines, but also aware of his own limitations, Biggs often collaborates with creative practitioners in dance and music, and experts in software engineering, physical sciences and social sciences.
Biggs’s work has been presented in over 40 countries, including at Tate Modern (London), Tate Liverpool, Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Academy de Kunste (Berlin), Rijksmuseum (Twenthe), Maxxi (Rome), Seoul Museum of Art, Macau Arts Museum, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Arizona State Art Museum, Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney) and Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide). His work is held in public collections in the UK, USA, France, Spain, Netherlands, New Zealand, Germany, Canada, Austria and Belgium. Publications include Remediating the Social (2012), Autopoiesis (with James Leach, 2004), Great Wall of China (1999), Halo (1998), Magnet (1997) and Book of Shadows (1996).
Principal Investigator: Developing a Network-Based Creative Community: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (2010-2013), funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area Joint Research Programme for Creativity and Innovation. Partners: University of Bergen (lead), University of Edinburgh (Biggs), Blekinge Institute of Technology, University of Amsterdam, University College Falmouth, University of Jyvaskyla and University of Ljubljana. Value 1 million Euros.
Principal Investigator: Moving Targets (2010-2013), funded by the Scottish Funding Council. Partners: University of Abertay (lead) and Edinburgh (Biggs). Value £1.2 million.
Co-Investigator: Design in Action (2012-2016, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Partners: University of Dundee (lead), Edinburgh (Biggs), Glasgow School of Art, Robert Gordon University, University of Abertay Dundee and St Andrews University. Value £5 million.
Chief Investigator: Collaborative Embodied Movement Design Network, (2017-2018) Australian Research Council LIEF funded project. Partners: Swinburne University (lead), UniSA (Biggs), UNSW, QUT and Melbourne University. Value $350,000.
Chief Investigator: The Australian Emulation Network: Born Digital Cultural Collections Access , (2023-2025) Australian Research Council LIEF funded project. Partners: Swinburne University (lead), UniSA (Biggs), and others. Value $751,723.