Jill Scott

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Field

• Culture |
• Art |
• Science |
• Media

Abstract

Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1952. In 1973 she completed her studies of film, art and design at the Prahran Institute of Technology in Melbourne. From 1975 until 1982 she lived in San Francisco, where she received her masters degree from the department of communication at San Francisco State University. In addition she became the director of the alternative gallery, Site, Cite, Sight. In 1982 she returned to Australia and lectured on media at the University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts, Sydney. Simultaneously she worked on the development of computer-based 3D animation and interactive art. In 1992 she was invited to the Hochschule für Kunst in Saarbrücken as a Guest Professor for Computer Animation. In 1994 she won an award for interactive art at Ars Electronica. From 1994 until 1997 Jill Scott was an artist in residence at the ZKM/Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe and a project coordinator for the ZKM Medienmuseum. She was also a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Inquiry into Interactive Art at the University of Wales in Great Britain, where she earned a doctrate in media philosophy. At present she is a Professor for Installation Design at the Media Faculty of the Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar.

Institution

• ZKM
  » http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/artists/Scott

Keywords

• Topics
  • design |
  • media art

Additions to Keyword List

• Installation Design