Andy Lomas
Andy Lomas | |
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![]() Lomas presenting at theEVA London2016 conference[1] | |
Born | Andrew Lomas |
Known for | Algorithmic art,Digital art,Contemporary art,Mathematical art,Morphogeneticart,Visual effects |
Movement | Digital art |
Awards | 51st Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries or a Movie(1999) The Lumen PrizeGold Award(2014)[2] |
Website | andylomas |
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Andy Lomas(born 1967 inWelwyn Garden City,England[4]) is a British artist with amathematicalbackground, formerly a television and film CG supervisor and more recently a contemporarydigital artist,[5]with a special interest inmorphogenesisusingmathematical morphology.[6]
Lomas previously worked onvisual effectsusingcomputer graphics(CGI) for television and films such asThe Matrix Reloaded(2003),The Matrix Revolutions(2003) andAvatar(2009).[7]before becoming a digital artist. In 2006 he appeared inThe Tech of 'Over the Hedge',a short documentary.[8]With his collaborators, in 1999 Lomas won the51st Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries or a Moviefor the 1999 filmAlice in Wonderland.
Lomas's works are displayed in the form ofvideos,still images, and sculptures, produced using a mathematical programming approach. Some works include collaborative music, byMax Cooperfor example.[9]His artworks are inspired by the work ofErnst Haeckel,D'Arcy Thompson,andAlan Turing.[6][10]
Lomas won the 2014 internationalLumen PrizeGold Awardfordigital art,the top category.[2]He has exhibited at theButler Institute of American Art(Youngstown, Ohio,USA), theComputing Commons Art Gallery(Arizona State University), theLos Angeles Center for Digital Art,andSIGGRAPH.[5]
In June–July 2016, Lomas held a solo exhibition of his work at theWatermans Arts Centrein westLondon,[3]which has been acquired by theVictoria and Albert Museumfor its collection.[11]His work is also held in theD'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museumart collection at theUniversity of DundeeinScotland,funded by the UKArt Fund.[12]In 2019, he contributed a chapter to the bookMuseums and Digital Culture.[13]
By way of summarizing his technique, Lomas counts himself among those who have entered into a "hybrid" relationship with the computer, wherein the latter is used to quickly generate a series of visual images based on an original idea or algorithm.[14]
References
[edit]- ^Lomas, Andy (2016),"Species Explorer: An interface for artistic exploration of multi-dimensional parameter spaces"(PDF),inBowen, Jonathan P.;Diprose, Graham;Lambert, Nicholas (eds.),EVA London 2016 Conference Proceedings,Electronic Workshops in Computing(eWiC), London, UK:BCS,pp. 95–102,doi:10.14236/ewic/EVA2016.23
- ^abLee, Charlotte (2014)."#LumenInFocus: Andy Lomas".The Lumen Prize.Retrieved29 October2016.
- ^abc"Morphogenetic Creations – Andy Lomas".UK:Watermans Arts Centre.2016.Retrieved20 October2016.
- ^"Andy Lomas".zkm.de.Germany.Retrieved29 October2016.
- ^abRobertson, Barbara (26 March 2006)."Andy Lomas: Artist Profile".CGSociety. Archived fromthe originalon 30 October 2016.Retrieved29 October2016.
- ^ab"Andy Lomas".Mathematical Art Galleries.The Bridges Organization.2014.Retrieved29 October2016.
- ^"Andy Lomas".IMDb.Retrieved29 October2016.
- ^"The Tech of 'Over the Hedge' (2006)".IMDb.2006.Retrieved29 October2016.
- ^Hobson, Ben (5 July 2014)."Max Cooper's music video for Seething emulates biological cell growth".De Zeen.Retrieved29 October2016.
- ^Bowen, Jonathan P.(2016),"Alan Turing Virtuosity and visualisation"(PDF),in Bowen, Jonathan P.; Diprose, Graham; Lambert, Nicholas (eds.),EVA London 2016 Conference Proceedings,Electronic Workshops in Computing(eWiC), London, UK:BCS,pp. 197–204,doi:10.14236/ewic/EVA2016.40
- ^"V&A acquires suite of work from exhibition curated by Watermans with artist Andy Lomas"(PDF).Press Release.UK:Watermans Arts Centre.2016.Retrieved20 October2016.
- ^"Andy Lomas".D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum Art Collection.UK:University of DundeeMuseum Services.Retrieved30 October2016.
- ^Lomas, Andy (2019). "Chapter 17: Morphogenetic Creations: Exhibiting and Collecting Digital Art". InGiannini, Tula;Bowen, Jonathan P.(eds.).Museums and Digital Culture: New Perspectives and Research.Series on Cultural Computing.Springer.pp. 353–365.doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97457-6_17.ISBN978-3-319-97456-9.ISSN2195-9064.S2CID159043037.
- ^Andy Lomas (9 July 2018)."On Hybrid Creativity".Arts.7(3): 25.doi:10.3390/arts7030025.
External links
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