Artist Statement

The emphasis of 4^15 is on human cognition. I am primarily interested in the “evolution” of surface and the relationship between the resulting artwork and human cognitive processes.

• Paul Brown is an artist and writer who has specialised in art, science & technology since the late-1960s and in computational & generative art since the early 1970s. His early work included creating large-scale lighting works for musicians and performance groups like Meredith Monk, Music Electronica Viva and Pink Floyd. He has an international exhibition record that includes the creation of both permanent and temporary public artworks and has participated in shows at major venues like the TATE, Victoria & Albert and ICA in the UK; the Adelaide Festival, Australia; ARCO in Spain; the Substation as part of the Singapore SeptemberFest and the Venice Biennale. His work is represented in public, corporate and private collections in Australia, Asia, Europe, Russia and the USA and in 1996 he was the first artist working in the digital domain to win the Fremantle Print Award. He is an honorary visiting professor of art and technology and artist-in-residence at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex. UK and also Australia Council Synapse Artist-in-Residence at the Centre for Intelligent System Research, Deakin University, Australia.

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