Artist Statement n.a.

Exhibition Art & Computers

• In 1974 Chris Briscoe was invited to set up the computing and experimental department of the Postgraduate School of the Slade School of Fine Art, University College. London. It became one of the leading academic centres for computer graphics in Europe, the only one of its kind lobe based in an art and design faculty. During this time he also acted as a consultant so MIL. Engineering Department, UCL Computer Science Department, University College Hospital Medical Physics Department, and to private industry. His work for medical physics involved the 3D graphics simulation of facial reconstruction surgery. It was during this research that he realised that the techniques he was developing could be used in motion picture production. He presented a paper on his work in Medical Physics at the 1982
  Hospital Physicists Association Annual Conference, and he has appeared in editions of the BBC computer education programme. In January 1982 Chris founded Digital Pictures, which is now Europes leading computer animation studio providing animation for film and television.