Ian Gwilt

Ian Gwilt is a Professor in the Art and Design Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University, England. He has a PhD from the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, which examined the theory and practice of mixed-reality art. He also holds an MA in Interactive Multimedia (MAIMM), jointly conferred by the University of Balears(UIB) in Spain, and the Royal College of Art (RCA) London, and a BA Hons in Communication Media (Educational Media Design) from Manchester Metropolitan University.
His practice reflexively uses the visual language of the computer graphical user interface to explore the role that digital technologies have taken in our everyday social, cultural and creative environs. He works across a number of media often combing analogue and digital forms including painting, digital print, video, interactive installation and Rapid Prototype sculptures. He has been making and writing about new media art since the mid 1990s and has exhibited at a number of international new media events and galleries. Originally from the UK, he lived and worked in Australia and New Zealand for a number of years where he began to develop his research/practice around augmented reality and the graphical user interface.