Simon Graeme Penny was born on 19 October 1955 and is an Australian artist, theorist, curator and teacher in the fields of digital cultural practices, embodied interaction and interactive art.
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Simon Penny attended Newington College before receiving an undergraduate diploma in Fine Art from the South Australian School of Art in 1979.
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Simon Penny then went on to get his graduate degree form the Sydney College of the Arts in 1982 after which he began focusing on electronic and time-based media.
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Simon Penny has held positions as Lecturer at City Art Institute, Sydney from 1984 to 1988, Professor at the University of Florida in 1989 and Professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 1993 to 2001.
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Simon Penny has been a guest professor at the Interdisciplinary Master in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media at Pompeu Fabra University, from 2007 to 2013.
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Simon Penny is currently resident faculty at the Department of Studio Art at UCI's Claire Trevor School of the Arts where he teaches mechatronic art, media art history and theory, and contemporary cognitive science and philosophy of mind.
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Since the 1980s Simon Penny has been creating interactive and robotic art pieces that address critical issues in digital culture discourses, especially around enactive and embodied interaction.
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Simon Penny's work is informed by traditions of practice in the arts including sculpture, video-art, installation and performance and has been shown in a number of venues and international art festivals such as ZKM or Ars Electronica.
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Simon Penny has published over 80 papers on interactive and media art.
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Simon Penny edited the anthology Critical Issues Critical Issues in Electronic Media.
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Simon Penny has spoken widely on Digital Cultural Practices around the world.