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Co-Investigator: Kirk Woolford (University of Sussex, previously University of Lancaster) |
| Kirk Woolford is a media artist/designer and software developer who works closely with digital and creative industries. Prior to working in UK academia, he set up and directed web and video game production companies in New York, London, and Amsterdam -- with partners including the Economist Group, BBC, Channel 4, FilmFour, Illuminations, Babel Media, and THQ to produce online education, and entertainment systems. He has remained active in the creative industries through his role as a founding company director of The Storey, Lancaster's Creative Industries Center opening in Dec 08. His research is practice-led and he continues to actively exhibit his work in international venues including Shanghai eArts, ARCO Madrid, Art Cologne, P.S.1. (MoMA), Venice Biennale, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Monaco Dance Forum, Ars Electronica, ISEA, and SIGGRAPH. He has collaborated on performances with igloo, Charleroi Danses, Diller+Scofidio, Susan Kozel, Frederique Flamand, Fabrizio Plessi, and others. From 1990-91, he worked with Eastman Kodak, Adobe, and Quark to incorporate their new technologies, including the first version of Photoshop, into early desktop publishing studios. Between 1992 and 2005, Kirk held several research positions in Germany and the Netherlands as he moved between academy and industry.
Kirk is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and has served in various capacities on large international conferences including SIGGRAPH, ACM Multimedia, ISEA, and smaller conferences in the US, Germany, Holland, Portugal, and the UK.
Website: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/mediastudies/profile228851.html
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