Simon Howden

Bio:

• Simon Howden is a conceptual artist, sound designer, and a Billboard music producer. He holds an MFA (Intermedia/Sculpture) from Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland, and completed his BFA in Film at Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

Writings and Presentations:

• Title: Contact/Sense
  Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
  Author(s):
  • Rewa Wright
  • Simon Howden
  
  Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
  Abstract Summary:

  When we feel and sense through machines, are we still ourselves? In a mixed reality where embodied actions and blinding visions are part woman/part machine, the tactile surface of plants is a portal that conjures augmented materialities into existence.

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  Role(s):

  
  
  • Artist
  • Speaker/Presenter