Stephen Bell

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When and how have you participated at SIGGRAPH Conferences? (exhibits, talks, panels, performance, screenings). OK if you have not participated.

1995 Panel on Algorithm

Are you a member of ACM SIGGRAPH?

Have you shown art in any SIGGRAPH Art Shows?

Have you shown in any SIGGRAPH Animation Screenings?

What countries do you work in?

England

Short Bio

Stephen Bell has used computer programming to make his art since 1977 when at The Slade School of Art he made computer plotted drawings using CMY coloured mapping pens and brush pens. In 1984-85 while Artist in Residence in the computing laboratory of the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, he started to develop his ‘Smallworld’ suite of interactive art programs. In 1985 he joined Loughborough University CHI research unit (LUTCHI) as a PhD student. He was awarded a PhD from Loughborough University of Technology in 1991 while at the National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA), which he helped to establish in Bournemouth, UK after having moved there as a lecturer in 1989 to teach artists how to use computers.

Bell retired from teaching in 2017 and currently lives in Bournemouth. He still makes his art using versions of his Smallworld programs. Smallworld uses algorithms based upon observations of animal and human social behaviour, including conflict and collaboration, and other interactive phenomena to generate computer graphic forms to interact with, animate and print.

Selected Exhibitions

2020 Once Upon a Time in Animation, Celebrating 30 years of the NCCA, Poole Museum, Poole

2018 CAS50, Lightbox Gallery, Leicester

2014 Automatic Art, GV Gallery, London

2010 Small Journey, live improvised animation in performance with Keith Tippett, Julie Tippetts,

Andy Baker and Phillippa Stevens, Public//Domain festival. Bournemouth

1997 Tinyworld, Loughborough University Exhibit, Snibston Discovery Park, Leicestershire

1988 Art and Computers, Jarbeurs Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands

1985 Computer Generated Images, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

1984 The Art of Communication, Exeter University, Exeter

1981 International Festival of Electronic Music, Video and Computer Art, Brussels