JANE PROPHET, Artist

BIOGRAPHY

Born 1964, UK


Education
PhD Arts Education
Warwick University 1995.
MA Electronic Graphics
Coventry Polytechnic 1989.
BA(hons) 1st Fine Art
Sheffield City Polytechnic 1987

Career history
1998 Lecturer in Fine Art
Slade School of Art, University College London
I teach undergraduates, graduates and doctoral students working in Fine Art, Media, specialising in digital and electronic media. My one day a week post
includes teaching both theory and practice to fine art students.

1991-1995 Principal Lecturer in Media Head of Digital Media Research University of Westminster.

In this post I ran the video department, managing captial equipment and teaching budgets for the area and was head of studies for final year undergraduate
students studying Contemporary |Media Practice. I taught media theory and practice to both undergraduate and post graduate students. My role as Head of
Digital Media Research was to oversee the research work of academic staff in the department of Design and Media and advise staff on publication and exhibition of
their work in order to develop the research culture and outcomes for this area. Related duties included preparing submissions of staff’s research for inclusion
in the national Research Assessment Exercise and gaining sponsorship from external companies to support research.

Exhibition of artworks
Date Title of Artwork Exhibition Gallery
15/04/99 onwards Techno Sphere: Real-time 3D interactive
installation. Permanent Collection: Wired Worlds Gallery. National Museum of Photography, Film and Television. Bradford, UK.
17/10/98-23/12/98 Internal Organs of a CyborgCyber98Bellem Cultural Centre, Lisbon, Portugal.
Rotterdam Film Festival
Internal Organs of a Cyborg Montreal Film and New Media Festival Montreal, Canada.
Internal Organs of a Cyborg The Soft Machine Stedlijk Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland.
29/05/98-26/07/98 Internal Organs of a Cyborg
Prints and CDROM projection Cyber Heart Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff,
Canada.
11/06/98-02/07/98 Techno Sphere Website & animation. Imaginaria
Digital Art Awards Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
07/10/97- 12/12/97 Artist in Residency Apocalypso Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada.
11/04/97-18/05/97 Sarcophagus
Touch sensitive Installation Video Positive 97 Manchester Museum of Science & Industry.
05/10/97-29/10/97SWARM
Interactive Installation Screens Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway.
14/11/96-18/11/96 SWARM
Interactive Installation Digital Dreams 4 Quayside House, Newcastle Upon
Tyne. 06/11/96-09/12/96S WARM Website
www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/swarm/ Ex Machina Zone Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
29/09/96-29/10/96S WARMSolo Show Prema Arts Centre, Uley, Gloucestershire
01/06/96-23/11/96 The Heart of the Cyborg
CDROM table top installation. Touring Exhibit Site Gallery, Sheffield.
Ferens Gallery, Hull. Chapman, Salford.
12/11/95 The Heart of the Cyborg Website Commissioned by Eastern Arts Cambridge Darkroom Gallery.
03/11/95-26/11/95 Techno Sphere Version1
Website and prints Foto Biennale Enschede, Holland.
21/11/95-26/11/95 Techno Sphere Dutch Electronic Arts Festival 95 Rotterdam, Holland.
19/05/95-21/05/95 Pick A Card, Any Card
Interactive installation The Art Casino The Barbican Gallery, London
28/11/94 art AIDS LINK http://artaids.dcs.qmv.ac.uk:8001/

Publications
Date Description Title Editor Publisher ISBN
01/9019Artist’s pages in anthology. Flesh Eating Technologies. Eds. Sara
Diamond & Sylvere Lotringer The Banff Centre & Semiotext(e).
07/11/98 Image Text chapter in book.Desire by Design: body, territory and new technologies.Edited by Cutting Edge Research GroupIB Taurus
01/12/98 Article in journalSordid Sites: voyeurism and exhibitionism in The Internal Organs of a Cyborg FELIX Magasine, Canada.
01/10/96 Artist's article in Refereed journalSublime ecologies and artistic endeavours: artificial life, interactivity and the internetVol 29 Number 5
1996 p339-344 Leonardo: The Journal of the International Society for The Arts, Sciences and Technology.
01/04/95 Chapter in bookTowards a New Aesthetic? Digital Creativity: Proceedings of the 1st Conference in Art and Design Education CADE
'95.p184-189 1-871966-72-8

Selected Papers & Presentations

Date Conference Location
10/09/98 Digital Biota 2 Magdalen College, Cambridge, UK.
26/07/98 SIGGRAPH 98 Orlando, Florida.
05/12/97 Flesh Eating Technologies Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada.
10/11/96 At the Cutting Edge: photography, science & art. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK.
09/09/96 Inter Society for Electronic Arts ’96 Rotterdam, Holland.
09/02/96 MILIA'96 Cannes, France.
16/11/95 Dutch Electronic Arts Festival ’95 Rotterdam, Holland.
01/10/95 V2 Wiretap Rotterdam, Holland.
26/09/95 Access all Areas: Visions of the Future Institute of Contemporary
Arts, London, UK.
24/09/95 5 TH National Photography ConferenceDerby Assembly Rooms, UK.
09/09/95 European Media Art Festival.Osnabruck, Germany.
15/07/95 V-Topia: Visions of a Virtual WorldIkon Gallery, Birmingham
27/06/95 Virtual Futures: Simploding Machinic Desires Warwick University
01/10/95 The Aesthetic of the Internet V2 Wiretap Rotterdam, Holland.
28/04/95 13th World Wide Video Festival Den Haag, Holland.
09/04/95 Towards the Aesthetics of the Future: Technophobia Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK.
04/03/95 Checkin' Out the Cyberchicks Wolverhampton Lighthouse Media Centre, UK.