People : Bill Seaman
Professor of Design

Bill Seaman's work explores text, image and sound relationships through virtual reality, video, computer controlled videodisc, CD-Rom, photography, and studio based audio compositions. He is self-taught as a composer and musician. His works have been in numerous international festivals where he has been awarded prizes such as the Prix Ars Electronica in Interactive Art (1992 &1995, Linz, Austria); International Video Art Prize, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Bonn Videonale prize; First Prize, Berlin Film / Video Festival, for Multimedia in 1995; and the Awards in the Visual Arts Prize. Selected exhibitions include 1996, MEDIASCAPE GUGGENHEIM, New York; the premiere exhibition in 1997 of the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany; 1997, Barbican Centre (London); 1997, C3 - Center for Culture & Communication, Budapest, Hungary ; in 1998, PORTABLE SACRED GROUNDS, NTT-ICC Tokyo; BODY MECHANIQUE, The Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio, 1999. M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; PhD, Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Interactive Arts (CaiiA), University of Wales, UK.