Ernest Edmonds is an expert on human-computer interaction (HCI). After earning a PhD in logic, Edmonds turned to exploring concerns regarding the intersection between creativity and technology through artistic experimentation and research. Edmonds first used computers in his art practice as early as 1968, and has continued to exhibit interactive and time-based generative works internationally throughout subsequent decades.
Edmonds is currently Professor of Computation and Creative Media in the Faculty of IT at the University of Technology, Sydney, and Director of the Creativity and Cognition Studios (CCS). The origins of CCS derived from his unique research, which spawned a conference series under the similar title of Creativity and Cognitions. A regular headliner from 1993 onwards on the Association for Computing Machinery’s SIGCHI calendar, concepts explored in these meetings developed into an artist-in-residency program (COSTART) at Loughborough University (UK) from 1996 before CCS was established in its present location at UTS in 2003.