Andy Lomas | |
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 Lomas presenting at the EVA London 2016 conference [1] | |
| Born | Andrew Lomas |
| Known for | Algorithmic art, Digital art, Contemporary art, Mathematical art, Morphogenetic art, Visual effects |
| Movement | Digital art |
| Awards | 51st Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries or a Movie (1999) The Lumen Prize Gold Award (2014) [2] |
| Elected | University College London Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Patron(s) | Victoria and Albert Museum Computer Arts Society |
| Website | www.andylomas.com |
Andy Lomas (born 1967 in Welwyn Garden City, England [4] ) is a British artist with a mathematical background, formerly a television and film CG supervisor and more recently a contemporary digital artist, [5] with a special interest in morphogenesis using mathematical morphology. [6]
Lomas previously worked on visual effects using computer graphics (CGI) for television and films such as The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003) and Avatar (2009). [7] before becoming a digital artist. In 2006 he appeared in The Tech of 'Over the Hedge', a short documentary. [8] With his collaborators, in 1999 Lomas won the 51st Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries or a Movie for the 1999 film Alice in Wonderland .
Lomas's works are displayed in the form of videos, still images, and sculptures, produced using a mathematical programming approach. Some works include collaborative music, by Max Cooper for example. [9] His artworks are inspired by the work of Ernst Haeckel, D'Arcy Thompson, and Alan Turing. [6] [10]
Lomas won the 2014 international Lumen Prize Gold Award for digital art, the top category. [2] He has exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio, USA), the Computing Commons Art Gallery (Arizona State University), the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, and SIGGRAPH. [5]
In June–July 2016, Lomas held a solo exhibition of his work at the Watermans Arts Centre in west London, [3] which has been acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum for its collection. [11] His work is also held in the D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum art collection at the University of Dundee in Scotland, funded by the UK Art Fund. [12] In 2019, he contributed a chapter to the book Museums and Digital Culture . [13]
By way of summarizing his technique, Lomas counts himself among those who have entered into a "hybrid" relationship with the computer, wherein the latter is used to quickly generate a series of visual images based on an original idea or algorithm. [14]
Lomas was previously appointed as a Visiting Lecturer at University College London in the Bartlett School of Architecture [15] and subsequently became a Lecturer in Creative Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. [16] His work is held in the Victoria and Albert Museum [11] and Computer Arts Society collections. [15]
In 2024, Lomas produced an animation generated using morphogenesis techniques as the official video for The Sun In A Box by the electronic musician Max Cooper. [17]
