Honorary members have played a vital role in shaping the ISEA symposia throughout numerous years of service to the organisation. They continue to contribute their expertise and experience when the ISEA Board of Directors invites them to reflect on goals and strategies.
Ernest Edmonds
Ernest Edmonds is a pioneer computer artist for whom combining creative arts practice with creative technologies has been a life-long pursuit. He was Chair of the ISEA Board from 2017. to 2022. The first time he used a computer in making an artwork was in 1968. In 2017 he won the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art. In that year he was also awarded the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award for Practice in Human-Computer Interaction. Having shown his work internationally for over 55 years, he has recently exhibited in Venice, Leicester, London, Denver, Chicago, Vancouver, Sydney, Beijing, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro. Ernest is an Emeritus Professor at De Montfort University, specialising in the computational arts. He has published widely on computer-based art, creativity and human-computer interaction. His work is described in the book by Francesca Franco, Generative Systems Art: The Work of Ernest Edmonds (Routledge, 2017).
Photo by Ben Shneiderman
Roger Frank Malina
Roger is a hybrid researcher, educator, experimental publisher and astrophysicist. He co-founded the UTDallas ArtSciLab (ASL), with Design Professor Cassini Nazir. ASL enables close collaboration between scientists and artists, and other hybrid projects that require science of team science methods. It develops data performance and transdisciplinary research and apprenticeships. ASL also carries out research in experimental publishing and curating in collaboration with Observatoire Leonardo des Arts et Technosciences.
Former NASA PI University of California Berkeley Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer satellite. Former CNRS Director Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence, Marseille. Former Executive Editor Leonardo Publications, MIT Press. BS Physics MIT 1972, PhD Astronomy UC, Berkeley 1979. Honorary Doctorate from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and the Ars Electronica Golden Nika for collective work through Leonardo.
Current research foci include building cyber village communities of practice, enabling the desirable research of creative practices of others and long term archiving of digital cultures. As a founding attendee to the first ISEA in 1988 he organised the first ISEA publications through Leonardo at MIT Press.
Sue Gollifer (Special Advisor)
Sue is an artist, a Principal Lecturer in Digital Media Arts and the Course Leader for Digital Media Arts MA and a researcher at the University of Brighton, UK. Her art work is held in both national and international public and private collections.
She is on a number of National and International Committees, including (CAS) the Computer Arts Society, (DAM), Digital Art Museum, (DAM) the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community (DAC), the ACM SIGGRAPH External Relations Committee and on the Advisory Board for the New Media Caucus (NMC).
Wim van der Plas (IIAC Honorary Chair)
Sociologist, Co-founder ISEA, organiser FISEA, SISEA, and ISEA96, Head of ISEA HQ (1988-1996), ISEA Board member (1996-2017), honorary chair, archivist for online ISEA symposia archives.
Wim received a Leonardo Pioneer Award in 2018.