Simon Penny has worked at the intersections of computing and the arts for 30 years, building interactive systems that attend to embodied experience and gesture. In artistic and scholarly work he explores problems encountered when machines for abstract mathematico-logical procedures are interfaced with cultural practices (such as aesthetic creation and reception) whose first commitment is to the engineering of persuasive perceptual immediacy and affect. His current book project Making Sense – Art, Computing, Cognition and Embodiment focuses on articulating new aesthetics based in contemporary embodied and post-cognitivist perspectives.
