Jill Scott

Born in Melbourne, Australia, Jill Scott began her professional artistic career in San Francisco as a conceptual performance artist who was interested in analog technology. She produced photo and video documentation of her body actions such as Taped, Boxed, Hung, Strung, Inside/Out, and Constriction, as well as other interactive and... surveillance video performance installations. From 1976-77, she attended San Francisco State University as a graduate student in Fine Art and Communications. Scott served as director (1978-80) of the artist-run space Site, Cite, Sight, Inc. (founded as Site in 1976) in San Francisco. In 1979 she organized an exhibition of performance and time-based media artworks by California artists to Australia. She followed this project by bringing a show of Australian art to the US in 1980. In 1982 she returned to Australia to focus on teaching and video art and to further her knowledge in digital technology and mythology. A decade later she moved to Germany to teach and build new interactive art installations about ideology, ethnology, and gender and in 2002 to Switzerland. Dr. Scott is an artist, teacher, and context provider with 40 years of experience in the unique transdisciplinary field of art, science, and technology interactions. Her research spans neuroscience, electronics, ecology, sociology, sculpture, performative installation, and media art. Her artwork is focused on the human body, the social and physical impact of technology on our bodies, and the health of our environment. Since 1975, Scott has exhibited in the US, Japan, Australia, and Europe. Currently, Scott makes art, writes books, and co-directs the LASER Salon in Zurich for the Leonardo Society, USA. Scott is professor emerita at the Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts, at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZhdK) in Zürich and founded their Artists-in-Labs Program in 2000. She has published eight books on art and science.

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