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Anthony Head

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Artist / Coder / Academic

For over 20 years Anthony Head has created digital art projects using a wide variety of techniques.

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Anthony often works collaboratively with museums, scientists, painters, poets. Using his experience of all forms of digital media, facilitated by his natural coding ability he creates graphic, immersive and painterly experiences for a variety of outputs, including projection, VR and most recently drone light shows.

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​This website showcases a selection of his work over the years.

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Career

2021-2025 Head of Animation, Celestial Labs Ltd

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2020-2024 Professor of 3D Visualisation, University of Dundee

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2018-2020 Professor of Digital Media Art & Design,

Bath Spa University

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2004-2018 Senior Lecturer, Bath Spa University

Further works

Anthony Head

Selected exhibitions/artworks

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2024

  • A Christmas Carol, Nottingham, Southampton, Bristol + more

  • Glastonbury Festival, opening night drone light show.​

  • Porsche, drone show at Magazine and immersive artwork at Outernet, London 

2023

  • Eurovision Song Contest drone light show, Liverpool​

2022

  • Our Wilder Family, drone light show for Coventry City of Culture.​​

  • Melbourne new years drone light show

  • Adelaide Fringe Festival drone and projection show

2021

  • Act Now. Drone lights show, Eden Project, Cornwall

  • Greenpeace, 'Act Now', drone show film​

2020

  • Fare Thee Well, Edinburgh Hogmanay,  - drone show film â€‹

2018

  • Light Years Coast VR, 3D coast art visualisation experience. 

  • Flow, S3D digital particle sculpture, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

2017

  • Acrosense, real-time visualisation and performance, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, October.

  • iMigration 2, sculpture, Bath Abbey, Bath, UK. February 2017-February 2019

2016

  • SPHERE house 3D visualisation, Mediawall, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK November.

  • iMigration, sculpture for Forest of Imagination 2016, Bath Abbey, Bath, UK. June

2015

  • Gingerbread House, outdoor projection, Frome Christmas Extravaganza, Frome, UK November.

  • Marvellous Marble Machine, digital marble run, Mediawall, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK June.

  • Light Painting, interactive projection painting tool, at Illuminate 2015, Bath, UK. January​

  • Creative director of Illuminate Bath 2015

  • Symphony of Light, for Illuminate Bath 2015, Bath, UK. January

2014​​​

  • Digitrope II (Interactive visual and audio), MediaWall, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK. May

  • OAK, MediaWall, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK. July/August​​

  • Digitrope II (Interactive visual and audio), MediaWall, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK. May

2013​

  • The Digitrope (Interactive projection for Bath Digital Festival). Bath,  UK. March

2010​

  • Light Years: Coast, Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts, UK, June-July

2009

  • Light Years – Jurassic Coast, Electronic Visualisation in the Arts conference, London, UK, July

  • Imaginalis, (Jurassic Light Years). Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA, March-April

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