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Peter Cornwell has worked with computer image generation in both art and computing science for more than 25 years. He studied art history, electronics and computing science before working on early computer graphics for television with The Moving Picture Company and on computer aided design and robotic manufacturing systems as manager of European research and development for Texas Instruments. Later he founded Division, Inc., a virtual reality (VR) company, which developed commercial 3D visualisation products and contributed to the development of OpenGL - working on design with architects, pharmaceutical and aerospace companies and on human-computer interface and training with NASA.

During the 1990s he formed the Visual Theory Group in the Department of Computing Science at London’s Imperial College where he was research fellow; building collaborations with Central Saint Martins and the Royal Academy of Arts - activities which led to the development of new image generation techniques and novel LED displays. In 1995 he was awarded the first of several contracts for commercial displays by Coca-Cola and has since built flagship LED installations for other companies such as Samsung. Cornwell's dynamically computed, 3D creative-driven approach to these installations became the benchmark for spectacular displays in public spaces and allowed real time content to be managed remotely for the first time.

Cornwell became director of the Institute for Visual Media at Germany’s ZKM in 2001 and Professor at the University of Applied Art in Vienna, exhibiting media art in major spaces such as the RA and ICA, London; Kiasma, Helsinki; ICC, Tokyo and ZKM, Germany.

Since 2000 he has pioneered the development of new display technologies, enabling the integration of display components with building construction materials and temporary installation of very large displays. This work, assisted by the Austrian government, has given rise to new products now being sold by major display companies and led to the internationally acclaimed Media Architecture conference, held in London in September 2007.

He is currently Professor of Public Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London, and director of media research company BLIP.

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