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Sean Clark
Sean Clark founded the Computer Arts Archive in 2020 and is currently a member of Leicester's R10 Electronic Media Studio. In 2016 he founded Interact Digital Arts and was co-winner of the Lumen Prize for 3D Sculpture. He has been chair of the Computer Art Society since 2022.
Sean started his career at Loughborough University in 1989 when he became a research assistant for Stephen Scrivener in the LUTCHI Research Centre, led by Ernest Edmonds, He was actively involved in the development of the internet throughout the 1990s, and built his first public website - on the subject of Virtual Reality - in 1993. After leaving academia for industry in 1995, he went on to create first-generation web sites for many well-known brands. At the same time he became increasingly involved in online arts and multimedia projects, and began working with bands such as The Shamen, Zion Train and Higher Intelligence Agency.
In 2000 he founded Loughborough web design company Cuttlefish Multimedia in order to focus on music, arts and community work. He created Leicester's Pineapster music community (2002 - 2012); opened the first independent digital art gallery, The Interact Gallery (2009 - 2011); in 2012 he opened Interact Labs at Phoenix and co-founded Leicester Hackspace.in 2016 he started Leicester digital arts practice Interact Digital Arts. He is particularly interested in Leicester's digital art and electronic music heritage, early British Cybernetic Art, and live multimedia from the 1990s/2000s. He has long-supported Leicester's grassroots digital art community by running workshops, mentorship, exhibitions and events.
Sean Clark graduated from Loughborough University in 1988 with a degree in Computer Science and in 2008 completed an MA in Digital Art at Camberwell College of Arts. In 2018, he received a PhD in Computational Art from DeMontfort University.