Richard Brown has a BSc in Computers & Cybernetics and an MA in Fine Art and creates interactive artworks using multi-media technology, computer programming, electronics and interfacing. Between 1995 and 2001 Richard was a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, in the department of Computer Related Design, where he created and exhibited 3 major interactive works Alembic, Biotica and the Neural Net Starfish. Richard also ran workshops on interactive environments, gave talks on his work, published papers and the book "Biotica: Art, Emergence and Artificial-Life". Richard has funded his work with awards and grants from Intel, The Arts Council, Sci-Art Wellcome Trust and more recently a two-year fellowship grant from NESTA (the National Endowment of Science Technology and the Arts). Between 2002 and 2003 Richard was based in Australia as an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the VCA and Melbourne University, and artist-in-residence at the Natural History Unit in the ABC. Richard has completed his NESTA fellowship and is now on the EPIS entrepreneurial scheme hosted at Edinburgh University, Scotland. (source: www.mimetics.com)