Saoirse Higgins

Education:

1987
Bachelor of Product Design (Hons), NCAD Dublin

1995
Masters Interactive Multimedia MA IMM, Royal College of Art, London

2004
Masters Media Arts and Sciences MSc MIT, Media Lab, Boston

Selected Exhibitions:

2006
‘Better than the real thing', Four, Dublin, Ireland
‘The Studio Visit', Exit Art, New York.

2005
‘Traffic' group show, Exit Art, New York.
Steal My Idea exhibition, DeBalie cultural centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Mechanism no.1: war, LeRoy Neiman gallery, Columbia University, New York.
'Out of Conflict' group show.

2003
Doom Machine, Montreal New Media Festival, SAT
Doom Machine and Mechanism no.1: war, Location1 Gallery, Greene street, New York
Mechanism no.1: war, Boston Cyberarts Festival, Compton Gallery

2002
'Sentient Cogs' group show, Guinness Storehouse 5h Gallery
Online-offline Interactive performance, Atlantic cultural space, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Online-offline performance – Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre, Dundee, Scotland.

2001
Online exhibition ‘r>emote' Marks of Omission exhibition, Arthouse, Dublin.

2000
Joint exhibition with Inge Van Doorslaar- The other Gallery, Banff, Canada.
‘Inside_out' , The Other Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada.
'Transmediale 2000' , Berlin,

1998
SIGGRAPH art gallery ‘Touchware'
'image to sound' 1.0, Arthouse Multimedia Centre, Dublin

1997
'Globalbody' Opening event of ZKM digital Museum - Karlsruhe, Germany

1996
'Stardogged Moon', ArtHouse Multimedia Centre - Dublin
SAGA Contemporary Art Exhibition - Paris

Publications:

Editor for New Media Notes online magazine for digital arts,
Art Bulletin printed magazine (from April/May 2000 - June 2002)

Interview with Wired magazine 'Sentient Cogs' show Nov 2002

Report on Whitney Biennale exhibition New York, New Media Notes, April 2002

Interview Sara Diamond, director of digital arts, Banff Centre for the Arts
New Media Notes online magazine, Art Bulletin magazine, June/July 01

Interview with Melinda Rackham, new media artist and Leonardo prize winner
New Media Notes online magazine for digital arts,
Art Bulletin printed magazine, April/May 01

Banff residency New Media Notes online magazine for digital arts,
Art Bulletin printed magazine, November 00

Transmediale and new media today New Media Notes online magazine,
Art Bulletin magazine, April 00
http://www.artistsireland.com/nmn/

Interview with Diane Gromala, chair Siggraph 2000 - New Media Notes online magazine, Art Bulletin magazine
http://www.artistsireland.com/nmn/articles/Diane00_1.html

Artists report Siggraph 98 - New Media Notes online art magazine
www.artistsireland.com/nmn/pdf/oct0198.pdf

Awards:

SFBG Goldie, Visual Art 04