Dr. Andy Simionato
Details
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College: School of Design
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Department: School of Design
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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andy.simionato@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-0929-0089
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Andy Simionato has worked exclusively with Karen ann Donnachie in the expanded fields of computational art, design, and experimental publishing since the 1990s. Working across human and nonhuman collaborative systems to explore language, books, and technology.
The duo are art editors for Art+australia, the longest running art journal in Australia. They have won the Tokyo TDC award three times, and the Tokyo Type Directors Club Grand Prize, in 2024; their artworks and designs are exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally and are part of the collection of the German Museum of Books and Reading, in Leipzig, the National Library of Germany.
Research fields
- 330316 Visual communication design (incl. graphic design)
- 360503 Digital and electronic media art
- 360602 Fine arts
Supervisor projects
- Remaking education through design: generative communities of practice and making
- 10 Jul 2023
- What is a logo? A phenomenological journey into the aesthetics of logos.
- 23 Jul 2021
Teaching interests
Andy Simionato's teaching practice includes: Electronic literature, and Future of the book, Machinic drawing, Electronic art, Speculative design, Book design, Publishing, and Artists' books.
Research interests
Donnachie & Simionato's most recent research focuses on the human-nonhuman collaborative practices made possible by Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, embodied in what they call autonomous-art-systems.
Electronic art, robotic drawing, collage. Design Practice, Film, Television and Digital Media, Visual Arts and Crafts, Art Theory and Criticism, Communication and Media Studies, Performing Arts and Creative Writing.
