James Faure Walker

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James Faure Walker (born 1948, London) studied painting and aesthetics at St Martins (1966-70) and the Royal College of Art (1970-72). He began writing criticism in the mid 1970s, and in 1976 he co-founded Artscribe - a journal for contemporary arts which he edited until 1983. His writings have been published in Studio International, Modern Painters, Mute, Computer Generated Imaging, Wired, Art Review, and he has contributed to a number of exhibition catalogues. A long-standing contributor to SIGGRAPH, the annual conference on computer graphics, he has participated in numerous international computer arts festivals and exhibited widely in Austria, Germany, Holland, Japan, Russia, Spain and the USA. In 1998, he won the Golden Plotter first prize at Computerkunst, Gladbeck, Germany. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at DAM Gallery, Berlin, Digital Salon, New York and Bloomberg Space, London. He was awarded a three year AHRB Fellowship for research into painting and the digital studio in 2002, and is the author of Painting the Digital River: How an Artist Learned to Love the Computer, published by Prentice Hall (USA) in 2006.

[edit] Recent Books

Painting the Digital River: How an Artist Learned to Love the Computer, James Faure Walker, Prentice-Hall, Jan 17, 2006. ISBN 0-13-173902-6

Painting the Digital River: How an Artist Learned to Love the Computer

[edit] Exhibitions

Solo Exhbitions

2006 Painting the Digital River, Fosterart Gallery, London
2003 Galerie Wolf Lieser, Berlin.

Group Exhibitions

2006 Arti et Amicitiae's Salon, Amsterdam.
2006 The London Group Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, and Sassoon Gallery, London.
2005 'British Art from 1979', Bloomberg Space, London
2003 Siggraph Art Gallery, San Diego.

Papers, Lectures, Talks

2006 'Painting in a Digital World: I told you so', SIGGRAPH conference, Boston, USA. Essay published in the Electronic Art and Animation Catalogue
2006 Panel member, 'Drawing the Future', Drawing Symposium, National Gallery, London (to be published by University of the Arts, edited by Stephen Farthing).
2006 Organising panel, 'Art and Other Worlds', Camberwell Arts Festival, London.
2004 Invited Keynote Speaker, 'The reckless and the artless: practical research and digital painting', paper presented at Research into Practice conference (published in Working Papers in Art and Design, refereed journal).
2004 'Painting Digital and Letting Go', paper given at CHArt conference 'Futures Past: Twenty Years of Arts Computing', Birkbeck, University of London (published online).