Stewart Dickson
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Biography

Stewart Dickson received a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 1981 and is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, ACM/SIGGRAPH, International Sculpture Center, YLEM, ISAST and American Mensa, Ltd. The primary result of his undergraduate career was a United States Patent for a stringed musical instrument with electrical feedback, 1981.

First professional one-man exhibition of sculpture and computer-assisted art was in 1982.

Employed from 1981 through 1984 at the Western Electric Company (now AT&T Technologies) on permanent assignment to AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, Illinois, where he worked as a Development Engineer on the 5 ESS project.

Guest lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) in 1984 and collaborator with CAVS Fellow Joe Davis.

In 1984 founded a Department of Computer-Generated Imagery at Goldsholl Design and Film, Northfield, Illinois.

Employed as 3D Graphics Programmer at The Post Group, Hollywood from 1988 to 1993. The inventor of a patented image processing technique for printing digital video images onto theatrical film with improved picture quality. He is currently employed as Systems Manager at ReZ.n8 Productions Inc., Hollywood. Has been a technical consultant, guest lecturer and collaborator at the California Institute of the Arts since 1989. Has been a graphic artist and consultant for Wolfram Research, Inc. since 1990.

Has lectured and exhibited at the King Steven Museum, Budapest, Hungary; the Canadian Museum of Postal History; the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, USA; Imagina '91, Monte-Carlo, Monaco; El Art '91, Punkaharju, Finland; 1991 Heureka Swiss National Research Exposition, Zuerich; SIGGRAPH '91, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; the International Sculpture Conference, IS'92, Philadelphia, IS'94, San Francisco; the Interdisciplinary Conference on Art and Mathematics, AM'92, AM'93, Albany, New York; The 1992 Art and Virtual Environments Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada; SCAN '92, Philadelphia, USA; Third Inter-Symposium on the Electronic Arts, TISEA '92, Sydney, Australia; Fourth Inter-Symposium on the Electronic Arts, FISEA '93, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1994, San Francisco.

Mr. Dickson's prints and stereolithographs are represented by The Williams Gallery.