Andy Cameron is the Head of the Interactive Department at Fabrica, the Benetton research centre on communication. Each year Fabrica invites young artists, photographers, designers, musicians, writers, interaction designers from all over the world to collaborate and “uncover the future”.Among his works he created United People, an interactive video installation and online community for Benetton stores worldwide, as well as UCBTV, an in-store digital signage system for Benetton’s commercial network. He has also produced a number of CD-ROMs and interactive installations for museums, commercial clients and art galleries, including DARE (2003) at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.
He is the founding member of the Hypermedia Research Centre at the University of Westminster in London and co-founded Antirom, a studio investigating the nature of interactivity, winning the D&AD and BIMA awards for interaction design. The award-winning interactive agency has worked for clients like Levi Strauss and but also acts as an arts collective with productions at Sonar in Barcelona and the International Film Festival in Rotterdam, among others. Andy Cameron edited the book The Art of Experimental Interaction Design, a presentation of works by seminal artists who have left a mark on the interaction field. He has also published two influential essays, Dissimulations, the Illusion of Interactivity and The Californian Ideology (with Richard Barbrook).
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