Computational Artist
Andy Lomas is a computational artist, mathematician and Emmy award winning supervisor of computer generated effects. Inspired by the work of Alan Turing, D’Arcy Thompson and Ernst Haeckel, his art work explores how complex dynamic forms can be created emergently by simulating biological processes.
He has had work exhibited in numerous exhibitions, including at the Pompidou Centre, V&A, the Royal Society, SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica Festival, the Science Museum and the ZKM. He also has work in the collections at the V&A, the Computer Arts Society and the D’Arcy Thompson Art Fund Collection. In 2014 his work Cellular Forms won The Lumen Prize Gold Award.
Production credits include Walking with Dinosaurs, Matrix: Revolutions, Matrix: Reloaded, Over the Hedge, The Tale of Despereaux, and Avatar. He received Emmys for his work on The Odyssey (1997) and Alice in Wonderland (1999).