Position:	Associate Professor
Phone:	3442 5723
E-mail:	SHESSELS@cityu.edu.hk
Bldg Rm:	Rm M6030, SCM Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre 18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon Tong
Personal URL:	http://www.dshessels.com

M.F.A. Design Media Arts, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) 2005 B.S. Business Management, University of Phoenix, Pasadena, CA 2003

Scott Hessels is a media artist and independent filmmaker who has released art and commercial projects in several different media including film, video, web, music, broadcast, print, and performance. His films and videos have shown in hundreds of international film and new media festivals, on television, and in contemporary art galleries over the past 20 years. As a media artist, his installations have shown in exhibitions around the world including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, CiberArt, SIGGRAPH, ISEA, ICA, ACM, and Japan's Media Art Festival as well as been included in several books on new media art and in magazines like Wired and Discover. He has been experimenting with the cinematic form and his recent artworks have mixed film with sensors, robotics, and alternative forms of interactivity. His current series are types of experimental cinema generating systems--players. These pieces include movies generated through topology ("Mulholland Drive"), environmental data ("Brakelights"), data sets ("Celestial Mechanics"), and viewer location and movement ("GPSFilm"). He is currently designing cinema players that are powered with sustainable energy sources ("The Image Mill"). After previously teaching in the Design|Media Arts department at UCLA, he spent five years at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore before joining SCM.

2010	Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, USA The Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2009	The South Australian Museum, Australia The European Immersive Film Festival, Centro Multimeios, Portugal DomeFest: Global Festival for Full-Dome, LodeStar Astronomy Center, USA
2008	Design and The Elastic Mind, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, California, USA The Cartoon Network, "Adult Swim" International Broadcast
2007	ScienceWorld at TELUS World of Science, Vancouver, Canada TED: Technology/Entertainment/Design, Monterey, USA NetSci: International Workshop and Conference on Network Science, New York Shanghai eARTS Festival, Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, China
2006	Interferenze New Media Festival, Rome 3rd International Festival of Electronic Art, Buenos Aires Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona Barcelona Ars Electronica, Linz Austria

Sustainability Award, 2009 ArtPrize Competition, USA Jury Recommendation Award, 2005, 2006 Japan Media Arts Festivals, Tokyo First Place, 2006 National Science Foundation, Science Visualization Category Critic's Pick, 2006 Outfest, Disney Hall, Los Angeles California First Place, 2004 2004 Output Int'l Design Competition, Amsterdam "Best of the Decade" 1999 Dallas Video Festival 10, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas First Place, 1992 International Video Shorts Festival, Seattle First Place, 1992 Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago First Place, 1992 WorldFest International Film and Video Festival, Houston First Place, 1989 American Film and Video Festival, Chicago

Hessels, Scott (2009).  "GPS Film:  Cinema's Latest Revolution" to be published in the proceedings of SIGGRAPH: The 36th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, New Orleans Hessels, Scott (2009).  "Relocating the Moving Image".  Filter Magazine, Issue 70, ISBN 978-0-9579837-6-2 Published by the Australian Network for Art and Technology Hessels, Scott (2009).  "Stories on the Run: Narrative Structure for Mobile Cinema" paper presented at ISEA2009, International Society of Electronic Artists, Belfast Hessels, Scott (2009).  "Location-Based Mobile Cinema"  Paper presented at Mobile 2.0 Symposium of the 2009 The International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, Chicago Hessels, Scott (2008).  "GPSFilm:  Not a Moving Picture, a Picture Moving"  published in Proceedings of ISEA 2008, The 14th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Singapore, pg. 224-225 Hessels, Scott (2007). "The Machines Above Us:"  published in the proceedings of Mutamorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences, Prague Hessels, Scott (2006). "Technology and Art Working Together"  Paper presented at Forum on Creativity in the Arts, Science and Technology sponsored by The Tan Kah Kee Foundation, the National Arts Council of Singapore, and the Singapore National Academy of Science, Singapore Hessels, Scott (2005).  "The Environment Directs the Film" published in the proceedings of CiberArt International Festival of New Technologies, Art and Communication, Bilbao, Spain Hessels, Scott (2005).  "Mulholland Drive:  Projecting Topology" paper presented at The ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Singapore

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