Troy Innocent

Most Recent Affiliation(s):

Swinburne University of Technology, Life & and Social Sciences, Senior Lecturer

ISEA Bio(s) Available:

ISEA2024

Dr Innocent is an artist game maker, urban play scholar, and creator of 64 Ways of Being, an AR art trail platform blending game design with live and public art. Based at RMIT University, his work connects digital media poetics, creative code, visual language, mixed realities and urban code. Innocent develops augmented reality games that blend physical objects with digital interfaces to reimagine everyday urban environments in playful ways within a diverse range of public spaces from Barcelona to Hong Kong. Working with the city as a material, his ‘reworlding’ practice explores ways of being that reimagine, reconfigure and reconnect with the world.

ISEA2016

Dr. Troy Innocent, Swinburne University of Technology, AU

Dr. Troy Innocent (AU) explores the multiplicity of codes in the contemporary mediascape, exploring the connections between language and reality. His work invites people to play in worlds that emerge from transmedia ecologies – complex systems of virtual and actual signs and entities. In his practice he has developed a unique aesthetic vocabulary that spans interaction, design, sculpture, animation, sound and installation. Innocent is represented by Anna Pappas Gallery.

ISEA2013

Troy Innocent has presented at many ISEAs since 1992 (TISEA) and has a background in software and game development.

Troy Innocent, Faculty of Life & Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia

Troy Innocent is a world builder, iconographer and reality newbie. His artificial worlds – Iconica (SIGGRAPH 98, USA), and Semiomorph (ISEA02, Japan) – explore the dynamic between the iconic ideal and the personal specific, the real and the simulated, and also the way in which our identity is shaped by language and communication. He has received numerous awards, including Honorary Mention, LIFE 2.0: Artificial Life, Spain (1999); Foreign Title Award, MMCA Multimedia Grand Prix, Japan (1998); First Prize, National Digital Art Awards, Australia (1995); and Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica (1992). Innocent co-founded the digital arts collective cyber dada and through pioneering works such as Idea-ON>! contributed to the Australian new media arts practice during the 90s. His most recent works are urban art environments: an interactive sculpture garden entitled Colony in the Melbourne Docklands and Urban Codemakers, an Alternate Reality Game that reinvents the history of Melbourne. Innocent is currently Senior Lecturer in Games and Interactivity, Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University, Melbourne. He is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery.

Troy Innocent is an artist, academic, and educator investigating code in mixed realities, particularly its capacity to decode and reimagine the world in playful ways. He has presented at many ISEAs since 1992 (TISEA) and has a background in software and game development. His nonobjective art practice explores connections between geometric abstraction and code expressed in works of sculpture, animation, image, sound and installation. In 2017 Innocent was awarded the Melbourne Knowledge Fellowship to research playable cities in the Europe and UK, informing his public art practice of ‘urban code-making’ – a system he developed for situating play in cities such as Melbourne, Istanbul, Sydney and Hong Kong. Innocent teaches pervasive game design at Swinburne University; and is represented by Anna Pappas Gallery.

ISEA2011

Dr.Troy Innocent is a world builder, iconographer and reality newbie. His artificial worlds – Iconica (SIGGRAPH 98, USA), and Semiomorph (ISEA2002, Japan) – explore the dynamics between the iconic ideal and the personal specific, the real and the simulated, and the way in which our identity is shaped by language and communication. Troy Innocent has received numerous awards, including Honorary Mention, LIFE 2.0: Artificial Life, Spain (1999); Foreign Title Award, MMCA Multimedia Grand Prix, Japan (1998); First Prize, National Digital Art Awards, Australia (1995); and Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica (1992). lifeSigns: an eco-system of signs & symbols (2004), was commissioned by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and Film Victoria. His most recent work is an urban art environment entitled Colony within Digital Harbour at the Docklands, Melbourne. Innocent is currently Senior Lecturer in Games and Interactivity, Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University, Melbourne. Innocent is represented by Tolarno Galleries and Hugo Michell Gallery.

ISEA2008

Troy Innocent (Australia) is an artist, academic, and educator investigating code in mixed realities, particularly its capacity to decode and reimagine the world in playful ways.

ISEA2002

Troy Innocent (Australia) has been exploring new aesthetics enabled by computers since 1989. Deconstructing and understanding the endemic properties, language and nature of the digital realm has been the underlying theme of his work. Trained as a designer and practicing as an artist, he has moved across media in works involving computer animation, installation art, interactive media, synthetic images and round. His work has been exhibited widely at national and international galleries, conferences and symposia.

ISEA1996

Troy Innocent, Australia

ISEA1994

Since 1989, Troy Innocent (Australia) has been employing techniques of freeform mutation with computers to create experimental electronic art which has been exhibited internationally. Idea-ON>! is one in a series of hypermedia projects Troy has produced independently to explore the developing language of the new media. He continues to work with the group CyberDada, conceived in 1989, on performance, installation, and video projects, the most recent project being Techno Digesto Fetishism.

FISEA’93

Troy Innocent, AU troyinnocent.net

TISEA (1992)

Troy Innocent Melbourne, Australia

SISEA (1990)

Troy Innocent (AU) is an artist and philosopher.