Andrew Speirs teaches postgraduate research methodology and computer drawing at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney, with research interests in graphical reasoning and visualisation. Trained in new media, interactive art and sculptu
...MoreAndrew Speirs teaches postgraduate research methodology and computer drawing at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney, with research interests in graphical reasoning and visualisation. Trained in new media, interactive art and sculpture, Dr Speirs works across biometrics, fine arts and criminology with a cross-disciplinary PhD in biometrics. At St. Vincent's Hospital Cardiopulmonary Transplant Unit he researched fractured subjectivity. A residency at the Sydney Children's Hospital allowed him to extend fine art practices of hospitalised youth, with an outreach project in digital art practices for homeless adolescent and a project using video for self-efficacy for anorexics. Exhibiting profile includes digital media, etching and public interactive sculpture. In his spare time he surfs, writes fiction and, with his wife takes long bicycle trips such as from Istanbul to Luxor and from the Gulf of Thailand to Hanoi. He lives in Sydney Australia with his wife Victoria and two cats, Chickenbones & Ratbreath.
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