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. 

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 has also designed cinema players that are powered with sustainable energy sources ("The Image Mill").

After previously teaching in the Design|Media Arts department at UCLA, he is currently an Associate Professor at the new School of Art, Design and Media in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Scott Hessels Curriculum Vitae