In 1994, Andy Polaine co-founded the award-winning new-media collective Antirom in London and worked with clients such as the BBC, The Science Museum and Levis Strauss and Co. (for which they won a D&AD Silver Pencil) as well exhibiting several interactive installations and performances around the world.

Andy was also a producer at dotcom giant Razorfish in the UK before moving to Australia where he started the interactive department of visual effects company, Animal Logic. He was a Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media at the College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, and Head of the School of Media Arts.

Now living in Germany, Andy has been a Guest Professor at the Bauhaus University and continues to work as a lecturer (both online and face-to-face), interaction designer and writer and is completing a PhD examining interactivity and play. He is the founder and Editor of The Designer’s Review of Books: http://www.designersreviewofbooks.com and has published over 160 articles and papers as well as his own blog, Playpen: http://www.polaine.com/playpen. A regular speaker at a range of conferences and institutions he was recently a jury member for the Art Directors Club Interactive Awards in New York.

Thanks to all of that he no longer has any time to play anything other than the fool and the saxophone, sometimes simultaneously.

www.polaine.com

July 06, 2009, 7:07am