Bill Seaman is a media artist and professor. He holds a Ph.D. from CAiiA, the Centre For Advanced Inquiry into the Interactive Arts a Master of Science in Visual Studies degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. His works superimpose digital manipulated layers of images, video, music, texts, renderings and virtual reality. He works strategies in interactive installations and architectural realms to provoke reflection on language, knowledge, space and visual poetics. He is a member of the Duke Institute of Brain Sciences and Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies. He has exhibited in the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan and has won several international awards: a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (United States, 1987), the Siemens Stipendium at the ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1994), the Ars Electronica prize (interactive art section, Linz, Austria, 1992 and 1995) and first prize at the Berlin Video/Film Festival (multimedia art section, 1995). His works may be found in numerous private and public collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Mediamuseum, Karlsruhe.