John Moore

John H Moore is married with four children and works from his studio at home in Devon. He has degrees in art and science subjects and a PhD in computer vision.

John has wide commercial experience, including running a research company to exploit his own patents (winning the prestigious Smart Award several times) and upgrading an unlisted caravan park to five-stars. He has been a full-time artist since 2004.



QUALIFICATIONS
1975 - 1979 : Bsc Building Construction, University of Central London (letter of merit).
1981 - 1984 : BA Art & Design, Bradford Art College (twice commended).
1986 - 1990 : PhD Digitising Human Faces, CNAA

COMMERCIAL EXPERIENCE
1984 - 1985 : PT Lecturer Computer Aided Design, Bradford & Ilkley Community College.
1985 : Setup as self-employed CAD consultant under EAS.
1986 : Developed speech-synchronised computer face animation for Microtech Solutions Ltd, demonstrated at PC User Show, Olympia 1987.
1986 - 1997 : Founded 3-D Research to exploit own patents in 3-D digitising, developed several prototypes with DTI funding, consultant on projects with Rolls-Royce, European Gas Turbines and Liverpool John Moores University.
1997 - 2003 : Upgraded a caravan holiday park near Ilfracombe from unlisted to five-stars within four years. Tripled the turnover in six years.
2004 - Present : Full-time artist working from home in Devon.


COURSES & COMMITTEES
1986 : Advanced Computer Graphics, Middlesex Polytechnic.
1989 : Machine Vision, National Engineering Laboratory, East Kilbride.
1991 : Advanced Imaging Sensors, Scientific Societies, London.
1992 : SWORD Innovation, Barnsley BIC.
1993 - 1996 : Committee member of the UK Industrial Vision Association.
1994 : Advanced Image Processing, University of Cambridge.
1998 : Welcome Host, NDMB
1998 - 2000 : Founder & Chairman of Hele Community Group.

PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS
1985 : "Sussworms", Artificial Intelligence for Society , Brighton Polytechnic, 12-13th July.
1986 : "Towards an Integrated Speech Therapy Training Aid", 4th. International Conference Augmentative and Alternative Communication, St. David's Conference Centre, Cardiff, 22-24th September.
1990 : "Digitising Human Faces", PhD Thesis.
1990 : "Interpolated Phase Stepping Moire Topography", Applied Optics and Opto-Electronics, Nottingham University, 17-20th September.
1991 : "Remote Object 3-D Surface Measurement", Defence Components and Equipment Exhibition, NEC, Birmingham, 16th May.
1992 : "Automatic Non-Contact Inspection of Glass Container Moulds", Applied Optics and Opto-Electronics, Leeds University, 15-17th September.
1995 : "Practical Applications of Moire Fringe Analysis", Three-Dimensional Imaging, The Royal Society of Arts, London, 2-3rd February.
1995 : "An Overview of non-contact Digitising", IPOT '95, NEC, February. 1995 : "Practical Fringe Analysis", Current Topics in Machine Vision, British Institute of Radiology, London, 12th July.
1995 : "Practical 3-D Vision", SIRA Intelligent Imaging Programme, The Society of Chemical Industry, Belgrave Square, London, 28th November.
1996 : "3-D Vision Using Moire Techniques", Optical Techniques for Dimensional Metrology, London Chamber of Commerce & Industry, 27th March.
1996 : "The Future of 3-D Vision", AGM of the UK Industrial Vision Association, Brighton Polytechnic, 18th September.
2001 : "A History of Hele", local history internet site, Millennium Commission.

John leans towards idealism but finds it hard to imagine that mathematics is only inside our minds. So he is probably a naive realist.

IMPOSSELLATIONS
John is fascinated by how simple rules can generate very complex patterns. The most interesting patterns are in some way figurative - they contain information that we see as 'things' (or parts of things). This illusion is why art "works", and why we don't see the world as it really is, as an interlocking tessellation of impossible objects.....

1984 : Wiggins Teape Gallery, Covent Garden, London.
1985 : South Square Gallery, Thornton, Bradford.

2005 : Dovetails Gallery, Ilfracome.

1983 : Travel bursary to visit the Alhambra Palace, Granada, Spain.
1986 : DTI BIS Award to study the feasibility of automatic non-contact 3-D digitising.
1990 : DTI RIG Award to develop a prototype 3-D Mould Inspector (for glass moulds).
1992 : DTI SMART Stage I Award to develop generic 3-D vision probe.
1994 : DTI SMART Stage II Award to develop generic 3-D vision probe.
1995 : Winner of Yorkshire Innovation Competition.
1996 : DTI RIG Award to develop Transputer software for 3-D digitising.
2001 : Millennium Award to write website "A History of Hele".
2004 : Conservation Award, Barnstaple & District Civic Society.