Andy Polaine
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In 1994 Andy Polaine co-founded of award-winning new-media agency antirom in London and has worked with clients such as the BBC, the ABC, Poke London, Levis Strauss and Co. and The Science Museum. Antirom was born out of an arts background (it was initially funded by The Arts Council of Great Britain) and the self-titled CD-ROM is widely recognised as one of the few classics in the short history of multimedia. Antirom closed its doors in 1999.
Andy also spent a spell as a senior producer at Razorfish in London. Tired of the London life, Andy visited Australia in 1999 to travel, lecture and get a tan. Charmed by the lifestyle he moved to Sydney and started the interactive department of visual effects company, Animal Logic.
Andy left Animal Logic in 2001 and is was a Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media at UNSW's College of Fine Arts and Head of the School of Media Arts until he moved to Germany in 2006. He also works as a freelance designer and writer. He writes a column called Foreign Policy for Desktop magazine and occasionally for other publications. He has lectured, spoken and performed in various countries around the world.
Andy has just finished a temporary position as Professor of Design for New Media environments at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. He is currently completing a PhD at UTS on interactivity and play and continues to work with the Omnium Project and as a freelance interaction designer and writer.
His own blog can be found here at Playpen.
