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Dean Bruton Dean Bruton Born December 1951 Adelaide, South Australia, Field Author, Artist and Educator Training University of Adelaide Works (2012) Digital Design: a critical introduction Awards (1993) RMIT Eco-Educator Award Website deanbruton.com

Dr Dean Bruton PhD (Arch), MA (Hum), Adv Dip T (Art)

Australian artist and co-author of the book Digital Design: a critical introduction (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012) has research interests in visual art, architecture and design with a focus on: photographic representation, 3D digital modelling/animation, 3D printing/fabrication, compositing/visual effects for film/TV/game art and their relationship to visual languages.

Dr Bruton’s passion for art, design and especially photography started with a Kodak Box Brownie as a child and developed with a study of traditional media at art school. Since 1984 he has experimented by using computer software to augment photographic imagery. His teaching background in Digital Imaging, Web Design, 3D Installation Art, Multimedia and 3D visualisation included the role of Studio Head: New Media at the University of SA, Course Coordinator of the Master of Design with Digital Media at The University of Adelaide, Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH, Adelaide Chapter and Course Coordinator/Senior Lecturer: Visual Arts, School of Arts & Social Sciences, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW. His early writing featured a history of the introduction of contemporary art to South Australia, in Recollections: The Contemporary Art Society of SA 1942-86. In 2012 Berg published his co-authored book Digital Design: a critical introduction, based on his 1987 PhD, A Contingent Sense of Grammar. This traces the development of his art education pedagogy and contains examples of the authors’ works and extensive illustrations of theory by digital media students works.