Dr. Anthony (aka Tony) Brooks has been an experienced renown international speaker, Medialogist, Professor and senior researcher at Aalborg University, Denmark for over twenty years. He is referred to as an avant garde and pioneering artist with numerous credits over his mature body of work, acknowledged as a third culture thinker, and world leading is applying his pioneering transdisciplinary research in applying digital interactive media in human performance situations (performance art, installation and exhibition, workshops, healthcaser, non-medical (re)habilitation and well-being) where initiatives have been awarded international and national prizes. The research has been responsible for gaining numerous large-scale multi-million dollars in external funding resulting in international and national projects as well as establishing an industry start-up company, a commercial product, and a family of patents on his ‘communication method and apparatus’. His work has originated the concepts of ‘Virtual Interactive Space’ (VIS), ‘Aesthetic Resonance’, ‘ArtAbilitation’, ‘GameAbilitation’, ‘AquAbilitation’ and more as 'brands'. His many decades of research have developed the modular SoundScapes ’system’ (method and apparatus) that sits on the cusp between distinct disciplines. His PhD on this subject was from the University of Sunderland, UK. He is a Fellow of ICAT and EAI.
Brooks’ body of work has been presented globally and he has approximately 250 publications, including fifteen books – with titles “Creating Digitally” (2023), and a trilogy of volumes (2014, 2017, and 2021) on “Technologies for Inclusive Well-being”, these exemplifying his scope of coverage. He has invited speaker credits at - the United Nations headquarters in New York, USA; IBM headquarters Armonk, NY, USA; Xerox headquarters, Grenoble, France, and many more including approximately 50 keynotes. He has also been steering person, organizing chair and co-chair of numerous international conferences with the most notable being the annual event that he founded under the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) as ArtsIT (2009).
Under Aalborg University, he was a founder of the Medialogy education wherein he was also section leader, study board member, lecturer and supervisor. Aligned, his proactive recruiting of international students led to the education growing to be the largest number of student intake numbers across three university campuses and in 2004, Brooks originated, established, and led the ‘SensoramaLab” Virtual Reality Complex (including Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Interactive media, HCI, Games, Human Performance, Playful Learning, Co-Design and Co-Creating and more).
Amongst Brooks’ numerous credits are that he has been a coordination board member of the European Network for Intelligent Information Interfaces (i3net – established 1996) and since 2004 has been active working for the European Commission and other international funding organizations as evaluator, rapporteur, and expert reviewer of project applications. He was also an active member of the Global Education Team (GET) presenting around the world.
Brooks’ interactive art was first featured at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London in 1978-9; he was first ’artist in residence’ at the Centre for Advanced Visualisation and Interactivity (CAVI), Aarhus University in Denmark, and his various works have been featured at major (and not-so-major) events around the world.
Brooks is Danish representative for UNESCO’s International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical committee (WG14) on “Entertainment Computing” – specifically under work groups WG14.7 “Art and Entertainment”; WG14.8 “Serious Games”, and WG 14.9 “Game Accessibility”. Under the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) he has steered the International Conference ArtsIT [Arts & Technology, Interactivity and Game Creation] since 2009 (see http://artsit.org ). He is a coordination board member of the Video Games Culture (VGC) initiative.
See more at – https://vbn.aau.dk/da/persons/103302 and ORCID is at https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1334-6230