Scott Becker(II)

In the mold of the perennial outsider artist, Scott Becker has attracted attention from world audiences at various art festivals and new media exhibitions for the last two decades. Originally educated in the fine arts as a printmaker in the American Midwest, he went on to work in the advertising industry as both an art director and commercial photographer but he soon found his real calling in a series of computer interactive and Internet based multimedia projects. His anarchistic self-produced videos first appeared upon Chicago's WTTW's Image Union program in the early 1980s. by the mid 1980s he had conducted a three year photographic documentation of the historically rich Lexington Hotel of Al Capone infamy. He has been a regular on the 'new media' circuit participating internationally in exhibitions and festivals such as Commune di Riccione's Bit.Movie '1996, Troyes Pixel 1997, Zoom's 1st (R) EVOLUTION held in Milan, Italy as well as Internationales Rotario Paris/Berlin held in 2003. As of this new millenium he has received both a 'Best Foreign Artist' award and 'Best Animation' award at Computer Space 2001 and 2004 respectively.