Sue Gollifer (b. 1944) has enjoyed a sixty-year career as an influential expert in the world of digital arts – taking on the roles of an artist, curator, administrator, researcher and academic, including, most notably, at the University of Brighton, where she initiated one of the first Master of Arts (MA) post-graduate programmes in Digital Media Arts. In the 1990s, she set up the CADE conference (Computers in Art and Design Education) and curated the ArCade series of exhibitions –the first UK Open International Biennale Exhibition of Digital Fine Art Prints, which toured internationally. She has sat on numerous advisory boards in this field, including ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Arts), where she ran the International H.Q. for 15 years, and SIGGRAPH (the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, part of the Association for Computing Machinery in the United States, including chairing the art show in 2004. In 2006, she was awarded an iDMAa (International Digital Media Arts Award) for her 'Exceptional Services to the International New Media Community'.