Keith Tyson (born August 23, 1969) is an English artist. August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the British Isles Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked 1st UK... Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. ...

Tyson was born in Ulverston in Cumbria and studied art at the College of Art in Carlisle before going to the University of Brighton. His first solo show was in 1995. Map sources for Ulverston at grid reference SD285780 Arms of Ulverston Town Council Ulverston is a market town in the (administrative) county of Cumbria in north-west England. ... Cumbria is a county in the North West region of England. ... Winged Victory of Samothrace exihibited in the Louvre. ... Cumbria Institute of the Arts is a further and higher education institution in Carlisle, the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the English city. ... // University of Brighton Logo © University of Brighton The University of Brighton (formerly Brighton Polytechnic until its re-designation in 1992) is a multi-site university based in the city of Brighton & Hove (England). ...

His works often bring scientific thought into art. He has used something called the Artmachine since 1991, a methodology whereby raw materials are turned into suggestions for artworks. As a result of this process, Tyson has made casts in lead of the contents of a Kentucky Fried Chicken menu and dropped a thimble of paint off a building, among other things. Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Science For the scientific journal named Science, see Science (journal). ... One half of a bronze mold for casting a socketed spear head dated to the period 1400-1000 BC. This article is about the manufacturing process. ... This article is about the chemical element. ... Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) is a division of Yum! Brands, Inc. ...

Tyson represented Britain in the 2001 Venice Biennale. One of the pieces shown there was The Thinker (After Rodin), a black hexagonal structure containing a bank of computers which gave out a constant hum. View of Pump Room, a work by the Hungarian artist Balázs Kicsiny at the Venice Biennale in 2005. ... A computer is a machine capable of undergoing complex calculations. ...

In 2002, Tyson won the Turner Prize. The other artists shortlisted for the prize were Fiona Banner, Liam Gillick and Catherine Yass. The British government's Culture Minister, Kim Howells, had visited the exhibition of the four's work at Tate Britain and left a note calling it "cold mechanical, conceptual bullshit", thus adding to the prize's customary controversy. The Turner Prize is an annual prize given to a British visual artist under 50, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner. ... Catherine Yass (born 1963) is an English artist. ... Dr Kim Scott Howells (born November 27, 1946 in Merthyr Tydfil) is a Labour politician in Wales, and member of Parliament for Pontypridd. ... Tate Britain is a part of the Tate Gallery in Britain, along with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. ...

In a major feature in the London Sunday Times on November 30, 2003, the writer Tony Barrell said that Tyson had been dubbed the "mad professor" of art, owing to his obsessions with physics, philosophy, probability, computers, astronomy, science fiction and experimentation. Barrell said that he could equally be labelled the "Anti-Hirst", since he is as passionate about the miracle of life as the artist Damien Hirst seems to be about the inevitability of death. In an interview with Barrell, Tyson also confessed to having a "big gambling problem" and compared the game of roulette to "a religious experience". The Sunday Times is the name of several Sunday newspapers. ... Tony Barrell is a British journalist, known for his humour and his exploration of the unusual and the unexplained. ... Damien Hirst (born 7th June 1965 in Bristol) is a British artist and probably the most famous of the group that has been dubbed Young British Artists (or YBAs). ...

in 2005 Tyson had a solo exhibition in New York's Pacewildenstein Gallery entitled "Geno Pheno" which explored the paradoxical nature of causality and creativity through a series of diptychs. Characteristically, a "casino night" was organised for people attending the show's opening.