Susan Alexis Collins (born 1964, London) is a British artist and academic. She is currently Slade Professor and Director of the Slade School of Fine Art in London, England. Biographical notes Collins studied Fine Art at Slade School where she graduated as a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in 1987. In the early 1990s she studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago after receiving a Fulbright Scholarship. Returning to England, she was appointed to set up the Electronic Media department at the Slade in 1995. The UCL Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art was founded in the same year. In 2005 she was appointed Head of the Undergraduate Fine Art Media area at Slade, in 2010 she became Head of Department and Director of the School. In 2013 she was appointed Slade Professor of Fine Art. As an artist Collins mainly works with digital media. Her 2002-03 project Tate in Space was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2004. Susan Collins has exhibited in the UK, Canada, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Turkey, Israel, Tasmania, Thailand, Mexico and Peru. Works of art (selection) In Conversation (1997-2001): an internet project in which users could talk to people in the street via an animated mouth. The project won the 2012 Dutch Kunstbeeld thesis prize. Classroom of the Future (2001-2005): a classroom design for Mossbrook Special School in Sheffield, a collaboration with architect Sarah Wigglesworth, which won an RSA Art for Architecture award. Collins added an interactive environment to Wigglesworth' building, consisting of a wildlife surveillance system, a camera obscura and an audio environment called the 'ballpool'. Tate in Space (2002): Collins invented this tongue-in-cheek project that aimed to establish a branch of the Tate Galleries in outer space. Part of the project, that included a spoof website, was the launch of the 'Tate Satellite' which was visible from earth. Underglow (2005-2006): the project consisted of illuminations of a number of drains in the vicinity of Guildhall Yard, King Street and Queen Street in the City of London, which were visible from dusk to dawn during the winter of 2005-06. The project was commissioned by the City of London Corporation and Modus Operandi as part of the 'Light Up Queen Street' programme. Fenlandia, Glenlandia, Harewood (2005-2014): a series of online project time-coding landscapes and cityscapes. The original commission was by Film and Video Umbrella and Norwich