The Bournemouth Event

Ruth Catlow

Gianni Corino

Kit Monkman and Tom Wexler, KMA

Helen Sloan has worked as a curator, researcher, writer, editor and producer in media arts and culture since late 1980s, contributing both as a freelancer and as a curator at organisations such as Camerawork, FACT, ICA and Site Gallery. She has directed festivals such as Across Two Cultures in Newcastle 1996 (an early event on the overlapping practice of creative thinking in arts and science) and Metapod, Birmingham 2001 - 2. Since 2003, she has been Director of SCAN, a networked organisation and creative development agency for media arts working on media arts projects and strategic initiatives in arts organisations, academic institutions and further aspects of the public realm. Based at Bournemouth University, SCAN's current projects look at digital arts and place; and high speed networks. Helen's other areas of interest and curatorial work include the points of intersection of science and culture, immersive environments, media arts and the creative economy, and nanotechnology.

http://www.scansite.org/scan.php

Ruth Catlow is an artist and educator. As co-founder and co-director of Furtherfield.org a grass roots media arts organisation & online platform and its gallery HTTP Gallery in North London, she works at the intersection of art, technology and social change. Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies.

Ruth is currently developing the artistic programme and organisational infrastructure with a focus on Media Art Ecologies, aspiring to engender shared visions and infrastructures for other possible worlds.

Ruth is an experienced producer and commissioner of successful co-devised, participatory artworks that utilise social technologies, events and performance in diverse settings. She regularly contributes to publications, books and conferences and has participated in exhibitions at CCA, Glasgow, The Baltic, Gateshead, Limehouse Town Hall, London as well as galleries in Zagreb, Madrid and Detroit and has work featured on the Rhizome Artbase and The Digital Kitchen. She was a recipient of a 2003 Low-fi Net Art Commission. She is adviser to Tiltfactor an independent games production lab that focuses on critical play. Ruth is Senior Lecturer at Writtle College where she runs undergraduate courses in Digital Art and Design Practices.

http://www.furtherfield.org/

Gianni Corino is currently Programme Leader and Lecturer in interactive media for the Digital Art and Technology courses at the University of Plymouth. For a while he joined the media industry creating and developing projects for big international firms (Ferrati, Burani, Albacom) but like Quixote, the puppet he built up a few years ago (www.quixote.it) he enjoys new challenges, socialising and exploring the world. So that’s why, after a few years spent in teaching and researching at Turin Polytechnic, he is now in Plymouth, UK.

Research interests are quite broad and focus on emerging media, space, memory, social agency and art. At present most of his research gravitates around the context of the internet of thing and its relationship with object and memory. Recent art works includes the dn[T]3 part of the S-Os exhibition at the PAC (Plymouth, UK) and a collaboration project with visual artist Chiara Boeri on a installation called Metrobosco based on the idea of participatory and ecological approach to urban redesign that was selected for Siggraph Art Galley 2007.

Kit Monkman and Tom Wexler (KMA)

KMA is a collaboration between UK media artists Kit Monkman and Tom Wexler. Their work is primarily focused on illuminating, encouraging, and developing, interactions between people in public spaces using projected light. KMA’s work creates large, immersive, sometimes networked, ‘digital playgrounds’, in which distinctions between audiences and performers disappear. The resulting social engagements reaffirm the urban community through embodied, rather than verbal, discourse.

http://www.kma.co.uk/

http://www.nealwhite.org

http://www.o-o-e.org

Kate Southworth is an artist and also leads the iRes Research Group in Network Art at University College Falmouth. Her current research interests focus on the use of distributed protocol in contemporary art and curatorial practices, the genealogy of protocol in art, and the historical relation between protocol and the feminine across different media and art forms. In 2007 she organised the Disrupting Narratives conference at Tate Modern that brought together some of the world’s leading media theorists, artists and researchers to explore narrative and protocol in contemporary art. Together with Patrick Simons she is a founding member of the art collective Glorious Ninth. As well as making audio-visual generative art, they devise DIY installations and everyday performances that are disseminated through distributed networks. Their work has been exhibited in academic, gallery and online contexts. With a background in Fine Art Kate received an MSc in Multimedia Systems in 1997. She has taught media arts at universities in London and Dublin, and from 2002-2007 was Course Leader of MA Interactive Art & Design at University College Falmouth.

http://www.ires.org.uk

http://www.gloriousninth.net/