The Falmouth Event

The Falmouth Event
The Falmouth event seeks to explore some of the political, ethical and aesthetic considerations of data visualisation and auralisation within art.
 
Venue - University College Falmouth
 
Date - 10th May 2010
 
Speakers:

Charlotte Frost will give an introductory talk on The Culture of Online Production and Presentation
 
The speakers presenting data visualisation and auralisation projects and particpating in the chaired debate are:

Lise Autogena

Ele Carpenter

Tom Corby

Patrick Simons
 
Debate Chaired by:
Helen Sloan
 

Charlotte Frost will give an introductory talk on The Culture of Online Production and Presentation.

Dr Charlotte Frost is an arts writer/academic focusing on the intersection of art and technology. A specialist in the impact of internet tools on art history/criticism, her other research interests include: the history of Digital art; the culture of online art production and presentation; the hidden technicity of art historical discourse; emergent art critical practices and broadcast technologies. Producing reviews and discussion on Digital art/New Media art/Computer art for more than ten years, she has worked online and off with a variety of organisations including Furtherfield.org, Rhizome and a-n.

She completed her PhD on the effects of internet archival technicity on art historical thinking in 2009 and her book chapter ‘Internet Art History 2.0’ was published in Revisualising Visual Culture (edited by Chris Bailey and Hazel Gardiner for Ashgate Press) in February 2010. She gave a paper in the session ‘Digital Continuities’ at the 2010 Annual Conference of the Association of Art Historians addressing web tools and their thematic contributions to art historical discourse. Currently she leads the ‘Art and Design Culture’ module on the FdA Digital Art and Design at Writtle School of Design (where she also teaches social media skills for creatives).

Meanwhile, she runs PhD2Published, a blog offering academic book publishing advice and resources for first timers. A presenter on the radio show Furtherfield.org on Resonance FM, she also recently contributed to a video for the Guardian on artist Jill Magid’s Tate Modern show ‘Authority to Remove’.

 
Lise Autogena will give a brief introduction to her data visualisation projects.

Lise Autogena is a Danish artist, based in London. She works across disciplines on projects ranging from research into the organisation of alternative communities to systems and technologies for mapping and visualising live global data. She is a lecturer in the Department of Art and Cultures at University of Newcastle and directs Autogena Projects together with Joshua Portway.

http://www.autogena.org

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/staff/profile/lise.autogena
 
Ele Carpenter will discuss the relationship between the material and immaterial characteristics of the Html Patchwork and associated artworks.

Ele Carpenter is a curator and artist based in the UK and Sweden. She teaches on the MFA Curating at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at HUMlab in affiliation with Bildmuseet at the University of Umea, Sweden. Her curatorial practice responds to specific socio-political cultural contexts in collaboration with individuals, groups and organisations. Her research has written, curatorial and creative outcomes.

Since 2005 Ele has been hosting the Open Source Embroidery project using embroidery and code as a tool to investigate participatory production and distribution methods. The Open Source Embroidery exhibition presents contemporary artwork which explores how the open source software development model has been incorporated into the language of cultural participation. The exhibition includes material and digital works that make visible the physical characteristics of technology and social communications networks.

Ele received her PhD on the relationship between politicised socially engaged art and new media art, with CRUMB at the University of Sunderland in 2008; and was previously Curator, NGCA Sunderland (1997-2002); Associate Curator, CCA Glasgow (2003-5).
 

Tom Corby will talk about two data visualisation projects.

Tom Corby is a senior lecturer at the University of Westminster. He studied Fine Art at Middlesex University (1987) and completed his PhD at Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2001. His research is concerned with relocating digital imaging processes within wider aesthetic and critical frameworks and is the editor of the book "Network Art: Practices and Positions" (Routledge 2005), which explores how artists have extendended the Internet's social and digital architectures.

http://www.reconnoitre.net/
 
Patrick Simons will give a brief introduction to his data auralisation work.

Patrick Simons is a composer and sound artist. Together with Kate Southworth he 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 social networks. Their work has been exhibited in academic, gallery and online contexts. Patrick presents a weekly radio show playing contemporary classical music and sound art. He was a professional musician for eleven years, and also co-ordinated and managed community arts projects with various culturally diverse community groups. Patrick has a BA(Hons)in Humanities from Manchester Polytechnic and an MA in Twentieth Century Art & Design: Histories and Theories from University College Falmouth.

http://www.drunkenboat.com/db7/

http://www.gloriousninth.net/
 

Helen Sloan will chair the debate.

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
 
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/
 
 
The Falmouth Event
The Falmouth event seeks to explore some of the political, ethical and aesthetic considerations of data visualisation and auralisation within art.
 
Venue - University College Falmouth
 
Date - 10th May 2010
 
Speakers:

Charlotte Frost will give an introductory talk on The Culture of Online Production and Presentation
 
The speakers presenting data visualisation and auralisation projects and particpating in the chaired debate are:

Lise Autogena

Ele Carpenter

Tom Corby

Patrick Simons
 
Debate Chaired by:
Helen Sloan
 

Charlotte Frost will give an introductory talk on The Culture of Online Production and Presentation.

Dr Charlotte Frost is an arts writer/academic focusing on the intersection of art and technology. A specialist in the impact of internet tools on art history/criticism, her other research interests include: the history of Digital art; the culture of online art production and presentation; the hidden technicity of art historical discourse; emergent art critical practices and broadcast technologies. Producing reviews and discussion on Digital art/New Media art/Computer art for more than ten years, she has worked online and off with a variety of organisations including Furtherfield.org, Rhizome and a-n.

She completed her PhD on the effects of internet archival technicity on art historical thinking in 2009 and her book chapter ‘Internet Art History 2.0’ was published in Revisualising Visual Culture (edited by Chris Bailey and Hazel Gardiner for Ashgate Press) in February 2010. She gave a paper in the session ‘Digital Continuities’ at the 2010 Annual Conference of the Association of Art Historians addressing web tools and their thematic contributions to art historical discourse. Currently she leads the ‘Art and Design Culture’ module on the FdA Digital Art and Design at Writtle School of Design (where she also teaches social media skills for creatives).

Meanwhile, she runs PhD2Published, a blog offering academic book publishing advice and resources for first timers. A presenter on the radio show Furtherfield.org on Resonance FM, she also recently contributed to a video for the Guardian on artist Jill Magid’s Tate Modern show ‘Authority to Remove’.

 
Lise Autogena will give a brief introduction to her data visualisation projects.

Lise Autogena is a Danish artist, based in London. She works across disciplines on projects ranging from research into the organisation of alternative communities to systems and technologies for mapping and visualising live global data. She is a lecturer in the Department of Art and Cultures at University of Newcastle and directs Autogena Projects together with Joshua Portway.

http://www.autogena.org

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/staff/profile/lise.autogena
 
Ele Carpenter will discuss the relationship between the material and immaterial characteristics of the Html Patchwork and associated artworks.

Ele Carpenter is a curator and artist based in the UK and Sweden. She teaches on the MFA Curating at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at HUMlab in affiliation with Bildmuseet at the University of Umea, Sweden. Her curatorial practice responds to specific socio-political cultural contexts in collaboration with individuals, groups and organisations. Her research has written, curatorial and creative outcomes.

Since 2005 Ele has been hosting the Open Source Embroidery project using embroidery and code as a tool to investigate participatory production and distribution methods. The Open Source Embroidery exhibition presents contemporary artwork which explores how the open source software development model has been incorporated into the language of cultural participation. The exhibition includes material and digital works that make visible the physical characteristics of technology and social communications networks.

Ele received her PhD on the relationship between politicised socially engaged art and new media art, with CRUMB at the University of Sunderland in 2008; and was previously Curator, NGCA Sunderland (1997-2002); Associate Curator, CCA Glasgow (2003-5).
 

Tom Corby will talk about two data visualisation projects.

Tom Corby is a senior lecturer at the University of Westminster. He studied Fine Art at Middlesex University (1987) and completed his PhD at Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2001. His research is concerned with relocating digital imaging processes within wider aesthetic and critical frameworks and is the editor of the book "Network Art: Practices and Positions" (Routledge 2005), which explores how artists have extendended the Internet's social and digital architectures.

http://www.reconnoitre.net/
 
Patrick Simons will give a brief introduction to his data auralisation work.

Patrick Simons is a composer and sound artist. Together with Kate Southworth he 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 social networks. Their work has been exhibited in academic, gallery and online contexts. Patrick presents a weekly radio show playing contemporary classical music and sound art. He was a professional musician for eleven years, and also co-ordinated and managed community arts projects with various culturally diverse community groups. Patrick has a BA(Hons)in Humanities from Manchester Polytechnic and an MA in Twentieth Century Art & Design: Histories and Theories from University College Falmouth.

http://www.drunkenboat.com/db7/
http://www.gloriousninth.net/
 

Helen Sloan will chair the debate.

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
 
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/