Recent & Forthcoming Projects and Activities:
Mid July - Contributor to Conference at LSE, London on Artistic Research
30th June -
Contributor to Seminar in Marseille on International Collaborations in Research and Art/Science
16th
June - Panel participation at Conference on Design, University of Northumbria
May 25th - Presentation
in Bilbao at Alhondiga Event about
Visual Arts and the Crisis of Globalization Models
https://www.alhondigabilbao.com/web/guest/detalle-evento/-/journal_content/56_INSTANCE_X4xV/10140/87755;jsessionid=3DB38F6AEED56A265F63F7F961197E1D.node1?last-page=/web/guest/526?last-page=/web/guest/529
May 12th-19th To China, Shanghai and Beijing, for planning sessions for Ageing and Co-Design Summer School
(Royal College of Art and Tsinghua University partnership) September 2010
May 4th - Presentation on Impact
at LCACE symposium for doctoral researchers at Queen Mary, University of London
28th April - presentation
of essay on Value in Arts and Academia to Roundtable of leading Academics and Cultural Managers, Somerset House, London
10th-12th April - Speaker at GEAR UP events and conference in Colvilha Portugal on Practice-Based Research
in UK
To Cluj, Romania - 19th February-21st February 2010 for E-Tribal Arts
events and exhibition curated by Alt Art - showing Jumeleizhi project (www.jumeleizhi.net)
Presentation
on 4th March at Impact seminar in Leeds University - about LCACE commissioned essay (http://www.lcace.org.uk/publications/2010/towards-ecologies-of-learning-enhancing-relations-between-arts-and-academia.html)
Invitation to join Prix Ars Electronica
Hybrid Arts Jury 2010
Contribution
to publication (forthcoming February 2010 with launch and exhibition at Architectural Association ) about MinimaForms - artists/architects
- based in London and New York
Completion
of essay on the Value of the Arts to Higher Education in London, for London Consortium of Cultural Entrepreneurship organisation,
for publication January 2010
Invitation
to join editorial board of new journal, Culture and Innovation (Intellect Books)
2009
November: Participation in Sergio Motta Prize, Sao Paulo, Brazil: Advisory
input for anniversary series
November: Speaker at Art, Technology and Environment event at University in Florianopolis on Santa Catarina
in South East Brasil
18th October - Queen Mary College London (venue tbc) Presentation about
the value of arts led practice to academia (part of LCACE series funded by Arts Council London)
23rd September: AND Festival in Liverpool and Manchester: Speaker at Conference on Digital Culture re Art and
Law
16th September - Launch of Brazil/UK Research Councils Memorandum
of Understanding - Presentation on UK/Brazil cultural developments
9th September - Speaker at British Festival of Science Event at University
of Surrey/Farnham College of Art & Design: on 'Art, Science & Beyond' http://www.britishscienceassociation.org
17th July : Panel participant at Arts Council
England organised conference in London, at Sadlers Wells - addressing digital rights and the position of artists/arts organisations.
Other panel members inlcude Jamie King and Gavin Wade.
24th-26th July: I am off to Sofia to take part in the E-Tribalisation workshop. Organizers
statement & context: "The time of global retribalization
is now. Social dynamics becomes unbound by geography, but dissipates in a maze of shallow communication. As communication
mazes fill or unfill with meaning, communities (tribes) sink and emerge, capable of asserting notable -even global - power
at the height of their tide. As tribes unite or collapse, migrate and change shape, so do their ways of negotiating value
and truth".
The project brings together 12 international artists to test new ways of reaching electronic tribes with their work,
to see how is the art discourse altered in this context, to test the difference an artwork cand make in an electronic tribe.
During the 10 month process artists explore new perspectives on communicating with audiences and brings electronic communities
a deeper understanding of the new social structures they are engaging.
June 2009: Launch
of Digital Culture in Brazil report in Sao Paulo (co-authored with Felipe Fonseca)
June 2009: Launch
of '8' series of articles about BBC/AHRC KNowledge Exchange collaborative programme, - contributed essay
May 2009: Netherlands
Media Institute, Amsterdam - presentation on mapping digital culture in Brazil
May 2009: Launch
of E-Culture Mapping Publication and Walled Garden Publication, at Virtueel Platform, Amsterdam - contributed two essays
March/April 2009: Attending
Paralelo workshop and symposium in Sao Paulo - lead on evaluation and research
March 2009: Launch of Digital Culture in Brazil report in the Netherlands.
January 2009: Houses
of Happiness Event at Transmediale Festival (also on jury).
2008
Essay for Arts Council England: 'Rethinking Ownership'.
November 2008: Walled
Garden event in Amsterdam; led group working on the Network as Laboratory. the Laboratory as Network
November 2008: Workshop Leader
at THE WALLED GARDEN event in Amsterdam organised by Virtueel Platform organisation leading group topic THE NETWORK IS THE
LABORATORY.
November 2008 - Consultancy for British Council in London and Sao Paulo related to a
Media Arts & Environment Networking event in Brasl next spring
28th
October 2008: Meeting in Sao Paulo to discuss SICA Cultural Survey of Brasilian Artforms - we're working on the Media/Digital
Cultural element
October 2008: Transmediale Festival 09 - Berlin: Jury : http://www.transmediale.de
September 2008: Ars Electronica - Linz: Contribution to Panel: Pixel - Ipermanence, about
Nomadic Media, convened by Naut Humon, of Recombinant Media Labs, San Francisco.
September 2008: Attendance at PICNIC Festival in Amsterdam as writer/artist/observer
July 2008: Moderated workshop group at ASEF meeting on New Media Practice
and Policy in Singapore
2008 ongoing: Senior
Visiting Tutor with responsibility for research and development of Lab for IDE Department at Royal College of Art including
Systems of Learning series considering ways in which memory, feedback and interaction can take place within systems and across
disciplines and fields. Speakers so far have included Matt Ratto, Lev Manovich, Ranulh Glanville, Ed Burton. Felipe Fonseca,
MwtaReciclagem, Ricardo Ruiz DesCentro and Carlos Villela, Thoughtworks. See
documentation of latest event, Brasilian Media Ecologies and Decentred/Distributed Learning (http://pub.descentro.org/wiki/brazilian_medialogies_system_learnings) July 2008: Meeting in Sao Paulo as part
of The Netherlands Survey of Cultural Activities in Brasil
June 2008: Presentation at Remix on Artists Contribution to Scientific Research at Leonardo/University of Berkeley
Conference in San Francisco, Osmosis Panel. Documentation can be seen via http://www.leonardo.info/isast/pastevents.html#NewMediaUCB
May 2008: Visit to Tsinghua University, Beijing and Tongji
University, Shanghai, research and development visit for RCA
March
2008: Presenter/participant in TransForma workshop at Casa da Musica, Porto -
on topic of Creative Cities
2007
Work
on 'The Artists Guide to Legal Literacy' initiative for Arts Council England with Tom Fleming Associates, Sarah Andrew and
Simon Stokes including advisory role on development of prototype website
December 2007: Sao
Paulo, Brasil, lead consultant for AHRC and British Foreign Office organised conference on Innovation and Investment in Research
and the Creative Economy as part of the UK/Brasil Year of Science and Innovation. Topics included changing media environment
and associated impact on models of research, ownership challenges and knowledge transfer in national and international context.
November 2007: Mutamorphosis conference in Prague: Bronac co-authored
a paper called 'Extremophiles' with Matt Ratto; see abstract at http://mutamorphosis.org
October 2007: Participation in Art and Law workshop related to use of
personal and biographical material in interdisciplinary artworks held at King's College Cambridge
September 2007: Participation
in second Uncommon Ground conference in Amsterdam - co-editor of publication on artists working across sectors and disciplines
and researcher on case studies with Garrick Jones, David Garcia, Geke, Bas Raijmakers, Cathy Brickwood and The Virtueel Platform
July 2007: Convener of workshop with international and Brasilian
representatives of art, design, science, technology, ecology, business and education; in Sergipe, north east Brasil to help
inform development of a centre for cultural development in an area of environmental fragility, natural beauty and human poverty.
April 2007: Participation in inaugural workshop organised by Leonardo Scientists Network
in San Francisco, see 'Where, When, What, Why and Who' - http://www.thymos.com/leonardo.html