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Stanley Jones and Eduardo Kac in conversation at Curwen Studio with me beside (photo: Andy Robinson)

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Karen Ingham: Variance (2011)

 2012 Activities: see www.visualisecambridge.org


2011 - Activities:
14th December 2011:  Presentation about Research and International Collaborations, invited by the Cultural Capital Exchange. 
9th December 2011 - Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool: Launch of 'Human Craft' a book about artist Gina Czernecki's work (contributed foreword)
Writing essay for book to be published February 2012 about work of artist Fernando Velazquez,  Sao-Paulo based, born in Uruguay
Development work on BR116 with Zecora Ura Theatre Company (UK-Brasil) and Lume, Campinas, Sao Paulo State, Brasil on Research Networking Proposal
Development work on Event One+ - with Computer Art Society, Birkeck College and Print Programme, Royal College of Art
Development work on Cultural Olympiad Project for 'Expo' in Preston, September 2012 - with FACT, AND, Zecora Ura - to link to N E Brasil. 
Preparing chapter on bioart, medicine and ethics for book next year 
Planning for Visualise Curated Programme of Exhibitions and Events at Anglia Ruskin University January-July 2012; preparing exhibitions by London Fieldworks, Liliane Lijn and Jamie Allen, Susan Aldworth and Karen Inghams, Eduardo Kac, William Latham, etc.  www.visualisecambridge.org
November 2011:
Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property:  I was invited by Intellectual Property Institute in London to be one of four respondents to presentation by Ian Hargreaves on Tuesday 15th November. 
Queens House at Greenwich Maritime Museum - invited to give presentation about Education and Intellectual Property in the light of the Hargreaves Review- Tuesday 22nd November. Organised by Association for Cultural Enterprises and Museums Copyright Group. 
Organised Talk event by Naut Humon, at Anglia Ruskin University - as part of Guest Curator role there for Visualise Public Art Programme 
October 2011:
26th October 2011 Talk at Fine Art Reseach Unit event at Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge on 'Public Art within Gallery Contexts'... 
19th October - Organised 'Visualise: negotiating spaces for art' programme talk featuringng London  Fieldworks at the Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge
5th October - Organised 'Visualise: negotiating spaces for art' programme talk featuring Helen Couchman and Duncan Speakman at the Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge 
September 2011:  
30th September ABANDON NORMAL DEVICES festival in Liverpool: Chaired symposium on 'How to be a Resident?' at  Bluecoat Art Centre
29th September Coded Cultures Vienna - Presentation on Future Fluxus at Urania in Vienna  
16th September - Invited Speaker at Zecora Ura's Route 261 Event Brazil-UK Exchange 
21st September -  Invited Panelist for Intellectual Property Organisation event  'Understanding the Use and Impact of Design Rights on the Design Sector ' (during London Design Week)
30th September  - Invited Speaker on Residencies at Abandon Normal Devices Festival in Liverpool
'Drying the Buddhas' Tears' essay - part of STILL exhibition touring to METAL Liverpool from Southend on Sea  
August - Appointed Guest Curator for 'Visualise' Public Programme at Anglia Ruskin University (through to July 2012) 
Essay - Drying the Buddhas' Tears - published in catalogue for exhibition STILL; CONFLICT, CONSERVATION AND CONTEMPLATION - Private View at METAL, Southend on Sea, 14th July 2011
 http://metalculture.com/southend-on-sea/still-conflict-conservation-and-contemplation.html 

April 2011 - completed essay commissioned by Proboscis about their work - have called it: 'In Through a Dark Lens: the Proboscis Effect'...see www.proboscis.org.uk/2665/in-through-a-dark-lens-by-bronac-ferran
April 2011 - Writing essay commissioned by Royal College of Art about Brazil art and technology
APril/May 2011 - Writing catalogue essay commissioned by Simon Poulter and METAL for touring exhibition curated by Simon called STILL to open in July in Southend then travelling to Liverpool in 2011. Theme: water
May 2011 - Hybrid Arts Jury, Prix Ars Electronica,Linz 
25th-26th February 2011 - Barcelona - workshop and  panel discussion about art and science collaborations.  The workshop on Friday afternoon will involve various science researchers as well as engineers and designers and we will explore the challenges and fears involved in worki  http://www.artssantamonica.cat/default.aspx
9th March 2011 - I invited to contribute to a workshop about water and sustainability at Southend on Sea in Essex in England which is convened by Peter Thornton and will be chaired by Jude Kelly (OBE) in association with METAL the artists project in Southend and elsewhere.  Others attending include designers, artists, engineers and policy-makers.  My first visit to Southend on Sea!

Recent Events
Article drawing from keynote at 'The Lovely Weather' conference in Donegal in November published in Leonardo Transactions www.leonardo-transactions.com/announcements
Article co-authored with Professor Paul Ulhas Macneill on Art and Bioethics: Shifts in Understanding Across Genres, published in Springer Online Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
21st January 2011 - Presentation at Brazil: The Cultural Contemporary conference at Royal College of Art. My paper addressed aspects of the Brasilian cultural imaginary from the perspective of invention and innovation.

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 Projects and Activities 2010:

12th-14th November 2010 -  Keynote Presentation at 'Lovely Weather' Art and Climate Change Conference in Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland

30th September - 3rd October - Participant/Presenter at Arte Mov Symposium and Events in Salvador de Bahia

September 12th-19th - DESIGN AGE RESEARCH EXCHANGE SUMMER SCHOOL, convenor/curator for Royal College of Art & Tsinghua University, held in Beijing - first joint summer school with participants from China and UK

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


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Solar Hills, Protoype Installation, November 2007
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Liliane Lijn and John Vallerja

Beau Lotto: Bee Matrix
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Dublin Science Gallery Installation

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Beta-Tank, artist/designers working sometimes at lottolab

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RCA IDE Interdisciplinary Lab at Imperial College
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Picture: Yaroslav Tencer

Beau Lotto in Dublin for Festival of Light event
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From Bee Matrix
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Beau Lotto's installation at Dublin Science Gallery