Apologies for interrupting the discussion this Monday morning. We just wanted to introduce you to our new post-doctoral research associates who have joined CRUMB for the next three months with thanks to funding from the AHRC. We have an artist and a curator with us, both engaging in practice-led research around questions of the production and distribution of art after new media, with some planned public-facing cultural engagement outputs. Stay tuned!
Nora O Murchú is a curator and designer. Her research at CRUMB explores experimental approaches to curating new media art and examines current economic, political and cultural factors that are shaping networked culture, and the artistic responses to them. She received her PhD in 2012 from the University of Limerick. Her research examined online practices of open source users and provides an in-depth analysis of this practice for an Interaction Design context. In addition she suggests curation as a research method for Interactions designers, and provides a detailed account of how this methodology can foster creative innovation for end-users to work as designers in the context of their everyday lives. She has worked as a research associate for the Interaction Design Centre (www.idc.ul.ie<http://www.idc.ul.ie>) at the University of Limerick, and the Interaction Research Studio at Goldsmiths (www.gold.ac.uk/interaction<http://www.gold.ac.uk/interaction>), where she has consulted on a broad range of topics, including open-ended design methods, health informatics, and web platforms. She was a researcher on the Tidy Street project — an EPSRC project (www.changeproject.info<http://www.changeproject.info>) between the Open University and Goldsmiths that examined the shared energy practices of a small community in Brighton, England. She is the founder and creative director of Tweak (www.tweak.ie<http://www.tweak.ie>) - a digital art and electronic music festival that took place in Ireland from 2008 - 2010. She has produced exhibitions and events (www.openhere.data.ie<http://www.openhere.data.ie>) for Trinity College Dublin (www.tcd.ie<http://www.tcd.ie>) and the Science Gallery (www.sciencegallery.ie<http://www.sciencegallery.ie>) and has curated the work of Golan Levin, Casey Reas, field.io, Anthony Antonellis, Daniel Miller, Gregory Chatonsky, Tristan Perich, and Benjamin Gaulon.
Isabella Streffen is an artist who recently completed her PhD – ‘I Spy With My Military Eye: strategies of military vision and their use in fine art practice’ – at Newcastle University. She works across media to examine and respond to fundamental problems of politics, perception, technology and narrative. Since 2009 she has been artist-in–residence at the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Hadrian’s Wall, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and the Library of Congress, where she explored the interfaces between cultural and political institutions.
http://isabellastreffen.net
http://www.the5x5project.com/bios/richard-hollinshead/isabella-streffen/
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Dr. Sarah Cook
Reader
MA Curating Module Leader
Faculty of Arts, Design and Media
University of Sunderland
Curator for the Festival of New Media and Video, Transitio_MX05 "Biomediations", September 20-29, 2013 in Mexico City
Co-editor and co-founder, The Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss, www.crumbweb.org<http://www.crumbweb.org>
Read our books:
Euphoria & Dystopia: The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues.
http://www.banffcentre.ca/press/39/euphoria-and-dystopia.mvc
Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12071
A Brief History of Curating New Media Art, and A Brief History of Working with New Media Art.
http://www.thegreenbox.net
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