Hello CRUMB list

 

It was a great pleasure to spend some time with Beryl and colleagues this
week at the Open Data Institute. As promised, here is ‘hot off the press’
information about our plans for this years’ Data as Culture programme. We’re
thrilled to announce will be welcoming Thomson & Craighead and Natasha
Caruana as artists in residence. Both artists will be creating new works and
Julie Freeman and I would be very interested in any potential partnership
conversations! 

 

Best wishes

 

Hannah

 

Press release

For immediate release: Friday 27th February 2015

 

Critically acclaimed artists join Open Data Institute’s Data as Culture
programme

 

Thomson & Craighead and Natasha Caruana to be first Artists in Residence 

 

The Open Data Institute (ODI) is marking the start of its third Data as
Culture season, by introducing its first Artists in Residence, the
internationally acclaimed artists Thomson & Craighead and Natasha Caruana.

 

The artists join Data as Culture 3, with the newly appointed Associate
Curator in Residence, Hannah Redler. The appointments support the ODI's
growing commitment to working with practising artists who respond to open
data as a subject and material, and can create works that build an
understanding of the role of data in culture.

 

The residencies will explore the implications of an emerging open data
ecosystem, including social interactions, habits and future behavioural
trends. In addition to exhibition space, the ODI is providing the residents
with unprecedented access to its expert staff and associates, in-depth open
data training, a residency fee, and a space to develop and further invest in
their ideas. 

 

Hannah Redler, Associate Curator in Residence at the ODI said:

 

“The Data as Culture art programme is defined by a commitment to open data
culture. I’m very excited about working with Thomson & Craighead and Natasha
Caruana to imagine and speculate on the many questions the ODI’s work
raises. Artists are renowned for their ability to critically unearth new
perspectives of emerging cultural and social spaces and its meaning to
communities and individuals. I’m expecting to have lots of fun, be
challenged, provoked and pleasingly surprised by the works produced, as we
open the ODI to the critical minds of some of the UK’s most exciting
artists.” 

 

Thomson & Craighead’s residency will begin in February and run to June 2015.
Caruana’s residency will begin in July and end in December 2015. The
artists’ existing works will be exhibited at the ODI during their
residencies and their free solo exhibitions will be open to all.

 

Thomson & Craighead said:

 

“We’re looking forward to working as embedded artists at the ODI and
exploring its multifaceted work and research.  Much of our own artwork to
date looks at what it means to aggregate and interconnect large bodies of
information, while considering how mechanisms like the world wide web alter,
extend and distort our understanding of the world around us. The ODI offers
a fertile environment for us to learn so much more about this, and we can’t
wait to see what can come of the time we spend there.”

 

Natasha Caruana comments:

 

“My art practice to date has always dabbled with data, looking at statistics
of love and infidelity. To be given this opportunity, as artist in residence
at the ODI will push my previous pseudo-analysis head-first into the world
of data. I’m very excited to create a new body of work supported by the ODI
and to see what appears from playing with the enormous possibilities of
everyday statistics.”

 

The overarching theme of the Data as Culture 3 season is “Data
Anthropologies”. It critically positions humans at the centre of emerging
data landscapes, as a collection of innovative artistic explorations from
emerging, mid-career and established artists utilising open data as art
materials. It will be launched formally in late March.

 

Today’s announcement follows two successful years of Data as Culture,
including exhibitions by artists that explore the role of data in our lives.
Thomson & Craighead and Natasha Caruana’s existing works will feature in the
series this year as part of their residencies. Being developed alongside the
artists in residence commissions is acclaimed artist, Julie Freeman’s
ongoing work, “We Need Us” - co-commissioned by the ODI and digital arts
programme, The Space, and
<http://theodi.org/news/we-need-us-artwork-launches-at-ted-global> launched
in October 2014 at TED Global in Rio.

 

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Notes:

1. Media enquiries: 

 

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2. About the ODI:  <http://theodi.org/> The Open Data Institute catalyses
the evolution of open data culture to create economic, environmental, and
social value. It unlocks supply, generates demand, creates and disseminates
knowledge to address local and global issues. 

Founded by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt and web-inventor Professor Sir Tim
Berners-Lee, the ODI is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan company. 

 

3. Thomson & Craighead

Jon Thomson (b. 1969) and Alison Craighead (b. 1971) live and work in London
and Kingussie in the highlands of Scotland. They make artworks and
installations for galleries, and specific sites that include online spaces.
Much of their recent work looks at networked global communications systems
and how they are changing the way we all understand the world around us.
Recent exhibitions include; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; National Art
Museum of China, Beijing; Haus Lange, Krefeld; Dundee Contemporary Arts;
ZKM, Karlsruhe; Carroll/Fletcher, London; Brighton Photo-biennial; and Haus
der Kunst, Munich.  Having both studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of
Art in Dundee, Jon now lectures part time at The Slade School of Fine Art,
University College London, while Alison is a senior researcher at University
of Westminster and lectures in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University.

4. Natasha Caruana

Natasha Caruana is a photographic artist living and working in London. Last
year Caruana was named as the winner of the BMW Artist in Residence Award
2014 at musée Nicéphore Niépce, France. The residency work will result in
solo exhibitions at Les Rencontres d’Arles and Paris Photo 2015. Caruana’s
art practice is grounded in research concerned with narratives of love,
betrayal and fantasy. Significant to her work is the questioning of how
today’s technology is impacting relationships. Her work is created drawing
from archives, the Internet and personal narratives. Natasha Caruana’s work
has been collected and shown internationally and her work has been included
in numerous contemporary photographic catalogues. Shows have included:
Hijacked III: Contemporary Photography from Australia and the UK, Narratives
and Narrative Forms, Lianzhou Foto Festival, China, The Social: Encountering
Photography, The Sunderland Museum. Caruana was nominated for the 2014 Foam
Paul Huf Award, been named as one to watch in the Royal Photographic Society
Journal and selected by the Humble Arts Foundation as one of 18 leading
female art photographers currently working in the UK. She has an MA in
photography from the Royal College of Art, London and is a Senior Lecturer
of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK.

5. Hannah Redler

Hannah Redler is an art curator and museum professional who works with
international artists and ambitious organisations on projects that bring
together art, science, technology, new media and photography. She is
currently associate curator in residence at the ODI and consultant art
curator at the Institute of Physics. She combines these roles with teaching
and other independent projects. From 2005 - 2014 Hannah was Head of Science
Museum Arts Programme, a role that encompassed being project director for
the inaugural curatorial programme of Media Space, a photography gallery at
the Science Museum which opened in 2012. Prior to working as a curator
Hannah co-founded and co-directed Studio Fish, a digital media company set
up to provide innovative software solutions to collaborators and partners
across the arts and industry.

 

 

Hannah Redler

Curator, museum and arts projects consultant

Associate Curator in residence, Open Data Institute, opendatainstitute.org

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