SPEAKERS:
DEEN ATGER: Ugly Duck & Kallida Festival | KEITH WATSON: Winter Lights Festival
Dr CAMILLE BAKER: WEAR Sustain and STARTS | GRAHAM DIPROSE: Electronic Visual Arts Conference
Our September event will focus on our annual theme of Networks, featuring speakers from key institutions and organizations in the new media arts scene in the UK. The speakers will come together to share their work with our artist-audience and explore how we can strengthen our community together fostering new collaborations and partnerships. View video from our Networks event last year here.
Our FLUX: Social events are a new type of event for 2019. These events are primarily for networking and making connections within the creative media arts community. Hosted by our FLUX co-founders Maria Almena, Oliver Gingrich and Aphra Shemza, they will provide a relaxed space for the facilitation of networking and collaboration. In our intimate setting at the Library London, the audience will get the opportunity to meet key artists within the media art scene in London face to face and to discuss ideas, practices and preeminent concepts in today’s Media Arts.
About the speakers:
DEEN ATGER: Ugly Duck & Kallida Festival
Over the past three years Deen has been the creative producer of Ugly Duck Spaces, a London based organization occupying empty and underused buildings turning them into art spaces where they curates the all year round creative program.
Prior to this, they have been freelance production manager, focusing primarily on design and innovation in the field of digital art. they were managing and producing the international tour for Water Light Graffiti by the French artist Antonin Fourneau, booked and installed exhibitions in Chicago, London, New York, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong and Moscow.
As a producer and curator they are particularly interested in the relationship between art, science and technology and their social impact. They curated three large scale exhibition, Real / Virtual in 2017, (H)AKT in 2018 and Anamorphic Waves in 2019.
They graduated from la Sorbonne’s MA in Conception and Direction of Cultural Projects in 2013, and have worked in France and the UK on projects such as FutureFest, body>data>space, Digitalarti, Art2M, EXIT and Future en Seine.
KEITH WATSON: Winter Lights Festival
Studied Graphic Design at London College of Printing., 81-84.Worked in the Design & advertising industry for 13 years. Opened ‘the first Digital Art Gallery in the UK’, (Colville Place Gallery) in 1995. Moved to Hoxton Square 2002 (Delux Gallery). Closed that in 2005, Worked for various Arts Council projects for 3 years.
Started at Canary Wharf in 2008 as Public Art Officer, and almost simultaneously started Kinetica Art Fair with Tony Langford & Dianne Harris from Kinetica Museum. Organised the Art fair until 2014. Carried on working at Canary Wharf, starting the Winter Lights Festival in 2014.
GRAHAM DIPROSE: Electronic Visual Arts Conference
Graham Diprose worked as a Commercial Advertising Photographer and became Lead Tutor in Photography in the Faculty of Design at London College of Communication. He retired in 2011 to co-write a new Textbook for Thames and Hudson “Photography: The New Basics”, with further US and Chinese Editions. From 2013 to 2017, he assisted Speos International Photography School, Paris, to set up in London, teaching at Postgraduate and European Masters Level.
His main area of research over many years has been exploring alternative and safer methods of sending ‘born digital’ photographic images 3-500 years into the future and has recently been collaborating with the Archive of University College, Oxford on his very long term digital archiving techniques. Graham has been Co-Chair of EVA London for the past five years and is responsible for their Research Workshop programme offering artists an opportunity to publish their work and present at EVA with a full bursary and will be running short workshops with FLUX about writing a successful conference proposal, to help to get started.
Dr CAMILLE BAKER: WEAR Sustain and STARTS
Dr. Camille Baker is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and researcher with a background in digital and electronic art and design, working across creative digital disciplines.
Baker’s digital media practices and experience includes making, teaching, and curating, with a background in wearable technology and e-textiles, mobile media art and performance,VR/AR/Mixed Reality, the body and technology in performance, digital art curating, video art, new media art, alternative music, interactive installation, and emerging technologies research and education.
Dr Baker’s first co-edited book on creative process for artist-technologists with Dr Kate Sicchio, Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice: Techne, Technique, Technology was released in December 2016 with Routledge, Taylor & Francis. She also has her first monograph released August 16, 2018, New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance, with Routledge, Taylor & Francis. This book features theory and practice on mobile devices, Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Reality and wearable technology in various forms of artistic performance, especially since the release of the first iPhone.
Recently (April 2019), Baker became the PI for UCA on the EU DG-CNCT funded STARTS Ecosystem project that supports all the funded innovations in the STARTS umbrella since 2015. In 2016, she was the initiator and primary consortium partners' to apply for and win EU funding for the WEAR Sustain project www.wearsustain.eu, which runs January 2017-December 2018 and is focussed on transforming the smart/e-textiles industry to become more ethical and sustainable, through the collaborative innovation projects of artists and technologists. She also runs an regular meetup group with artists and designers making smart/e-textile works called e-stitches.co.uk
Dr Baker is a Reader of Interface and Interaction in the School of Communication Design at the University for the Arts, Surrey, UK, teaching in the new Indie Games focussed, MA Games. She has presented artwork and media research at academic, media and art conferences, festivals and events around the world since 2001.
UCA profile http://www.uca.ac.uk/staff-profiles/dr-camille-baker/
Her full portfolio is at www.camillebaker.me // http://www.swampgirl67.net
DEEN ATGER: Ugly Duck & Kallida Festival
Over the past three years Deen has been the creative producer of Ugly Duck Spaces, a London based organization occupying empty and underused buildings turning them into art spaces where they curates the all year round creative program.
Prior to this, they have been freelance production manager, focusing primarily on design and innovation in the field of digital art. they were managing and producing the international tour for Water Light Graffiti by the French artist Antonin Fourneau, booked and installed exhibitions in Chicago, London, New York, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong and Moscow.
As a producer and curator they are particularly interested in the relationship between art, science and technology and their social impact. They curated three large scale exhibition, Real / Virtual in 2017, (H)AKT in 2018 and Anamorphic Waves in 2019.
They graduated from la Sorbonne’s MA in Conception and Direction of Cultural Projects in 2013, and have worked in France and the UK on projects such as FutureFest, body>data>space, Digitalarti, Art2M, EXIT and Future en Seine.
KEITH WATSON: Winter Lights Festival
Studied Graphic Design at London College of Printing., 81-84.Worked in the Design & advertising industry for 13 years. Opened ‘the first Digital Art Gallery in the UK’, (Colville Place Gallery) in 1995. Moved to Hoxton Square 2002 (Delux Gallery). Closed that in 2005, Worked for various Arts Council projects for 3 years.
Started at Canary Wharf in 2008 as Public Art Officer, and almost simultaneously started Kinetica Art Fair with Tony Langford & Dianne Harris from Kinetica Museum. Organised the Art fair until 2014. Carried on working at Canary Wharf, starting the Winter Lights Festival in 2014.
GRAHAM DIPROSE: Electronic Visual Arts Conference
Graham Diprose worked as a Commercial Advertising Photographer and became Lead Tutor in Photography in the Faculty of Design at London College of Communication. He retired in 2011 to co-write a new Textbook for Thames and Hudson “Photography: The New Basics”, with further US and Chinese Editions. From 2013 to 2017, he assisted Speos International Photography School, Paris, to set up in London, teaching at Postgraduate and European Masters Level.
His main area of research over many years has been exploring alternative and safer methods of sending ‘born digital’ photographic images 3-500 years into the future and has recently been collaborating with the Archive of University College, Oxford on his very long term digital archiving techniques. Graham has been Co-Chair of EVA London for the past five years and is responsible for their Research Workshop programme offering artists an opportunity to publish their work and present at EVA with a full bursary and will be running short workshops with FLUX about writing a successful conference proposal, to help to get started.
Dr CAMILLE BAKER: WEAR Sustain and STARTS
Dr. Camille Baker is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and researcher with a background in digital and electronic art and design, working across creative digital disciplines.
Baker’s digital media practices and experience includes making, teaching, and curating, with a background in wearable technology and e-textiles, mobile media art and performance,VR/AR/Mixed Reality, the body and technology in performance, digital art curating, video art, new media art, alternative music, interactive installation, and emerging technologies research and education.
Dr Baker’s first co-edited book on creative process for artist-technologists with Dr Kate Sicchio, Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice: Techne, Technique, Technology was released in December 2016 with Routledge, Taylor & Francis. She also has her first monograph released August 16, 2018, New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance, with Routledge, Taylor & Francis. This book features theory and practice on mobile devices, Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Reality and wearable technology in various forms of artistic performance, especially since the release of the first iPhone.
Recently (April 2019), Baker became the PI for UCA on the EU DG-CNCT funded STARTS Ecosystem project that supports all the funded innovations in the STARTS umbrella since 2015. In 2016, she was the initiator and primary consortium partners' to apply for and win EU funding for the WEAR Sustain project www.wearsustain.eu, which runs January 2017-December 2018 and is focussed on transforming the smart/e-textiles industry to become more ethical and sustainable, through the collaborative innovation projects of artists and technologists. She also runs an regular meetup group with artists and designers making smart/e-textile works called e-stitches.co.uk
Dr Baker is a Reader of Interface and Interaction in the School of Communication Design at the University for the Arts, Surrey, UK, teaching in the new Indie Games focussed, MA Games. She has presented artwork and media research at academic, media and art conferences, festivals and events around the world since 2001.
UCA profile http://www.uca.ac.uk/staff-profiles/dr-camille-baker/
Her full portfolio is at www.camillebaker.me // http://www.swampgirl67.net
This event is kindly hosted at the Library