SPEAKERS: TIM MURRAY-BROWNE | SOFI LH | SUSAN SLOAN
Media arts question the relationship between authorship and audience. New forms of interaction put the audience at the heart of artistic production. The term public has undergone questioning by artists, appearing as a fragmented, multi-layered hybrid of different audiences, different communities, different publics.
Online, these different public spheres seem to undergo a new form of evolution: Convergence into a single space, further fragmentation into different social spheres, where engagement is often not just created but facilitated by practitioners. What new types of interactions are facilitated by artists through new technology? How can we learn from each other about the tools at our disposal? FLUX Social: Publics invites you to discuss these changing paradigms with other practitioners. Join us for a discussion on public art, participatory art forms and new forms of publics.
Hosted by our FLUX co-founders Maria Almena, Oliver Gingrich and Aphra Shemza, our FLUX Social will provide a relaxed space for the facilitation of new ideas and collaboration. Our aim is to encourage discourse and create a space for communication and the exchange of ideas, providing some much needed advice for artists working in the field of the media arts.
About the Speakers:
Tim Murray-Browne
https://timmb.com/
Murray-Browne’s work often responds to the movement of the body and draws on embodied experience — preverbal sensations of place, significance and understanding. He looks for new contexts for human connection and creativity, places that challenge our assumptions of who we are and what we do.
It includes instrumental ensembles that are performed by the audience, audiovisual landscapes generated by a dancer, interactive light and sound sculptures and immersive one-on-one performances. It spans collaborations with choreographers, hackers, architects, movement practitioners, musicians and dancers. It has been shown around the world at venues including Tate Modern, The Barbican, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Berkeley Art Museum and some more unusual places such as the Olympic Swimming Pool in London, The Caffarella Park in Rome and The Gargarullo Centre for Popular Conspiracy in Brazil.
Murray-Browne’s background is a mix of art, maths, music and computer science. He graduated with a first class Masters in Maths and Computer Science from Oxford University in 2008. He subsequently completed a PhD in 2012 with the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London, researching interactive digital art and how audiences understand, engage with and find meaning from it. (See Research for more detail.)
In 2013, he completed a residency with Music Hackspace through Sound and Music’s Embedded programme. Here, he led a team of eight musical hackers from this community to create The Cave of Sounds, for which he was awarded the Sonic Arts Prize in 2014.
In 2014, he began collaborating with the dance artist Jan Lee, creating This Floating World in 2015 and continuing research into immersive sound spaces, interactive narratives and embodied interaction. In 2015, they were invited by acclaimed immersive theatre company ZU-UK onto the DRIFT residency in Rio de Janeiro, and in 2016 to continue this research as residents at GAS Station, London. Movement Alphabet was among the many outcomes of this partnership, debuting at Tate Modern in Oct 2016.
Alongside, Murray-Browne has worked as a coder and consultant for a number of creative technology studios in the UK, including Random International, Field and Seeper, on projects including responsive mirrors, real-time interactive projection mapping, generative light sculptures and VR journeys through musical landscapes.
Susan Sloan:
https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/ssloan
Susan Sloan is an artist and lecturer based at the National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University. She works both collaboratively and individually using 3D animation, Mocap, digital sculpting techniques to create artworks and public projects. She has recently been working in collaboration with Universidad de las Americas, Quito and the Quijos Nation, Napo Province, Ecuador within a multi-disciplinary team to produce digital communication and language preservation short film works. Her individual work has been shown nationally and internationally at exhibitions including the SIGGRAPH Gallery, San Diego; 404 Festival, Argentina; Kunstihoone Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia; Yokohama Art Museum, Japan; An Tuireann, Isle of Skye; Glasgow International Festival; NPAR, Annecy Animation Festival, France; ISEA, International Symposium of Electronic Art, Istanbul; Photographers Gallery London.
Sofi Lee Henson:
https://xnn.systems/
Sofi Lee-Henson is an experiential designer specialising in scientific (fiction) art. She freelances in graphic design, produces events, video and makes a mean spreadsheet.
In recent history, Sofi has been co-creating with the Co-Reality Collective on massive online parties catering for many aspects of interactivity. The collective's latest project is SparkleVerse, the most sparkling universe of the Burning Man 2020 Multiverse Online Burn.
Through her company XNN she creates absurdist experiences, once upon a time delivered in person, but now adapted for remote audiences around the world.
Tim Murray-Browne
https://timmb.com/
Murray-Browne’s work often responds to the movement of the body and draws on embodied experience — preverbal sensations of place, significance and understanding. He looks for new contexts for human connection and creativity, places that challenge our assumptions of who we are and what we do.
It includes instrumental ensembles that are performed by the audience, audiovisual landscapes generated by a dancer, interactive light and sound sculptures and immersive one-on-one performances. It spans collaborations with choreographers, hackers, architects, movement practitioners, musicians and dancers. It has been shown around the world at venues including Tate Modern, The Barbican, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Berkeley Art Museum and some more unusual places such as the Olympic Swimming Pool in London, The Caffarella Park in Rome and The Gargarullo Centre for Popular Conspiracy in Brazil.
Murray-Browne’s background is a mix of art, maths, music and computer science. He graduated with a first class Masters in Maths and Computer Science from Oxford University in 2008. He subsequently completed a PhD in 2012 with the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London, researching interactive digital art and how audiences understand, engage with and find meaning from it. (See Research for more detail.)
In 2013, he completed a residency with Music Hackspace through Sound and Music’s Embedded programme. Here, he led a team of eight musical hackers from this community to create The Cave of Sounds, for which he was awarded the Sonic Arts Prize in 2014.
In 2014, he began collaborating with the dance artist Jan Lee, creating This Floating World in 2015 and continuing research into immersive sound spaces, interactive narratives and embodied interaction. In 2015, they were invited by acclaimed immersive theatre company ZU-UK onto the DRIFT residency in Rio de Janeiro, and in 2016 to continue this research as residents at GAS Station, London. Movement Alphabet was among the many outcomes of this partnership, debuting at Tate Modern in Oct 2016.
Alongside, Murray-Browne has worked as a coder and consultant for a number of creative technology studios in the UK, including Random International, Field and Seeper, on projects including responsive mirrors, real-time interactive projection mapping, generative light sculptures and VR journeys through musical landscapes.
Susan Sloan:
https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/ssloan
Susan Sloan is an artist and lecturer based at the National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University. She works both collaboratively and individually using 3D animation, Mocap, digital sculpting techniques to create artworks and public projects. She has recently been working in collaboration with Universidad de las Americas, Quito and the Quijos Nation, Napo Province, Ecuador within a multi-disciplinary team to produce digital communication and language preservation short film works. Her individual work has been shown nationally and internationally at exhibitions including the SIGGRAPH Gallery, San Diego; 404 Festival, Argentina; Kunstihoone Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia; Yokohama Art Museum, Japan; An Tuireann, Isle of Skye; Glasgow International Festival; NPAR, Annecy Animation Festival, France; ISEA, International Symposium of Electronic Art, Istanbul; Photographers Gallery London.
Sofi Lee Henson:
https://xnn.systems/
Sofi Lee-Henson is an experiential designer specialising in scientific (fiction) art. She freelances in graphic design, produces events, video and makes a mean spreadsheet.
In recent history, Sofi has been co-creating with the Co-Reality Collective on massive online parties catering for many aspects of interactivity. The collective's latest project is SparkleVerse, the most sparkling universe of the Burning Man 2020 Multiverse Online Burn.
Through her company XNN she creates absurdist experiences, once upon a time delivered in person, but now adapted for remote audiences around the world.