Our first September FLUX event was a panel discussion between FLUX and a selection of artists from this years Ma/Mfa Computational Arts cohort as part of their end of year exhibition. Focusing on the media used and current themes emerging in Computational Arts Practice at Goldsmiths. The event opened up the genre to the public, giving a unique insight into the world of Computational Arts. Beginning with a short introduction about FLUX the event led into a panel discussion between FLUX and the students focusing on their work and practice.
Student Speakers: Eevie Rutanen, Luke Demarest, Laura Dekker and Rebecca Aston.
Tickets are free and limited, please register for your tickets through Eventbrite.
Exhibition website here: http://echosystems.xyz/
About Eevie Rutanen
In the work of Eevi Rutanen (b. 1992, Finland) robotic creatures and interactive installations explore the downward slope from the cute towards the uncanny. Drawing on her background in bioengineering, Eevi’s work is often inspired by biological processes and forms. By combining complex computational systems and scientific paradigms with frivolity and feminism, she strives to imagine alternative ways of being and knowing through empowered softness and sensuality. Taking the form of tumescent robot tentacles, symbiotic plant cyborgs, mechanical intestine marionettes and gut microbe confections, her work merges the visceral with the whimsical into entangled hybrids of bodies and technology. Her most recent work examines tactile epistemologies and manual labour from the point of view of feminist theory and the female experience.
Eevi is also a member of GRMMXI, a design collective committed to non-hierarchical collaboration and lolz.
Instagram: eebiru
http://eevirutanen.com/
http://grmmxi.fi/
About Luke Demarest
Luke Demarest is a wryly ambivalent data-vagabond with a background in sculpture and software. His recent studies look at the notion of 'pure' (non-material) data and its material culture and language conflations. Luke was an Engineer at Rosetta Stone (2014-2016) and an Artist in Residence at the American Underground (2014). Recent exhibitions include 'Expanding Systems' at the Art in Perpetuity Trust in London (2018) and 'Aibohphobia and the Reifier's Schadenfreude' at LibrePlanet in Boston and at the Carrack in Durham (2017).
http://demare.st/
About Laura Dekker
Laura Dekker is a London-based artist, whose practice explores the reciprocal roles of technologies in how we experience and construct ourselves and our world. She investigates these ideas through interactive installations, combining physical materials, video, audio, electronics, organic matter, live data streams and machine learning. She aims to engage the viewer-participant with a sensorially rich and provocative experience: virtual objects can intrude into the "actual" world, and objects are activated with a kind of primitive consciousness. Her work is often collaborative, created for unusual sites and contexts.
After many years working in technology research, Laura studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins and Computational Arts at Goldsmiths. She co-organises projects and exhibitions with the London-based art collective XAP. Since being selected for the Lumen Prize world tour in 2014-5, Laura has taken part in many projects with them. In 2018 she was commissioned to create an interactive installation for Eureka, the children’s discovery museum. She was invited to join pioneering digital women artists in 'Technology Is Not Neutral' (2016-7), 'V&A Digital Futures' (2017-8) and 'Mozfest' (2018).
Website: www.lauradekker.io
Twitter: @LauraDekker_io
About Rebecca Aston
Rebecca Aston is a Zimbabwean artist currently based in London. Her work explores material culture. She questions and decodes the meaning people embed in both physical and virtual spaces, objects and the environment. Reflecting on post-colonialism, she examines global flows of data, matter and people, through history up until the present day and on into speculative futures. Temporality is central to her practice, both as medium, including capture technologies, computation and the moving image, as well as subject matter, such as history and memory.
Rebecca has a BA in Fine Art from Yale. She also works as a web developer and creative technologist.
http://rebeccaaston.com/
In the work of Eevi Rutanen (b. 1992, Finland) robotic creatures and interactive installations explore the downward slope from the cute towards the uncanny. Drawing on her background in bioengineering, Eevi’s work is often inspired by biological processes and forms. By combining complex computational systems and scientific paradigms with frivolity and feminism, she strives to imagine alternative ways of being and knowing through empowered softness and sensuality. Taking the form of tumescent robot tentacles, symbiotic plant cyborgs, mechanical intestine marionettes and gut microbe confections, her work merges the visceral with the whimsical into entangled hybrids of bodies and technology. Her most recent work examines tactile epistemologies and manual labour from the point of view of feminist theory and the female experience.
Eevi is also a member of GRMMXI, a design collective committed to non-hierarchical collaboration and lolz.
Instagram: eebiru
http://eevirutanen.com/
http://grmmxi.fi/
About Luke Demarest
Luke Demarest is a wryly ambivalent data-vagabond with a background in sculpture and software. His recent studies look at the notion of 'pure' (non-material) data and its material culture and language conflations. Luke was an Engineer at Rosetta Stone (2014-2016) and an Artist in Residence at the American Underground (2014). Recent exhibitions include 'Expanding Systems' at the Art in Perpetuity Trust in London (2018) and 'Aibohphobia and the Reifier's Schadenfreude' at LibrePlanet in Boston and at the Carrack in Durham (2017).
http://demare.st/
About Laura Dekker
Laura Dekker is a London-based artist, whose practice explores the reciprocal roles of technologies in how we experience and construct ourselves and our world. She investigates these ideas through interactive installations, combining physical materials, video, audio, electronics, organic matter, live data streams and machine learning. She aims to engage the viewer-participant with a sensorially rich and provocative experience: virtual objects can intrude into the "actual" world, and objects are activated with a kind of primitive consciousness. Her work is often collaborative, created for unusual sites and contexts.
After many years working in technology research, Laura studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins and Computational Arts at Goldsmiths. She co-organises projects and exhibitions with the London-based art collective XAP. Since being selected for the Lumen Prize world tour in 2014-5, Laura has taken part in many projects with them. In 2018 she was commissioned to create an interactive installation for Eureka, the children’s discovery museum. She was invited to join pioneering digital women artists in 'Technology Is Not Neutral' (2016-7), 'V&A Digital Futures' (2017-8) and 'Mozfest' (2018).
Website: www.lauradekker.io
Twitter: @LauraDekker_io
About Rebecca Aston
Rebecca Aston is a Zimbabwean artist currently based in London. Her work explores material culture. She questions and decodes the meaning people embed in both physical and virtual spaces, objects and the environment. Reflecting on post-colonialism, she examines global flows of data, matter and people, through history up until the present day and on into speculative futures. Temporality is central to her practice, both as medium, including capture technologies, computation and the moving image, as well as subject matter, such as history and memory.
Rebecca has a BA in Fine Art from Yale. She also works as a web developer and creative technologist.
http://rebeccaaston.com/
