Arts Council of England

Global Feed

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Global Feed

‘Global Feed’ builds upon decades of previous work by Peter Fend exploring aspects of our relationship to the environment, through his work as part of Ocean Earth Development Corporation, and his ongoing collaborations with artists, architects, engineers and scientists. Ocean Earth was conceived as an instrument for implementing the goals of the environmental art movement, directly building upon the ideas of artists such as Joseph Beuys, Robert Smithson and Gordon Matta-Clark.

Through inter-disciplinary collaborations and by connecting ecological imperatives with experimental new technologies, Fend asks ‘How far can art go?’ in drawing attention to a belief that artistic research can generate productive dialogue about global ecological problems and that it can be used to develop effective solutions. In this spirit, Global Feed aims to organise the display of processed satellite data for the public to see for itself. Peter Fend undertook a research fellowship at i-DAT from autumn 2003 until summer 2004, supported by the AHRB and Arts Council of England.

2003-2004

Catalogue

adelmootranto Projects , ,
Catalogue

06/2002:


The Catalogue show opens at the start of National Architecture Week on June 22nd 2002 at the Plymouth Arts Centre. It features the work of seven artists, academics and architects all of whom are invited to show their work within the framework of the exhibition. The show and its educational project have been kindly supported by the Arts Council of England, i-DAT and the Plymouth Arts Centre. The concept of the show is a simple one; turn the gallery into a reference Catalogue for the public to further access pieces of work that raise questions about the nature of our relationship with interior design and architectural space.

Original HTML website can be found here: https://i-dat.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/oldi-DATprojects/catalogue/index.html

 

Generator

patconley Projects , , ,
Generator

Spacex Gallery, 1 May – 22 June 2002

Generator: curated by Spacex & STAR, with support from the Institute of Digital Art & Technology and the Arts Council of England (Collaborative Arts Unit). Spacex Gallery, 1 May – 22 June 2002, and touring in the UK. Generator will present a series of ‘self-generating’ projects, incorporating digital media, instruction and participation pieces, drawing machines, experimental literature, and music technologies. All work will be produced ‘live’, in real-time, with some elements continuing indefinitely.

The exhibition can also be described as ‘generative’ in that it will develop and expand over time, by acting as a point of connection for different generative practices across disciplines, pointing to the relationship of visual arts to other media – especially sound works, performance, and issues relating to chaos theory and complexity, neural networks and artificial life.

http://www.generative.net/generator/

And …

STAR & Sulawesi crested macaque monkeys from Paignton Zoo
As part of the development of the Vivaria project, Generator hosted a troop of Sulawesi crested macaque monkeys from Paignton Zoo to test Infinite Monkey Theorem. The idea that an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters for infinity could eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare was enacted in a monkey cage in Paignton Zoo…

Real monkeys

In 2003, lecturers and students from the University of Plymouth MediaLab Arts course used a £2,000 grant from the Arts Council to study the literary output of real monkeys. They left a computer keyboard in the enclosure of six Celebes crested macaques in Paignton Zoo in Devon in England for a month, with a radio link to broadcast the results on a website. Not only did the monkeys produce nothing but five total pages largely consisting of the letter S, the lead male began by bashing the keyboard with a stone, and the monkeys continued by urinating and defecating on it. Mike Phillips, director of the university’s Institute of Digital Arts and Technology (i-DAT), said that the artist-funded project was primarily performance art, and they had learned “an awful lot” from it. He concluded that monkeys “are not random generators. They’re more complex than that. … They were quite interested in the screen, and they saw that when they typed a letter, something happened. There was a level of intention there.”

Notes Towards The Complete Works of Shakespeare Book.

ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem