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“We are the real time experiment” by Mike Stubbs

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“We are the real time experiment” by Mike Stubbs

 

“We are the real time experiment”

Mike Stubbs

15.00, Wednesday 17th April,

Jill Craigie cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth.

‘Streets are my gallery and local communities are my audience’, Yola.

From street art, site-specific interventions and performance in public space, when and how do we create different types of agency and effective responses within a context of people and place?

With new opportunities to develop the town centre, parks and play areas, what new partnerships and strategies might we explore and how do we enable license for artists to do their own thing?

This informal presentation focuses on making and presenting work inside/outside the gallery by artist/curator Mike Stubbs. Mike will talk about ArtBomb festival and hub, Doncaster, a case study of commissioning Krzysztof Wodiczko and on his most recent curatorial project at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Are Your Working Now?  Time permitting, a quick dash around one of his recent artworks Climate Emergency Services and other works.

Key words: Art, Experiment, International, Art & Science, Ontology, Play, Mental Health, Environment, Curatorial, Public, Partnerships

Mike Stubbs will present diverse examples of his own creative practice, curatorial projects and programs which have blended life as an artist, random conversations with people on the bus and strategic partnerships.  What new approaches to engaging the less engaged do we have?  How do we feed our own inner sense of poetic artistry and creativity, whilst enabling others to make art or work in collaboration?

Mike Stubbs is an artist and senior creative leader currently running ArtBomb. With over 30 years’ experience of producing innovative projects internationally and in the UK. From institutional management, strategic planning, program development to curating he has an international reputation. For 12 years he was the Director/CEO of FACT, Liverpool, jointly appointed as Professor of Art, Media, and Curating by LJMU, 4 years, Head of Program for ACMI, (Australian Centre of Moving Image), Melbourne & 3 years Senior Research Fellow, Visual Research Centre, Dundee University. He has initiated and overseen Festivals such as: ArtBomb, ROOT & Abandon Normal Devices, led public facing programs such as FACTlab, European Media Art Residency Exchange and Doncaster Creates. Encompassing a broad range of arts & media practice, internationally, Stubbs is an award-winning moving image artist in his own right, showing at the Tate, Baltic, BBC, Channel 4, and museums around the world. Mike’s current research subjects include art in the public realm, ecology, town centre regeneration, deep time, and work.

https://www.mikestubbsart.com/art

[Image from Climate Emergency Services (CES), 2021]

Sylvia Molina

janeconway Visiting Researcher

Sylvia Molina. PhDCum Laude in Fine Artsat the University Complutense of Madrid. Currently, I teach New Media (Multimedia)andFinalProjects in theFaculty of Fine Arts of Castilla La Mancha in Cuenca.It is since the early 90s that I research and I develop projects focused on the interaction field, creating artistics and music/sound projects research project based on which I have developed numerous projects both on-line and off-line, individual and collaboratives(Brandenburg 3, Fuge / Lemoine, Ovum, Inexterno, El Rastro, Bach-Piranessi …), national research projects or internationally renowned (in someone else’s shoes, Yumgaga, The Banquet, …).

Paola Menzardi

adelmootranto i-DAT, Visiting Researcher

Paola Menzardi is a visiting Ph.D. researcher from Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, where she obtained the master’s degree in Systemic Design e the bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design.   

She is carrying out a research at the Department of Architecture and Design in the field of Design for Territories aimed at investigating how participated geography – community mapping – can be tools for initiating long-term processes of local enhancement, resulting in plans for the development of territories. Such participated project are a particular branch of cartography and territorial studies that are intertwined with the design of participatory processes for the enhancement and dissemination of the territorial heritage. According to different and informal methodologies, they combine the geographical and topological representation of the territory with further levels of information related to intangible, elusive, even temporary aspects of places (points of view of interest, vegetation, stories of popular culture, aspects of local identities, situations to attend to…).

The purpose of her research is intended to, starting from community maps, advancing a on-field project that leads, starting from an existing participatory map project, to the creation of a product-service/system of products-services with functions of dissemination and tourist promotion of the area involved.

In i-DAT she is collecting data and case studies related to past and ongoing projects that have interpreted the cartography and other forms of representation of the territory as tools for the involvement of people in order to bring out the awareness on own territory, promoting and developing it.     

Silvia Anese

adelmootranto i-DAT, Visiting Researcher

Silvia is a visiting postgraduate student from the University of Bologna. She is researching into the planned obsolescence in the new media and, more specifically, the methods through which New Media Art is preserved.

The problem is current and related to the practices of many artists, especially with the increase in the use of new technologies in art. The research concentrates on the techniques of conservation of New Media Art, both investigating the solutions adopted in the past and exploring possible current and future ones. This research represents the beginning of a long-run research path exploring deeply, the possible collaborations between New Media Art and Machine Learning for conservation.

Yasmine He

patconley i-DAT, Visiting Researcher
Yasmine He

Yasmine He is a lecturer from the College of Digital Arts of Shanghai University, P.R. China. She is a product designer and digital media designer, using digital technology for product design innovation. Her research focus is in intangible cultural heritage and digital innovation.
She has recently completed two research projects:

  • “Based on the 3D film and television comfort and health and safety issues” (2016 Shanghai Pujiang talent project, NO.16PJC037).
  • “Study on the international business card of Jiading”, The Joint Operation Project of Shanghai Univer, Shanghai, China（2017.

At present, her research engages with innovative product design theory which is based on the integration of traditional art and digital interaction, especially in the interface between digital interactive design and traditional product design, the influence of digital interactive technology on product design and product display, people and technological artefacts, and the future impact of emerging digital technologies on the nature of product design.
E-mail: yasmine.he@plymouth.ac.uk