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TRAJECTORIES THROUGH MIXED REALITY PERFORMANCE

23rd November 2009

4 – 6 pm

Room137a, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths

Matt Adams co-founded Blast Theory in 1991, an artists’ group renowned for its multidisciplinary approach pioneering the use of new technologies within performance contexts.

Since 1997, the group has collaborated with the Mixed Reality Laboratory at the University of Nottingham. Works such as Desert Rain, Can You See Me Now? and Uncle Roy All Around You have been nominated for four Interactive Arts BAFTAs and won the Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica. Recent projects include Rider Spoke and You Get Me. Ulrike and Eamon Compliant was commissioned for the Venice Biennale in 2009.

Blast Theory has shown work at Tate Online, Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, ICC in Tokyo and National Fine Art Museum in Taiwan. Blast Theory has been awarded residencies in Adelaide, Berlin, Canada, London and Bristol. The group has made works for TV and radio such as Soft Message (2006). Blast Theory’s building in Brighton acts a hub for interdisciplinary practice and includes studios, project space and residencies.

Matt has curated at Tate Modern and at the ICA in London and has taught at the Royal College of Art and Mediamatic. He has co-authored over a dozen papers with the University of Nottingham, is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Exeter and a Visiting Professor at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Steve Benford is Professor of Collaborative Computing in the Mixed Reality Laboratory at Nottingham where he explores novel interaction and communication technologies for rich and dynamic social interaction, focusing on the potential of ubiquitous computing to enhance the creative industries. For more than ten years now this has involved working with artists, ethnographers and scholars from the arts and humanities to create, tour and study a series of mixed reality performances. He is Directing EPSRC’s Doctoral Training Centre in Ubiquitous Computing for the Digital Economy, leading the MRL’s Platform grant in the Widespread Adoption of Ubiquitous Computing, Directing the Creator Digital Economy Cluster, and is also Head of the School of the Computer Science. He received best paper awards at CHI 2005 and CHI 2009, won the 2003 Prix Ars Elctronica for Interactive Art, the 2007 Nokia Mindtrek award for innovative applications of ubiquitous computing, and has received four BAFTA nominations.

All ‘Design Means…’ lectures are open to the public.

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