andrew gryf paterson
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Projects
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  February 2005 - February 2006 | 'Öresund Conversations' | Malmö -Sweden, Copenhagen -Denmark

http://oeresund.not-yet-become.net

The “Øresund Conversations” explore relationships between socially-engaged art and participatory design practices (including architectural, public space, performative and media frameworks) in Copenhagen -Denmark and Malmö region -Sweden. This situated work is done with relation to other trans-national spaces.

The activity takes a social activist approach informed by the notion of 'open source intelligence', to consider a mutually-beneficial network among local, trans-national practitioners and researchers.

This project has been made possible with generous support of the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art's Sleipnir programme.

 

conversations
public space
  29th September - 10th October 2004 | 'Miitiskie Mezglojumi' | Gallery "K.Maksla?", Karosta -Latvia

Co-produced with Signe Pucena:
http://mlab.uiah.fi/~apaterso/projects/mapmyths/KarostaChapter/SavieNojumi

The Mapmyths project is presented back in the community where the story-gathering and making began. Create a balance and interweave relationships between two places. Listen and look, or browse by hand imagining your own version. Exhibition, including digital slide show, recorded spoken word, and materialised media installed with table and inviting chair, with an opening 'internet-streamed' concert organised by Signe Pucena.

In two physical locations, our collaboration aims to explore cross-cultural (Sami-Finnish-Russian at Inari-Ivalo -Lapland & Russian-Latvian at Karosta -Latvia) and mono-culture (deeply local) experiencies. In-other-words, through the stories, personal narratives, mythologies and songs that people use to describe or show a sense of shared, common and collective memory to others, in relation to the environment in which they are situated.

 

inviting browsers
local event
  2004 | NIFCA Media AiR | RIXC Centre for New Media Culture | Riga -Latvia

Artist in residence:
http://rixc.lv

Spread the 2 month duration of April and May in residence between Riga, Karosta-Liepaja, and Daugavpils. Involved in being situated or remote in human and communication networks the time was used as following: Doing online production planning and wiki gardening for the summer; Helping with cultural paper exchange (posters, flyers, nice papers) between Baltic capitals; Acting as kilted Scottish agent in Karosta's Euro-watcher project; Initiating and working on the collaborative renovation of social/kitchen space in K@2 Cultural Centre; Also in the last week, coordinating a mobile SMS 'kadreejums' workshop in Daugavpils with a group of young Russian-Latvian people.

A presentation at the end of the period reflected in a slide show .pdf [7Mb] - including rambling stories and anecdotes - the following unspoken questions: What does it mean to be 'artist-in-residence' in a (cultural, social, technological, organisational) network? - How do you relate to your situated presence in that place/network? - How should you be resident in that situated place/network when your creative practice is dominated by online activity? - What can you do for that situated place/network in which you are resident?

For rambling stories of the residency:
[LOCATIVE MEDIA] nr. 001-2004: "Situated experiences of a resident in networks"
(7th June 2004) listen.

[Performative cultural exchange, renovated kitchen, workshop, presentation]

 

  2003- ... | 'Mapping and Sewing Together Mythologies' (a.k.a Mapmyths) | K@2 Cultural Centre | Karosta -Latvia

Collaboration with Signe Pucena:
http://mlab.uiah.fi/~apaterso/projects/mapmyths

Interweaving cross-cultural and deeply local experiences from Karosta -Latvia, and Inari-Ivalo -Finnish Lapland, the collaboration is inspired by the specific acoustic and cultural environments found there. We are interested in stories, personal narratives, mythologies and songs that people use to describe or show a sense of shared, common and collective memory to others, in relation to the environment in which they are situated.

[Collaborative webpages and mixed-media]

 

  2003- ... | 'Aware' Project/Platform | Media Lab UIAH | Helsinki -Finland

Collaboration with John Evans, Markus Ort & Aki Pöykiö:
http://aware.uiah.fi

The Aware platform is a design tool and a production environment. It allows for collective publication and syndication of mobile media. Working from the lowest common technological denominator to maintain flexibility and inclusiveness, a person can use whatever media capture-device they have available. More important is, what contextual information is associated - such as proximity, location, temporality, theme and event. Aware focuses upon bundling these relationships, both automatic and given, to the media. Contributions are made via a networked-device, using common protocols such as email, SMS, MMS, or a custom application.

[Online database & media-capture mobile phones]

 

  2002  | 'Upper interior' | 2nd LISTEN Expert Workshop, IRCAM | Paris -France

Poetic spoken-word audio-augmented environment:

[Custom-scritped 'stratigraphical' sound objects,
using prototype LISTEN technology & AVANGO VE system]

 

  2001  | 'Virtual Kielder Minotaur Maze' | Virtual Reality Centre | Middlesbrough -NE England

Collaboration with architect Nick Coombes & Shona Kitchen:

[High-end realtime VR model, using Multi-Gen Creator]

 

  2001  | 'Garden Monologue' | University of Teesside | Middlesbrough -NE England

Creative work accompanying MSc Project:

[Interactive 3D virtual environment & non-linear spoken word soundscape,
using Unreal game engine]

 

  1999/2001  | 'Wind that is' | Tillicoultry -Scotland, Saltburn -NE England

Poetic content developed through mixed-media:

[Text, digital animation, sound work]

 

  1999- ... | 'Centrepoint' | Tillicoultry -Scotland

Individual or collective activity:

Walk the pathed route up Mill Glen, Tillicoultry, crossing the various bridges, stopping at the centrepoint, taking a seat and a pause for a duration of time, absorbing the view into the hills, absorbing the view up and down the glen, carrying onwards up to the turning back collecting/drinking water from the burn, returning over the shoulder of the hill, and back down to the beginning.

[Re-iterated walk, conceptual installation]

 

  1998  | 'Looking for pulse.rhythmresponse' | Jyväskylä, Kuopio, Helsinki, Inari -Finland

5-month project exploring themes of isolation, integration, nature & technology:

[Digital animations, image, text]

 

  1998  | 'Grid' | K3 Media 'Grid' Workshop | CCA, Arches Club | Glasgow -Scotland

Poetic content developed through mixed-media:

Participant in the K3 Media 'Grid' workshop, hosted by the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow.

[Digital animation, text]

 

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