Looking Back on 2012
Tue, 01 Jan 2013
I was asked to provide a list of some of my activities during 2012 and surprised myself with how busy I'd been. 2012 was certainly a good year for my creative work and I'm looking forward to 2013. One task already dominates for this year though - finishing my PhD.
Happy new year everyone.
- I remain treasurer of the BCS Computer Arts Society and organised a series of three talks at Phoenix spring 2012 by UK digital artists under the CAS banner.
- Between September 2011 and September 2012 I was curator of the Interact Gallery in Leicester and oversaw six exhibitions and five live events.
- I gave a presentation about my PhD artwork at the Max4Live conference at Phoenix in January 2012 and organised a conference art exhibition and live event.
- I gave a talk about my PhD artwork at the Computer Arts Society in London in May 2012.
- I directed live digital imagery for Carol Leeming's "Loneliness of the Long Distance Diva" show at Curve for two nights in June 2012.
- I was co-commissioned to install a three-way "Memory Mirror" artwork called "Interactive Welcome" at Penn Fields School in Wolverhampton in summer 2012. The work will remain on show for three years.
- I installed and curated a "pop-up" Interact art gallery at the Leicester Summer Sundae Festival for three days in August 2012.
- I created technology in support of Martin Rieser's "Exodus" artworks in Leicester in August 2012.
- I wrote an article on "Digital Arts in Leicester" for the Leicester Mercury Culture Guide, Issue 2, September 2012.
- I was instrumental in bringing the "Intuition and Ingenuity" exhibition of artwork inspired by Alan Turing to Phoenix in Leicester in October 2012.
- I collaborated in the creation of the "Colour Net" artworks for Ernest Edmond's "Light Logic" exhibition in Sheffield in November 2012.
- I exhibited my PhD artwork as part of the "Symbiotic" exhibition at Phoenix in November 2012.
- I gave a workshop about my PhD artwork as part of the Creative Technology Live conference at Phoenix in November 2012.
- Finally, I had a respectable 13,293 unique visitors to my website.
