Collaborators
Many of my projects involve collaborators and they are acknowledged in the project pages.

To navigate the site, select a project from the list below by clicking the corresponding link. Or use the images at the top of this page to navigate throughout the site. The home button top left above always returns you to this page. Most project pages have a sub menu, either a a row of numbers or a row of image links. Click here for a link to a short bio. A portfolio can be found here. Email: ian dot clothier at intercreate dot org. This link will take you back to the site front/splash page.

Leistavian projects are backgrounded by ideas around hybrid cultures, and some would argue that culture globally is in a state of hybridity. For a short introduction to Leistavia, follow this link.

making history
Selected for ISEA 2009 and exhibited at GTG in Belfast, the project involved the audience voting for a moment of Irish unity, to be incorporated into the history of the hybrid internet micronation the District of Leistavia. For a short summary of the project, follow this link.

interrogating the invisible
Exhibited at ISEA 2006/Zero One San Jose
This project used an online form to gather statistics on how people identify with their culture, and then visualised the data.

the DISTRICT of LEISTAVIA (constitution project)
Created for ISEA 2004 Tallinn, exhibited every year since
An ongoing project, involving the hybridisation of Estonian, Pitcairn Island and Norfolk Island cultures. An online form was used to gather information about preferences for the Constitution of Leistavia. Ecologically sustainable values and meritocracy (where the person who best serves the community is leader) were overwhelmingly voted for. Kylli Mariste and Joe Flynn were collaborators. This link will take you straight to the constitution project pages.

The following projects are informed by notions of integrated systems, where the art work exists in a state of multiple relationships.

the park speaks
This project gives voice to a botanic garden by converting live data output into text phrases, and displaying the output on a web page.The pilot was completed this year, and a permanent install of an open meshwork is scheduled next year. The meshwork and data loggers will be able to be used by artists around the world. the sense of integrated systems relates to the way the work interconnections the human and natural worlds, using technology. Julian Priest, Andrew Hornblow, Adrian Soundy and Trudy Lane are collaborators.

haiku robots
Exhibited at Puke Ariki, this is my first electronic media project to directly aim for creating an integrated system, albeit small scale. It utilises autonomous robotic cars and feedback, the interaction of which leads to a continually changing output: word lists. The word lists are then searched for sequences of words that make poetry. Haiku robots was a deliberate attempt to make a small scale integrated system, involving overlapping sub systems integrated by an alphabetic compass. Julian Priest and Andrew Hornblow are collaborators, with input from Daryl Egarr, Murali Bhaksar and Mike Fenton.

branch on branch v3.0
Artist Fellowship project (augmented reality) at the University of Canterbury, NZ
The work utilised software developed by the Human Interface Technology Lab New Zealand (HiTLabNZ) - there are two layers of interaction for participants in the art work. The project was a collaboration with Jung Shin, Raphael Grasset and Eric Woods of the HITLabNZ. Integrated systems are reflected in the core concept - the interrelatedness of many categories things due to having a branching structure. The work is also both digital and physical in terms of audience relationship. to understand what that means, go to the project pages and use the numbers at the top right, to navigate among the project pages.

te ara (the path)
Exhibited as part of the show Te Ara o Te Ora (The Path of Life) at Percy Thomson Gallery in Stratford New Zealand. This work stretched across several projects and approaches to creativity, reformed into one art work - 'one multiplicity' - in this sense integrating online strategies with installation.

The following works intersected concepts of nonlinearity.

a wandering rock
Created for the ReJoyce 2004 Festival Dublin
ReJoyce celebrated the centennial of the day on which James Joyce's Ulysses is set. The work used motion sensors and imagery from the Wandering Rocks chapter of Ulysses. The proximity of the audience to the work results in changing light patterns in the 'agenbite of inwit' image. Nonlinear strategies include having both 'congealed' - physically installed components and 'distributed' aspects - 800 stickers were printed that traversed Dublin attached to back packs, jackets and buses, and were placed around the city.

seven sisters
Quay Gallery, Whanganui
Online voting form, animation and installation project. The installation used 64 bottles with leis inside them, which change formation through seven layouts. This multiple sense of visual identity - being able to be reformed to create an unrelated symbol - is one kind of nonlinearity.

a nonlinear collaboration for solar circuit
Hobart/Maria Island Australia Solar Circuit residency project. The aim was to facilitate multiple relationships - the project references plants, geology, heritage, fish animals and has a nonlinear discussion.

a nonlinear art work for wild2002
Museum of Tasmania Australia
This work was exhibited online and in the Museum's Pacific Galleries, a very suitable venue and context for my work. It references stones and rocks, painting and chaos theory, shells and plants, birds and feathers, curved spacetime and wave particle duality

hybrid cultures, nonlinearity and creative practice {aka hc : n : cp}
MA thesis - projected image database, animation, digital print, touch activated website and installation. The project directly sought to align cultural hybridity, nonlinearity and creativity.

silicon chips are made of sand
Online catalogue of show at Quay Gallery, Whanganui New Zealand
The exhibition consisted of installation and digital work, an old wooden ladder was installed among leis, websites and adhesive vinyl prints - data visualisations of Leistavian constitution voting statistics (figure 1 and figure 2). The project unified several works within one new installation.

Bio/cv

Ian M Clothier is an artist, Senior Academic at Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki New Zealand, Director of Intercreate Research Centre (intercreate.org) and founding Director of SCANZ (Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand) residency, exhibition and symposium. Working in diverse media and often with collaborators, projects have involved data loggers and web based applications, robotics, socio-political data visualisation, micronation creation, augmented reality, motion sensoring, online survey and installation. Major thematics are integrated systems, nonlinearity and hybrid culture. His projects have been selected for Taranaki culture at Puke Ariki, New Zealand; ISEA 2009 Belfast exhibition; ISEA 2008 Singapore symposium; net.NET at The JavaMuseum; Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival in the USA; ISEA 2006/01 San Jose exhibition; Graphite, University of Otago NZ; the First International Festival of Electronic Art in Rio de Janeiro; Fair Assembly at ZKM; New Forms Festival in Vancouver; ISEA 2004 Tallinn/Helsinki exhibition; ReJoyce in Dublin; Wild 2002 in the Tasmanian Museum and he has had thirteen solo shows.  Written work has been published in journals including Leonardo, Convergence and Digital Creativity and he has been selected for and given many national and international conference presentations including Media Art History and the International Conference on Thinking.

Click to download cv as pdf. Email: ian dot clothier at intercreate dot org.
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