curriculum vitae since 2001
ian m clothier
bio
Ian M Clothier is a Senior Academic at Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki (WITT), Director of Intercreate Research Centre (intercreate.org) and founding Director of SCANZ (Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand). He has been selected for Taranaki culture at Puke Ariki, New Zealand, ISEA 2008 Singapore symposium, net.NET The JavaMuseum, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival USA, ISEA 2006 San Jose exhibition, Graphite University of Otago NZ, First International Festival of Electronic Art Brazil, Fair Assembly ZKM, New Forms Festival Vancouver, ISEA 2004 Tallinn/Helsinki exhibition, ReJoyce Dublin and Wild 2002 Tasmanian Museum.
Thematically projects involve notions around cultural hybridity and nonlinearity, more recently integrated systems. Cultural projects include the hybrid micronation The District of Leistavia, where online response and voting forms were used to create the Leistavian Constitution and query cultural identification. Nonlinear projects include Haiku robots, the augmented reality project branch on branch v3.1, and A Wandering Rock based on the chapter of Ulysses which utilised movement sensors. His written work has been published in Leonardo, Convergence and Digital Creativity and he has given many conference presentations.
group exhibitions, moving image, internet
2009
Selected participant - Haiku robots, Taranaki culture: fresh out of the box Puke Ariki museum, New Plymouth2008
Te Ara, Te Ara o Te Ora exhibition, Percy Thompson Gallery Stratford Taranaki2007
District of Leistavia net.NET The JavaMuseum2006
Selected participant, International Symposium on Electronic Arts/Zero One [ISEA 2006] San JoseSelected participant, Quest for success C5 contestant ISEA 2006/Zero One
Selected participant, Finger Lakes Eco Film Festival (online category) Cornell University USA
2005
Selected participant, Graphite University of Otago, NZSelected participant, Public Assembly ZKM, Germany
Selected participant, PROG:ME International Festival of Electronic Art, Rio de Janeiro
Project exhibitor, Converge, Christchurch Conference Centre NZ
art-themagazine.com exhibited as part of Wayleave, Rome
2004
Selected participant, New Forms Festival, VancouverSelected participant, InterSociety of Electronics in the Arts [ISEA 2004], Helsinki, Tallinn
Selected participant, Wandering Rocks collaboration for ReJoyce 2004, Dublin
2003
hybrid culture.nonlinearity/rupture MCA, New Plymouth New Zealand (NZ)Digital Stories, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
Nga Waka Auckland College of Education
2002
hc : n : cp (hybrid culture, nonlinearity and creative practice), projected image database, lei related objects, digital prints and website, MA submission Auckland University of Technology NZwww.solarcircuit.org collaborative art work
Wild 2002 Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, web work and installation
Invited participant, Solar Circuit International New Media Residency and Workshop, Tasmania
publications, papers, conferences
2008
Leonardo, nonlinearity and integrated systems in Leonardo Volume 41 Number 1 pp. 49-55.Artist presentation, On integrated systems: hybrid culture and nonlinearity ISEA 2008
Invited to participate in the Leonardo Education Forum at ISEA 2008
SCANZ, digital media education prototype Aotearoa Digital Artists annual conference co-presentation
With Lane, T. Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand in S. Brennan & S. Ballard (Eds.) The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader. Auckland: Cloud
With Lane, T. (2008). SCANZ. New Plymouth: Intercreate Press. ISBN 978-0-473-13388-7
2007
Formen der Reprasentation: Hybride Kulturen, Nonlinearitat und creative Verfahren (Forms of Representation: Hybrid Culture, Nonlinearity and Creative Practice). In Kroncke, M; Mey, K & Spielmann, Y. (Eds.) Kultureller Umbau: Räume, Identitäten, Re/Präsentationen (Cultural Reconstruction: Spaces, Identities, Re/Presentations). Bielefeld: Transcript. ISBN 978-3-89942-556-7Created identities: hybrid cultures and the internet (revised with images) at http://www.hz-journal.org/n11/clothier.html
Art.data/branching. New Plymouth: Intercreate Press. ISBN 978-0-473-11915-7
2005
Paper, Created identities: hybrid cultures and the internet accepted for publication in Converge UK academic journal
PROG:ME International Festival of Electronic Art catalogue, Rio de JaneiroVodafone Digital Art Awards exhibtion catalogue
Four collaborative art projects for Converge 05 HitLabNZ Fellowship (flier)
2004
isea 2004 12th International Symposium on Electronic Art Editors: Tapio Makela, Mare TrallaTechnography, New Forms Media Society, Vancouver 2004
Technology and history combine Daily News New Plymouth New Zealand, Friday 9th July
Art-themagazine reviewed, http://www.worldwidereview.com/_Reviews/00001114.htm
2002
Review of Wild2002 http://www.year01.com/issue10/australia.html2004
Review of Bloom: mutation, toxicity and the sublime http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=12159&text=23400Article, Come In: interior design as a contemporary art medium in Germany
www.art-themagazine.com/pages/featur32.htmPaper, Hybrid cultures: what, where and how about us? Nga Waka, Aotearoa NZ Association of Art Educators (ANZAAE) Conference published in Nga Waka, ANZAAE refereed conference proceedings, Vol. One (1), 2003. ISSN 1176-4589.
Talk on Len Lye and DNA, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
2003
[Peer reviewer)] Nga Waka, ANZAAE Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Art Educators refereed conference proceedings.Exploring multiplicity in a hybrid, nonlinear context Spark3, Wintech Hamilton NZ
Len Lye and old brain imagery, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Museum
Paper, Nonlinearity in technology and art: one multiplicity, Nga Waka, Aotearoa NZ Association of Art Educators Conference
http://ianclothier.orcon.net.nz personal site, web author
2001
Paper, Towards a nonlinear model of self, Culture informs learning, NZ Association of Research in Education ConferencePaper, Beyond the arts: advancement by external resourcing, Breakthroughs 2001, Ninth International Conference on Thinking
Paper, From chaos and cosmology: a new space for the visual arts, published in Digital Creativity, UK/Sweden academic journal
www.art-themagazine.com, editor & web author
http://akaroa.kiwi.id.tripod.com/contents.htm kiwiana exhibition online catalogue (web author)
grants, awards2008
Major project funding for SCANZ residency and symposium from Creative New Zealand2007
Pure research grant for robotics project, WITTProject grant from Digital Strategy Fund (Co-organiser)
2005
Creative New Zealand major project grant for SCANZ 2006 artists residency (Co-organiser)Finalist, Vodafone Digital Art Awards
Awarded HITLabNZ Artist Fellowship, University of Canterbury (NZ)
2004
Teaching and Research Excellence Award, WITT
solo shows
2006
silicon chips are made of sand quay Gallery, Wanganui UCOL, NZ2003
hybrid culture.nonlinearity/rupture MCA Gallery, WITT, New Plymouth, NZ2001
aroha weetie, digital prints, Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Technology Parkeducation
2002
MA (Hons) Auckland University of Technology NZbio
Curently Academic Discipline Leader Visual Arts, Dept of Art and Media, Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki, New Zealand
Descendant of Pitcairn, Norfolk and New Zealand European cultures
contact details
144 Seaview Road, New Plymouth 4601, New Zealand
Phone/fax: 0064 6 753 2969 : : Email: i.clothier@witt.ac.nz
Urls: http://ianclothier.com : : http://intercreate.org