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	art, science, culture, technology THE WEBSITE OF IAN CLOTHIER Welcome This is the archive website of Pasha Ian Clothier, welcome and please do look around to see what you might find. This site covers the period from around 1999 to 2019. Current projects are at pashaclothier.art. I identify as mahu, the middle gender as it is known on Tahiti and Hawaii. I whakapapa to Tahiti, Huahine and Hitiaurevareva - 12 lines of descent along matrilineal lines. As much as art and writing can be a result of knowledge, it is also the consequence of intuition. Between these two contrasting aspects of human psychology, lies meaning. Meaning is elusive, shifting and changeable but also enticing. Integrated systems My art work is based around the idea that all things are interconnected. This is called by various names -in Aotearoa New Zealand, Te Taiao Maori - in the West as integrated systems, systems thinking, the concept of rhizome, network theory. I am a hybrid Polynesian, and seeing everything as connected is common throughout Polynesia. Knowledge is changing A view of life from a bacterial perspective results in a similar perception. Knowledge today is in a dynamic and changing condition. It has become multicultural, interdisciplinary, intergenerational and humanity now well understands the connection to environment. It just isn't doing enough yet, mainly due to vested interest close to politicans with power, who want the status quo as it is good for their personal bank balance. Which basically means they don't care about species, or even their great grandhcildren. They think they can escape everything in a bunker, but it's not that simple. Connecting diversity The projects in these pages connect diverse aspects. The works here involve connecting to light, trees and plants, to rivers, to quantum science, to whales and sea life. Earlier works looked at the cultural dimension of life and connected to ideas around history, society, the individual and identity. The idea of robots generating poetry was solved by thinking in terms of integrated systems, of connected and overlapping sub-systems. This approach has been scaled up and down dependent on project. Links are either images or bold dark green text. Some of this site has been online for over 15 years, and a range of looks and page widths will be found. The top left icon will return you to this page. Click here for a bio and cv.
Light seen and unseen video/audio work at ISEA2019	ePlant Electronika hortensium in Pukekura Park	Bird song light walk at the Festival of Lights
Arboretum Rhizomatic Polynesia at Balance-Unbalance 2017, exhibited at The Eden Project	Higgs boson confirmation world premier at Sound + environment University of Hull	*Three Light plants* selected for Home Work, curated by Darcy Nicholas, Chanelle Carrick and Aimee Burbery**
Kanohi kitea can have two meanings - a face that sees with eyes or a face that is seen often in the words of Charissa Warea	Kauri flow measured live nutrient flow in a deceased kauri and young saplings, creating an ode to the diseased tree	What happens when rotational symmetry is applied to a photo of a tree, in a Fibonacci series?
Wavelengths at 685, 533 and 473 nanometers measures light at the red and blue ends of the spectrum, used by plants in photosynthesis	The Park Speaks used live data from Pukekura Park - a collaboration with Julian Priest, Andrew Hornblow and Adrian Soundy	*In Parallel universes* light could be experienced through the use of LEDs, mirrors or transparent fluoro pink perspex**
The River Speaks utilised live data from the Waiwhakaiho River, opening a dialogue with indigenous peoples regarding water and the environment	Haiku robots generated words live letter by letter, with software authoring by Julian Priest and electronics by Andrew Hornblow	Kaon_sun_rumble uses a kaon decay data image and a soundtrack that converted images to audio
Curved picture space sought to combine the curvature of space-time with chaotic flow	*Curatorial project - Wai* opened with Tomo whakari a dawn ceremony - under the guidance of Dr Te Huirangi Waikerepuru, a Navajo component was incorporated**	Leistavia is a hybrid cultural internet micronation that became a framework for engaging with political, economic, social, historic and personal identity issues
*Pattern and branching are explored in the Human-Nature* series of images taken on Norfolk Island**	*An image from the multitudinous Hybrid cultures, nonlinearity and creative practice, my Masters study*	20,000 feet provides a unique context for cloud and atmosphere study
Cultural connect The River Speaks River data, audio The Waiwhakaiho River project Wai Knowledge sharing Water, Peace, Power At Parihaka Water *Peace SCANZ2015 3rd nature SCANZ2013 Te Iarere ISEA2012 Te Kore Rongo Hungaora ISEA2011	Data projects Kaon sun rumble Big data - CERN Kauri flow Environmental data Wavelengths Plant voltage data The Park Speaks People, temp, UV World tree orchestra Australasian trees connected Making history Social data Interrogating the invisible Identity data District of Leistavia Political data	EXPLORATIONS Parallel universes 10 dimensional Wave particle duality 02 Light Space-time Shinkansen-Ryoanji Light behaviours Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto Acts of perception Byodoin Temple, Kyoto Fibonacci series 2 Rotational symmetry A Wandering Rock James Joyce centenary A Nonlinear Collaboration Solar Circuit
Bio Pasha Ian Clothier is an artist, writer, curator, formerly Creative Research Director at Intercreate Research Centre (intercreate.org) and a Senior Academic at Western Institute of Technology Aotearoa New Zealand, now focussed on art and writing. They are founding Director of Water, Peace, Power 2016 and 2018; co-founding Director of SCANZ (Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand) 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015 with Trudy Lane, Adam Hyde and Nina Czegledy. Their DNA traces through Te Wai Pounamu (South Island, Aotearoa New Zealand), Norfolk Island, Pitcairn Island, Tahiti and Polynesian culture to Lapita; while other lines trace back through the Isle of Man, England, the Shetland Islands and Nordic countries. In Polynesia, whakapapa or genealogy means more than simply DNA, and includes significant events, object, land marks and stories. This is a rich cultural eritage. Their career up to 2019 extends to one hundred and nine public exhibitions in sixteen countries, along with twenty four publication credits. Recent curatorial projects include Water, Peace, Power 2016; Sharing the Waiwhakaiho (2015); SCANZ2015: waterpeace; Media Art Projects 2014, and 3rd nature* at Puke Ariki in 2013. Since 2004 their projects have been selected for Sound+ Environment 2017 University of Hull, Balance-Unbalance 2017 at the Eden Project and Plymouth University, Diffrazione Festival Florence 2016, Balance-Unbalance 2016 Manizales, Festival of Lights New Plymouth 2016, A delicate balance: rongo taketake a taane Auckland 2015, Pacific Shortcuts Croatia 2014, Balance-Unbalance 2013 Noosa, Machine Wilderness ISEA 2012 Albuquerque, Uncontainable ISEA 2011 Istanbul Exhibition, Cultura Digital at Rio de Janeiro, What if at Puke Ariki Museum New Zealand 2010-2011, ISEA 2009 Belfast Exhibition, Taranaki culture at Puke Ariki 2009, net.NET at The JavaMuseum, for Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival in the USA, ISEA 2006 San Jose exhibition, Graphite at the 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 and ReJoyce in Dublin. 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. Thematically projects involve notions around nonlinearity and cultural hybridity, and more recently these are united within notions of integrated systems. Integrated systems and nonlinear influenced projects include World Tree Orchestra, Haiku robots, The Park Speaks, the augmented reality project branch on branch v3.1, A Wandering Rock based on the chapter of Ulysses which utilised movement sensors, Seven sisters, and a number of other collaborative works. Cultural projects include the hybrid micronation The District of Leistavia, where online response and voting forms were used to create the Leistavian Constitution, query cultural identification and make history; Te Kore Rongo Hungaora in Istanbul, Wai in Albuquerque, SCANZ 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and Water, Peace, Power. Their written work has been published in journals including Leonardo, Convergence and Digital Creativity and they have been selected for and given many conference presentations including at Media Art History and the International Conference on Thinking.	Curatorial Water works 2016 online exhibition at waterwheel.net Water, Peace, Power 2016 Mt Taranaki, Nga Motu New Plymouth, Parihaka Sharing the Waiwhakaiho 2015 Massey University, Intercreate, Taranaki Regional Council and National Institute of Water and Atmosphere SCANZ2015: Water, Peace, Power Nga Motu New Plymouth scanz2013 3rd nature Nga Motu New Plymouth Wai Curator for ISEA 2012 ISEA2012 2012 International Juror Machine Wilderness Albuquerque Second Nature [travelling] 2011 at Cultura Digital Rio de Janeiro Te Kore Rongo Hungaora Uncontainable Second Nature ISEA2011 Istanbul SCANZ2011: Eco sapiens Selection panel inter/place: art in the space of puke ariki 2010 Puke Ariki Museum and Library SCANZ2009: Raranga Tangata Selection panel ISEA2006 San Jose 2006 International juror, Interactive City strand SCANZ2006 Selection panel 1990-92 Exhibition, Policy, Publicity Officer The Gallery Akaroa	CV Send an email to Pasha Ian Clothier for an updated CV