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art, science, culture, technology
THE WEBSITE OF IAN CLOTHIER Welcome
This is the website of Ian Clothier, welcome and please do look around to see what you might find. For as much as art is 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 - integrated systems, systems thinking, the concept of rhizome, network theory and in Aotearoa New Zealand, Te Taiao Maori. 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.
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.
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Bio
Ian M Clothier is an artist, curator, Cretive Research Director at Intercreate Research Centre (intercreate.org); a part time Senior Academic at Western Institute of Technology Aotearoa New Zealand; founding Director of Water, Peace, Power; co-founding Director of SCANZ (Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand) with Trudy Lane, Adam Hyde and Nina Czegledy.
A hybrid Polynesian, his 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.
His career extends to ninety six public exhibitions in fourteen countries, along with twenty four publication credits. Recent curatorial projects include Water, Peace, Power 2016; Sharing the Waiwhakaiho (2015); SCANZ2015: water*peace; Media Art Projects 2014, and 3rd nature at Puke Ariki in 2013.
Since 2004 his 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. His written work has been published in journals including Leonardo, Convergence and Digital Creativity and he has 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
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