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Simon Pope

May 2012

 

BRIEF RESUMÉ 

  • Artist Simon Pope (1966) lives and works in UK.  
  • Represented Wales at their inaugural exhibition at the Venice Biennale of Fine Art, (2003) and  awarded a NESTA fellowship to investigate walking as art practice, (2002-2005).  Curated the touring exhibition, Art for Networks, (2002-3) and author of London Walking (2001) 
  • Recent work includes the film Memory Marathon (2010), the solo-exhibition A Common Third at Danielle Arnaud, London (2010) and Carved From Memory at Spacex, Exeter, UK (2009)
  • As a member of the artist-group I/O/D produced  The Web Stalker,  - winner of a Webby Award (2000) and Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica,  (1997) 
  • Reader and programme director for MFA and MA Fine Art programmes in Cardiff, UK from 2005-2010; currently External Examiner for the MFA Creative Practice at Transart Institute, NYC & Berlin (2010-) 
EXHIBITIONS 
  • What Cannot Be Turned Aside. Film, 2012 (Forthcoming)
  • Pitheads. Film and participatory project. 2012 (Forthcoming)
  • Recall From Memory The Space Of Another Gallery (2006) performance for AV Festival, Sunderland, UK. March 1-31 2012.
  • The Mount, Royal London Hospital for the Create festival, London June-July (2011)
  • Untitled Walks, The Mint Hotel Tower of London, London. (2011)
  • StoryCube Cairn.  Residency, Proboscis, London. (2010-11)
  • Memory Marathon, film screenings. London (17th Feb 2011) and at SVA, New York (13th March 2011) 
  • Memory Marathon: One Year On  Film, (6mins 26sec) Commissioned by ODA/ACE.  Produced by Film & Video Umbrella, London. (2010)
  • I/O/D 4: The Web Stalker in Highways Connect And Divide at Foxy Productions, NYC (5th Feb - 12th March 2011)
  • Memory Marathon, film and exhibition, commission for ODA/ACE/LDA. Produced by Film & Video Umbrella, London (2010-11)
  • A Common Third, solo-exhibition, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, (2010) 
  • Carved from Memory. solo-exhibition, Spacex, Exeter, UK (2009)
  • Mountains & Lacunae, event at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London and 47, Toronto. (2009)
  • The Memorial Walks, publication, Film and Video Umbrella, London (2008) 
  • Negotiating Picu Cuturruau commissioned for There Is No Road. LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial, Asturias, Spain. (2008-9) 
  • Painting From Memory, commission for Tatton Park Biennale (May 2008) 
  • Waterlog: Journeys Around an Exhibition by Steven Bode, Brian Dillon, Matthew Hollis, Robert Macfarlane, Jeremy Millar, and George Szirtes. Published  by Film and Video Umbrella, London ISBN 978-1-904270-24-9. (2008)  
  • Dialogue with Cadere residency at Institute of Contemporary Art, London (Feb  2008) 
  • London Bridge Recall Performance for Danielle Arnaud/Architecture Week  2007, London, (June 2007)  
  • Charade, Institute of Contemporary Art, London (June 2007) 
  • The Memorial Walks at Waterlog. Group Exhibition, Norwich & Lincoln, UK.  Film & Video Umbrella. 2006/7 Publication, panel presentation, conference  and catalogue. 
  • Gallery Space Recall. Solo-Exhibition, Chapter, Cardiff, 2006 
  • Walking & Sociality in Contemporary Visual Art Practice, Research Project Transmedia, Brussels and KUL, Leuven. 2006-9
  • Charade/Peer-to-Peer, (BBC/ACE commission) Birmingham 2005/6 
  • Walking Here And There (with Vaughan Bell), (Wellcome Trust SciArt project), 2005/6 
  • The Web Stalker at ArtBase 101, New Museum, New York, (Group Show/as I/O/D), 2005  
  • A Walk from London to Worthing. Commission for Navigating History. Proboscis, London & Worthing Library, Sussex. 2004. Catalogue. 
  • Ambulant Science Studio in Further: Wales at the 50th Venice Biennale of Art, Ex Birreria, Giudecca, Venice. Catalogue. Group Exhibition. June- Nov 2003.
  • Art for Networks, Chapter Arts, Cardiff; Fruitmarket, Edinburgh; Turnpike Gallery, Leigh; RegVardy gallery, Sunderland. Catalogue. (as Curator). Group Exhibition. 2002-2003. Also BBC Online production, (2000-1)
  • The Web Stalker in Leonardo/New York Digital Salon, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, (as I/O/D), New York, 2002 
  • Ice Cream for Everyone in A Fair Place, Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul. Group Exhibition. Nov 2001 
  • The Web Stalker in Idea Line, Whitney Museum, (as I/O/D) NYC, 2001 
  • London Walking, Publication, Ellipsis/Batsford Architecture, 2000. 
  • Into the Web, software installation for Office of Zaha Hadid, Millennium Dome, 2000. 
  • Ice Cream for Everyone in Crash! , ICA London, (with Kate Glazer). Group Exhibition. Nov 1999.  
  • The Web Stalker in Net_Condition, ZKM, Graz. (as I/O/D). Group Exhibition. Sept1999. Online publication. 
  • The Web Stalker in Arts Electronica, Linz, Austria (as I/O/D). Group Exhibition. 1998 
  • The Web Stalker in Beyond Interface, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, USA. (as I/O/D). Group Exhibition. Online publication. Nov 1998. 
  • Words Software utility for Laurie Anderson. Commissioned through Ellipsis for Meltdown Festival 1997, Royal Festival Hall, London. 1997 

ESSAYS & PAPERS 

  • Keeping to the Path: Maintaining ‘Core Purpose’ in Participatory Art Under Conditions of Contemporary Patronage

    (with Jes Fernie). Engage 29. May 2012

  • Working Together: On Transdisciplinarity, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, March 2007.  
  • Charade: the distribution of media assets into the public at large. CHArt 06, Birkbeck College, London. 2006 
  • The Shape of Locative Media, Mute Magazine, London. March 2005; eprinted by SENAC and PUC University in Sao Paulo, 2006 )
  • Foot Blisters and Sticking Plasters: research, funding and art practice in Transmedia Text 03, Hogeschool Sint Lukas, Brussels. 2004 
  • In conversation with Kris Cohen & Sarah Cook in Further: Catalogue for Wales at the 50th Venice Biennale of Art, 2003 
  • Self-historicizing through Art for Networks. Paper for The Associations of Art Historians, Birkbeck College, London, 2003 
  • Open as in closed: a critique of open and free software development cultures paper for Banff Centre/USC 'Bridges II conference, 2002. 
  • Art is Everything Business is Not paper for the Arts Council of England's Ways of Working Conference and publication, 2002. 
  • 6 Questions in search of a network: interview with Matthew Fuller in Art for Networks: Catalogue for Touring Exhibition, Chapter, Cardiff. 2002 
  • This Is London, in Read Me! ASCII Culture, New York:Autonomedia 2001. 


CITATIONS 

  • O'Riley, Sally. The Body In Art. London & New York: Thames & Hudson, 2009.
  • Reiss, Viv (ed.). The Art of Negotiation. London and Manchester: Cornerhouse/Arts Council England, 2007. 
  • Ippolito J. & Blaise J. (eds). At The Edge of Art. New York & London:Thames & Hudson, 2006. 
  • Bradley, Will and others (eds). Self-Organisation /Counter-economic Strategies. New York: Lukas & Sternberg, 2006
  • Greene, Rachel. Internet Art. London & New York:Thames & Hudson, 2004  
  • Mulholland, Neil. Awkward Relations. Tate Papers, (Online: http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/04autumn/mulholland.htm), 2004  
  • Kimbell, Lucy ed., New Media Art: Practice and context in the UK 1994-2004.  London & Manchester: Arts Council England/Cornerhouse, 2004  
  • Stallabrass, Julian.  Internet Art: The Online Clash of Culture and Commerce,  London:Tate Publishing, 2003 
  • Bosma, Josaphine. Constucting Media Spaces, in Media Art Net,(online: http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/public_sphere_s/media_spaces/21/), Karlsruhe: Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, 2003  
  • Medosch, Armin (ed.). Software and Copyleft Culture. Liverpool:FACT, 2003 
  • Jason Brown and Zoe Crosher (eds.). NTNTNT.  Los Angeles: CalArts, 2003  
  • Dietz, Steve. Why Have There Been No Great Net Artists? UNESCO (online), 2002.
  • Wark, McKenzie. Dispositions. Applecross, Australia & Cambridge, UK:Salt Publishing 2002. 
  • Muir, Gregor. Past, Present, and Future Tense. Leonardo Vol. 35, Number 5,  2002  
  • McNeill, Donald in The Newsletter of the Urban Geography Research Group, Royal Geographical Society, Spring 2002. 
  • Ippolito, John. Ten Myths of Internet Art. Leonardo 35.5, Cambridge: MIT, October 2002.  
  • Software Art, Florian Cramer, (online: http://molodiez.org/dms420/software_art.htm) 2001. 
  • Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2001.  
  • Weibel, Peter and Druckery, Peter. net_condition: art and global media,  Cambridge: MIT, 2001
  • Altena, Arie. The Browser Is Dead; Long Live the Browser.  Amsterdam: MediaMatic,1999


PERMANENT ACADEMIC  and RESEARCH POSTS 

  • Reader in Fine Art, Cardiff School of Art & Design (2005-10)
  • NESTA Fellowship awardee (2002-5)
  • Research Associate & Lecturer, Transmedia, Hogeschool Sint Lukas, Brussels (2002-09)
  • Senior Lecturer, UWIC Business School, Cardiff, UK (2001-05)

SUMMARY OF ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

  • I have over 10 years of experience as an academic within art schools in the UK and European university sector.
  • Until recently, I was a Reader in Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art & Design, (UK). This post entailed the mentoring of colleagues in applying for Research Council funding and in instigating a shift in the understanding of the status of research in relation to professional practice within the art school/university. I was the co-founder of the Centre for Fine Art Research, which aimed to be the forum for discussion of such topics and was the budget-holder for the school's Fine Art research fund, devolved from the university.
  • As a senior academic I was Programme Director of the MFA and MA Fine Art programmes, which I developed as new strands within the school's postgraduate provision. I was responsible for delivery and development of the curriculum, management of staff and budget-holding. I was also instrumental in developing the school's integration of M-level Fine Art programmes into the University's model for Research Degrees during it's bid for Research Degree awarding-powers. 
  • I currently have one PhD student who is due to complete in early 2012 and who transferred from another UK university to study with me. In 2008 I successfully won a ￡30,000 university research student bursary on his behalf. I have also been a PhD external and internal examiner for the University of Plymouth and University of Wales, Newport. 
  • Prior to this, I was subject-leader of  Media Arts (2005) and developed the curriculum for an innovative BA/BSc Design for Interactive Media (2000-2002) across schools of Art, Design, Computing and Business. 
  • From 2002-2009 I was visiting professor and research associate at Hogeschool Sint Lukas, Brussels, teaching research methods to 'post-masters' Transmedia students. During this time I was also Principle Researcher on a three-year, €75,000 research project in conjunction with Catholic University of Leuven, (KUL) Belgium. 
  • As a NESTA Fellow (2002-5) my mentors were Prof. Jon Thompson and Prof. Janice Jefferies who, along with Malcolm Le Grice, (with whom I taught at Hogeschool Sint Lukas) informed my understanding of the historical development of research with UK  and European art schools.
  • In addition to full-time and contractual posts within Higher Education, I have also conducted presentations, artist's talks and studio-visits at art schools and universities such as UCLA, CalArts, RCA London, Architectural Association, Newcastle University, University of Birmingham, University of Westminster, Montclair and New York University. In February 2011 I led a short-course for Ontario College of Art & Design in Florence.
  • I am currently External Examiner for the MFA Creative Practice at Transart Institute, NYC and Berlin (2010-14)