Curriculum Vitæ

SELECT COMMISSIONS & SOLO-EXHIBITIONS

2019-20 Here’s To The: wassailing the microbial ecology of cider-making – (with Dr. Sue Ruddick); commissioned project University of Toronto, Canada

2017-18 Discussion Island – commissioned project with Goldsmiths, University of London, UK and supported by Seed Box at University of Linøping, Sweden

2016 et al – solo-exhibition, Danielle Arnaud, London, UK

2015 A Splendid Kindred Soul – commission, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

2014 The Outlier—commission, Scarborough Museums Trust, UK

2014 Primary Agents of a Social World – commission, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK

2014 A Song, A Dance and A New Stannary Parliament – commission Spacex, Exeter/Esmée Fairbairne Foundation, UK

2013 Wheels of Peacock Blue, Gaslight Blue. Participatory performance for The White Building, London, commissioned by FVU, London

2013 Forward Back Together, commission for Vivid, Birmingham, UK

2013 The Long Walk Home, performance for Walk On, Pitshanger Manor Gallery, London

2012 What Cannot Be Turned Aside. Yorkshire Sculpture Park & Danielle Arnaud, London, UK

2010 Memory Marathon, film (82 mins) and exhibition, commission for ODA/ACE/LDA. Produced by Film & Video Umbrella, London (2010-11); screenings at John Hansard City Space, Southampton, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Whitechapel Gallery, (2012) and ICA, London (2013); SVA, New York (2011)

2010 A Common Third, solo-exhibition, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, UK

2010 Mountains & Lacunae (with Sarah Cullen), Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, UK

2009 Carved from Memory. solo-exhibition, Spacex, Exeter, UK

2008 Dialogue with André Cadere at Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

2006 Woodland Space Recall. Commission for Woodland Trust, Ironbridge, UK

2006 Gallery Space Recall. Solo-Exhibition, Chapter, Cardiff, UK

2005 Charade/Peer-to-Peer, (BBC/ACE commission) Birmingham & Institute of Contemporary Art, London

2000 Into The Web (as I/O/D)—software installation commissioned for The Office Of Zaha Hadid forThe Mind Zone at the Millennium Dome, UK

1997 Words. Software for Laurie Anderson. Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall, London.

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 The Outlier in Rocks & Weeds, UCA Canterbury, UK

2019 The Web Stalker in Web-Retro at Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea (as I/O/D)

2017 The Web Stalker, Rhizome at the New Museum, New York (online exhibition) (as I/O/D)

2016-17 The Gift – in Sea Swim, national touring exhibition, UK

2015 The Outlier in Alternativa 2015, Gdansk, Poland June

2013-15 A Common Third in WALK ON, national touring group exhibition, Plymouth Arts Centre, NGCA Sunderland, MAC Birmingham, Pitshanger Manor Gallery, London UK

2012 Gallery Space Recall, AV Festival 2012, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK

2007-8 The Memorial Walks commissioned for Waterlog: exhibition at Norwich Castle Gallery and Lincoln Museum & Art Gallery

2008-9 Negotiating Picu Cuturruau commissioned for There Is No Road. LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial, Asturias, Spain.

2008 Painting From Memory, commission for Tatton Park Biennale, UK

2003 Ambulant Science Studio in Further: Wales. Commission for Wales at the 50th Venice Biennale of Art, Ex Birreria, Giudecca, Venice, Italy.

2005 The Web Stalker at ArtBase 101, New Museum, New York, (as I/O/D)

2002 The Web Stalker in Leonardo/New York Digital Salon, (as I/O/D), New York

2001 Ice Cream for Everyone (with Mark Greco) in A Fair Place, Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul.

2001 The Web Stalker in Idea Line, Whitney Museum, (as I/O/D) NYC

2000 Into the Web, software-artwork for Office of Zaha Hadid, Millennium Dome

1999 Ice Cream for Everyone (with Mark Greco) in Crash! , ICA London.

1999 The Web Stalker in Net_Condition, ZKM, Graz. (as I/O/D).(as I/O/D)

1998 The Web Stalker in Arts Electronica, Linz, Austria (as I/O/D)

1998 The Web Stalker in Beyond Interface, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, USA. (as I/O/D).

CURATED PROJECTS

2002-3 Art for Networks, national touring exhibition, England, Scotland, Wales, UK

2000-1 Art for Networks, produced for BBC Online, London, UK

RECENT & FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Pope, S. (2019) ‘Forward Back Together, and the Materialities of Taking Part’, in Boyd, C. and Edwardes, C. (eds) Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts. London: Springer.

Pope, Simon (2019) ‘It was meant 2 b gr8: reneging on the participatory ethos of software culture in the 2003 Venice Biennale’, Page: Journal of the Computer Arts Society. (SpringerBriefs in Cultural Computing Series).

Pope, S., Viader-Knowles, R. and Lowry, G. (2019) ‘Correspondence’, in Loveless, N., Knowings and Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press.

Pope, S. (2017) ‘You Asked About Validity’, OAR: The Oxford Artistic and Practice Based Research Platform, (2). Available at: http://www.oarplatform.com/asked-validity/

Pope, S. (2015) ‘Walking Transformed: The Dialogics of Art and Walking’, C Magazine.

Pope, Simon and Warren, S. (2014) ‘Performing public art and geography in Simon Pope’s Forward Back Together’, in. LUDUS, University of Leeds.

Pope, S. and Fernie, J. (2012) ‘Keeping to the Path: Maintaining “Core Purpose” in Participatory Art Under Conditions of Contemporary Patronage’, Engage, (29: Art and the Olympics).

FUNDING & AWARDS

2019 SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant (with Dr. Sue Ruddick, University of Toronto) $25,000

2017 Toronto Arts Council, grant award (2017) $10,000

2017 Seedbox environmental humanities award (2017-18) £48,000

2014 National Museum of Wales artist-residency and production award (2014) £16,000

2012-15 Ruskin Doctoral StudentshipThe Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, UK £15,000

2012 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts award £10,000

2006 University of Leuven research award €69,000

2006 Arts Council Wales grant £5,000

2005 Wellcome Trust R&D grant £8,950

2001 Arts Council England Touring Grant & Henry Moore Foundation grant (2001) £66,000

2002-5 National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts Fellowship award £75,000

2000 Webby Award for New Media Art (as I/O/D)—San Francisco, USA

1999 Silver Award for Interaction Design—I.D. Magazine

1998 Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica

1997/8 Arts Council of England New Media grant £13,000

RESIDENCIES

2018 NKD Nordic Artists’ Center Dalsasen (with Sarah Cullen), Dale i Sunnfjord, Norway

2014 Amgeddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales, Cardiff, UK

2013 NKD Nordic Artists’ Center Dalsasen (with Sarah Cullen), Dale i Sunnfjord, Norway

2013 University of Woolongong, NSW, Australia

2011 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK

2011 Proboscis, London, UK

2008 NES artists’ residency, Skagastrønd, Iceland.

2003 & 4 Banff Centre for the Arts, (self-directed) Alberta, Canada

2000 CalArts (as I/O/D), California, USA

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales (UK), Rhizome (USA), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (UK), Tatton Park, (UK), Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura (Spain).

EDUCATION

2012-15 D.Phil (PhD) in Fine Art from Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. Title: Who Else Takes Part? Admitting the more-than-human into participatory art. Supervisors: Dr. Anthony Gardner & Daria Martin.

1988-91 BA (Hons) Fine Art (Upper second). South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education, Cardiff, UK

FELLOWSHIPS & ACADEMIC POSTS

2019-20 Researcher, University of Toronto, Canada.

2019 Eccles Centre Visiting Fellow, British Library, London UK

2017-18 Post-doctoral researcher, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

2017 Sessional lecturer. OCAD U School of Liberal Studies, Toronto, Canada.

2017- PhD supervisor (ongoing) University of Plymouth, UK

2015-17 MFA & PhD Supervisor, Transart Institute, New York City & Berlin

2015-17 Artist Fellow. Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

2014-15 Associate Research Fellow. Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

2014 Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy—through Divisional Learning & Teaching Qualification, certified by Oxford Learning Institute, University of Oxford

2005-10 Reader in Fine Art/Director of MFA & MA Fine Art, Cardiff School of Art & Design, UK

2002-5 National Endowment for Science, Technology & Arts Fellowship, UK

2009 External examiner, MFA, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

2002-9 Visiting researcher and lecturer, Transmedia postmasters program, Hogeschool Sint Lukas, Brussels, Belgium.

2000-2 Senior Lecturer & Director, Design for Interactive Media BA/BSc (Hons) UWIC, Cardiff, UK

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

2009 MFA & MA Fine Art—Cardiff School of Art & Design (2009)

2001 BA/BSc Design for Interactive Media—UWIC Business School, Cardiff UK.

PhD SUPERVISION AND EXAMINATION

Current: Emilio Chapela Perez; Livia Daza Paris; Luisa Greenfield (Transart Institute, Berlin/NYC & University of Plymouth, UK)

Completions: 1

PhD Examination: University of Plymouth, UK (2008) ; University of Wales, Newport, UK (2009); Chelsea School of Art, London, UK (2019)

SUMMARY OF ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

I have over 18 years of experience as an academic within art schools in the UK and European university sector:

I was a Reader (Professor) 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.

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 have one PhD completion, and currently have three PhD student who are due to complete in 2020. I have also been a PhD external and internal examiner for the University of Plymouth, University of Wales, Newport, and Chelsea College of Art.

In 2005 I was subject-leader of a Media Arts department, 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, leading a research methods course for 'post-masters' Transmedia students. During this time I was also co-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 informed my understanding of the historical development of research with UK and European art schools.

I was External Examiner for the MFA Creative Practice at Transart Institute, NYC and Berlin (2010-14)

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, Royal College of Art in London, Architectural Association, Newcastle University, University of Birmingham, University of Westminster, Montclair, Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford, and the Tisch School at New York University. In February 2011 I led a short-course for Ontario College of Art & Design in Firenze, and Goldsmiths University of London.