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stanza exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:


The Binary Graffiti Club at Arebyte Gallery. UK 2017
The Intelligent City. Bruges Museum. Belgium. 2015
A-Life In The Emergent City. Metamorf. TSSK. Trondheim. Norway. 2014
Watermans Art Centre. The Emergent City. London UK 2013
Lanternhouse International. City of Dreams. UK 2010
Towneley Park Burnley with AND Festival. UK 2010
Plymouth Arts Centre. Visitors To A Gallery. 2008.
HTTP Gallery London. You Are My Subjects: 2005
Active Interiors. 10 Years of Interactive Art. Los Angeles USA. 2004
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo. The Central City. Retrospective. Mexico 2002.
ICA London. Soundtoys. UK 2002
Reflexive: Candid Gallery Paintings and Glassworks. London. 1997
Techno Primitive: Paintings. Wolfson College Oxford. 1992
The New Decayed Painting. Brixton London 1989
V2 Gallery Artitextures video art and wallpaper. Holland 1985

RECENT GROUP AND OTHER EXHIBITIONS:

2019

Seasons of Media Art at ZKM Germany
Futurelab at Festival of Speed Goodwood
Cantat Festival Legnica Poland.
Phantomology Das Cubo Bologna,Italy.
Ffoto Gallery Diffusion, Cardiff Wales.

2018

LightWaves Quays Culture Manchester UK
NMK Dresden. Curated by Andreas Ullrich

Speculum Artrium Decades Trbovlje Slovenia 2018
Cynetart Dresden Germany
Humber Street Gallery. Measures of Life. Lumen. Hull UK
Nesta Future Festival at Tobacco Dock London UK
World Experience Festival. Bucharest. Romania.

2017

Barbican Centre. Too Young for What. London UK
Bury Art Museum. Curated Place. UK
AEC Hackathon TMRW. UK
Beyond The Seven. Dom Slowa Polskiego. Warsaw. Poland
Brighton Digital Festival Huxley Exhibition. Brighton. UK
Lumen Prize Exhibition. Brighton. UK
QUAD Gallery. Our Friends Electric. Derby. UK
MAXXI Media Arts Festival. Rome Italy
Warehouse 9 Copenhagen. Denmark
FACT The New Observatory. Liverpool UK
York Art Gallery. UK
WRO, (Megalopolis) Wroclaw. Poland
EMAF European Media Art Festival Osnabruck. Germany
The Internet of Things World Forum (IoTWF) UK
Spectra Festival Aberden UK
Kinetica 10th Anniversary Exhibition London UK

2016

Dundee Contemporay Arts at Centrespace (VCR) NEoN. Scotland.
New Media Gallery, Anvil Centre. Canada
MozEx: 2016 Curated by the digital learning teams at both the Tate and the V&A. UK
Update / New Technological Art Award Ghent Belgium
Hacking Habitat. Art Of Control. Utrecht The Netherlands
Public Art Projects Canary Wharf London UK

Milton Keynes Central Library UK

2015

La Panacee Centre de Culture Contemporaine. Montpellier. France
Espaciobyte Itaú Cultural Argentina
Steam 3 Georgia State University. USA
Public Art Projects Canary Wharf London UK
Digitalis Project Milton Keynes.UK
Bruges Triennale Belgium.
Watermans Art Centre. Syncronicity London UK

2014

Kronika. Center for Contemporary Art. Bytom Poland.
Wolverhampton Art Gallery. UK
Centre des Arts d'Enghien-les-Bains. France
Winchester Science Centre. UK
Watermans Art Centre. London. Urban Generation

2013

The Digital Age Durham University
Frequency Festival In Lincoln UK.
Pace Gallery. Digital Art and the Urban Environment USA
Inauguración De la Muestra Netescopio Laboratorio Arte Alameda
Alternativa In Gdansk Poland
Data As Culture. ODI. London
Confluence in Falmouth UK
A Look Inside Surveillance De Markten Brussels. Belgium

2012

Open Your City. Torino Italy
Update 4 Zebrastrasse Gent. Belgium
Vida Special Retrospective Fundacion Telefonica.Madrid, Spain
Filmwinter Expanded Media. Stuttgart, Germany
Transport Museum
Sense and the City. London.

2011

Transport Museum London Sense and the City.
Leonardo Online curated by Lanfranco Aceti and Christiane Paul
Digital Turku Finland
Vanguard Court Gallery London

2010

Future Places. Exhibition. Porto Portugal.
City Of Dreams, Lanternhouse International, Ulverston.
Test Portal Now Art Gallery, Netherlands.
Victoria & Albert Museum Decode Show. London
Towneley Park as part of AND festival. Burnley
Map Marking at Pace digital gallery. New York USA.

2009

V & A Museum. Decode show. London
Mediamatic, Netherlands.

SXSW Austin Palmer Event Centre. Texas USA.
Test Portal Gallery Amsterdam Holland.
Planet Art eXchange Liverpool.
Surface Gallery Nottingham.
Broadway Media Centre Nottingham.

2008

V & A Museum Robotica. London.
Smart City Paris France.
WRO Biennial Poland.
Biennial of Sydney. The Brisbane Room.
Plymouth Arts Centre, Visitors To A Gallery. UK
Soundtoys exhibition, Spain.

2007

The Danish Architecture Centre, ARCHITRONIC. Central City. Denmark
Double Helix Staircase, The Old School Board, Leeds.
"No - Land", Art City in the NDSM, Amsterdam
Motomix, Sao Paulo. Brazil
Dislocate. Koiwa Art Space Tokyo Japan.
Mundo Urbano. Madrid.
New Forest Pavilion Artsway . UK
Haifa Museum, Israel
State Museum, Novorsibirsk,Novosibirsk Festival Exhibition. Siberia.
La Biennale di Venezia ie Venice Biennial. Italy
12th International Media Art Biennial WRO Poland.
NetSpace: viaggio nell’arte della Rete. Rome
Tate Britain. Late. UK
Sensity project at Share IT in Italy
NIME New York City. USA.
Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art. Digitally Yours, Exhibition. Turku Finland

2006

The Dana Centre. Soundtoys at Cybersonica UK
EvoMUSART4th European Workshop on Evolutionary Music and Art. Hungary.
20-21 Visual Arts Centre. Net Reality: touring exhibition: Scunthorpe. UK.
PEAM. Pescara. Italy.
South Hill Park, Bracknell. UK
Node London. Area10 event. UK.

2005

Code by Zero01 Canada.
Watershed. Electric Pavilion, Bristol Uk
Brighton Lighthouse : Poole, UK
Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery: group exhibition : UK
Peterborough Digital Arts : Net:Reality : group exhibition : UK
Q-Arts Gallery : Net:Reality : Derby, UK
Folly. Soundtoys Solo Show. Lancaster.
Architecture week at the Watershed Velocity Bristol UK
Test Portal, Installation. Amsterdam. Holland
Jerwood Space, Cut and Splice. London.
Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, Paintings, UK.
Artsdepot, London
Pace Gallery Ccityv. NYC USA
Today in Paradise. Sweden.

2004

Siggraph USA 
EMAF Germany  
Videoformes France.
Watershed Media Centre UK 
Museum Of Moving Image NY. USA 
Viper Switzerland 
Dana Centre Cybersonica UK
Scope Art Fair Regents park UK
Samsung Media Centre Senef Korea 
Futuresonic 04 Manchester UK
Ciberart-bilbao.net. Spain
The 3rd Seoul Indievideo Festival. Korea.

2003

Boston CyberArts festival, USA
Art in Motion (AIM) USA
The Digital Hub Dublin Ireland
Respond by Future Physical . Cambridge UK
Digifest 2003 Toronto Canada
Susquesuehanna Art Museum. AIM Genomixer. USA .
Colchester Art Gallery UK.
ICA. Cybersonica UK
Mostyn Open in Wales
Immedia Festival USA

2002

Fluxusonline Internet Festival event Sao Paulo Brasil.
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo Mexico
Stuttgart Filmwinter. Germany.
Cosign Festival. Germany
Fcmm montreal. Canada
ICA Soundtoys Show. London.
Physical vs. Logical Space , Australia.
Cinemania(c) Croatia
Arte digital. Cuba
Millais Rallery. Urban Raw. Southampton
Isea internet. Japan
Nimes Ireland.
Emaf . Amorphoscapes. Germany
Siggraph The Central City USA
Fused USA.
Sao Paulo Bienale . Internet urban works Brasil
Zeppelin Barcelona featured all Stanza net art works. Spain
Net.art in 4L Istanbul. Turkey.
Immedia 2002 USA

2001

Net-working 2001
Net art Japan 2001
Generative Art 4th Milan showed Amorphoscapes. GA2001
A Fair Place Turkey.2001
McLean Project Casting a Net USA 2001
Art Image Graz Austria 2001
Cynet art Dresden Germ nay . 2001
Video Brasil . Internet 2001
Impakt Holland. The Central City internet 2001
Mc Lean Centre for the Arts USA multimedia 2001.
Video Lisboa Portugal 2001
Urban Myths The Central City. Israel 2001
Dlux Australia 2001
Netz Lab Germany 2001
Moscow International Film Festival. Russia. 2001
Sonar Spain 2001
Media Terri Greece 2001
Art And Image Austria . 2001
Vdor/ Break21 Slovenia 2001
Thaw USA 2001
Arco. Spain 2001
Transmediale Germany 2001

2000 and before

Cynet Art Dresden 2000
Architecura Video Player Installation Italy 2000
Urban Futures Internet. 2000
Macromedia Peoples Choice Multimedia. USA 1999
Seafair. Multimedia. Croatia 1998
Proarte Painting London UK 1998
Brixton Open Studio New Work UK 1998
Bermondsey Painting UK 1998
Pallent House Chichester Painting 1997
Southwark Open Painting 1995.
Liverpool Open Painting 1994
Brixton Studio New work 1994
War The Edge Painting Control Series UK 1993
Artworks Wales 1993
Wolfson 25 Oxford Painting 1991
Brighton Festival Painting 1991
Brixton Arches. Installation lost city. 1990
Dublin city of culture Outdoor projections and installation 1991
Leicester Film Fest video presentation. 1990
Lddc. Photograph Installation. UK 1990
Angel Gallery Islington painting 1989
Berlin Medien op Video 1988
Earnerve Festival Panic Noise Vidoes 1988
V2 Denbosch Industrial Artforms. Video Series. 1987.
Eindhoven Holland Billboard Art 1985
Goldsmiths Gallery Panic Noise Video Installation 1985
Young Unknowns Gallery Video Installation 1985
Ambulance Station Old Kent Road Paintings 1985
ICA London Performance. 1985
Brixton Art Gallery. Installation. 1984
Bloomsbury Theatre Drawing Installation. 1984


WEB SITES. INCLUDING. These are all stanza projects.

Interactive net based artworks. Sites includes lots of interactive specific internet artworks as well as examples of my paintings audio and video. etc. Each of my main works has a separate url.

http://www.stanza.co.uk (stanza main site) (1997 ongoing)
http://www.thecentralcity.co.uk (1996 -2004)
http://www.amorphoscapes.co.uk (generative paintings)
http://www.genomixer.com (artworks using the artists DNA sequence 2004)
http://www.soundcities.com (The Global Found Sound Project. City aural experiences from 1997 ongoing)
http://thebinarygraffiticlub.com (The Binary Graffiti Club)

Websites I have decommissioned or made obsolete

My curated net art portal. http://www.soundtoys.net (online audio visual arts)

www.netartmuseum.com 1996-2000 (offline)
www.artsurfer.com 1997- 2002 (offline)
www.sublimetv.net 1997- 2003
(offline)
www.erroneous404.com (dead net art links) (offline)

SELECTED PERFORMANCES.

May 2015 Soundcities at La Panacee Centre de Culture Contemporaine. Montpellier. France
Aug 2010. Lanternhouse International UK.
March 2009. Plutopia. Austin Texas. USA
April 2006 Performance of live CCTV and Soundcities. Part of Node London Season.
April 2005 Touch screens at Artsdepot London. Multi touch screen performance with installation projectors.
Jan 2005. Stanza in Ghent In Belgium for 'Dorkbot' Belgium.
Nov 2005. Stanza live performance of Soundcities and CCTV at the DANA centre.
Sept 2004. Stanza performance in Korea as part of Senef at Samsung Media Centre. Korea.
May. 2004. Performance at LAB AU in Brussels
March 2003. Stanza performance in Toronto for Digifest. Canada.
Nov 2002. Stanza in Mexico at Museo Tamayo Arte. Mexico.
June 2002. Stanza performance at the LUX centre London.
May 2002. Stanza performance Open Digi night London.
2002 Colchester Arts Centre for Future Physical.

SELECTED INTERNATIONAL TALKS.

May 2018 The Politics of Code in Art: Lumen and V&A Digital Futures at UAL UK.
October 2017 AEC Hackathon, Croyden. UK.
October 2017 Nec Birmingham UK.
October 2017 Barbican Centre, London. UK.
June 2017 The New Observatory FACT, Liverpool. UK.
November 2015 Lecture. ASU. Tempe USA.
November 2015 "Hidden Signals" panel at ISC. Pheonix Art Museum. USA .
May 2014 Metamorf. Trondheim. Norway.
Nov 2013 Keynote Speaker at Calculative Devices in the Digital Age Durham University
Aug 2013 Keynote Speaker Speaker Fascinate Conference KEYNOTE/CHAIR: Pervasive Media.
July 2013 Stanza presentation at Goldsmiths College The Thursday Club. UK
Jan 2013 Watermans For Body Data Space programme UK.
Jan 2012 Guest Speaker Quad Derby. UK.
July 2011. Guest Speaker Victoria And Albert Museum London.
May 2011. Panel Speaker for Article 12 at Barbican Centre London.
Oct 2010. Future Places. Invited Speaker. Portugal.
Oct 2010. Tek Metamorf Trondheim. Invited Speaker. Norway
Sept 2010. Paying Attention Conference. Invited Speaker. Sweden
August 2010. Lanternhouse International Artists Talk. UK
Nov 2009. Sound Ecologies. City University London. Invited Speaker. UK
March 2009. World Futures Society Austin Texas. Keynote Speaker. USA
October 2008. Smart City Paris. 'Salon Honnorat', Cité internationale universitaire de Paris. France.
October 2008. Meta Data. Goldsmiths College, University of London. Invited Speaker. UK
June 2008. Keynote Speaker. Art and New Interfaces. University of Copenhagen. Denmark.
Feb 2007. Artists Talk. Goldsmiths College Digital Studios, University of London. UK.
June 2006. Networked Data. Artist talk at Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery. UK.
May 2006. Invited speaker as part of Cybersonica at The Dana Centre. UK.
Oct 2005. Presentation at Peam in Italy.
June 2005. Test Portal artist presentation. Holland.
June 2005. Architecture week at the Watershed presentation. UK
June 2005. Up to Speed conference for AHRB Bristol. UK
May 2005. Speaker Cybersonica 05 @ The Dana Centre UK.
Sept 2004. Keynote Speaker and Judge. Senef at Samsung Media Centre. Korea.
July 2004. Presentation to Smartlab at Central Saint Martins. London. UK.
November 2003. Presentation in Imass. Japan
May. 2004. Invited Speaker. Presentation of ideas / workshop LAB AU in Brussels. Belgium
November 2003. Presentation in Tokyo ICC with Masaki Fujihata. Japan
November 2003. Presentation in Nagoya University with Professor Robert Darroll. Japan.
October 2003. Invited speaker at KHIB. Seminar on digital painting and video. Bergen. Norway
Dec 2002. Christmas Lecture at the Bartlett School for Architecture with Will Alsop, organised by Usman Haque.
May 2002. Stanza Keynote speaker for NEC impaqt at their annual conference. France
April 2002. Keynote speaker for NEC computers London. UK.
Jan 2002. Presentation in Istanbul British Council. Turkey.
Nov 2001. Cork arts trail guest artist and speaker. Ireland.
Nov 2000. Guest artist speaker. Slovenia.

BOOKS. (selected)

Please Come Back Mousse Publishing MAXXI p165 ISBN 9788867492633
Hacking Habitat Art Of Control By Ine Gevers Front p 6-7 +24+25
Media And The Urban Environment. Springer 2015 P 203 -224 (ISBN 978-3-319-15152-6)
MCD . Musiques and Cultures Digitales #69 fevrier 2013 - p112 + p113
Vida Retrospective. Art and Artifical Life 1999-2012 - p27 + p 170-173 + p200
Urban Maps. Instruments Of Narrative and Interpretation Of The City. 2011. Richard Brook Nick Dunn (ISBN 978 -0 - 7546-7657-7) p 108- 111.
Art + Science Now Stephen Wilson ISBN 9780500238684 First published 2010
Arts And Practice In Digital Culture. Hazel Gardiner and Charlie Gere. 2010 (ISBN 978-0-7546-7623-2) front cover +p 36 - 40
Imagining the City: The art of urban living By Christian Emden, p229 + p232 3-0310-53209
Indeitos. 2007 Mundo Urbano.p 60 74. ISBN. 978 -84- 96917- 92.
Soundworks. 2004. p 28 -29. ISBN 0-9547658--0-1
Cidades. 25 Bienal De Sao Paulo. p 425. ISBN. 95 -85298 -14-6
Artists Links. Arts Council Of England. 2002- 2006. page 42 - 43.
Photographic and Digital Media. By Chris Bates. 2009. ( McGraw Hill). ISBN: 13:978-0-07-471744-8. Page 121- 125
LAB AU. Designing Spatial Audio Visuals. 2 pages. LQS 02 Praxis, Soundcities.

CATALOGUES. (selected)

Phantomology. Marci Mancuso. Das Cubo. Bologna, Italy.
Speculum Artrium Decades Trbovlje Slovenia 2018
Kinetica 10 years of 2007- 2017
Update_6 NTAA Belgium 70 -71 2016
Triennale Bruges 2015
MetaMorf, Trondheim Norway. 2014
Open Your City, Share Italy. 2012
Update_6 NTAA Belgium 70 -71
MetaMorf, Trondheim Norway. 2010
V & A Decode, digital design sensations.2009.
ShareIT Arte . 2007 Italy. p 40 - 42.
New Forest Pavilion. Venice Biennale Catalogue. Italy. 2007. p 20 -22.
Net Reality Catalogue. 2005. UK. p 12 -13.
Videoformes 2005.France. p 121
Prog.ME Programa De Midia Electonica 2005.
Siggraph 2004. p 102
Syzygy, The Human Remix.USA. 2004. p 12.
Ciberart- Bilbao. Spain2004.
Architectura in Video. Italy 2001.p 113
Split Film Festival. 2004. p 114
Viper Basel Switzerland. 2004. p 23.
Emaf 2004. Germany. p 129
Festival International Nouveau Cinema. Canada 2002.
ISEA 2002. Japan. p 39
Internet Art. File 2002. Brazil.(No Page numbers)
Siggraph 2002. p 104- 105
Artrinica: Muestra International de Artes Electronice. 2004. p 36
VideoBrasil 13. Festival Catalogue. 2001
Sonar 2001. p63
MediAterra. Greece. 2001 (No Page numbers)
CyNet Art 2000. Germany. p 200-202
Emaf 1999. Germany. p 254


Articles and Reviews and Images. (Selected)

Neue ZeitschriftFur Musik. 5 September 2004. p 30 - 31
Liberation. France 12 September 2004. Page 46 and 47
Creative Review. February 2003. cp 56- 59
KLIK. November 2002. Page 62 - 63
Create Online. Issue 024. April 2002. Page 46 - 49.
CocleNews 2002. Page 8.
CiberPais. April 2001. Page 62
BlackBook. Summer 2001. p 132 - 133.
New Media Creative. June 2001. p 15
Art Monthly. Dec - Jan 2000.

Papers

Cosign 2002 Amorphoscapes p120 www.cosignconference.org/downloads/papers/proceedings_cosign_2002.pdf
Amorphoscapes NIME(pdf available) 2002
The Central City at CyNet Art Dresden 2000

Peer Reviews
Nesta Dreamtime. Peer reviewer
Programme for Arts-based Research (PEEK) Austrian Science Fund. Peer Reviewer.

Juries.

Seoul Film Festival 2004 Jury.

Discography. Published works.

"Soundcities" CD. Stanza. 2000 - 2003.
"Amorphoscapes" CD ROM . Stanza. 2000.
"The Central City " V1 CD ROM. Stanza. 1996 - 1999
"The Armchair Universe " CD ROM. Stanza. 1995.
"Searches For Naked Forms ". CD The State Stanza 1993.
"Control". CD. The State. Sound Sound 1991
"Schizoid". Cassette. The State. Sound Sound. 1990.
"Conundrum" LP. The State Stanza. Dossier Records. 1987
"Songs of Love and Revolution " LP Nocturnal Emissions.
"Spiritflesh" LP Nocturnal Emissions.
"Qualk". LP Bourbonese Qualk 1986 (NIR)
"Preparing for Power ". LP Bourbonese Qualk. 1985
"The Spike". LP Bourbonese Qualk. Dossier Records 1985
"Hope". Bourbonese Qualk. LP. 1984
"Laughing Afternoon ". LP Bourbonese Qualk 1983



Videography. Published videos

"Return To Order ". Provision: 30 Mins. DIR. Stanza 1986.
"Conundrum" . Provision: The State. DIR, Stanza. 1987.
"Artitexture" . Provision: The State. 60 Mins. Stanza. 1987.
"The State Of The Art ". Provision: Stanza. PV 002. 1987.


OTHER VIDEOS.

"THIS ENGLAND".10 Mins 1886
"THE EXISTENTIAL NIGHTMARE. 10 Mins 1886


STANZA IS ALSO FEATURED ON THESE WEBSITES.

sonify, soundtoys, the web review ITV, The gallery channel, fresh fruit , soundspace , proarte, threeoh , fiba, the media bank, urban futures. elpais, le monde. rhizome. wigged. k10k.net. digital arts lab. anart.no. blackbook. nmc. anweb. vizzavi.net. shift.jp. arkrush. le Musée di-visioniste. random. neural.it. post media network. creative review DVD . noemalab sonicartsnetwork . kanonmedia. irishmuseumofmodernart . straylight. kunst.no. acoustic space lab. remedi project, axis, net-art.org. architettura. turbulence. i-dat. urbantick .


CD- ROMS. (selected)

Cynet Art. Germany. 2000 CDROM
World Wide Web Catalogue. Amsterdam. 2003. CD ROM
Vida. 6.0. (VidaLife) Spain. CD ROM 2004
Sonica 04 CD ROM. By Cybersonica. London. 2004
Neue Zeitschrift Fur Musique. Germany.CD ROM 2004
Siggraph Catalogue. CD ROM. USA2002
Creative Review DVD 03 Sound. UK
Second Iteraration Data 2. CD ROM. Australasian. 2001
Art And Biotechnologies. DVD. France. 2005. ISBN 2- 86272-381-9.
Soundworks. CD rom. ISBN 0-9547658--0-1


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