Research Assistant: Fine Art Digital Enviroments, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL
Between 2007–10, I worked as a Research Assistant on the project, collaborating closely with Prof. Paul Coldwell. Alongside contributing to research, publishing, and event organisation, I developed my own practice through a Chelsea College of Arts research grant, producing an exhibition with Chris Poolman (chris+keir) and co-organising the Digital Noise Symposium at the University of Greenwich.
The Personalised Digital Surface was a two-year AHRC-funded research project led by Paul Coldwell and Barbara Rauch and based within the Fine Art Digital Environment (FADE) research group at Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London. Running from 2007–09, the project examined how digital processes reshape artists’ relationships to the print surface, using practice-led case studies as its primary methodology.
The research documented new work by Paul Coldwell, Bruce Gernand, Dan Hays, Tim Head, Christian Nold, Kathy Prendergast, Barbara Rauch, and Sissu Tarka, and culminated in a major symposium at the V&A in April 2009. The project also resulted in the publication The Personalised Surface: New Approaches to Digital Printmaking.
Working within FADE gave me sustained experience of practice-led research at an institutional scale, including publishing, symposium organisation, and collaboration with major cultural institutions such as the V&A and ICA.
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