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Andrew Prior Andrew Prior
Qualifications & background Art & Design Foundation
BA (Hons) Fine Art
MA Digital Futures PGCert Learning & Teaching in Higher Education University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth Professional membership Teaching interests Digital Art, Multimedia, Film, Composition and Sonic Art, Website Design, Design, Interactivity and Technology, Cultural History & Theory, Arts Practices, Popular Culture and Transdisciplinary Research Research interests My research interests are concerned with issues revolving around contemporary culture: concepts of high/low art and how these feed off one another; the rapid rate of cultural and technological change which leads to obsolescence, ephemerality and an increasing fluidity of meaning, all figure highly within this practice.
Mirroring the dissolving boundaries in contemporary culture and academic disciplines, my work has straddled fine arts, design, computing, performance and writing as a practitioner, teacher and working within industry. At the core of my research practice is the idea that these seemingly opposing models of creative practice in which one either works for oneself, for an education institution or for a client are of course not mutually exclusive.
Digital arts necessarily transcend traditional borders and require that I engage with a wide variety of cultural issues from an equally broad range of disciplines. In particular I am currently involved in exploration of multi-channel sound pieces, exploration of the borders between the public/private that contemporary media forms problematise draw and psychogeographical research from the likes of performance artists Blast Theory or the dutch dotWalk experiment. I draw on developments that have grown from the avant garde musical composition from the thirties onwards with Cage, Musique Concrete, Soundscape, Plunderphonics and more recently turntablism and circuit bending.
UoP Research group membership i-DAT (Institute of Digital Art & Technology)Other research I am currently enrolled on a MPhil / PhD at the University of Plymouth. The working title is: ' Signal, Information, Noise: Remediating Sound in Convergent Contexts'. Creative practice & artistic projects Much of my creative practice, research and artwork is documented on my personal website. Please see links at bottom of page Reports & invited lectures
Upcoming: Distributed Presence, Interactive Sound Installation, Remake Festival, Zilina, Slovakia, May 2013 Paper, Media Archaeology and Technical Debris, PhD Workshop & Symposium, University of London, Goldsmiths. (June 2013) TapeLoops Workshop, Roskilde Festival, Denmark, July 2013 Paper, Re:Wire Media Art Histories Conference, Latvia, October 2013 Complete: in/compatible research, Moderation of PhD Panel, Transmediale Festival, Berlin (Feb 2012) Medialities of Noise, Precarious Times, British Art Show 7, Plymouth (Dec 2011) Trailblazing the Archive, WRO 2011 Biennale Alternative Now, Wroclaw (May 2011) Noise at the Interface, Public Interfaces Conference, Aarhus (2011) John Matthias, Adrian Corker & Andrew Prior, Performance: What Happened Next? December 2010 Kings Place, London John Matthias, Adrian Corker & Andrew Prior, Performance: What Happened Next? January 2011, Ecstactic Festival, New York John Matthias, Adrian Corker & Andrew Prior, Performance: What Happened Next? February 2011, Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival, Plymouth CD: Consortium 5 and Luke Styles 'Three Stages III' (Le Thibeuf Mix) October 2010 Nonclassical Records CD: Mark Greenwood & Andrew Prior, Lateral Branches, August 2010, OneC records John Matthias & Andrew Prior Performance: Aesthetics in the Time of Emergency University of Plymouth, June 2010 Paper: Sonic Arts Network Expo Towards a Wireless Sound Practice Paper: Technology & Social Space Transmediale Festival Article: ClipArt History MAZine, Ravensbourne Workshop: MA Interactive Art Falmouth College of Art & Design Flash & Director course Lecturing: FdA Sound & Music Technology Estover College Musique Concrete and Soundscape Lecturing: Bsc MediaLab Arts Univeristy of Plymouth Digital Design & Application, Media Design & Collaborative Practice Lecturing: Bsc Computing University of Plymouth New Media Design & Production
Links aprior.net My home page - you can find out about various projects, research interests etc. here Institute of Digital Art & Technology I am a member of i-dat
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