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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: 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
Complete: 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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