Dr Anya Lewin

Associate Professor (Reader) in Art and Moving Image
Programme Leader MA Contemporary Art Practice
Research Area Lead (Art)

Anya Lewin is an American artist, educator and researcher based in the UK. Prior to working in academia, she had jobs in diverse fields ranging from shepherding (she never lost a sheep) to robotics (sorting robot parts in a basement) to art and community education.

She has a PhD (practice based) from Dartington College of Art and an MA in Arts and Humanities as well as an MA in English from SUNY at Buffalo where she studied poetics with Charles Bernstein, Robert Creeley and Susan Howe and Media Art with Tony Conrad. She has been the recipient of three Arts Council England Grants for the Arts and several international residencies. Her works, both individual and collaborative, have been exhibited and screened in such places as Beijing, Bristol, Bulgaria, Cuba,Los Angeles, Plymouth, Siberia, Belfast, New York, San Francisco, Southampton and London.

Her projects often reflect her own personal history, which includes stories of immigration, translations from multiple languages, and fictional connections to real events. www.imadeitup.info

Qualifications

Dartington College of Arts, PhD In Fine Art (Contemporary Practices),
Thesis Title: Performing a Practice: Narrative • Translation • Live Installation • Urban Intervention 2006
State University of New York at Buffalo, Master of Art in English, 2000.
State University of New York at Buffalo, Master of Art in Humanities (Media Studies and Poetics), 1997.
University of California, Santa Cruz, Bachelor of Arts in Theater Arts-(Film and Video) 1990.

Roles on external bodies

AHRC Peer Review College 2017 - 2023

Teaching interests

Moving image
Narrative in artist film
Participatory practice
Performance (particularly to camera)
Approaches to Artistic Research

Staff serving as external examiners

BA Fine Art (Hons) Cardiff Metropolitan University

Research interests

Moving Image Practices in the Cinema and Gallery • Constructions of Narrative i(from artist film to web series) • Artistic Research •

Research groups

• Justice and Imagination in Global Displacement

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

Nicola Gilmour, PhD, An Investigation of the Coherence of Instrumental Accumulation Using a Sculptural Methodology. 2014

Grants & contracts

2016 Grant for the Arts, Arts Council England for Fez:The Royal scent

2012 Grant for the Arts, Arts Council England for Chez Paulette on the Sunset Strip

2007 Grants For the Arts, Arts Council England for With Heartfelt Gratitude for the Painless Treatment

At Home in Europe, three-month residency at InterSpace, Sofia, Bulgaria

2006 Small Wonders, Picture This Bristol

2004 PVA Media Lab LabCulture Residency at Vivid in Birmingham

Artist-to-Artist International scheme. Henry Moore and Visiting Arts grant to develop projects with Croation artist Maja Kalogera.

2003> NY ARTWORKS! Artist Bursary and Residency at CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2001 Best Folklore Experiment for Grandma Baba and Little Boris from The Festival of Actual Kino, Novosibirsk, Russia

2000 Performance Writing Artist in Resident, Dartington College of Arts, Devon, England

1995 Pittsburgh Filmmakers Grant for the Emerging Artist

Creative practice & artistic projects

2019 More Than Stories: A film Trilogy, John Hansard Gallery, South Hampton, UK

2013 Chez Paulette on the Sunset Strip, Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth, UK

2011 E-Poetry, International Digital Language Media Arts Festival, Buffalo, NY, screening of How to be European Lesson 2

2009 DA Festival, National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria

2008
With Heartfelt Gratitude for the Painless Treatment, Picture This Atelier, Bristol and Chapter Gallery, Cardiff, UK

2007 At Home in Europe, Book and DVD, commissioned by InterSpace, funded by European Commission Culture 2000 Fund via At Home in Europe

2006 Art and Activism, Mejan Labs, Stockholm, Sweden

2005 Blurr5 Biennial for Performance Art, Center for Conetmporary art, Tel Aviv, Israael
STAR RADIO - commission to develop a radio programme www.starradio.org.uk

2004 Writing Space. Curators: Phillip Warnell, Sean Watkins, and Claire MacDonald, Fine Art Gallery, George Mason University, Washington D.C., USA
VIDEOMEDEJA 8th International Video Festival, October 1-3, The Museum of Voivodina, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro. Catalogue.

2003 Out Video International video art festival in public places, National Center for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Catalogue.
Text 04 Festival of Writers and New Writing, Pheonix Arts Centre, Exeter, England
CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY. The White Bear and other Unwanted Thoughts, collaboration with Lara Odell. Installation commissioned for windows on Main Street.
Taxi Gallery, Cambridge, UK Taxi Noir Slap Red a site-specific video installation. http://www.taxigallery.org.uk
HUMO (Huge and Mobile images) with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Brain Massumi. Based at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. Created images which were projected on a large scale around the environs of Linz. Catalogue.

2002 Fix02 Biennial Festival of Performance Art, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Catalogue. http://www.catalystarts.org/fix02/

Reports & invited lectures

2018 Co-delivered and co-designed 3 day Research/PhD Workshop for 9th SAR International Conference for Artistic Research: Artistic Research Will Eat Itself, http://www.sarconference2018.net

2016 Delivered Seminar "Artists Film and Narrative" as part of Lux Cornwall
Co-Delivered with Dr Dell Olsen two day workshop "Poetics of Critical Writing" as part of the International Conference on Artistic Research

2015 Avanca International Conference Cinema, art, Technology, Communication, Avanca Portugal. Presentation: The Archive and Imaginative Acts

2013 Kunsthal Aarhus, Demark, Artist Talk and Screening

2012 Exhibiting Video Conference, University of Westminster Presentation : The Problem of the Hard Bench
Montana State University,Bozeman, MT, USA Artist Talk

Portland State University, Portland, USA, Artist Talk

2010
York St Johns, York, Artist Talk

2009 Journal of Media Practice 10th Anniversary Conference
Presentation: With Heartfelt Gratitude for the Painless Treatment.(The Necessity of Imaginative Acts)
Everybody Hates a Tourist, Cadaval, Portugal

2008 Cardiff School of Art and Design, Artist Talk

2007 Arnolfini, Bristol, Artist Talk
National Academy of Art, Sofia, Artist Talk
Art and Ethics: What Action Should be Taken, colloquium with Gustav Metzger, Dartington College of Art

2006 Steel Cities: Tradition, Transition and Transformation, University of Sheffield. Presentation: Working Steel

2005 Dartington College of Art, Urban Media and Intervention
INTERFACING: Theory and Practice Conference, Mistranslation as a Mode: Subtitles as a Third Text,

2003 SUNY at Buffalo, Department of Art, part of the Visual Studies Speakers Series. <</html>

Conferences organised

2018 9th SAR International Conference for Artistic Research: Artistic Research Will Eat Itself, University of Plymouth, UK Co-organiser http://www.sarconference2018.net

2016 SAR International Conference for Artistic Research: Writing, a two day symposium at the Royal Conservatoite and Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Co-organiser http://www.sarconference2016.net

2014 Artists and Film: Autonomy & Industry, a one day Symposium at Plymouth University, co-organizer with Visual Arts South West, River Tamar Project

2013 Unfolding Narrative: Middles, Beginnings and Endless Loops a two day Symposium at Plymouth University, co-organizer with Heidi Morstang, Kayla Parker and Dr John Sealey

2011 (with Dr Geoff Cox and Dr Joasia Krysa) Reclaiming Criticality: Digital Cultures and Social Tensions in Precarious Times (finale conference for the British Art Show 7)

2010 (with Professor Malcolm Miles and Dr Joasia Krysa) Aesthetics in a Time of Emergency: Beyond the Relational Aesthetic Paradigm

2007 Social Hacking, a Kurator project, a series of commissions for Plymouth, UK focusing on computing and physical spaces.

2003 Another Cinema: Screening the True Independents A series of film, video, and multimedia screenings at Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter, UK, including Alia Syed, Darrin Martin, Miranda July, and Socket.

2002 Co-organizer with Joasia Krysa (University of Plymouth) of Hybrid Discourse, a program of guest lectures examining the impact of the latest digital media on the concept of Culture Industry. www.i-dat.org/projects/hybbrid

Links

www.imadeitup.info