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Summary
For the last ten years Andy Gracie has been making artwork in which robotic elements share physical and informatic space with the organic in simple 'hybrid ecosystems'. The use of artificial intelligence allows the robots to play a part in the development of shared emergent behaviours and for the transmission of information between the synthetic and the natural. The aim of these works is not for the robots to learn how to behave as organic entities, but to encourage the formation of an integrated environment in which various forms of perception and action can lead to unexpected and possibly meaningful outcomes. This talk will introduce various aspects of this work and discuss ways in which shared organic and artificial perception can lead to new ways of seeing environmental and informatic space.
Resume
Andy Gracie, *1967 in London, is an artist working between various disciplines including installation, robotics, sound, video and biological practice. The work he produces is situated between the arts and the sciences, creating situations of exchange between natural and artificial systems which allow new emergent behaviours to develop. Recently his work has begun to reflect cultural associations with the science of astrobiology.
His work has been shown in many exhibitions across the UK and in France, Spain, Austria, Germany, USA, Japan, Mexico and Australia including special commissions for new works from the Arnolfini in Bristol, Organismos in Barcelona and AV06 in North East England. He has also exhibited at ISEA, Artbots, Radar, Ars Electronica and at the Capital of Culture robotic exhibitions as part of Lille2004.
He has aslo presented at numerous conferences and seminars internationally including Transmediale (Berlin) , Dias de Bioarte (Barcelona), Rules of Engagement (York), Open Friday (Barcelona), AV06 (NE England) and FLAIRS (Florida) and many more.
His work has received honourable mentions from VIDA (2007) and Ars Electronica (2007).
He has written and had published a number of articles and papers including Aminima magazine, the journal of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the catalogue for Break2.3 in Slovenia.
Alongside this work he has been involved in and continues to provide a range of teaching, lecturing and workshop activities internationally and was a member of the DRU research group at the University of Huddersfield. |
