Professioneel overzicht
Educated initially in English Literature at Bristol University and subsequently in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and Atelier 17, Paris.
1988 exhibited at the First International Society of Electronic Artists (FISEA) conference held in Utrecht
1989 curated the first International survey exhibition of Digital Printmaking: The Electronic Print at the Arnolfini in Bristol. He was also a consultant in the Art and Computers exhibition in Computer Art held in Cleveland that year.
He also has experience of curation and judging through number of other international exhibitions in electronic art, including The Electronic Eye-European Media art at Watershed in 1986. Arcade 2- Digital print 1997, Arcade 3 installation 2000
1990 created an interactive exhibition utilising giant digital panels and interactive sound installations composed by Edward Williams with an accompanying multimedia program on the theme of The Electronic Forest. This was one of the first such installations of its type and prototyped the connection of such exhibitions to the internet..
1993 devised and directed the Media Myth and Mania section of the joint Watershed/Artec exhibition and CD publication From Silver to Silicon. The latter piece has been shown at many venues around the world including Milia in Cannes; Paris; ICA and the Photographer’s Gallery, London and at ISEA Montreal.
1995 Watershed/Cambridge Darkroom residency which involved constructing a self-curating web site and multimedia piece called Screening the Virus, based around publicly submitted artwork on HIV/Aids related themes. This was later short listed for a Wellcome Trust Sci-Art award.
1996 Other visual research projects included: the direction of a collaboration involving five other artists (collectively known as Ship of Fools) using the subject of mythologies to explore the full range of narrative and visual interfaces in interactive media in a piece called Labyrinth. This work involved drama, digital image, virtual environments, and interactive video at F-Stop Gallery in Bath and as part of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. It has been previewed at a number of other venues including the Oberhausen Short Film festival in Germany and at ISEA in Montreal.
1997 helped to make a successful lottery bid to fund a national digital arts initiative Imag@nation now transformed into DA2: a major arts initiative promoting digital art practice nationally, and internationally.
1999 Understanding Echo, funded by the DA2 Open Commission. An interactive video drama, altered by human presence, it was shown at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, Watershed, Bristol and at ISEA2002 in Nagoya Japan.
2001 research project Triple Echo won an AHRB award and involves a three screen interactive video depicting a love triangle based on the Orpheus legend.
2001 Co-edited: New Screen Media: Cinema/ Art/Narrative (BFI/ZKM, 2002)- which combines a DVD of current research and practice in this area together with critical essays .
2003 Shortlisted for TRACE new media writing fellowship and Clark’s digital Bursary 2004 Awarded ACE United Artist’s Senior Research Fellowship and Residency at Coventry University
2004 Awarded AHRB research leave for a year to write a book on Mobile artworks "The Mobile Audience" shortly to be published by Rodopi-and to create a new interactive work Hosts shown at Bath Abbey in 2006.
Honorary Fellowship and Artists Residency at La Trobe University Melbourne 2007
About to take up a Research Professorship in the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University. He is currently employed by Bath Spa University College at Bath School of Art and Design as a Professor of Digital Arts and Senior Teaching Fellow in the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, was Principal Lecturer in Digital Media at Napier University in Edinburgh at the Department of Photography, Film, and Television 1997-2000. in post as Senior Lecturer in Electronic Media at UWE Bristol between 1986 -1998 He set up one of the first post-graduate courses in the country in Digital Art and Imaging at the City of London Polytechnic 1980-85
1988 exhibited at the First International Society of Electronic Artists (FISEA) conference held in Utrecht
1989 curated the first International survey exhibition of Digital Printmaking: The Electronic Print at the Arnolfini in Bristol. He was also a consultant in the Art and Computers exhibition in Computer Art held in Cleveland that year.
He also has experience of curation and judging through number of other international exhibitions in electronic art, including The Electronic Eye-European Media art at Watershed in 1986. Arcade 2- Digital print 1997, Arcade 3 installation 2000
1990 created an interactive exhibition utilising giant digital panels and interactive sound installations composed by Edward Williams with an accompanying multimedia program on the theme of The Electronic Forest. This was one of the first such installations of its type and prototyped the connection of such exhibitions to the internet..
1993 devised and directed the Media Myth and Mania section of the joint Watershed/Artec exhibition and CD publication From Silver to Silicon. The latter piece has been shown at many venues around the world including Milia in Cannes; Paris; ICA and the Photographer’s Gallery, London and at ISEA Montreal.
1995 Watershed/Cambridge Darkroom residency which involved constructing a self-curating web site and multimedia piece called Screening the Virus, based around publicly submitted artwork on HIV/Aids related themes. This was later short listed for a Wellcome Trust Sci-Art award.
1996 Other visual research projects included: the direction of a collaboration involving five other artists (collectively known as Ship of Fools) using the subject of mythologies to explore the full range of narrative and visual interfaces in interactive media in a piece called Labyrinth. This work involved drama, digital image, virtual environments, and interactive video at F-Stop Gallery in Bath and as part of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. It has been previewed at a number of other venues including the Oberhausen Short Film festival in Germany and at ISEA in Montreal.
1997 helped to make a successful lottery bid to fund a national digital arts initiative Imag@nation now transformed into DA2: a major arts initiative promoting digital art practice nationally, and internationally.
1999 Understanding Echo, funded by the DA2 Open Commission. An interactive video drama, altered by human presence, it was shown at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, Watershed, Bristol and at ISEA2002 in Nagoya Japan.
2001 research project Triple Echo won an AHRB award and involves a three screen interactive video depicting a love triangle based on the Orpheus legend.
2001 Co-edited: New Screen Media: Cinema/ Art/Narrative (BFI/ZKM, 2002)- which combines a DVD of current research and practice in this area together with critical essays .
2003 Shortlisted for TRACE new media writing fellowship and Clark’s digital Bursary 2004 Awarded ACE United Artist’s Senior Research Fellowship and Residency at Coventry University
2004 Awarded AHRB research leave for a year to write a book on Mobile artworks "The Mobile Audience" shortly to be published by Rodopi-and to create a new interactive work Hosts shown at Bath Abbey in 2006.
Honorary Fellowship and Artists Residency at La Trobe University Melbourne 2007
About to take up a Research Professorship in the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University. He is currently employed by Bath Spa University College at Bath School of Art and Design as a Professor of Digital Arts and Senior Teaching Fellow in the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, was Principal Lecturer in Digital Media at Napier University in Edinburgh at the Department of Photography, Film, and Television 1997-2000. in post as Senior Lecturer in Electronic Media at UWE Bristol between 1986 -1998 He set up one of the first post-graduate courses in the country in Digital Art and Imaging at the City of London Polytechnic 1980-85
Martin Rieser's connections
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Jake Rayson Kent |
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Bob Cotton senior lecturer, Arts Institute at... Cowes, Isle of Wight |
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Matt Adams Brighton |
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Ghislaine Boddington London |
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Timo Arnall Oslo, Norway |