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HARR1 at Fabrica for Brighton Digital Festival 2014
An Afternoon with HARR1: a Brighton Digital Festival conversation event took place at Fabrica on the 3rd of September 2014. Hosted by Lorenza Ippolito, in conversation with artists Alex May and Anna Dumitriu, visitors were introduced to, and interacted with, HARR1 (Humanoid Art Research Robot 1) and held a lively discussion covering a wide range of topics including robot carers…
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Music Tech Fest 5th-7th September 2014
Music Tech Fest is a “festival of music ideas that brings together artists and performers, academics and thinkers, startups and labels, inventors and innovators.” Alex May will be speaking at 16:30 on Saturday 6th September 2014 about Painting With Light his bespoke video mapping software for artists. The event is being held at LSO St Luke’s…
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Cinekid Installation Production – Bacteria Filming Starts
Categories: ProductionFor the production of the interactive installation for Cinekid 2014 it is required to build a DIY bacteria filming rig. This large cardboard box has been adapted with plenty of gaffer tape to provide a light controlled space complete with frontal insertion port and removable petri dish holder system.
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An afternoon with HARR1
Categories: ExhibitionsNow in its third year, the Brighton Digital Festival conversation event aimed at older audiences will look at the world of robotics and consider what the future might hold for us. How would you feel about a robot caring for you? How do you imagine a future where your relatives would be cared for by robots?…
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2014 – A Year of Two Halves
Anyone looking at this news page would surmise that little has been happening here in 2014, but this would be greatly deceiving as much preparation has been taking place behind the scenes. Predominately I’ve been working on new software art tools that I will be using extensively for my practise over the coming years. They will…
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The Art and Science of Linen accepted into Museum Collection
Categories: Collections“The Art and Science of Linen” – a video artwork by artists Alex May, Anna Dumitriu, microbiologist Dr John Paul, with soundtrack by Martin A. Smith, has been accepted into the permanent collection of the The Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum. The video looks at the whole ecology of linen production from the bacteria…
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The Institute of Unnecessary Research Meets the Egyptian Bioart Club – ISEA 2014
“We aim to create a legendary three day intensive open lab, at ISEA 2014 in Dubai, in the form of a living artwork/happening at the cutting edge of DIY biology practices, bioart, the body and digital technologies, taking the form of creative interactions between artists led by The Institute of Unnecessary Research (IUR) and The Egyptian Bioart Club.” “This…
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“My Robot Companion” talk at Waag Society, Amsterdam
Categories: TalksI’m going to be giving a short talk about the “My Robot Companion” project at the Waag Society in Amsterdam on January 31st: Politics, Ethics, Power and Propaganda – An ‘ICT and Art Connect’ Event by Waag Society. “This special evening of short talks, discussions and networking brings together artists, scientists and technologists to investigate…
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New Videos Online
My Robot Companion exhibited at Watermans gallery last year. A new video featuring the video sculpture I did with the Painting With Light workshop participants in Caracas, Venezuela when I was there in September. Brighton: Remixed – a sculpture, created from found objects, is digitally augmented with multiple layers of video filmed in Brighton over…
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4Humanities Interview with Alex May
Categories: MediaIn which I talk about the artistic exploration of programming and video mapping, how the web is a terrible technical mess, and how phone phreaking sounds like the universe. http://4humanities.org/2013/11/interview-with-alex-may/
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Shadows of Light at ICT2013
ICT2013 was held in Vilnius, Lithuania and Alex May was part of the “ICT & Art Connect” team, where he exhibited “Shadows of Light” and co-hosted a “My New Robot Companion” robot head making workshop with Anna Dumitriu. ICT & ART Connect sets out to bring together artists and technologists to explore new ways of…
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Painting With Light in Caracas Venezuela
The British Council arranged for Alex May to run a two day Painting With Light workshop in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas, Venezuela. Caracas is a tropical and vibrant capital city overlooked by the imposing Ávila mountain to the north. Cable cars and power lines thread across the roofs and up the steep mountainside…
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My New Robot Companion at Bletchley Park
Categories: ExhibitionsNovember 9th and 10th, 2013 As an additional event to the Intuition and Ingenuity exhibition taking place at Hut 12 in Bletchley Park, HARR1 (Humanoid Art Research Robot 1) was exhibited alongside research robots from the University of Hertfordshire in the Bletchley Park mansion library. Visitors were invited to “meet” the robots and the researchers…
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My New Robot Companion: HARR1 at Watermans
Categories: ExhibitionsThe latest incarnation of the “My New Robot Companion” project is now on show at Watermans in Kew, London until the 23rd of October. Normally, robots do not move unless they are performing a task, HARR1 (Humanoid Art Research Robot 1) is designed to fidget and move almost continuously, more like humans do. Also HARR1…
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