Abstract

Panel Description

Art Hack Practice: Critical Intersections of Art, Innovation and the Maker Movement

Art hacking is a term that seeks to describe how pervasive technologies continue to disrupt traditional and hierarchical boundaries between the arts, innovation and society. As hacking, DIY and making culture continues to shape both cultural and corporate agendas, and policy, artists and curators working within these contexts are developing new working practices, and value systems that respond to the modalities of interdisciplinary creative practice.

In their new book “Art Hack Practice: Critical Intersections of Art, Innovation and the Maker Movement” Bradbury and O’ Hara have brought together twenty-six international authors who situate artists working within maker culture at the front and centre, rather than existing on the fringe of serious art, design and innovation practices. This panel will explore the ways in which artists and curators are exploring the tensions between territories, disciplines and sectors by brokering new ways of working between them.

The panel will be facilitated by Dr. Suzy O’ Hara co-editor of Art Hack Practice: Critical Intersections of Art, Innovation and the Maker Movement.

Participants: Nora O’Murchu (IE), Jasmin Grimm (DE), Yidi Tsao (DE/HK)
Facilitator: Dr Suzy O’Hara (IE/UK)

Panelists
Jasmin Grimm is a curator, lecturer and creative producer for international cultural projects. With a background in ‘Communication in Social and Economic contexts’ (M.A., University of the Arts Berlin) she develops programmes such as workshops, conferences and exhibitions at the intersection of art, society and technology. She recently co-founded Rosy DX - a studio for digital transformation. Amongst others she has been curating programmes for NRW Forum, Retune Festival, die digitale, TINCON and is re:publica programme advisors Arts & Culture since 2017. www.jasmingrimm.com

TSAO Yidi is transdisciplinary artist, curator and writer who lives and works in Berlin. Her artistic and curatorial practice focuses on dissecting contemporary human mind and existence, exploring the boundary between fiction and reality, while contributing to the future of storytelling with art, emerging technologies and speculative narratives for community building and social innovation, working with a diverse range of media through texts, codes, photography, video, installation, performance and happening, etc. Yidi is an advocate of free-culture movement and is involved in the hacker/maker scene for its technology-based innovation in a spirit of playfulness and exploration. At the moment, she is working on creating immersive environments that can be staged outside established art institutions to diversity and democratise participation in art. Yidi received her BA in English Language and Literature with a minor in Visual Arts from Hong Kong Baptist University and MA in Creative Media with Distinction from School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.
www.tsaoyidi.com

Nora O Murchú is a curator & researcher, whose multidisciplinary practice embraces narratives, and fictions and results in objects, exhibitions, and interventions. She has curated exhibitions and events for institutions including Akademie Schloss Solitude, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, The Science Gallery, and ZKM Karlsruhe. Notable exhibitions included Coded After Lovelace at Whitebox Gallery in New York and Land/Sea/Signal at Rua Red in Dublin. She has held positions as a research associate for the Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick, the Interaction Research Studio at Goldsmiths, and CRUMB at the University of Sunderland. Her research on the impact of technology on curating has been published at Goldsmiths Press, Taylor & Francis and Springer. She currently serves as a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Limerick in Ireland. www.noraomurchu.com