A n d y G r a c I e
C V + B I o 2 0 2 4
His work has featured an ongoing evolution of disciplines including installation, robotics, sound, video and biological and electronic media. This work is situated at a point of separation between the arts and the sciences, creating situations of exchange which allow new understandings, new knowledge systems and new imaginations to develop. His practice employs scientific theory and practice to question our relationships with exploration and experiment whilst simultaneously bringing into focus what the relationship between art and science might be, and how new understandings and perceptions can be culturally assimilated. His work characteristically involves reactions to and engagements with space research, cosmology and deep time. Recently his work features an ongoing engagement with semiotics, simulation theory and apocalyptic or post-human scenarios. Through a rigorous process of research and experiment his work strives to uncover the deeper meta-narratives and poetics of our human condition.
His work has been exhibited widely and internationally in both solo and group shows and has included several special commissions for new works. He presents regularly at conferences and seminars across the globe and has published a number of articles and papers.
His large scale installation 'Autoinducer_ph-1' has received honourable mentions from VIDA and Ars Electronica in 2007. The ongoing project 'Drosophila titanus' received an honorary mention from Ars Electronica in 2015.
Alongside his artistic practice he co-founded the open art/science initiative Hackteria, an international network of artists and practitioners with a strong educational presence. He has co-produced, hosted and curated numerous exhibitions, workshop programs and art/science crossover events internationally.
He was currently involved in a long term collaboration/residency with the Institute of Cosmic Sciences at the University of Barcelona where he is an official collaborative member.
Solo Exhibitions 2008 to present:
2023 – 2.8B420K, Osmo/za, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2022 - Catastrophe Jangled Hideously Out of Process, Xcenter, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2022 – Catastrophe Jangled Hideously Out of Process, Osmo/za, Ljubljana
2017 - You First Saw the Light, Milton Keynes Central Library, UK
2017 - Deep Data Prototype _ 3, Milton Keynes Central Library, UK
2015 - 200metros, Port Authority, Gijon, Spain
2012 - Xanadu_1, Vitenfabrikken, Sandnes, Norway 'Proxy', Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway
2010 - 'Abstract Machines', El Hervidero, Gijon, Spain 'Proxy', Antiguo Instituto, Gijon, Spain
2009 - 'Deep Data Prototype_1', Kapelica gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2008 - 'Autoinducer_Ph-1', Kapelica gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Selected Group Exhibitions 2007 to present:
2024 - Sonar +D, Barcelona
2023 – Ars Electronica theme exhibition, Linz, Austria
Cosmos, MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland
2022 – ISEA, Barcelona
Alter (Accion), MEIAC, Spain
Alter (Accion), Odemeira, Portugal
2021 – Cosmos, Grand Hornu, Belgium
In the Age of Post Drought, Grand Hornu, Belgium
2020 – Ars Electronica, Kepler's Gardens, Linz and Online
2019 - Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
LOOP festival, Barcelona
2018 - Perfection, Science Gallery Melbourne
Life at the Edges, Science Gallery Dublin
Espacios de Especies, Mexico City
2017 - Going Back to the Moon, Przemiany Festival 2017, Warsaw
Deep Data Prototypes 1, 2, 3. Frequency Festival, Lincoln, UK
2016 - Nice to be in Orbit, Meta.Morf, Trondheim, Norway
Enhancement: Making Sense, i3S, Porto, Portugal
Starry Skies of Art, Serlachius Museum Gösta, Mänttä, Finland
Earth Without Humans, Kapelica, Ljubljana
2015 - Cyberarts, Ars Electronica, Linz
Materia Prima, Laboral, Gijon
Exo Evolution, ZKM, Karlsruhe
2013 - UPV, Bilbao, Spain
Yours Synthetically, Ars Electronica Centre, Linz, Austria
Space Odyssey 2.0. Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
CUT/PASTE/GROW, The Observatory, New York, US
2012 - Sin Origen Sin Semilla, Mexico City, Mexico
Soft Control, Slovenj Gradec / Maribor, Slovenia
Arte Mov, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
2011 - Republic of the Moon, FACT, LIverpool, UK
Piksel, Bergen, Norway
Microwave festival, Hong Kong
Translife Triennial, Beijing, China
Touch Me, Zagreb, Croatia
SynthEthic, NHM Vienna, Austria
Verbeke Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2010 - meta.morf, Trondheim, Norway
Transbiotics, KIM? Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2009 - Arenas Movedizas, Gijon, Spain
Enter4, Prague, Czech Republic
2007 - Taxonomies. COMAFOSCA, Alella, Spain
Frankenstein's Monster, Mejan Labs, Stockholm, Sweden
Ars Electronica, OK Centrum, Linz, Austria
BIOS4, CAAC, Sevilla, Spain
Commissions:
2023 – Massive Binaries commissioned for Ars Electronica by Randa Residency programme
2021- 2023 – Catastrophe Jangled Hideously Out of Process commission and produced by Projekt Atol
2017 - Lead Artist, Digitalis Project, Milton Keynes
2016 - Meta.Morf, Trondheim, Norway – Deep Data Prototype 3
2012 - Sin Origen, Mexico City – Deep Data Prototype 2 Vitenfabrikken, Norway – Xanadu_1
2009 - Ayuntamiento de Gijon, Gijon, Spain – 'Proxy'
2006 - AV festival, Sunderland, UK- 'Autoinducer_Ph-1'
2004 - Organismos, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain – 'Fish, Plant, Rack'
2003 - Inbetween Time, Bristol, UK – 'Small Work for Robot and Insects'
Awards:
2015 - Prix Ars Electronics – Honourable Mention for Drosophila titanus 2007
- Vida9.0 (Spain) – Honourable Mention for Autoinducer_Ph-1
2007 - Prix Ars Electronica (Austria) – Honourable Mention for Autoinducer_Ph-1
Residencies:
May – June 2023 - IFAE Barcelona
April 2019 – October 2022 - ICCUB Barcelona
March – September 2017 - Digitalis, School of Planetary Sciences, OU, Milton Keynes, UK
August – November 2013 - Biofilia, University of Aalto, Helsinki
April – July 2007 - DRU, Huddersfield, UK
September 2005 - Feb 2006 - COMAFOSCA, Alella, Barcelona
Curatorial:
2016 - Llull/Kurokawa : En La Llum de les Ideas, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
2013/2014 - Making_Life, Helsinki, Finland
2011 - Laboratory Life, Brighton, UK
2009 - Biorama 2, Peak District, UK
2007 - Biorama 1, Huddersfield, UK
Published Texts:
Tightening the Loop (with Brian Lee Dae Yung) - Published in FLAIRS (Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society) Conference proceedings 2005. AAAI press
Artificial Knowingness as an Investigative Tool – published in the catalogue for Break2.3 festival 2005
Observation, Interference and Evolutionary Relationships – published in Aminima magazine number 14
Reflections on the Brain and the Liminal Bodies - Chapter for GUY BEN-ARY: NERVOPLASTICA - Biorobotic Art and its Cultural Contexts – published by Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Łaźnia, 2015
Art, Space and Hyperreality – published in Leonardo Journal, Volume 49, February 2016
The True and the Amazing – Art and Educational Innovation in the Digital Age, published by Laboral Centro de Arte - 2017
Contribution to Field Experiences: Fundamental Science and Research in the Arts by Monica Bello for On Art and Science - Springer, Cham 2018
Black Holes and Objectivity (co-authored with Monica Bello) – Artnodes Journal #25, 2020
Space Is Hostile And Doesn't Give A Shit – text for Bioart Society of Finland, 2020
His work is also featured in the following publications;
'Biomediale. Contemporary Society and Genomic Culture' by Dmitry Bulatov (The National Publishing House "Yantarny Skaz": Kaliningrad, 2004).
'Art+Science Now' by Stephen Wilson (Thames & Hudson 2010)
'TO LIFE! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet' by Linda Weintraub (University of California Press, 2012)
'Biodesign' by William Myers (MOMA, 2013)
'Art as We Don’t Know It' by Erich Berger, Kasperi Mäki-Reinikka, Kira O’Reilly, Helena Sederholm (eds.)
'Through the Scope of Life' by Maria Antonia González Valerio and Polona Tratnik (Springer)
Has also served as ghostwriter on a number of texts and is a regular peer reviewer for Leonardo Journal
Teaching:
1999 – 2004: visiting lecturer on Multimedia and Installation art BA course, University of Huddersfield UK 2005 – 2007: course leader Digital and Smart Design MA course, University of Huddersfield UK guest lecturer at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art – Norway
Bergen Academy of Art and Design – Norway Aalto University, Helsinki – Finland School of Art and Design, Nottingham University – UK School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex – UK
2007 – 2009: member of the Digital Research Unit at the University of Huddersfield UK
Both as a founder member of the DIY Bio and electronics hacking group Hackteria and as an individual artist, has led workshops and workgroups around the world
Mentoring and Group Leading:
2019 – group leader Field Notes, Kilpisjarvi, Finland. Field Notes is a group artistic research gathering in the Finnish Arctic. I designed and led of one of the 6 person research groups during the eight day project.
2011 – mentoring the young artists group IBI (Institute for Boundary Interactions) during 8 months as part of the Making Future Work project, Nottingham, UK
2011 – curator, designer and leader of the participatory project Laboratory Life at Lighthouse, Brighton.
2009 – project leader Interactivos?09, Media Lab Prado, Madrid, Spain. Interactivos? is a group media and digital art workshop and production event held annually at Media Lab Prado. I designed and led one of the 5 person groups during the two week project. Symposia and Conferences:
Talks and presentations at various leading art, media and culture symposia - Ars Electronica (2007, 2015, 2020), AVFest (2006), Transmediale (2007, 2012), ISEA (1998, 2002, 2010) Microwave (2011)
Talks and presentations at numerous group exhibitions and as invited speaker at one off events around the world including for NASA and the Kluge Foundation at the Library of Congress, Washington DC
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