Ian is a visual and performance artist, director, producer, entrepreneur, designer and engineer with a PhD from University of the Arts, London / Falmouth University and degrees in architecture and landscape architecture from the University of Sheffield.. Prior to a deep focus on his arts and design practice, he founded a number of international companies in the fields of process control, aerospace, mobile communications and entertainment. His research in the fusion of art, science and technology, includes the study of cognitively enabled built environments, and x reality networked performance – the subject of his PhD thesis. He is the Professor of Transdisciplinary Design Networks at the Design Academy Eindhoven and creator of the Digital Networked Arts initiative at the Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts.
Ian is interested in the examination and representation of spaces across the reality-virtuality continuum (especially of those which might be remote, intangible or seemingly incomprehensible in the immediate), the impact that living species have on these environments, and how communication between them is facilitated. His explorations of the boundaries of physical, virtual and augmented realities are conducted using a range of media; in performance and installation; through transdisciplinary collaboration in the fields of science, technology and art; in traditional venues and as site-specific creations.
In his non‐digital and new media practices, Ian is interested in approaches such as layering, obfuscation and partial destruction during the development of work. Digital work combines advanced real-time media manipulation, animation, video, mapping, live streaming, sensor networks and interaction.
Work
SOLO PROJECTS AND COPRODUCTIONS
Opravdovi / The Real Ones – Networked Performance (Prague, Olomouc, Jihlava and Pilsen, Czech Republic) – 2019
A Short Journey into Folded Space – Networked Performance (MACBA, Barcelona & ICC, Birmingham, England) – 2019
Opravdovi / The Real Ones – Networked Performance (Pilsen & Trutnov, Czech Republic) – 2018
The Spaces Within – Networked Performance (New World Symphony. Miami) – 2018
The Incredible Voyage of Kryštof Harant – Site Specific Installation/Performance (Hrad Pecka, Czech Republic) – 2017
Longing for the Impossible – Networked Performance (Copenhagen, Barcelona, London) – 2017
ReTransmission – Site Specific Installation (Copenhagen) – 2017
Similarities (with Jana Bitterova) – Networked Performance (Copenhagen, Barcelona, Miami, Prague) – 2017
The Huts at Charco Hurones – Site Specific Installation (Andalucia) – 2017
Zahara el Gastor: Trees/Light – Site Specific Installation (Andalucia) – 2017
It Comes and Goes (with Titia Bouwmeester) – Site Specific Installation (Godrevey, UK) – 2016
Man Engine Moving – Site Specific Installation/Performance (Redruth, UK) – 2016
Biscoe Bitterova Project – Dance/Technology Research (Cornwall, UK) – 2016
The Bridge To Everywhere : 234 – Networked Performance (Cuba and Miami) – 2016
Here – Not Here – Where? – Networked Performance (London, Falmouth, Manchester) – 2015
The Halloween Masked Ball – Installation/Performance (Cornwall, UK) – 2015
Dark Sounds – Installation (Falmouth, UK) – 2015
Rules – Installation/Dance Performance (Falmouth, UK) – 2015
Fascinate 2014 – Digital Arts Conference/Festival (Falmouth, UK) – 2014
Fascinate 2013 – Digital Arts Conference/Festival (Falmouth, UK) – 2013
The Garden of Collected Consciousness – Installation (Cornwall, UK) – 2012
COLLABORATIONS
Online Orchestra – Orchestral Networked Performances (Cornwall, UK) – 2015
Merch’ an Eog / Merch yr Eog – Digital Scenography (Brest, France and Carmarthen, Wales) – 2015/16
24UK – Digital Scenography for Networked Theatre (Falmouth, UK) – 2016
Bad Girls – Digital Scenography (Falmouth, UK) – 2016
Ultraorbism with Marcel.lí Antúnez Roca – Networked Performance (Barcelona and Cornwall) – 2015
The Star Child – Digital Scenography (Falmouth, UK) 2015
The Tempest – Networked Performance (2 locations in Cornwall, UK) – 2014
Waiting for Godot – Networked Performance (Vilnius and Falmouth, UK) – 2014
Portraits for a Study – Networked Performance (London and Falmouth) – 2013
Contact
info@studiobiscoe.com
Alexis De La O Joya – Ground breaking Cuban electronic musician
Anthony Fiumara – Dutch composer
Canvas Theatre – Falmouth based digital theatre company
Contact Theatre – Manchester theatre active in distributed performance
Cheap Date – Dance Company
David Devanney – writer, multimedia poet
David Prior – Sound recordist & designer
Dom Allen – Artist, maker, fabricator
Emma Walsh – VJ, animator
Épica Fundación La Fura dels Baus – Catalan creation space
Falmouth Theatre Company – Falmouth’s theatre company, founded in 1927
Free Three – Dance/Music improvisation in performance
Federico Reuben – Composer. sound artist, live-electronics performer
George De Decker – Belgian composer and visual artists
Golden Tree – Producers of Cornish cultural projects
Grace Clayton – Choreographer
Inland Art Festival – Contemporary art festival in Redruth, Cornwall
Jana Bitterova – Choreographer and Dance Artist
Jason Crouch – Distributed performance
Joint Effort Studios – Cornish videographers
Living Structures – Immersive theatre makers
Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca – Catalan artist. mechatronics, installation and performance
Marcel Marquez Martinez – Cuban artist and projection mapper
The Masked Ball – Porthleven and Halloween Festivals
Margherita Bergamo – Choreographer/Dancer
Miami Light Project – cultural organization which presents live performances by innovative dance, music and theatre artists in Wynwood, Miami
Nacional Electronica – Cuba’s original electronic music duo
Nika Wegosky – Eastern Europe specialist, journalist, actress, collaborating on Reaction:Legacy
Near-ta Theatre – creators of live performance and theatre based in Cornwall
New World Symphony – America’s Orchestral Academy
Oak Matthias – Cellist & designer
Online Orchestra – community based networked orchestras
Raf De Keninck – Musician, conductor and education management
Royal Danish Academy of Music – PULSAR Festival 2017 networked performance
Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru – Welsh language national theatre of Wales
Teatr Piba – Breton language theatre company
Titia Bouwmeester – Dutch artist
Research funding for Cognitive
Environments.
Research funding for Cognitive
Environments and Fascinate Digital Art Festivals.
Arts Council England. For events, including Fascinate and Fascinate Digital Arts Grants.
For research and productions of networked performances.
Support for research, production and events.
Funding and support for research and production, including Fascinate.
Support for Bridge To Everywhere:234 (Havana<>Miami) and The Spaces Within
Royal Danish Academy of Music. For PULSAR Contemporary Festival 2017
For Network Performing Arts Production Workshop 2017
Arts Council England. For Perfoming/Fine Arts Research in Biscoe Bitterova Project
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