jamie allen

Refractive Index

jamie — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:46:07 +0000

Refractive Index is a research and exhibition project that looks at public media displays as light sources, and their effects and reflections on the environments where they are installed. Prepared software test patterns marks the physical effect that public media displays have, by inverting “what the screen sees,” turning away from the display. The work is shown as a collection of research media (photographs, interactive software, printed renders, screen-based video and projection) featuring software-based ‘test-patterns’ in 9 UK city-sites leading up to the 2012 London Olympics.

Partners: Tom Schofield, David Gauthier, Future Everything, Ph Space, 2012 Cultural Olympiad (UK), BBC Big Screens, Culture Lab, We Make Money Not Art

Link: refractiveindex.cc

CAUTION MATTER

jamie — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:06:47 +0000

Caution Matter is a collaborative artistic research project with poet and artist Liliane Lijn about resonances between art, industry and mythology. The work is shown as multichannel, immersive video installation of variable arrangement and dimensions.

Partners: Liliane Lijn, Visualise Cambridge, Future City

Link: Caution Matter (Trailer)

I Love the Internet & the Internet Loves Me

jamie — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:16:48 +0000

I Love the Internet and the Internet Loves Me discharges the artist’s public-private relationships online out into the “real world.” Jamie Allen’s Facebook feed is personified by a digital town-crier, loudly reading the friendships, personal relationships and indiscretions of an online life into the open air.

Partners: Neural.it, Click Festival, labs.ciid.dk, Bernhard Garnicnig

Link: I Love the Internet and the Internet Loves Me

Imaginary Sound Works

jamie — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:13:14 +0000

Descriptions of unrealised sound projects, exhibited with noise reducing or cancelling headphones.

Partners: Creators Project, Code of Contingency, Klangmanifest, Image: Memochrome 39 by Bernhard Garnicnig.

Link: imaginarysoundworks.com

Acoustic Subtraction

jamie — Wed, 18 May 2011 20:05:06 +0000

Acoustic Subtractions are events in public space: Twenty minutes of white noise followed by twenty minutes of “silence.”

The audible world is masked and cancelled out by the potentials of all sound, the act of listening cleansed by its own saturation. Saturate every atom. This piece was devised by Will Schrimshaw and Jamie Allen for Resonator (2010). Acoustic subtractions have been undertaken in a number of locations internationally, including Kielder Forest, UK, Semperdepot, Vienna, Suncheon Wild Tea House, and Platoon Kunsthalle Seoul and the Eyup Sultan Mosque in Istanbul.

Partners: Will Schrimshaw, worm/detour, AV Festival, Platoon Kunsthalle, Mullae Art Space Seoul

MLB

admin — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:08:16 +0000

An international invitational for white-light and noise performance practitioners. Studio recordings at STEIM, as well as video releases highlighting artists involved in noise aesthetics, directness in electronic performance, hardware minimalism and signal synaesthesia.

Partners: Canada Council for the Arts, STEIM.org, worm/detour, Culture Lab, Jo Kazuhiro, Yao Chung-Han, Loud Objects, Phil Stearns, Atsuhiro Ito, OT301, RHIZ, Issue Project Room (Thanks to Adam Parkinson, Michael J. Horan, Ko Le Chen)

Link: mlbmlbmlb.com

Data Calorimetry

jamie — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:42:30 +0000

Twined applications in 1804 and 1809 by Campillo and Sömmering gave us the first long-distance electrical telegraph. These electrochemical contraptions comprised simple on/off switching at the transmission end, coupled to wires immersed in tubes of acid at the receiving station. The tubes were labeled with a unique alpha-numeric character, and hydrogen bubbles resulting from electrolysis of the acid would convey both message and meaning.

Data Calorimetry is an interactive installation comprised of two computers serving up digital documents to one another. These documents detail the natural history of electrical telecommunications development. The data cable connecting the two servers has been spliced, and placed in a tube containing a strong acid. As data is transmitted through this acid, glitches appear on screen, hydrogen bubbles are produced, and a metered temperature rise give a sense of the material energy and power of digital information.

Partners: Culture Lab

Contact

admin — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:06:18 +0000

jamie@heavyside.net

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About

admin — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:35:50 +0000

Hi. I’m Jamie Allen and I like to make things with my head and hands. These things involve our relationships to creativity, technology and resources – and mostly try and give people new, subversive and fun ways to interact with all of these. I am Head of Research at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, where I help chart a course for research and experimentation at the institute, with colleagues in the Research team and Labs.ciid.dk. My projects and events have been featured in a number of media outlets, including Wired.com and the New York Times. I am grateful to have been supported and hosted by a number of international friends, festivals and venues, including:

Korea Foundation (KR), Issue Project Room (NYC), Sonic Circuits (DC), Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center (DK), FACT (UK), Transitio (MX), Arts Council England (UK), Northern Film and Media (UK), Arts Council Korea (Seoul), Eyebeam.org (NYC), The Canada Council for the Arts (CA), STEIM (NL), Baryshnikov Dance Foundation (NYC), Joyce Soho (NYC), The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (NYC), Exit Art (NYC), Harvestworks (NYC), La Société des arts technologiques (MTL), Washington State University (USA), The University of British Columbia (CND), The Tisch School of the Arts (NYC), The Tank (NYC), Tonic (NYC), Vertexlist (NYC), Chelsea Art Museum (NYC), Mushroom Arts (NYC), Medianoche (NYC), The Bent Festival (NYC), The Edinburgh Festival (UK), The Glasgow School of Art (UK)

I am a current PhD candidate with the European Graduate School (Media & Communications).

Teaching & Workshops

admin — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:05:04 +0000

I like to learn and teach.

I have taught at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, the Pratt Institute of Art and Design, and the Kolding Design School, and am currently involved with workshops and bits of teaching at the Copenhagen Institute for Interaction Design and others.

I’ve been helping people figure out interesting things they can do with technologies for a long while – mostly when they involve things like museum and exhibitions, or designing for performance, art and music. I’ve worked with ESI Design, the American Museum of Natural History, Argyle Design, the Baryshnikov Art Center and whole bunch of other cultural groups. I do a lot of workshops with other people on more specific topics like electronics, multimedia interaction, and other tools, as well as more conceptual investigations into how these same things have come to shape creativity and other forms of thinking.