Andrew Burrell

Most Recent Affiliation(s):

• University of Technology Sydney, Visual Communication, Senior Lecturer

Other Affiliation(s):

• Co-founder

ISEA Bio(s) Available:

• ISEA2024

  Andrew Burrell is a practice-based researcher and educator exploring virtual and digitally mediated environments as a site for the construction, experience and exploration of memory as narrative. Their ongoing research investigates the relationship between imagined and remembered narrative and how the multi-layered biological and technological encoding of human subjectivity may be portrayed within, and inform the design of, virtual environments. Andrew’s networked projects in virtual and augmented environments have received international recognition. Andrew uses creative practice to research and understand the complexities of emerging and speculative technologies and is particularly interested in how these are implicated in more-than-human ecologies. This is exemplified in the current and ongoing series of projects—”overGround:underStory”. Andrew is a senior lecturer in Visual Communication and a co-founder of the Critical Visualisation research group at the University of Technology Sydney.

  ISEA2015

  Andrew Burrell is a contemporary arts practitioner with a long history in real-time 3D and interactive audio installation. He is exploring notions of self and narrative and the implications of virtual worlds, networked environments and artificial life systems upon identity. His networked projects in virtual environments include mellifera (with Trish Adams), Virtual Macbeth (with Kereen Ely-Harper), Augmentiforms (in collaboration with Warren Armstrong and presented at ISEA2011), and IUXTA (ISEA2013). Andrew holds a PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia, his research having focused on philosophical and poetic connections between memory, the collected object and narrative.

  ISEA2011

  An­drew Bur­rell is a Syd­ney, Australia, based artist and writer. He is ex­plor­ing no­tions of self and nar­ra­tive and the im­pli­ca­tions of vir­tual worlds and ar­ti­fi­cial life sys­tems upon an in­di­vid­ual’s sense of iden­tity. A uni­fy­ing thread through­out his prac­tice of the last years, has been one of ex­plor­ing and search­ing for a po­ten­tial site of the self – and to even dare to won­der if this site ex­ists at all. In ob­serv­ing the nat­ural his­tory of the real world, and in ask­ing what a nat­ural his­tory a vir­tual en­vi­ron­ment may be, he has been ex­tend­ing this on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion. He has also been cre­at­ing fan­ci­ful struc­tures that in­ves­ti­gate new pos­si­bil­i­ties for a post-hu­man self, and nar­ra­tive con­structs in which to con­tain them. He holds a PhD from the Uni­ver­sity of Syd­ney and ex­hibits, pre­sents and pub­lishes lo­cally, in­ter­na­tion­ally and on­line.

  ISEA2013

  Andrew Burrell is a Sydney-based artist working in real-time 3d and interactive installation. He is currently interested in the construction of self with regard to the interrelationship of personal identity with memory and imagination, and the way in which networked virtual spaces influence the interactions that take place as part of this construction. Recent projects include Making the Green One Red (Virtual Macbeth), a mixed reality project with Kereen Ely-Harper ,and The Institute of Augmentiform Development and Release, a hybrid virtual/augmented reality project exploring the possibilities of Platonic Cosmology emerging from a data driven system, a collaboration with Warren Armstrong. His project IUXTA is being presented by dLux Media Arts and ISEA2013, and he is presenting a collaboration with Chris Rodley as part of ISEA2013’s The Portals project. On this panel he will explore the notion of ‘the real’ as something that is often mistakenly taken to be the counter point of ‘the virtual’ or ‘the augmented’. He will explore the tripartite relationship of narrative, memory and imagination within this context, investigating both contemporary and speculative examples, with the aim of demonstrating that the membranes that are seen to exist between these different realities are not only flexible, but very much permeable.

Website:

• https://andrewburrell.net/