Charlotte Gould

Most Recent Affiliation(s):

• University of Brighton, Senior Academic

Other Affiliation(s):

• University of Brighton, Lecturer in Digital Media

• The University of Salford

ISEA Bio(s) Available:

• ISEA2024

  Charlotte Gould is a senior academic in the School of Art and Media at the University of Brighton. She has taught all levels of Visual Communication and supervises PhD students. Through her practice she explores the potential for interactive installations in digitally mediated public spacespromoting public participation through shared experience. She has developed Extended Reality artworks to prompt play and interaction across social and cultural boundaries as well as interactive nonlinear narratives and speculative fictionwhich explore how we can communicate the threat of ecological crisisraising public awareness to trigger change in behaviours. Through interactive installations she tests the boundaries of open systemsto offer opportunity for diverse audiences to co-create artworksimpacting on the way we engage in the urban environment and public space and contributing to a collective memory of place in a global context.

  ISEA2019

  Charlotte Gould (UK) has exhibited her work internationally including in China, Australia with “Urban Picnic” and “Peoples Screen” and in Europe at MACBA (Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona) with “All the World’s a Screen” (2011). Charlotte is Deputy Head of School in the School of Art at the University of Brighton responsible for learning and teaching. She teaches in Visual Communication and has taught across all levels from undergraduate to PhD supervision. She received her PhD in Interactive Works for Urban Screens: A practice based study into building new ways of engaging communities in urban space through interactive artworks for urban screens from the School of Arts & Media, University of Salford in 2015. She graduated with a BA Honours Degree in Graphic Design from Chelsea School of Art in 1990 and was awarded an MA in Creative Technology from the University of Salford (2003).

  ISEA2016

  Through Charlotte Gould’s practice she explores the potential for open interactive installations in digitally mediated public spaces using urban screens. She has developed a number of mixed reality systems to prompt play and interaction across social and cultural boundaries. Gould’s interactive installations provide a framework with an environment that offers a visual context to prompt interaction, engagement and play on an international stage. She examines audience agency and opportunities for play, testing the boundaries of open systems, to offer opportunity for diverse audiences to co-create artworks through the development of unique narratives. Through Gould’s research she tests the potential for mixed reality environments on urban screens to promote public engagement and civic responsibility, looking at how this can impact on culture, changing the way we engage in the urban environment and contribute to a collective memory and sense of place.

  ISEA2015

  Dr Charlotte Gould has developed a number of interactive environments for urban screens. She is currently developing location specific work in which the user becomes an active participant in the narrative and explores methods of user driven content. She graduated with a BA Honours Degree in Graphic Design from Chelsea School of Art in 1990 and was awarded an MA in Creative Technology from the University of Salford in 2003. Charlotte Gould is a Principle Lecturer and Academic Programme Leader for Visual Communication at the University of Brighton.

  ISEA2013

  Charlotte Gould, School of Art & Design, University of Salford, UK.

  ISEA2009

  A Lecturer in Digital Media at the Research Centre for Art and Design, The University of Salford, UK. She has developed a number of web-based interactive environments that explore user identity and the notion of a floating narrative. user virtual environments. She has undertaken illustration and animation commissions from a range of companies including the BBC and Manchester Art Gallery.

Website:

• http://charlottegould.org/

Last Known Location:

• United Kingdom

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