Jane Grant
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ISEA2019
Jane Grant‘s artworks explore scientific mythologies concepts ranging from neuroscience, black holes and the multiverse. Her artworks engage the phenomenological aspects of these systems in order to create ‘other worlds’. Her work engages directly with the invisible, the unfathomable, the distant and the miniscule, developing site based artworks that allow participants to inhabit these other worlds, often in acts of co-creation. Her artworks focus on the interdisciplinary with special interest in habitation, immersion and non-human phenomenon. Jane sometimes works collaboratively creating award-winning works such as The Fragmented Orchestra, a sonic artwork based on neuronal firing patterns which won the PRSF Award for New Music and a PrixArs award and Plasticity which was premiered at the BFI, onedotzero festival and Google Campus, London. She has exhibited work at the National Portrait Gallery London, The Roundhouse, FACT Liverpool and others.
More recently, she exhibited Fathom, a huge artwork that immerses participants in an underwater sonic environment and her sonic artwork This Excited Surface sited in camera obscuras.ISEA2013
Jane Grant, Plymouth University, UK
ISEA2011
Jane Grant is an interdisciplinary artist and academic. Her work often draws on scientific ideas, both contemporary and historical. Her collaborative work with scientists, musicians, composers and designers has resulted in award winning projects including, The Fragmented Orchestra with John Matthias and Nick Ryan which was winner of the PRSF New Music Award, 2008 and received an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronic 2009, Hybrid Arts Category. The Fragmented Orchestra was exhibited at FACT and 23 sites across the UK. Recent work includes Soft Moon and Leaving Earth, both films influenced by astrophysical science and literature with specific reference to the written work of Italo Calvino and Stanislaw Lem. Her forthcoming projects include the interactive sonic artwork Ghost, one of the developments of The Fragmented Orchestra. In Ghost the temporal, topological networks and pathways of the brain are explored in conjunction brain hallucination or ‘sonic ghosts’. Other new works include a series of photographic drawings regarding dark matter that seek to explore ways to represent the unseen in art and science. She was awarded an AHRC grant for the project Threshold – Merging the Human Voice with Neurological Time Patterns, and she has received funding for her work from the Arts Council and the British Council. Jane is Associate Professor (Reader) in Digital Arts in the School of Media and Photography, Principal Supervisor, CiiA Node, Planetary Collegium, and co-director of the art + sound research group, University of Plymouth, UK.
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