Martin John Callanan is an artist researching an individual's place within systems.
Martin John Callanan estas artisto kiu esploras la lokadon de la individuo ene de sistemoj.
Martin John Callanan’s artwork has been exhibited and published internationally; he has been awarded the prestigious triennial Philip Leverhulme Prize in Visual Art 2014-17, for outstanding research, during which he was artist in residence at the Bank of England. In September 2015 awarded Alumnus of the Year for Excellence in Arts by Birmingham City University.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Noshowspace, Horrach Moya, Casal Solleric, Baltic 39, and Or Gallery, Berlin. His work has been shown at, White Cube, Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, V2, Arts Santa Mònica, James Cohan Gallery, Es Baluard Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, ZKM Karlsruhe, Ars Electronic Centre, ISEA, FutureEverything, Art Exchange, LIFT 2014, Battersea Arts Centre, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Riga Centre for New Media Culture, Whitstable Biennale, Imperial War Museum North, and published by Book Works.
Callanan graduated with a BA (Hons) in Visual Communication (Photography) from Birmingham City University in 2003 and an MFA in Fine Art Media from the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2005, where, between 2007-2019 he was Teaching Fellow in Fine Art Media and a member of Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA).
Martin is a dual citizen of both United Kingdom and Ireland, and holds an e-Residency for Estonia. He lives and works in Scotland.
Martin has been alive +15613 days.
Martin John Callanan estas artisto kiu esploras la lokadon de la individuo ene de sistemoj.
Martin John Callanan’s artwork has been exhibited and published internationally; he has been awarded the prestigious triennial Philip Leverhulme Prize in Visual Art 2014-17, for outstanding research, during which he was artist in residence at the Bank of England. In September 2015 awarded Alumnus of the Year for Excellence in Arts by Birmingham City University.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Noshowspace, Horrach Moya, Casal Solleric, Baltic 39, and Or Gallery, Berlin. His work has been shown at, White Cube, Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, V2, Arts Santa Mònica, James Cohan Gallery, Es Baluard Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, ZKM Karlsruhe, Ars Electronic Centre, ISEA, FutureEverything, Art Exchange, LIFT 2014, Battersea Arts Centre, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Riga Centre for New Media Culture, Whitstable Biennale, Imperial War Museum North, and published by Book Works.
Callanan graduated with a BA (Hons) in Visual Communication (Photography) from Birmingham City University in 2003 and an MFA in Fine Art Media from the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2005, where, between 2007-2019 he was Teaching Fellow in Fine Art Media and a member of Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA).
Martin is a dual citizen of both United Kingdom and Ireland, and holds an e-Residency for Estonia. He lives and works in Scotland.
Martin has been alive +15613 days.
Texts about Callanan's Artwork
- Data Soliloquies, Thierry Fournier (en français)
- Im Dialog mit Amazon, Brigitte Kramer (DE)
- Tangible Algorithms of the Everyday, Marialaura Ghidini
Exhibition publication from Noshowspace solo exhibition, includes A Map of the World essay by Pau Waelder and an interview with Domenico Quaranta- On Systems and Processes profile by Pau Waelder for art.es magazine
- Exhibition publication from A Planetary Order, Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, includes Scaling the Sublime text by Lauren Reid
- Exhibition notes from Global, Casal Solleric
- Exhibition publication from Landscape and the contemporary Romantic, Kunstverein Springhornhof
- Real Time, Arts Santa Monica, exhibition catalogue
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Exhibitions
- Data in the 21st Century, V2, Rotterdam
- Real Time, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona
- Each and Every Command, Baltic39, Newcastle
- International Film Festival Rotterdam
- Vitsœ, New York City
- How to Construct a Time Machine, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
- E-Flux Conversations
- Media Art Futures, Murcia, Spain
- Discursive Objects, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
- I'm Ten, IMT Gallery
- The Laughter of Things, Piet Zwart Institute
- Hearts & Minds, Hannah Maclure Centre, Dundee
- The Fifth Season, James Cohan Gallery, New York
- A Planetary Order, Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin
- After A War, LIFT Festival, Battersea Arts Center, London
- Wars During My Lifetime, live broadcast, Whitstable Biennale Commission
- Mapping Spaces, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
- Make the Living Look Dead, 2nd Cannons, Los Angeles
- Born Digital, Paddle8
- Look Into the Net, Edith Russ Haus, Oldenburg, Germany
- MON3Y AS AN 3RRROR, MON3Y.US
- Departure of All (solo) Noshowspace, London
- Open Cube, White Cube, Mason's Yard, London
- Along Some Sympathetic Lines (solo), Or Gallery, Berlin
- Catalyst: Contemporary Art and War, Imperial War Musesum North, Manchester
- Wars During My Lifetime (performance), Imperial War Musesum North, Manchester
- Fakturen, & GfM, Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Reason and Emotion: Landscape and the contemporary Romantic, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen
- (Im)material Labour, Art Exchange, Colchester
- Wars During My Lifetime, Canterbury
- Clockwork Gallery, Berlin
- Text Trends newspaper, FutureEverything, Manchester
- Global (solo), Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca
- Martin John Callanan (solo), Horrach Moya Gallery, Palma de Mallorca
- Whitstable Biennale
- The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
- Deed Poll, Whitechapel Gallery, London
- The Present is a Point Just Past, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London
- Text Trends newspaper series, The Open Data Institute, London
- Time-Lapse, SITE Santa Fe, USA
- Transactions, Centro Cultural de España en Guatemala, La Ciudad de Guatemala
- Extimacy, Es Baluard Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Palma, Spain
- Transactions, Horrach Moya Gallery, Palma, Spain
- Live 2011 Grand Prix, Finland (honorary mention award best online project)
- Regeneration.011, Istanbul, Turkey
- Urbanea 2011, Inca, Mallorca, Spain
- Several Interruptions, SCEMFA, University College London, UK
- The MINI Museum of XXI Century Arts, Büro BDP, Berlin, Germany
- FutureEverything, Manchester, UK
- The World in 100 Years, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
- How We Became Metadata, IMCC, University of Westminster, London, UK
- ISEA2010 RUHR, Dortmund, Germany
- Screengrab Award, Townsville, Australia
- Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Serbia
- 11 FILE, Brazil
- File Prix Lux, Brazil (finalist)
- Pin Board Project, London, UK
- Collaborators 2, ROOM, London, UK
- Field Broadcast
- Rizom Grada, Belgrade, Serbia
- Web Biennial 10, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Turkey
- NETescopio, MEIAC Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain
- FILE RIO 2009, Brazil
- UCL Artists, London, UK
- Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland
- Space is the Place, ISEA 2009, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
- Screens Melbourne, Australia
- Moscow International Film Festival, Russia
- Encoding Experience, Hunter Street Centre for the Arts, Australia
- Netaudio Festival, London, UK
- ABPP loan exhibition, AKI Enschede, The Netherlands
- FILE Hipersonica Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Whitstable Biennale Satellite, UK
- Live Art Falmouth, UK
- Residence Gallery, London, UK
- IDFA DocLab
- FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Biennale 3000, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- FILE Hipersonica Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Hz Journal #10, Fylkingen
- Exploding Cinema, London, UK (screening)
- UNESCO Virtual Residency, Saar, Germany
- Art and Communication conference: Espionage Technologies and Art, Latvia
- Dislocate, Ginza Art Laboratory, Japan
- Velocity, Folly Festival of Digital Culture, Lancashire, UK
- Trampoline, Year 10, Broadway, Nottingham, UK
- TakeAway, Science Museum, London, UK
- Sound:Space Symposium, South Hill Park, UK
- 8th Pixxelpoint festival, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
- Convocatoria International Art Tech Media 07
- Radio Tower Xchange (RTX), Riga, Latvia
- Mapping, Bury Art Gallery, Bury, UK
- Adding Insult to Imagery?, Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Central Missouri State University, USA
- FRAMED, Slade Centre for Electronic Media (part of Node.London festival), London, UK
- Paraflows 06 Festival, Blumberg, Vienna, Austria
- Trampoline/Radiator biennial Festival for New Technology Art, Nottingham, UK
- NOMUSIC Festival X (24 hour performance)
- Resonance 104.4fm, London
- SightSonic, York International Digital Arts Festival, UK
- Memefest 2006 - International Festival of Radical Communication, Slovenia
- ArtConcept Festival, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
- International Selection, 7th Seoul Film Festival, Korea
- Concordia University Electroacoustics Series XXIV, Concordia University, Canada (performance)
Publications & Chapters
- Each and Every Command
- Letters 2004-2006, Book Works
- Data Soliloquies, with Richard Hamblyn, UCL Environment Institute
- Text Trends, Merkske
- I Cannot Not Communicate, Vitsœ
- Pi to thirty-nine decimal places
- All the people who have ever lived, and will ever live
- Wars During My Lifetime, LIFT Festival
- Wars During My Lifetime, Whitstable Biennale
- Kriege während meiner Lebenzeit (Wars During My Lifetime), Or Gallery, Berlin
- Guerres durant la meva vida (Wars During My Lifetime), Casal Solleric, Palma
- Wars During My Lifetime, Canterbury
- Text Trends newspaper series, The Open Data Institute, London
- Certificate of Existence, Noshowspace
- Departure of All, noshowspace
- International Directory of Fictitious Telephone Numbers
- Art and the Internet, Joanne McNeill and Domenico Quaranta
- Future Climate Change (Data Soliloquies), Edited by Mark Maslin, Samuel Randalls, Routledge
- Studies in Temporal Urbanism: The urbanTick Experiment (Data Soliloquies), Editor Fabian Neuhaus, Springer
- Grounds (Berliner Mauer), You Are Here, Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin
- Migrating Reality, Germany & Lithuania
- Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum
- An Ethnology of Solitude, At Home in Europe
- Radio Tower Xchange (RTX)
- UNESCO Virtual Residency, Germany
Awards
- 2014-17, Philip Leverhulme Prize in Visual and Performing Art (triennial)
- 2016, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
- 2015, Alumni of the Year, Birmingham City University
- 2011, Live Grand Prix, Finland (honorary mention award best online project)
- 2011, Screengrab Award, Townsville, Australia (award)
- 2010, File Prix Lux (finalist)
- 2004, Next Level Vorsprung durch Technik Photography Awards (finalist)
Residences
- 2015-6, Artist at the Bank of England, Leverhulme Trust funded
- 2012, Artist in Residence, Center for Artists’ Residencies and Exchanges, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- 2009, Researcher in Residence, Simon Faithfull’s Mobile Research Station, Berlin Sculpture Park, Germany
- 2008-09, Artist in Residence, UCL Environment Institute, London
- 2007, Artist in Residence, At Home In Europe, Riga Centre for New Media Culture RIXC, Latvia
Positions
- 2008-current, Teaching Fellow in Fine Art Media (Digital Media & Print), Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
- 2010-current, Publisher, Merkske
- 2010, Lecturer & Module Leader (Networked Cultures), University of East London
- Visiting, guest lectures and artist’s talks include:
- Piet Zwart Institute; UCL History of Art; UCL Graduate School, Interdisciplinary Studies of Evidence; Research Skills Intercollegiate Network, London; Transart Institute; Es Baluard Modern and Contemporary Art Museum; Eye of the Storm (Arts Catalyst conference), Tate Britain; The Dublin Art and Technology Association, Irish Museum of Contemporary Art; The National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland; Lancaster University; May You Live in Interesting Times Festival of Creative Technology, Chapter Arts, Cardiff; Dartington College of Arts, University College Falmouth, UK; Choreodrome Lecture Series, The Place, London, UK; Walsall College, UK, 8th Pixxelpoint, Nova Gorica, Slovenia; University College for the Creative Arts, Maidstone, UK; 9th International Festival for New Media Culture, Latvia; Paraflows, Vienna, Austria
Collections
- Imperial War Museum
- Open Data Institute
- City of Hull
- Hull NHS Primary Care Trust
- Tate Library Archive Collection
- Digital Lives (website archive collection), British Library
- The British Library (legal deposit)
- National Art Library, V&A
- UCL Art Museum Collection
- UCL Special Collections
- Rhizome ArtBase
- Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation
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