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Martin John Callanan (1982, United Kingdom) is an artist researching an individual's place within systems.
Martin John Callanan is an artist whose work spans numerous mediums and engages both emerging and commonplace technology. His work has included translating active communication data into music; freezing in time the earth’s water system; writing thousands of letters; capturing newspapers from around the world as they are published; taming wind onto the internet and broadcasting his precise physical location live for over two years.
Some of his more well-known pieces include: The Fundamental Units in collaboration with The National Physical Laboratory, Letters 2004-2006 published by Book Works, the ambient audio installation Sonification of You, the meta-news aggregator I Wanted to See All the News From Today and Text Trends, which abstracts the casual manner in which we receive, scan and process information and language on a daily basis, Wars During My Lifetime, International Directory of Fictitious Telephone Numbers and A Planetary Order (Terrestrial Cloud Globe).
Martin's work has been exhibited and published at venues around the world, including: Book Works, Or Gallery, Noshowspace, , Es Baluard Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow International Film Festival, Ars Electronic Centre, ISEA 2010, FutureEverything, Riga Centre for New Media Culture, Whitstable Biennale, Science Museum (London), Imperial War Museum North, Art Exchange, Tate Britain, File Prix Lux, and in several editions of the FILE Electronic Language International Festival in Brasil.
Martin is currently:
- Teaching Fellow in Fine Art Media (Digital Media & Print) at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and a member of Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA)
- Publisher, Merkske
Martin John Callanan estas artisto kiu esploras la lokadon de la individuo ene de sistemoj.
Martin John Callanan is an artist whose work spans numerous mediums and engages both emerging and commonplace technology. His work has included translating active communication data into music; freezing in time the earth’s water system; writing thousands of letters; capturing newspapers from around the world as they are published; taming wind onto the internet and broadcasting his precise physical location live for over two years.
Some of his more well-known pieces include: The Fundamental Units in collaboration with The National Physical Laboratory, Letters 2004-2006 published by Book Works, the ambient audio installation Sonification of You, the meta-news aggregator I Wanted to See All the News From Today and Text Trends, which abstracts the casual manner in which we receive, scan and process information and language on a daily basis, Wars During My Lifetime, International Directory of Fictitious Telephone Numbers and A Planetary Order (Terrestrial Cloud Globe).
Martin's work has been exhibited and published at venues around the world, including: Book Works, Or Gallery, Noshowspace, , Es Baluard Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow International Film Festival, Ars Electronic Centre, ISEA 2010, FutureEverything, Riga Centre for New Media Culture, Whitstable Biennale, Science Museum (London), Imperial War Museum North, Art Exchange, Tate Britain, File Prix Lux, and in several editions of the FILE Electronic Language International Festival in Brasil.
Martin is currently:
- Teaching Fellow in Fine Art Media (Digital Media & Print) at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and a member of Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA)
- Publisher, Merkske
Martin John Callanan estas artisto kiu esploras la lokadon de la individuo ene de sistemoj.
Newsletter, a few times each year
Postal address: Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. UK
Twitter @greyisgood
Twitter @greyisgood
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All documenation and text is published under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0