_PUBLICATIONS – Laura Beloff : research and artistic practice

recent activities

Recent activities and list of publications can be found HERE (it is my university site – I am lacking time to update several places)

Recent publications are primarily found here https://itu.academia.edu/LauraBeloff

2016
June: talking at Finnish Embassy in Copenhagen – a part of the Hybrid Matters project activities.

May: I was the first opponent for the PhD-defence of Nora Vaage on art & science / bioart.

May: Hybrid Matters exhibition at Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen Denmark, including The Condition and the new version of The Fly Printer – Extended that includes AI component; a neural network learning system.

May: at ISEA – in Hong Kong I was talking about the interests and background of The Condition and The Fly Printer works.

March: Hybrid Matters exhibition at Kunsthalle
Grenland in Norway, which included The Condition-work.

2015
November: Invited guest research visit to Mexico City Univeristy – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Doing a workshop on plants and robots: https://robotsandplants.wordpress.com/

November: The new version of the fly printer ‘Flyprinter: Danish Crown’ is exhibited in “TRANSSPECIES – an assembly across species lines”- exhibition in Copenhagen; curated and organized by labae.org https://www.facebook.com/events/755099297933551/

October: Invited speaker at ICT 2015 Innovate, Connect, Transform conference. Talking about art, design, creativity, and collaboration challenges between art, science, technology, and industry. Organized by European Commission in Lisbon. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/events/cf/ict2015/item-display.cfm?id=15133

October: Talking and participating at Renewable Futures Conference in Riga http://rixc.org/en/conference/

September: Participating in the Field_Notes – Hybrid Matters field research week in Kilpisjärvi, Finland. https://www.facebook.com/groups/bioartsociety/

June: Keynote at STARTS symposium – Science, Technology and the ARTS. The European Commission recognizes the emergence of vital arts and research communities who work jointly on the unique usage of technology. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/ict-art-starts-platform

May: Participating in the Bioart panel at Click-festival http://www.clickfestival.dk/

May: Participating in the Making Life http://bioartsociety.fi/making_life/ (2 workshops, 1 production workshop + exhibition + symposium during 2014-15)

February-March: Jury member for Art & Protocell Residency at University of Southern Denmark – flint.sdu.dk/ and
www.museion.ku.dk/2014/12/art-and-protocell-residency

January: Showing Fly Printer at Sul Sal-exhibition in Odemira, Portugal.

TEACHING / WORK:
Currently working as Associate Professor and Head of Section for Culture & Games at IT University in Copenhagen.
Teaching a great course on Artificial Life, Evolutionary Robotics and Art; together with Kasper Støy and Sebastian Risi. https://real.itu.dk/teaching/courses/

2014
October: Presenting in Environmental Entanglements Symposium – on Art, Technology and Natures at Videnskabernes Selskab in Copenhagen. Organized between 4 Danish Universities.

October: Invited keynote at International Meeting of Art and Technology, Brasilia, Brazil. http://medialab.ufg.br/art/programacao

September: some web-presence – http://fivewordsforthefuture.eu/?p=685

September: Invited speaker at Danish Kultur Styrelsen (Danish Agency for Art and Culture) Yearly meeting; on digital art. http://www.kulturstyrelsen.dk/om-kulturstyrelsen/moeder-og-konferencer/kulturstyrelsens-aarsmoede-2014/

August: Jury member for CORE77 design competition.

August: Interview at Billed Kunstneren – Danish Art Magazine: http://issuu.com/billedkunst123/docs/bkf_0314_t_web?e=1324666/9199713

July: Invited Artist-in residence (with Erich Berger) at Cultivamos Cultura Residency in Portugal by Marta de Menezes. https://www.cultivamoscultura.org/ A work Fly printer – prototype no 3 was produced during the residency. Collaboration with Maria Antonia Gonzalez Valerio. Shown in Sao Luis, Cultura Cultivamos space during summer.

June: Received the largest Nordic Artistic project grant from Nordisk Kulturfond!! Hybrid Matters is a collaboration with Nordic partners. http://www.nordiskkulturfond.org/da/hybrid-matters-digital-2015-16/

June: Jury member for the Science Visualization Competition in relation to Alife conference, New York.

June: Talking and presenting A Bioreaktor project-in-progress at Kobenlab event; part of ESOF 2014 program. http://www.kopenlab.dk/kopenlab.dk/index.html

January-April: continued working with M. M. Borch on Bioareaktor project.

May & November: Participating in Making Life I and Making Life II workshops on synthetic biology and culture/art. http://bioartsociety.fi/archives/2407

May – June: Evaluator for European Commission research grant proposals.

January-September: Part of an exhibition Museum of Insects, which is an experimental project by Amy Youngs. http://hypernatural.com/museum/index.html

2013

September: Exhibiting at Kunsthalle Grenland, exhibition FOO, Norway

September: Participating in a professional art&science workshop Field_Notes II / Deep Time at Kilpisjärvi by Biooart_society_Finland (FI)

July: fresh from print, a new book (edited by Beloff, Berger, Haapoja): Field_Notes – from Landscape to Laboratory / Maisemasta Laboratorioon. http://bioartsociety.fi/books

May – September: exhibiting in Fiskars, Kipinä-exhibition: LIFELAB, extended version.

May: article published in Transhumanist Reader; a major book on human enhancement and future of humans!

March: Edinburgh, invited presentation at Evaporation of Things- symposium; Center for Informatics / New Media Scotland, UK.

TEACHING / WORK:

Currently working as Associate Professor and Head of Section at IT University in Copenhagen.

2012

December: Paper presented at Mutamorphosis Conference in Prague, CZ.

November-December: Exhibiting results of Art & Henvi – project at Science Corner /Tiedekulma.

June: Solo exhibition “lifeLab” in Hamburg Friese-Gallery. ; exhibiting two works: APPENDIX and LIFELAB

June-July: SUMU-jacket (collaboration with Riikka Townsend and Tiina Uimonen) and Appendix will be at Pyhäniemen Kartano summer-exhibition

May: Talk at Wind As Context: Wilderness Art Conference Hailuoto, Finland.

May: In dialogue with Kati Vierikko about art & science collaborations and their potentiality at Helsinki University Science Corner.

May: Invited lecture at IT University in Copenhagen.

May: Keynote talk at Senses of Embodiment research workshop, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Organized and curated by Mika Elo.

April: Submitted my dissertation to Plymouth University Viva in the beginning of July, then some anticipated revisions, and so on… Passed and done!!

January-December: Partcipating in Art & Science collaboration with Helsinki University Environmental Research on Urban Ecosystems.

TEACHING:

January-February: Curating/organizing a successful lecture-series for Aalto University: Human Design or Evolution? Thank You all for participating and attending!

…. and much more in the past…

The most of the recent papers are found at: https://itu.academia.edu/LauraBeloff

List of papers up til >>2016

Conference Proceedings

Beloff, L. & Jørgensen J. (2016), The Condition: Towards Hybrid Agency, CULTURAL R>EVOLUTION: Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art. School of Creative Media, City University Hong Kong p. 14-19 6 p. (ISEA 2016 Proceedings).

Beloff, L. (2015), The Design of Nature: Considering Novel Ecosystems, Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Electronic Art. Zayed University Books, p. 87-91 5 p. (ISEA 2014 Proceedings)

Beloff, L. (2012) Curios G and The Uncertain Future. Mutamorphosis-conference proceedings, CIANT, 2012 Prague.

Beloff, L. (2010),Wearable Worlds; Reality in a Pocket, Making Reality Really Real-conference proceedings – (as a separate appendix), Trondheim

Beloff, L. (2009) Wearable Artefacts As Research Vehicles. Consciousness Reframed 10 Proceedings: Experiencing Design, Behaving media – A transdisciplinary inquiry into art, science, technology and society; Munich

Beloff, L. (2008) Carnival/Wearable-Art/Presence. In: Ascott/Bast/Fiel/Jahrmann/Schnell (Ed) New Realities: Being Syncretic (Vienna, Springer Verlag)

Beloff, Laura (2009), ‘The Hybronaut and Other Unexpected Approaches to Wearable Technology’, in Paul Thomas and Sean Cubitt (eds.), Re:Live, Media Art History Proceedings. Melbourne, AU

Beloff, L. (2007) Wunderkammer: Wearables As An Artistic Strategy. Mutamorphosis –conference Proceedings. Prague

Beloff, L. & Pichlmair, M. (2007) TRATTI – A Noise Maker for Children. Mobile Music Workshop Proceedings. Amsterdam

Journal Articles

Beloff, L. (2014) From Elephans Photographicus to the Hybronaut; artistic approach to human development, In Elo M. & Luoto M. (Eds) Senses of Embodiment: Art, Technics, Media. Peter Lang, Bern.

Beloff, L. (2011), Shared Motifs; Body Attachments. In RL and SL, Metaverse Creativity 1, no. 2 (2011): 135-46, Bristol: Intellect

Beloff, L. (2009) Props for real Life: Style and Artistic Strategies in Wearable Technologies. In Technology Imagination Future; Journal of Transdisciplinary Knowledge Design, 2(1), pp. 65-82. Institute of Media Arts, Yonsei University (KR)

Beloff, L. (2008) The Curious Apparel: Wearables and The Hybronaut. In Ryan, S. & Lichty, P. (Eds.) Intelligent Agent, Issue 8.1.

Beloff, L. (2006) When The Cables Leave, The Interfaces Arrive – immaterial networks and material interfaces. Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research 8: 1, pp. 47-53, doi: 10.1386/tear.8.4771

Chapters in books

Beloff, L. & Berger, E. (2014) Ars Bioarctica – Viisi vuotta taiteen ja tieteen yhteistyötä. In Järvinen, A. & Heikkilä, T. (Eds) Tieteen ja Taiteen Tunturit. Gaudeamus – Helsinki University Press, Helsinki.

Beloff, L. & Berger, E. (2014) Ars Bioarctica – Five years of art & science work by Finnish Society of Bioart at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. In Smite, R. Medosch, A. & Smits, R. (Eds) Techno-Ecologies II. Acoustic Space #12. RIXC, LiepU MPLab, Riga.

Beloff, L. (2013) The Hybronaut Affair: an ménage of art, technology and science. In More, M. & Vita-More, N. (Eds) Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford

Beloff, L. (2013), (Notes) On Experience in the Field – (Merkintöjä) Elämyksestä Tieteen ja Taiteen Kentällä. In FIELD_NOTES: From Landscape to Laboratory – Maisemasta Laboratorioon, eds. L. Beloff, E. Berger & T. Haapoja. Helsinki, New York: The Finnish Society of Bioart (& Punctum Books; the second edition of the publication coming with international publisher and distributor 2013-14)

Beloff, L., Berger E. & Haapoja T. (2013). Between Lanscape and Laboratory – an Introduction. In FIELD_NOTES: From Landscape to Laboratory – Maisemasta Laboratorioon, eds. L. Beloff, E. Berger & T. Haapoja. Helsinki, New York: The Finnish Society of Bioart (& Punctum Books; the second edition of the publication coming with international publisher and distributor 2013-14)

Beloff, L. (2013), The Body In Posse; Viewpoints on Wearable Technology. In Bulatov, D. (Ed.) Evolution Haute Couture: Art and Science in The Post-Biological Age (Part 2). Kaliningrad: The National Center for Centemporary Arts.

Beloff, L. & Seymour, S. (2008) Fashionable Technology –The Next Generation of Wearables. In Sommerer, C. et al (Eds) The Art and Science of Interface and Interaction Design. Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg.

Beloff, L. (2009 [2043]) The Hybronaut, An Early Protonaut Of The Future - on wearable technologies as cultural artifacts. In Beiguelman G., Bambozzi M., Bastos M., Rodrigo M.(orgs), (Eds.) Apropriations of the [un]common: public and private space in times of mobility, Instituto Sergio Motta, Sao Paulo.

Beloff, L. (2008 [2043]), The Hybronaut, An Early Protonaut Of The Future, in Bauer, S., Bergermann, U., Hanke, C., Helene Von Oldenburg, Reiche, C. & Sick, A. (Eds.) Prototypisieren. Eine Messe für Theorie und Kunst, Bremen, Thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor, 99-105.

Beloff, L. (2008) Ludic Mode: Irony and Wearable Devices. In Homo Ludens Ludens- Catalogue. LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijon.

Edited Book

Beloff, L., Berger E. & Haapoja T. (2013). FIELD_NOTES: From Landscape to Laboratory – Maisemasta Laboratorioon. Helsinki: The Finnish Society of Bioart

Ph.D. Thesis

Beloff, Laura (2012 The Hybronaut and The Umwelt: Wearable Technology as Artistic Strategy. Ph.D. Thesis. Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, Faculty of Arts.