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This page is arranged by Andrew Gryf Paterson [CV & contacts 81 KB], a Scottish artist-organiser, cultural producer and researcher based in Helsinki, Finland.

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The processes and projects here involve variable roles of initiator, participant, author and curator, according to different collaborative and cross-disciplinary processes. As transdisciplinary work, they cross the fields of media/ network/ environmental activism, pursuing a participatory arts praxis in workshops, devised or performative events, and storytelling. Download Selected Processes/Portfolio 2010-2007 PDF [4.3 MB].

EMERGING.. ONGOING.. OUTGOING..

2010- Artivistic Fieldwork
Doctor of Arts candidate, with thesis abstract at University of Art and Design Helsinki (TaiK). Supported as a Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Scholar 2003-2005; As a USED Researcher 2005-2006 with M-Cult and HIIT; With scholarship support from Research Institute TaiK; As an independent cultural producer in Helsinki and the Baltic Sea Region 2003-, Helsinki, FINLAND, ongoing since 2003.

2010- Herbologies/Foraging Networks
Transdisciplinary programme about useful plants in relation to network culture. Seminar, workshops, installation of WindowFarms project in Kiasma. Fieldwork trip to Kurzeme, Latvia in summer 2010. Collaboration with Ulla Taipale/Capsula and Signe Pucena/SERDE. Core grant awarded by Kultur Kontakt Nord Art and Culture programme. Helsinki/Kurzeme, FINLAND/LATVIA, Spring-Summer 2010.

2010- Katalyytti-clips
Organisational pages for workshop and programme of events surrounding online media literacy for youth attending Nuorten Toimintakeskus Happi, Helsinki, FINLAND, Winter 2010.

2010- Engagements | Environments | Ecologies
Organisational pages for course focusing on ecologies and systems in project/ process design and management. Grant awarded following idea competition by Aalto University, Helsinki/Pori, FINLAND, September 2009/Spring 2010.

2009- Siirtolapuutarhapelit (Allotment Games)
Organisational pages for 'mod' of Carcassonne board game to discuss and play strategies connected with getting an allotment garden for growing food in the city. Conceived in July 2008. Collaboration with Wojtek Mejor, Natalia Kulka, Lotta Kauppi and Simo Haanpää. Warszawa/Helsinki, POLAND/FINLAND, July 2009 onwards.

2009- Digital Media Culture
Organisational pages for course at Metropolia University of Applied Science, Helsinki, FINLAND, 6 October 2009-5 January 2010.

2008- Clip Kino
Organisational pages for self-organised screenings programme at Kirjasto 10 City Library in 2008, and other various locations in 2009, Helsinki/Pispala/Hyvinkää, FINLAND, February-June/October-December 2008/January-June 2009.

2007- Imaginary Border Academy
Member of multi-disciplinary network striving to cultivate a non-hierarchical pedagogical approach to understanding, appreciating, subverting and undermining borders. Formed at the third Artivistic gathering in Montreal, October 2007, TRANSLOCAL, 2007-.

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PAST PROCESSES..

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2009- Alternative Economy Cultures
Transdisciplinary seminar & workshop about 'peer-fundraising', relating network culture and economics, bringing together leading international and Finnish thinkers, cultural practitioners and activists, to present alternative economic visions. Presented in cooperation with Marita Muukkonen and Ivor Stodolsky of Perpetuum Mobile, and Roope Mokka of Demos Helsinki, for the PixelACHE Festival 2009, Helsinki, FINLAND, 3 April 2009.

2009- PixelIST: Local Knowledge
Curated pedagogy in collaboration with Aura Seikkula, and Ahmet Atif Akin of Visual Communication Department of Bilgi University, as a new node of the Pixelache Network, Istanbul, TURKEY, 29 April-2 May 2009.

2009- Taranaki Platform Ecologies
Residency project for Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand (SCANZ), responding to local online environments of Kete platform and the Taranaki Wiki project. During this time also working with local teenagers in 60 Springs: Education for Sustainability project. In collaboration and consultancy with Puke Ariki, New Plymouth, AOTEAROA-NEW ZEALAND, 26 January-8 February 2009.

2009- Guest-Host Dinner
Dinner/discussion event in collaboration with local artist-activist Lucas Ihlein, on the topic of socially-engaged art residencies, during 1-week residency at Artspace Sydney, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, 16-23 February 2009.

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2008- The Clackmannan Stone(-person)
Communication pages for open fieldwork concept proposed to Heritage and Museums department of Clackmannanshire Council for summer 2010. Clackmannan, SCOTLAND, Initiated November 2008.

2008- Digital Media Culture
Organisational pages for course at Metropolia University of Applied Science, Helsinki, FINLAND, 13 November 2008-4 April 2009.

2008- Standing Other Stones
Multi-disciplinary media arts workshop proposed in collaboration with Catriona Shaw (AKA Miss Le Bomb), for International Scottish Storytelling Festival. Supported by New Media Scotland. Edinburgh, SCOTLAND, 25 October 2008.

2008- Special embassy
Researcher residency at Kitchen Budapest exploring notions of a 'special embassy' for the Social Movements. Budapest, HUNGARY, September 2008.

2008- Cultural Residency models
Consultant-in-residence for SERDE art group, in collaboration with Olga Mashkina, Aizpute LATVIA, 9-15 June 2008.

2008- Creative Organising in the Midst of Culture Wars
Organisational pages for course at Stadia Polytechnic, Helsinki, FINLAND, April-May 2008.

2008- Baltic Boxwars: Northern League
Series of networked workshops and performative events inspired by BoxWars UK in the Gulf of Finland region. Baltic Boxwars has been presented during the following festivals:PixelACHE, HOFF and Valge Daami Aeg. Estonian events supported by Haapsalu Kultuurikeskus and Tallinn2011 Foundation. Helsinki/Haapsalu, FINLAND/ESTONIA, March/August 2008-.

2008- Seeders ‘N’ Leechers ‘R’ Us
Organisational pages for residency at Eyebeam Centre for Art and Technology regarding p2p-download micro-cinema,
New York, USA, January-June 2008.

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2007: Add+PF+?: Residency project in Pedagogical Factory
Organisational pages and notes for residency at Stockyard Institute & Hyde Park Art Centre, Chicago, USA, 25th July – 25th September 2007.

2007: Self-organising and Networking MAA
Organisational pages for new programme of activity at Taidekoulu MAA, Suomenlinna, Helsinki, FINLAND, June-December 2007.
[For more: waiting on funding decision in August 2008!]

2007: Hengitä.hankala hengittää
Story gathering and telling, on-site/line, about [no longer existing] Happihuone, as a literal/littoral ‘writer-in-residence’, sleeping and living in the centre of Töölönlahti, Helsinki, FINLAND, 10-18 July 2007.

2007- Caravansarai/Kervansaray
Consultant-in-residence [2-21 May 2007] for Julie Upmeyer of Active Ingredient to assist in the set up a new online-physical art/social space in Istanbul, TURKEY, 03-22 May 2007.

2007: peer2peer
Participatory workshop/exhibition intiated and curated by Veronica Wiman
for Swedish, Finnish and Turkish artist-curators, hosted by K2 Contemporary Arts Centre in Izmir, TURKEY, February 2007.

2005-2006-2007: Tähtikuvitelma
Workshop and project documentation from the participatory artivistic light installation
at [no longer existing] Happihuone in Töölönlahti, Helsinki, FINLAND, 2005-2006-2007.

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2005: Lydhør
Practical and conceptual notes for ‘Lydhør’ activities (using presence software/platforms, eg. [no longer existing] Aware (http://aware.uiah.fi/) /Jaiku /Twitter) as a series of critical ‘social-networking arts-technology’ workshops, Oslo/Helsinki, NORWAY/FINLAND, 2005.

2004/2006: Locative Media: Rautatieasema [returns]
Making available online fieldwork documentation, from the locative media arts-performance-archeology paradigm
during the PixelACHE Festival of Electronic Arts and Subcultures in Helsinki, FINLAND, 2004/2006.

2005: Oeresund conversations
Re-organising fieldwork documentation from the participatory arts & design social networking project in Copenhagen/Malmö, DENMARK/SWEDEN, 2005.

2003-2004: Mapping and Sewing Together Mythologies a.k.a. Mapmyths
Fieldwork documentation in collaboration with Signe Pucena of RIXC /Serde
of the pioneering locative research in site-specific storymaking/telling in Liepaja/Inari, LATVIA/FINLAND, 2003-2004.

2003-2005: Aware
Re-organising and developing [no longer online] project documentation, in collaboration with 'Aware' coder-designer John Evans
of the pioneering locative/mobile media research platform and the related participatory workshop/installation series
in Helsinki/Amsterdam/Teesside/Daugavpils/Helsinki/Sydney/Olso, FINLAND/NEDERLANDS/ENGLAND/LATVIA/NORWAY/AUSTRALIA, 2003-2005.

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2002: Friends of the Earth Teesside Digital Landscape Manipulation
Re-organising and developing workshop report from the 1st Friends of the Earth Teeside
Art development workshop with teenagers from Redcar Secondary School, Redcar, ENGLAND, 2002.

2002: Homegrown Tales: virtual idyll garden
Re-organising and developing workshop report using Unreal2 Game Engine load files,
and media documents related to the ‘Homegrown Tales’ development workshop with teenagers from the ‘Careers Club’; produced in Middlesbrough, ENGLAND, 2002.

2001: Garden Monologue/Stratigraphical Sound in 4D Space
To do: make available online the MSc thesis manuscript 'Developing an Archeological Method for Authoring Sound in a 4D Space' [782 kb]
using Unreal2 Game Engine load files, and media documents related to the creative work entitled ‘Garden Monologue’; produced in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, ENGLAND, 2001.

2001: Wind that is
To do: make available online the media file and accompanying short essay
related to the creative audio-visual/textual work entitled Wind that is ; produced in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, ENGLAND, 2001.

1998/1999-2000: Looking for Pulse.rhythmresponse
To do: make available online the essay manuscript and media documents of the fieldwork
undertaken as a Peter Kirk European Travel Scholarship, spending 5 months from August-December 1998,
travelling inbetween Jyväskylä, Kuopio, Inari and Helsinki, FINLAND; produced in Tillicoultry/London, SCOTLAND/ENGLAND, 1999-2000.

1997: Joypopper
To do: make available online the documentation and exhibition materials of the artworks by 4 then-recent graduates of Glasgow School of Art Fine Art Printmaking department:
Owen Boyle, Sue Carter, Debra Rae-Kell, Andrew Paterson (+1 other, Alistair Kell) at the Intermedia Space, King Street, produced in Glasgow, SCOTLAND, 1997.

1996-1997: Raising Flags of Difference
To do: make available online the essay manuscript and the related printed artworks of a BA(Hons) Fine Art (Printmaking) degree,
undertaken as the 30%/70% components respectively of the award at Glasgow School School of Art, produced in Glasgow, SCOTLAND, 1996-1997.

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