Andy Gracie
11 May 2015 – 30 June 2015
The artistic work of Andy Gracie (London, 1967) lies at the intersection between art and science and uses scientific theory and practice as an artistic means to explore the relationship between man and the post-natural world and the notion of reality. His work proposes scenarios of exchange between natural and man-made systems and encompasses genres and disciplines such as installation, robotics, sound, video and biological practices. More recently, his activity involves cultural analysis of astrobiological science and research based on the space and notions on the origin of life, together with new analysis of its boundaries.
His creations have been shown in the UK, France, Spain, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, U.S.A., Japan, Mexico and Australia. He has been commissioned with the production of new works for the Arnolfini Centre (Bristol, United Kingdom), several entities from Barcelona and north-east England and has taken part in festivals such as ISEA, Artbots, Radar, Ars Electronica, as well as the robotics exhibition for the Lille 2004 European Capital of Culture. Andy Gracie has received honourable mentions at VIDA Concurso Internacional Arte y Vida Artificial (2007) and Ars Electronica (2007).
He has also written many texts and articles for magazines, web forums, catalogues and books and has worked as teacher in England and has conducted many workshops around the world, taking part in several research projects at Huddersfield University, United Kingdom. Together with Marc Duseiller and Yashas Shetty he founded the project Hackteria, a web forum and a series of workshops where artists can work combining electronics with biological techniques.
Project in residence
200 metros
Andy Gracie will develop, during his residence of production in LABoral, ‘200 metros’, winning Project of the call Ciencias del Mar
200 meters proposes the creation of an immersive installation from sensory data and mapping obtained by an underwater manufacturing apparatus in the environment of the Aviles Canyon, an abyssal gap located about seven miles from the coast, between Colunga and Navia, which is one of the most important and diverse ecosystems on the platform of the Cantabrian Sea.
During his residency of production at LABoral, Andy Gracie will design a hybrid underwater apparatus, combining standard elements and other custom-made DIY (Do It Yourself) ones and rapid prototyping. This device will incorporate sonar, a camera and a hydrophone to facilitate mapping and registration of phenomena in the deep zone of the sea.
Subsequently, the British artist, settled in Asturias since 2008, will make an expedition by boat to the area of the Avilés Canyon for collecting information. All these data and documentation obtained during the investigation will be part of the immersive installation that is going to be displayed from July in the Exhibition Hall of the Port Authority of Gijón.
Ciencias del Mar is a call promoted by LABoral and the Port Authority of Gijón and is aimed to Asturian artists whose work uses science and technology in relation to the seas and oceans.
