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Hybrid Artworks
Hybrid Artworks is an interdisciplinary research and performance art cooperative originally based in Kingston upon Hull, Hull, UK. It was established in 1995 and produced pieces of performance art, video installation theatre, texts and essays. Description It was funded on a project by project basis by local arts councils and grants and supported by the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside. It produced pieces for literature, music and theatre festivals and academic research projects. It was composed of a number of permanent and temporary members and was disbanded in 1999. Their work continues to be documented in both the UK and Spain where its members remain active in using the group's spatial theories in various workshops on the video installation and architecture. These workshops have involved architects, filmmakers and graphic designers and have been documented in articles in South Africa, Spain and the UK. Its deliberately cross disciplinary format meant it collaborated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Cairns
Graham Cairns (born 1971, UK) is an author and academic. He is the founder and director of the research organisation AMPS ''Architecture Media Politics Society''. He is Executive Editor of its associated peer-reviewed scholarly journal Architecture_MPS, , published by UCL Press. He researches and publishes on architecture and its relationship with visual culture and socio-politics. He has delivered talks, taught, ran workshops and held various positions at universities internationally. Biography Cairns studied architecture at Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Lincoln. His doctorate examined the relationship between advertising and commercial architecture and was awarded by the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid. It was later developed into a book,'' Deciphering Art, Architecture and Advertising: Selling to the Sophisticated Consumer''. In 1995 he founded and ran the UK based performance arts company Hybrid Artworks specializing in spatial instal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
