[ISEA2011] Artists Statement: Gavin Baily, Tom Corby & Jonathan Mackenzie – Southern Ocean Studies

Artists Statement

Southern Ocean Studies is a collaborative project with the British Antarctic Survey to explore how climate data and models can be used to develop different ways of representing environmental change. Baily, Corby and Mackenzie have been working together for over 10 years, through an art practice that explores environmental and social issues. Their fine art research practices has been supported by the British Council, Arts Council England, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Wellcome Trust.

  • Gavin Baily is an artist and developer, and founder of TraceMedia. He has worked on arts, visualisation and research projects in various commercial and academic contexts.
  • Tom Corby is the deputy Director of the Centre for Research in Art and Media at the University of Westminster. His research explores how artists and designers can employ digital information as an expressive medium.
  • Jonathan Mackenzie has worked for over twenty years on research projects that overlap art, science and computing. He is particularly interested in algorithms as creative tools, and in complexity science.

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