Lise Autogena

Introduction

Lise Autogena is an artist who works across a variety of media, with a particular focus on digital media, social design and new ways of mapping and visualising global data.

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Founder/ organiser of the Christiania Researcher in Residence Programme (CRIR) that provides residency and research support for international artists and researchers with a specific interest in the social experiment Christiania in Copenhagen. (Since in 2004)

2007-2009

  • Trustee for the Artists Placement Group/ I & O (with John Latham and Barbara Strevini)
  • Advisory Board for The Arts Catalyst Art Science Agency  
  • Adviser to the Danish Municipality of Aarhus onThe Freight Yard Project, a major transformation of an old freight yard into a production centre for stage arts, visual arts, and literature.
  • Adviser on a UK Think Tank Demos and The Creative and Cultural Sector Skills Council publication: “So, What Do You Do?  A New Question for Policy in the Creative Age”. 
  • Brainstorm contributor on the development of the new Tate Modern Building
  • Contributor on the Fermynwoods Art and Science Project
  • Advisory Task Group for Arts Council of England’s Interdisciplinary Arts

2004- 2006

  • Advisory board for Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Denmark
  • Brainstorm contributor on the Arts Council Interdisciplinary Arts Unit and Royal Society of Arts Art and Ecology programme

1996-1998

  • Trustee for The Danish Institute for Art and Architecture

Qualifications

1997 MA Fine Art administration and Curating, with Distinction - Goldsmiths College, University of London

1995 MA Art and Architecture, with Distinction - Architecture School of University of East London

1991 Ba Honours in Fine Art - West Surrey College of Art and Design 

1987/89

The School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, USA

Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, USA

West Surrey College of Art and Design (Surrey Institute)

 

Honours and Awards

2009      Arts Council Denmark, Arts Council of England

2008      The Danish Arts Foundation

2007      The Danish Arts Foundation and The Gulbenkian Foundation

2006      Arts Council, Denmark and Arts Council of England

2005      The Arts Council, Denmark and The San Cataldo Arne Meyer Foundation

2004-7   Fellow of the National Endowment of Science, Technology and the Arts, UK 

2004      Black Shoals Stock Market Planetarium awarded by The Arts Council of Denmark

              Hvass Foundation and Fabers Foundation, Denmark +Jyllandsposten award

2003      Shortlisted for the Alternative Turner Prize, UK +The Danish Arts Foundation

2002      Creative Partnerships Kent, UK + Arts Council of Denmark

2001      Royal Society of Arts, Art for Architecture Award

2000      Arts Council of England, New Media Fund + London Arts Board - Combined Arts 

              London award + London Arts Board - Visual Arts Department - Individual artist award

              South East Arts Year of the Artist award + European Interreg Fund

1999      Arts Council of England Combined Arts Production Fund + San Cataldo (Arne Meyers Fund) +                    South East Arts New Work Production Fund,               

1991-98 The Jerwood prize for applied arts 1998: glass, The Arts Foundation/The Old Possum’s Practical Trust, 

              Arts Council of Denmark award, Århus Council Artist Award, Denmark, Arts Council of Denmark 

 Languages

English and scandinavian languages

Current Research

 

Most Blue Skies at The Arts Catalyst, London, May 2011 

AHRC funded research programme: Data Landscapes, curated by Tom Corby, Westminster University


The Thor Heyerdahl Globe, Norway (2011/12)

A major permanent commission for the Thor Heyerdahl College in Norway. One of the biggest spherical LED display systems ever created, that will provide a new screen technology for the visualization of live global data flows, exploring climate models and migration. 


Co-curating a major exhibition project based on the book “Hippie: Three Years and Sixty five days that changed Denmark” by Peter Ovig Knudsen.

 

Esteem Indicators

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Autogena, Lise; Portway, Joshua: Exhibiting in MEDIA ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2010 „Urban Media Territories; the re-stratification of urban public spaces through digital media.“ Exhibition: 7-31 October 2010, Künstlerhaus, Vienna.


Autogena, Lise; Jorgensen, Marianne: Exhibiting: ‘Por-tables’. ‘Dialogborde’ Group Show, Brænderigården, Denmark, 2009. Wearable tables that physically impact on human conversation.


Autogena, Lise; Portway, Joshua: ‘Most Blue Skies, Stockholm 2010': Exhibited at Tensta Kunsthalle, Stockholm, 2010 as part of the Rethink Kakotopia’ Show


Autogena, Lise; Portway, Joshua: ‘Most Blue Skies, Copenhagen 2009':

Commissioned for the COP15 UN Climate Summit, Copenhagen: RETHINK CLIMATE (Rethink Kakotopia), Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre. Nordic Exhibition of the Years 2009-10: www.rethinkclimate.org A computer generated work that attempts to find “the most blue skies” in the world. Using global atmospheric data as raw material, the project calculates the passage of light through particulate matter in the atmosphere and calculates the exact colour of the sky at millions of places on earth.


Autogena, Lise: ‘Most Blue Skies'. Book publication ‘What is Positive?’ edited by Hilde de Brujin and Gavin Wade, Revolver, ISBN: 3-86588-295-1 and exhibition at Kunstlerhaus Exnergasse, Vienna and De Appel, Amsterdam, 2007. Part of: ‘Strategic Questions: 40 projects in response to 40 questions written by Buckminster Fuller’. 


Autogena, Lise: “Collective Dreaming and the Practice of Creative Disruption”,as part of “BCN_LON 2012” - a 2007 Demos and Fundació Ramon Trias Fargas publication exploring the legacy of the London and Barcelona Olympics.


Autogena, Lise; Portway, Joshua: ‘The Making of Black Shoals Stock Market Planetarium' Exhibited as part of ‘Derivatives: Art Financial Visions’ , La Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2006/7 (www.blackshoals.net).

Also Ineditos 2006 – Derivados, nuevas visions financieras, published by Caja Madrid ISBN-13: 978-84-95321-84-8 - ISBN-10: 84-95321-84-x


Autogena, Lise; Portway, Joshua: ‘Most Blue Skies' Installation commissioned for The 6th International Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, 2006. A computer generated work that attempts to find “the most blue skies” in the world. Using global atmospheric data as raw material, the project calculates the passage of light through particulate matter in the atmosphere and calculates the exact colour of the sky at millions of places on earth. Collaboration with climate scientists, colour researchers and around the world.


Autogena, Lise: Re:Search Berlin/Copenhagen A Pilot residency/exchange project organised by Akademie der Künste and Universität de Künste in Berlin. Exhibited and published by Universität de Künste. Funded by The Arts Council of Denmark. 


Autogena, Lise: Curated and produced Gustav Metzger – Breath Ing Culture. Exhibited at the Gustav Metzger Retrospective at the Generali Foundation, Austria, 2005


The Christiania Researcher in Residence Project (CRIR)

Established and co-curate a research programme in the Free Town Christiania, in Copenhagen for international researchers, academics and artists - enabling a research base wherefrom to evaluate this 33 year old social experiment in utopian living. The project has generated research projects by researchers around the world since 2004. See full programme on http://www.crir.net


“Autogena, Lise; Portway, Joshua: Black Shoals Stock Market Planetarium”. Published by Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, 2004, ISBN NO 8788860841 (www.blackshoals.net) Autogena, Lise; Portway, Joshua: “Black Shoals Stock Market Planetarium”, 2004. Solo show at Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center in collaboration with the Danish Stock Exchange. A digital projected planetarium running on a massive live feed from the worlds stock markets. Stars in the planetarium represent companies on the markets that move into constellations and industry galaxies depending on the movements on the markets. When trades happen on the stars, they produce light, which provides food for an ecology of artificial life creatures that live within this starry sky. The creatures evolve, develop survival strategies and various attempts to survive in the strange ecology into which they have been born. Collaboration with scientists, economists, programmers, companies and academic institutions from around the world. The project has inspired many research papers and published texts by researchers worldwide. (www.blackshoals.net)


Autogena, Lise: ‘The Sound Mirrors Project/ Les Miroirs Sonores’ Exhibited at The Autumn Show, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2004. An ongoing project to build two sound mirrors on both sides of the English Channel, enabling the English and the French to speak across the sea. www.soundmirrors.org


Autogena, Lise; Portway, Joshua: ‘PING’ Commissioned by the Barbican Gallery for the ‘GAME ON’ show, 2002 A reinvention of the original video game, Pong, PING is a multiplayer musical game that takes games back to their origins in order to show an alternative set of possible pleasures in video gaming that are more socially orientated. A multiplayer game and a childhood daydream about what video games might have become. Developed with programmers Joshua Portway, Tree and Cesare Ferrari. Music by Richard Evans. 


Autogena, Lise: Portway, Joshua: ‘As far as the eye can see’. Video commissioned by Shepway District Council and South East Arts/Year of The Artist.  As far as the eye can see documents a journey to the Dungeness peninsula in search of information about the so-called Acoustic Mirrors, a forgotten acoustic defence experiment from between the two world wars, locally known as “the listening ears”. The journey portrays a still and otherworldly place where everything, including time itself seems to dissolve into the vast surrounds of sky, sea and shingle. Fragments of research, recollections and memories of people in the area tells the story of a unique, isolated place and of the slowly disintegrating sound mirrors. 34 Minutes long. Screened summer, 2002 at the Dungeness Lifeboat Station and at the Coastal Currents Festival in Kent. Video material has been donated to the town of Lydd’s local history archives.


Autogena, Lise; Joshua Portway: “Black Shoals Stock Market Planetarium”. Commissioned by Tate Britain for ‘Art and Money Online’, curated by Julian Stallabrass, 2000/2001 (www.blackshoals.net)


Autogena, Lise: “Clearly Brilliant”. Tacoma Art Museum. Tacoma (WA). US, 2000.


Autogena, Lise: ‘The Danish Concept of Hygge’ event at Whitechapel Art Gallery, UK. Curated by Ella Gibbs, 2001


Autogena, Lise: Curating ‘breathing productions’ (www.autogena.org/Breathing) Internet based project and discussion events, that analysed the idea of ‘breathing’ as a cultural phenomenon. 1997 onwards

 

Autogena, Lise; Portway, Joshua: ‘The Sound of Light’ - A CD Rom analysing the relationship between the experience of light, space and acoustics in architecture in London, using binaural recording techniques. Exhibited at East London School of Architecture, 1995


SPEAKER/CONFERENCES

2011

  • Globe for Frankfurt and The World, Deutsche Bank head quarters, Germany. Organised by Stedelijk and curated by the Otolith Group.

2009/10

  • Data Landscapes: Toward an Art of Environmental Change, part of the AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme, Westminster University
  • Keynote speaker -  Future Thinking, at Tate Britain, organised by Visiting Arts
  • Critical Debates in Digital Arts: The Falmouth Event organised by University College Falmouth and The Arts Council
  • Keynote speaker ‘Planetary Breakdown/Autonomous Infrastructures’ at The Baltic, UK
  • ‘Lise Autogena’ at Public Works, London
  • ‘Tipping Point’ at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels - a major European gathering of individuals from the cultural sector, climate scientists and key climate change policy makers. Hosted by the British Council, the European Commission, the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC), the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), Tipping Point and the Kaai Theatre, Brussels. 

2008

  • Brainstorm development of The Freight Yard Project, Aarhus,Denmark

2007

  • UK Think Tank Demos and The Creative and Cultural Sector Skills Council publication: “So, what do you do?  A New Question for Policy in the Creative Age”. 
  • The Breath Symposium at Tate Britain- keynote speaker
  • The Alternative Space Festival in London
  • Organised The Christiania Researcher in Residence Seminar: To Live Outside the Law You Must Be Honest, Kunsthallen Nikolaj,Copenhagen. 
  • Architecture as Initiative Conference - Architectural Association, UK

2006 

  • Keynote speaker, The EuroGel Conference, The Black Diamond, Copenhagen
  • Presentation at Think tank DEMOS event to develop ideas for London Olympics
  • NESTA Science and Globalisation lab in Edinburgh 

2005

  • Cross Channel Urbanism Conference in Lille, France 
  • Blip Event, Brighton
  • Rules of Engagement Conference, University of York
  • Art and Social Intervention: The Incidental Person – Tate Britain - keynote speaker
  • The Organisational Art Summit - organised by Learning Lab Denmark
  • ‘Society’ at Beaconsfield, London. Presentation on Downings Roads Moorings in London

2004

  • ‘The Materials Salon’. Arts Council England and The Royal Society of Arts
  • ‘The Creative Commons Focus group’. Arts Council England, Oxford University and London School of Economics.
  • ‘Beyond the Residency, New Work, New Places, New Audiences’, organised by The Arts Council of England
  • NESTA Future Lab, Science Simulation Lab, Thinking science education ten years ahead
  • Seminar on aesthetics and teaching – The Danish Institute for Educational Environments

2001

  • Art for Architecture Seminar -  De La Warr Pavillion, Brighton
  • “Artists and business leaders have a chat”  Superchannel television debate by Demokratisk Innovation. 
  • Tate Britain. Art & Money Online Symposium

2000

  • "The Creative Alliance Brainstorm" The Danish Ministry of Culture 
  • Danish Centre for Art and Architecture. Art and Architecture Symposium at Aarhus School of Architecture 
  • Radio Station 2000: Street Art with Kirsten Dufour, Simon Sheikh and Frans Jacobi

1998

  • Contemporary Glass Society Conference, Sunderland, UK
  • Glass, Light and Space Conference, The Crafts Council of England
  • Danish Glass Society Conference

Funding

2009 Arts Council Denmark, Arts Council of England
2008 The Danish Arts Foundation
2007 The Danish Arts Foundation
The Gulbenkian Foundation
2006 Arts Council, Denmark, Arts Council of England
2005 The Arts Council, Denmark
Hvass Foundation, Denmark
Fabers Foundation, Denmark
2003 The Danish Arts Foundation
2002 Creative Partnerships Kent
Arts Council of Denmark
2000 Arts Council of England, New Media Fund
London Arts Board - Combined Arts
London Arts Board
South East Arts, Year of the Artist award
European Interreg Fund
1999 Arts Council of England - Combined Arts Production Fund
South East Arts - New Work Production Fund
1996 The Arts Council of Denmark
1991 The Arts Council of Denmark

Industrial Relevance

Sponsorship and Collaborations:

OSRAM, Quantum Electronics, DFDS, Colorline, Projection Design, The Danish Film School, DAF. NASA, Imperial College Space and Atmospheric Physics Group. The Met office, UK, The Met Office Norway, UCL Colour and Vision Research Laboratory, US Physical National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Centre for Advanced Visualization and Interaction at University of Aarhus (CAVI), Tekne Productions (Denmark), Alexandra Institute, Denmark, Copenhagen Stock Exchange, Danish Stockholders Foundation, InnovationLab, Nordic Interactive, Sen:te, Switzerland, TDC, Enskilda Securities, Copenhagen Post, The Danish Stockholders Association, Eurotunnel, Brown Innovations, Pixelpark, Reuters, Apple , ASK/Proxima, Real World Studios, BT Future Technology Group, COGS University of Sussex at Brighton, Prof. Thomas S. Ray - Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, USA, Prof. Daniel G. Weaver - Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, USA, The Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics, The Danish Business School,