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Staff profile / Paul Granjon

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Email:pgranjon@uwic.ac.uk

Paul Granjon teaches video, digital media and performance in the Media Art Practice(MaP) Department of the School of Fine-Art since 1995. His video, performance and installation work is shown internationally.

Paul Granjon is an artist working with electronics, robotics, video and computer programming. His subject matter is the evolution of the relation and respective status of human and machine. He applies a playful, hands-on approach to the production of machines for video films, installations and performances. The presentation of his work often comprises humorous elements, combined with a darker vision.

The work, which comments on the effects of exposure to an increasingly technological and complex environment, feeds on Paul Granjon's ambiguous feelings of concern and attraction towards the effects of progress.

More details about Paul Granjon's work at: www.zprod.org

Paul Granjon is a member of the Centre for Fine Art Research (http://www.wirad.ac.uk/research-themes/centre-for-fine-art/) part of the Fine Art and Ceramics theme within WIRAD.

Research Awards

2005 NESTA Fellowship

Authored Books

(2007), Granjon, P. Hand Made Machines, G39 and Z Productions

Book Chapters / Essays

(2006) Granjon, P. ‘A personal story of art and technology’ in: Hothaus Papers, Perspectives and Paradigms in New Media Arts, Vivid/Article Press

Conference Papers / Presentations

2007 ReActor2 conference Leeds Metropolitan University (presented paper)
2005 TAROS (Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems) conference, London: Imperial College
2004 Robofesta Conference, Milton Keynes: Open University
2003 Re-Invention Seminar, Hothaus series, Vivid, University of Central England
2003 We Are the Robots. A Forum Exploring Robot-Human Relations, Foundation for Arts and Creative Technology, Liverpool
2003 Hello World, Artsway, Sway

Exhibitions / Events

2007 Gessnerallee, Zurich, Switzerland
2007 Event Festival, Cambridge
2007 Tomorrow Now, group exhibition, MUDAM museum, Luxemburg
2007 Bandits Mages Festival, Bourges, France
2007 Poesie Marseille Festival, Marseille, France
2007 Roboxotica festival, Vienna, Austria
2007 Infr'actions festival, Sete, France
2007 Cardiff Art in Time Festival, Cardiff
2007 Frankenstein Monster, Mejean Lab, Stockholm, Sweden
2006 Positive Activites, exhibition and residency at Le Lieu, Québec City, Canada
2006 Creative Cyborgs, DANA Centre, London
2006 Vivid, Birmingham
2006 Unfriendly Takeover, Frankfurt, Germany
2006 ‘Sexed Robots’, exhibition in Lighthouse gallery, Brighton
2006 Pyrotechnic, Brighton
2006 Gameplay, group exhibition, Q-Arts, Derby
2006 Somewhere Else, Something Else, group exhibition Oriel Davies, Newtown
2006 ‘The Heart and the Chip’ in: In Between Time Festival, Arnolfini, Bristol, Battersea Arts Centre, London, Sophiensaele, Berlin, Germany, Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium
2005 Somewhere Else. Artists from Wales. Welsh Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice,
2005 May You Live in Interesting Times. Cardiff, UK.
2005 BigBlip05. Brighton, UK
2005 ‘Amino Performance’, Lecture programme at Baltic Arts Centre, Gateshead, UK.
2005 Kontejner Projekt: Touch Me. Zagreb: Galeria Nova.
2005 International Exhibitionist. London: Curzon Cinema.

Membership of Professional Bodies

BLOC, creative technologies agency for Wales (Director)
Creative robotics network (Steering Committee)

Gaynor Kavanagh At Cardiff School of Art & Design, we believe in being at the top of our game and that includes being able to deliver programmes that really make a difference. We give our students every opportunity to explore all kinds of creative and professional possibilities, in an environment that recognises the importance of taking risks and seizing the initiative. We are interested in ideas and how these are examined through practice.