Andrew Paterson

= artist-organiser of participatory art events

URL = http://agryfp.info/

Bio

"Andrew Gryf Paterson (b. 1974) is a Scottish artist-organiser, educator, and independent researcher, based in Helsinki, Finland. His work involves variable roles of initiator, participant, author and curator, according to different collaborative and cross-disciplinary processes. Andrew works across the fields of media/ network/ environmental art and activism, pursuing a participatory practice through workshops, performative events, storytelling.

Selected curatorial/organisational projects include 'Herbologies/Foraging Networks' programme of Pixelache Festival (2010), 'Siirtolapuutarhapelit' for Megapolis2024 Symposium (2009); 'Alternative Economy Cultures' programme of Pixelache Helsinki Festival (2009); 'Clip Kino' in Kirjasto10 Helsinki library and other locations (2008-); 'Add+PF+?' in the Pedagogical Factory programme at Hyde Park Art Centre, Chicago (2007); 'Locative Media: On and Off the Beaten Track' for Leonardo Electronic Almanac, MIT Press (2006); 'Tähtikuvitelma' for Valon Voimat Festival, Helsinki (2005); 'Locative Media Workshop: Rautatieasema' for Pixelache Helsinki Festival (2004/2006). These activities have been characterised by the bringing together of unexpected elements and components around a 'boundary object' which each participant interprets differently, producing new imaginations and potential.

He has been artist/researcher-in-residence at RIXC Centre for New Media Culture (Riga, 2004), Eyebeam Centre of Art and Technology (New York, 2008), Kitchen Budapest Innovation Lab (Budapest, 2008), within the art-education project 'Pedagogical Factory' (Chicago, 2007). Andrew has taught courses at Aalto University School of Art and Design, Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Science, and given numerous presentations in higher institutions internationally. He has also specialised in coordinating and facilitating workshops for multi-disciplinary professionals, students and young people in Scotland, NE England, Nordic-Baltic region, Turkey, United States, and Australia. Andrew has a multidisciplinary education, with BA(Hons) Fine Arts from Glasgow School of Art, and a MSc degree in Computer-Aided Graphical Technology Applications from University of Teesside. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Aalto University School of Art and Design, with the working thesis title of “Artistic Practice as Fieldwork”. Since summer 2008, he has also been a board member of Piknik Frequency ry. (producers of Pixelache Festival, Helsinki)."

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