Andrew Paterson
= artist-organiser of participatory art events
URL = http://agryfp.info/
Bio
"Andrew Gryf Paterson (b. 1974) is a Scottish artist-organiser, educator, cultural producer, 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 arts and activism, pursuing a participatory practice through workshops, performative events, and storytelling.
Significant curatorial/organisational projects include 'Herbologies/Foraging Networks' (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), 'Mapmyths' (2003-2004). 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's School of Art and Design and School of Economics, 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 multi-disciplinary 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 completing his doctoral candidacy at Aalto University School of Art and Design, Media Department, with the working thesis title of “Artistic Practice as Fieldwork”. Since beginning 2011 he is coordinator of the Pixelversity educational programme for Piknik Frequency ry. (producers of Pixelache Festival, Helsinki)."
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email: agryfp [-at-] gmail.com / andrew.paterson [-at-] aalto.fi mobile [FI]: +358 50402 3828 | skype: agryfp