Andrew Paterson
= artist-organiser, producer and researcher of participatory 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, specialising in workshop design, participatory platforms for engagement, and facilitation within the Eastern Baltic Sea region. Research interests include artistic and activist forms of fieldwork, grassroots cultural heritage, and emerging peer-to-peer developments in society.
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 Arts, Design and Architecture, School of Economics, aswell as 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.
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 Arts, Design and Architecture (Media Dept).
Since 2011 he has been coordinator and facilitator of Pixelache Helsinki's outreach and educational programme, called Pixelversity.
Publications
He recently co-edited with Andrea Botero & Joanna Suud-Salonen the book Towards Peer Production in Public Services: Cases from Finland, published as PDF by Aalto University."
More Information
Contact Andrew Gryf Paterson via
email: agryfp [-at-] gmail.com / andrew.paterson [-at-] aalto.fi mobile [FI]: +358 50402 3828 | skype: agryfp