Chris Speed
Chris Speed is currently a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Interactive Media at CAiiA-STAR, at the Institute of Digital Arts and Technology, at the University of Plymouth.His research manifests itself as conference papers, book contributions, artworks and industrial commissions. Notable conferences presentations include the delivery of a paper in tandem with a plate spinner at ISEA2000, Paris and presentations at the Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth in 2002. Book contributions include Temporal Navigation in Emergent Futures, Art, Interactivity and New Media (Institucio Alfons al Magnanim, 2000) and Dismantling Teleological Navigation in The Art of Programming (Paradiso / Sonic Arts Press 2002). Recent works include a video commission in summer 2001 for FACT which has since been shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival and Ars Electronica, and the digital short Spacelapse for the American Arts DVD 'Toc'. In the October 2001 issue of Flux Magazine his VRML work "The Production Room' was exhibited in the Variable D Gallery, this was later shown in a collective show at the Castlefield Gallery in May 2002. Last year Speed co-curated the Arts Council of England funded show 'Catalogue' for Architecture Week (Plymouth Arts Centre 2002) and was the Artist in Residence at Unitec, Auckland where he developed the 'smart' architecture software 'Reading Rooms'. This year he will be renown for installing the first Random Lift button into a building.
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