Umut Gunduz is lecturer and Fine Art practitioner. With a background in film-making and sound design, his work is mostly moving image based using contemporary technologies with departures into digital art, video game design, literature and sculpture. He is concerned with ideas around representation and interactivity.
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
2020 - MA Fine Art (Distinction), UCA Canterbury
2008 - BA HONS Sound Art and Design, UAL
Digital projects
Digital projects
Feb. 2020 - "Memory Palace Thanet", Online Video Game, Turner Contemporary Digital Commission.
Dec. 2020 - "Postcards from Home", Online RGP Game, The Margate School, An Art-Line for Margate.
Oct. 2020 - "Margate Kebab Map", Online Video Game, Margate NOW Festival (community group based project fund).
Aug. 2020 - "They Never had Ghosts for Idols", Online Video Game.
Group EXHIBITIONS
Oct. 2020 - "Hant", Lewisham Arthouse, London, UK.
Dec. 2019 - "I Make Art About...", Joseph Wales Studios, Margate, UK.
Aug. 2019 - "The Reminiscent Bells Remind us of the Hours...", Joseph Wales Studios, Margate, UK.
Feb. 2019 - "Aflojar La Cuerda", River Garage Studio, Dover, UK.
Jan. 2019 - "Pint Sized", Brewery Tap Project Space, Folkstone, UK.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Nov. 2019 - "The World is Yours", Artgame Gallery, Margate, UK (in collaboration with Margate Film Festival).
Jan. 2019 - "Superposition", Well Projects, Margate, UK.
Teaching Experience
2019-Present - Screen Art Theory Course Leader, UCA Rochester, BA Computer Animation Arts, BA Game Design, BA TV Production
2019-Present - Sessional lecturer, UCA Canterbury, BA Creative Coding, BA Industrial Design
2016 - Point Blank Music School London, Diploma Electronic Music Production
Anna Skutley is an independent curator and researcher originally from Seattle. Now based in the UK, she works to facilitate collaborative projects which focus on the intersection of new media, fiction, and the role of the digital in cultural production. Her PhD research uses a Feminist Sci-Fi perspective to explore ideas of curatorial practice as one of writing and relation making.
EDUCATION
2020-Present - PhD Curating by Practice, University of Reading, Reading, UK.
2018-2019 - MA Curatorial Practice (Distinction), University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, UK.
2009-2013 - BA Art History (cum laude), Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA.
2009-2013 - BA Spanish (cum laude), Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA.
Digital projects
Feb. 2020 - "Memory Palace Thanet", Turner Contemporary Digital Commission.
Dec. 2020 - "Postcards from Home", The Margate School, An Art-Line for Margate.
Oct. 2020 - "Margate Kebab Map", Margate NOW Festival (community group based project fund).
Exhibitions Curated
Oct. 2020 - "Hant", Lewisham Arthouse, London
Dec. 2019 - "I Make Art About…", Joseph Wales Studios, Margate
Aug. 2019 - "UCA MA Graduation Show", UCA Canterbury, Canterbury
Aug. 2019 - "The reminiscent bells remind us of the hours…", Joseph Wales Studios, Margate
March 2019 - "Textual Imprints", Dover SmArt Project, Dover
March 2019 - "Transform, Transpose, Transmit", Brewery Tap Project Space, Folkestone
Feb. 2019 - "Aflojar la Cuerda", River Garage Studios, Dover