Arts Industries Professional

Benjamin Bailey de Paor | +44 75 26 28 28 65 | benjamin “at” cultura3 “dot” net 

Artwork (bib.)
Proof reading & editorial
Education
Internships

Artworker's bib. '99 > '08

2008

Multimedia for performance space [Jan. 08]
Multimedia projection and video production for performance.

Art events coordination [Dec. 08]
Curation/ programming of live arts, the spoken word, multimedia and interactive artworks and performance for events.

Performance/ installation setup and invigilation [Nov. 08]
The Grandeur Mass (Auditoria) @ the paradise gallery, Tower Hamlets.

Review of arts research project published [Nov. 08]
research project published in FORUM, Art Tech Media 08.

Participation in forum for conferences and exhibtion [Oct./ Nov. 08]
INTERFERENCE digital curation and and new media art industral symposis.

Artworker and scenic build [Oct. 08] photos
SPAGHETTI, HORROR, SEX cutated by Jonny Trunk & Andrew Rutland @ the Shunt Vaults, London Bridge.

Proofreader [Oct. 08]
Doctoral dissertation – Repetition in Contemporary Performance.

Architectural lighting design & installation/ installation of artworks [Sept. 08]
Futureshorts 5th aniversary and the “Adventures in short film” DVD launch party @ the House of St. Barnabas, Soho, London.

Installation and fabrication technician [Sept. '08]
Paint the town red's down the rabbit hole @ the bargehouse, OXO Tower Wharf, London.

Art Fabrication [Sept. '08]
Working with aerial.fm in fabrication of units for the Phone Game installation at the Shunt Vaults, London Bridge.

Art fabrication/ installation [Sept. '08] photos
Working with loop.ph in the production of a series of modular architectural textile sculptures, developed in liaison with a Nobel Prize winning scientist John E. Walker. Exhibited for the Nobel Textiles exhibition, part of the London Design Festival 08 at the ICA and Saint James Park, 14–21 September 2008.

Proof reader/ editor [Aug. '08]
Strategic business plan and expose for the Latvian Theatre of Puppetry, Riga.

Installation technician/ artworker [July '08] photos
COLOUR ME! A Sewn Mural with audience participation workshop (lead artist Cristina Guitian), as a part of the Montague Place Show (Hedded by Carmody Groarke) @ London Festival of Architecture, The British Museum. – 3rd, 4th, 5th July '08.

Exhibition installation technician (rec.) [July '08]
Rewired @ Goldsmiths University College, London.

Exhibition and communications team [June '08 > July '08] photos
Exhibition installation, public intervention, marketing communications and project representation for motiroti's 60x60 & the photo machine.

Exhibition and performance space technician/ designer [March > June '08]
Joined the exhibition and performance space team at the SHUNT Vaults & Lounge, London.

Exhibition technician [June '08]
Technical and arts consultancy for Architectural Environments presentation Air and architectural space, Goldsmiths University College, London.

Scenic build assistant/ technician [April '08]
Hotel Medea: From Midnight to Dawn.

Life drawing workshop team [Mar. ’08 > Apr. '08]
The Brick Lane Art Centre, London.
Curation of and tuition for sessions of The Life Drawing Society.

Proof-reader/ editor [Feb. ’08]
Proof-reading and editing of ART TECH Cultural Association's strategic plans for the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s forth-coming International Institute of Digital Art and Culture.

Artwork added to permanent collection [Jan. '08]
Production of artwork "река" (river) in collaboration with Archipelago gallery (Sheffield, England), for circulation in the gallery's in house collection.

2007

Curator's PA [Dec. ’07 > Apr. '08]
VOILA! Gallery, Brick Lane, London

Online communications consultancy [Dec. ’07]
Consultation over online communications management for Eukart Gallery’s reopening project (Brick Lane, London).

Installation exhibited [Oct. '07 > Nov. '07]
Collaborative work featured in the installation “On trees and swarms” in the “looking at looking at nature” exhibition at the Harnett Gallery, New York. 17th oct. > 19th nov. '07.

Arts collaboration communications and artwork production coordination [Aug. ’07 >> Oct. '07]
Coordination of a long distance collaboration between artists for the <stimulus/response> exhibition @ Projektraum Sonnensegel, Vienna. 5th > 19th oct. '07. >>

Art in education [Sep. '07 > Dec. '07]
Took part in a series of lectures, workshops and seminars over Art in Education – workshops, teaching and context, both social and theoretical, Goldsmiths University and Kemnal Technology College, London.

Commissioned for multimedia interior design artwork fittings [Aug. '07 > Feb. '08]
Concept and realization of interior design artwork scheme! for mobile office structures of Panache International’s warehouse and logistic departments in Northern England. >>

Events production team – research [June > July ’07]
Complication of lists of guests for ART TECH Cultural Association to present materials on new media, digital and technological art, culture, industries and institutions at conference in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Art workshops on summer camp, Estonia [July '07]
Working with nature to produce art from found objects on a beach by a forest in a nature reserve and produced children's workshops in painting & drawing for Bellnor International.

Assistant content editor/ communications assistant [Apr. > May ’07]
Research and invitation of individuals to represent England at the 1* International Congress of Digital Art and Culture, Madrid. Assistant online content editor of materials in lieu of the conferences.

2006

Began working in creative collaboration group [Aug. ‘06 >> present]
Instigated the creative group “cultura.3” – consisting of 4 Artists including myself. We have worked with a broad host of external collaborators over the past years on a range of interesting projects and avant-garde theories and have recently begun to experience a success in exhibition.

Writer [Aug. ‘06]
Prepared gallery texts for Chiara Passa’s artworks “Rendering space” and “Optical Rendering” for the Abstracta Cinema Festival, Palazzo Farnese, Roma. >>

Art workshops on summer camp, Estonia [July '06]
Working with nature to produce art from found objects on a beach by a forest in a nature reserve.
Presented children's workshops in painting & drawing.

Documenter/ researcher [May > June ‘06]
Performed initial market research by documenting youth and night culture events in Sheffield, for the formulation of the CULTGEIST project for Saatchi & Saatchi’s GUM Fac.

Communications assistent [March > June '06]
Communications assistant for ARTECHMEDIA 06, festival of new media art, Madrid.

< 2005

Online event assistant [Nov. ’05]
Solipsis/ Art Basil Miami >>
Representation of “The Digital Street Corner” “cyber happening” event, within the Solipsis online environment.

Communications assistant [Oct. > Nov. ’05]
Marketing openings for artist collaboration for Perimedialab’s “Ballgame” installation, Intro Festival, Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest. >>

Art workshops on summer camp, Estonia [July '05]
Bellnor International
Presented children's workshops in painting & drawing.
Coordination and production assistance of camp.

Production & development of online platforms for creative collaboration [Apr. ‘04 > Aug. ‘06]
Instigated, marketed and coordinated international efforts towards creative collaboration in “a creative community” online porthole. At it’s peek the community consisted of over 110 subscribers and approximately 16 creative practitioners working across a range of experimental projects at any time.

Internship with magazine [Feb. > Apr. ’04]
Photographer for Provokator Magazine, Prague.

Works exhibited [Jan. ’04]
Series of multimedia artworks and el fresco painting exhibited in the Lescar Project exhibition space.

Commissioned as artworker [Aug. > Sept. ’03]
Panache International
Production of artworks for the Reception and hallways of their new Sheffield offices [the former Sheffield United Gas Building] and research into the visual planning documents for its construction through to the renovation for the production of artworks.

City festival arts team [Nov. ’02 > Mar. ’03]
Sheffield City Children’s Festival, Sheffield City Council
Junior member of the Arts team for the development and production of 
the “Sheffield City Children's Festival.” Initial brainstorming of actions group actions/ Research into particulars for a unit of production under a superior.

Scenic painter/ assistent builder/ installation [Summer '02]
Painting construction and installation of scenery for Alice in Wonderland dance production at Sheffield Crucible Theatre.

Artworker [Dec. '99 > Feb. '00]
Collaborative production of a series of large scale paintings for exhibition in the Forum, Sheffield.

Painting sold [Dec. ‘99]