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We are an artist-led studio who combine artistic practice with commissioning, curatorial projects, design and consultancy to explore social, cultural and creative issues. Collaboration is at the core of our creative practice and ethos: involving innovative collaborations in fields as diverse as medical research, music, community development, housing and urban regeneration, pervasive computing, mapping and sensor technologies.
Our work includes large scale collaborative artworks such as Mapping Perception, long term media works such as Urban Tapestries and Diffusion Generator, multi project initiatives involving in depth research and a high level of public participation such as Social Tapestries, smaller scale artworks, interventions and films such as Topographies and Tales, experimental forums and events such as Human Echoes – A Dialogue on Cultures of Listening and large scale curatorial initiatives such as Navigating History.
Current projects include Sutton Grapevine and Sensory Threads.
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bookleteer.com
Bookleteer is Proboscis' new web app for creating Diffusion eBooks and StoryCubes. Designed for individuals, groups or organisations to create, publish and share their own personalised and branded eBooks, the system supports multiple languages and alphabets plus right-to-left language orientation natively. Bookleteer ushers in a publishing in demand revolution!
DodoLab
Proboscis is collaborating in a series of labs and interventions with artist/curator Andrew Hunter of DodoLab. So far, DodoLabs have been run at the World Environmental Education Congress in Montreal (May 09); Confederation Centre, Prince Edward Island (Aug 09) and at the Guelph Jazz Festival (Sept 09). More labs and workshops are planned for 2009 and 2010, including in the UK. DodoLab is supported by the Musagetes Foundation and the School of Architecture, University of Waterloo.
Diffusion Shareables
Hundreds of Diffusion eBooks and StoryCubes are free to download, make up and share from the Diffusion website. Download some of our free Diffusion Notebooks to use in your own projects; scan them in when you've filled them up and share them as PDFs. Follow our printing experiments using different colours and types of paper as well as playful printing techniques for personalising and customising your favourite eBooks.