GILES LANE

BRIEF CURRICULUM VITAE

1994- : Founder, Proboscis

Giles founded Proboscis in 1994 and chairs the board of directors. He manages the company with Alice Angus and leads the SoMa research programme.

Giles founded and edited COIL journal of the moving image between 1995 and 2000, and co-edited and published Ghost Stories by Pavel Buchler in 1999. He initiated, developed and produced Mapping Perception (a 35mm film, immersive installation book and CD-ROM) between 1998 and 2002, and conceived the DIFFUSION eBook format. Giles initiated and co-developed the Topologies initiative, which led to the establishment of the SoMa think tank in late 2000.

In 2001 Giles founded the Peer2Peer Network and curated and produced Private Reveries, Public Spaces. He also commissioned and edited the DIFFUSION eBooks series, Species of Spaces (2002/2003). Giles is currently leading the development of the location-based wireless project, Urban Tapestries as well as consulting for clients such as Antenna Audio, IDEO, Arts Council England and NESTA.

 

2001- : Visiting Research Associate, London School of Economics

Giles has been a Visiting Research Associate with MEDIA@LSE, London School of Economics since January 2001. Giles's contribution to the department has been through collaborations with Professor Roger Silverstone on the Private Reveries, Public Spaces project and more recently on Urban Tapestries. He has also collaborated with Professor Robin Mansell and Dr Andy Pratt on the Liquid Geography Creative Labs: Landscape and Identity, Language and Territory.

 

1998-2002: Researcher, Royal College of Art

Research Fellow, School of Communications
Giles was appointed Research Fellow in Communication Art & Design in the School of Communications in 2001, where he established an interdisciplinary research programme focused around the SoMa social matrices think tank.

Giles organised a series of monthly research seminars held during term at the RCA in 2002. The series was an opportunity to review and discuss SoMa projects and research, as well as to invite participants from outside to present and comment on work.
SoMa Seminars

Writer, Editor & Curator, Computer Related Design Research Studio
Giles was writer, editor and curator for the CRD Research Studio between 1998 and 2001. He devised and managed the publishing imprint RCA CRD RESEARCH, and a curatorial programme of lectures, exhibitions, projects and events.

PUBLICATIONS FOR RCA CRD RESEARCH:
HERTZIAN TALES: electronic products, aesthetic experience and critical design by Dr Anthony Dunne (May 1999)
TECHNOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES by Dr Richard Rogers (March 1999)
PROJECT #26765: FLIRT by Fiona Raby with essays by Akira Suzuki & Claire Catterall (November 2000)
BIOTICA: Art, Emergence & Artificial Life by Richard Brown, Jonathan Mackenzie, Joe Faith & Professor Igor Aleksander (March 2001)
THE PRESENCE PROJECT by Bill Gaver, Ben Hooker & Anthony Dunne (November 2001)

CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
DA2 ONLINE FILM COMMISSIONS (Winter 1999-Spring 2000)
Curator of four artists commissions by David Bickerstaff, Karen Mirza, Nick Crowe & Andi Freeman to produce 'conceptual protoypes' exploring cinematic techniques and aesthetics in relation to the creation of online, networked media. Organised by DA2, the digital art development agency, the prototypes will be presented at a seminar, Click Forward2, held on March 11th during the Video Positive 2000 festival in Liverpool. A previous Click Forward seminar exploring issues relating to online film was held at the Watershed Media Centre, Bristol in November 1999 as part of the Brief Encounters Short Film Festival.

THIS APPLIANCE MUST BE EARTHED (November 1999)
an exhibition of work by the CRD Research Studio, co-curated with Claire Catterall, designed by Alex Rich and Michael Marriott at the Royal College of Art, November 1999.

SURFACE TENSION: philosophies of design & technology (Spring 1999)
a lecture series programmed by the Giles Lane hosted at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Speakers included:
Dr Sue Golding (Head of Theory, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht)
Dr Richard Rogers (University of Amsterdam)
Dr Anthony Dunne (Royal College of Art)
Louise Sandhaus (Director, Graphic Design Program, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia)
Marina Grzinic (Researcher, Institute of Philosophy, Slovenian Academy of Arts & Science, Llubljana)

PUBLISHED TEXTS:

Urban Tapestries: wireless networking, social knowledge and public authoring in Personal & Ubiquitous Computing (Springer Verlag 2003)
An Endless Insurrection in COIL 9/10 (Proboscis, London 2000)
The Masque of Self Death in Parallax 13 (University of Leeds/Taylor & Francis, London 1999)
Evanescence in Inventory volume 3 issue 2 (London 1999)
Jacob's Ladder in COIL 5 (Proboscis, London 1997)
Jeux des Anges/Bovisa (revised) in Technocultures #1: Mnemosyne (Liverpool Art School 1997)
Thief in the Studio in Inventory volume 2 issue 3 (London 1997)
The Mutilated Body and the Unbroken Shadow in COIL 4 (Proboscis, London 1997)
Speculations on a Garden of Forking Paths in Errant Bodies Flowers (Errant Bodies Press, Los Angeles 1996)
Jeux des Anges/Bovisa in COIL journal of the moving image 1 (Proboscis, London 1995)

OTHER WRITINGS:

From An Abundance of Possibilities to the Simplicity of Solutions in Twelve Months (IDEO London Internal Publication 2003)
An Economy of Scarcity: rethinking privacy as a condition not a commodity (2003) published by Proboscis in the CULTURAL SNAPSHOTS series.
Enterprising Culture: investing in creativity as social capital (2003) published by Proboscis in the CULTURAL SNAPSHOTS series.
A New Cultural Revolution: pervasive information in the new world order (2001) published by Proboscis in the CULTURAL SNAPSHOTS series.
Information & Transmission (2001) unpublished paper given at Cultures of Information, Birkbeck College, University of London, 20th June 2001.
The Roll of the Dice (1999/2001) unpublished talk
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1998) unpublished talk
Against the Grain commissioned by Locus Plus, Newcastle 1997
The Apotheosis of EveryDay Life: Walter Benjamin, Surrealism & Photography unpublished essay (1995)

PUBLICATIONS (AS EDITOR):

Private Reveries, Public Spaces (Proboscis, London forthcoming)
Twelve Months: designing the in-store technology for the Prada Epicenter Store New York (IDEO London2003)
Mapping Perception (Proboscis, London 2002)
Interactive: The Internet for Graphic Designers (Rotovision, Brighton 2002)
The Presence Project (RCA CRD RESEARCH, London 2001)
BIOTICA: Art, Emergence & Artificial Life (RCA CRD RESEARCH, London 2001)
DIFFUSION eBooks (Proboscis, London 2000-2003)
Project #26765: FLIRT (RCA CRD RESEARCH, London 2000)
Hertzian Tales: electronic products, aesthetic experience and critical design (RCA CRD RESEARCH, London 1999)
Technological Landscapes (RCA CRD RESEARCH, London 1999)
Ghost Stories (Proboscis, London 1999)
Technocultures #1: Mnemosyne (Liverpool Art School 1997)
COIL journal of the moving image (Proboscis, London 1995-2000)

LECTURES / TALKS:

Giles has lectured and given talks at:
Architectural Association School of Architecture, London
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
Birkbeck College, University of London
British Library
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
Central St Martins School of Art, London
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee
Glasgow School of Art
Goldsmiths College, University of London
Hull Time Based Arts
Imperial College London
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht
John Moores University, Liverpool
Kingston University, London
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
Lux Centre for Film, Video & Digital Media, London
Middlesex University
New School University, New York
New York University: Centre for Advanced Technology
New York University: Interactive Telecommunications Program
Parsons School of Design, New York
Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford
School of Visual Arts, New York
Slade School of Art, University College London
University of Alberta, Canada
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
University of Cambridge / Cambridge-MIT Institute
University of East London
University of Technology Sydney
University of Waterloo, Canada
University of Western Ontario, Canada
University of Westminster
Wimbledon School of Art, London

CONFERENCES / SYMPOSIA / FESTIVALS:

Forthcoming Presentations:
Subversion, Conversion, Development: Public Interests in ICT, University of Cambridge (April 2008)
Past Presentations:
btween Festival, NMPFTV, Bradford (June 2007)
Futuresonic Festival, Museum of Science & Technology, Manchester (May 2007)
Takeaway Media Festival 2, Dana Centre, London (May 2007)
Hybrid World Lab, Mediamatic, Amsterdam (May 2007)
Enter Festival & Conference, University of Cambridge (April 2007)
Coding Cultures Symposium, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney (March 2007)
Dutch Digital Heritage Annual Conference, Rotterdam (December 2006)
Futurelab Conference, Royal Society, London (November 2006)
Futuresonic Festival, Museum of Science & Technology, Manchester (July 2006)
Handheld Revolution, VET, London (June 2006)
Takeaway Media Festival, Dana Centre, London (March 2006)
Suburban Futures: Participatory Lifestyles, Kingston University, Surrey (March 2006)
May You Live in Interesting Times, Chapter Arts, Cardiff (October 2005)
Re:Activism Conference, Central European University, Budapest (October 2005)
Cybersalon: Future Wireless, Dana Centre, London (October 2005)
The Matching Link, Stroom, Den Haag (September 2005)
PLAN, ICA, London (February 2005)
Devices of Design Colloquium, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal (November 2004)
Cybersalon Mobile Futures, Dana Centre Science Museum, London (April 2004)
The Crossing Project, Finnish Institute, London (April 2004)
Life of Mobile Data Conference, University of Surrey, Guildford (April 2004)
Approaching the City Conference, University of Surrey, Guildford (January 2004)
Intelligent Media Institute Workshop, Imperial College, London (December 2003)
DMZ Festival, Limehouse Townhall, London (November 2003)
18th Annual CHArt Conference, Birkbeck College, London (November 2003)
Blur03, New School University, New York (October 2003)
People Inspired Innovation Conference, University of Essex, Adastral Park (September 2003)
4th Wireless World Conference, University of Surrey, Guildford (July 2003)
1AD (Appliance Design), Hewlett Packard Research Labs, Bristol (May 2003)
What are Media?, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht (Feb/March 2003)
B.Playful, National Centre for Popular Music, Sheffield (November 2002)
Sciart Symposium, Liverpool Biennial (September 2002)
Intimate Technologies/Dangerous Zones, Banff New Media Institute, (April 2002)
Cultures of Information, Birkbeck College, University of London (June 2001)
Sciart Symposium, Royal Geographic Society, London (September 2000)
Online Film Symposium, Video Positive 2000 Festival, Liverpool (March 2000).
Brief Encounters Short Film Festival, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol (Nov 1999)
Science-Art Symposium, Imperial College London (June 1999)
Interactive Electronic Multimedia Symposium, ICA London (June 1998)
Present/Past Tense Symposium, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow (Nov 1997)
Cosmopolis: Excavating Invisible Cities, Manchester (May 1997)
Emergent Parallels, Light House Media Centre, Wolverhampton (November 1996)