_new_media_art_



_a_world_citizen_



My life has been greatly influenced by my experiences living in multiple cultures - the ancient magic of my Celtic roots in Ireland,

the Warao indians in the Orinoco delta in Venezuala,

the sounds of the primal Amazon jungle in Guyana,

and the excitement and colours of Brazil...



_bio_




I am _new_media_artist living in Berlin, Germany since 2016.


I was born in Ireland, studied a PhD in France and ended up in Brazil for many years... via a somewhat prolonged adventure in the Amazon jungle in Guyana and Venezuela.


I have been exploring new media art and technology for many years and built my first touchless piano in 2005. At that time, motion-tracking interfaces became a focus, and I have iterated through a number of prototypes since then. In 2008, Trinity College Dublin was where I formalised my education in the art field, through the renowned Masters in Music & Media Technologies. I specialised in interactive performance and composition.


With a hybrid background in new media arts, composition and science, interdisciplinarity is my playing field. My works bridge participatory/collaborative cultures and digital environments. Interactivity is the medium I use to probe the blurring boundaries between performer/audience and live sound/visuals. I blend emergent media and technology with visual art, electroacoustic composition and the performing arts.


Recently, I have also contributed to the education sector by bringing new media art seminars and workshops to secondary schools and universities.



_performances_&_installations_



8-9 June 2018 Dis-Connect

Üfer Studios, Berlin, Germany
A contemporary dance theater about the fundamental human needs attachment and separation

19-20 May 2018 La Femme
Blue Tap Theater, Berlin, Germany
True stories of women and their journeys of self-discovery, hardship, perseverance and triumph.

12 May 2018 BodyText
International Theatre Festival, Bergama, Turkey
Many opponents of the Iranian regime rely on graffiti as one of the few uncontrollable methods to express their opinion. A production by Modjgan Hashemian in co-production with Akademie der Künste and STUDIO Я.
Videoclip>> Webpage>>

1-2 Feb 2018 BodyText

22-26 Jan 2018 Workshop: Sensorial data using Arduino
HKU University of the Arts, Utrecht, Holland
A workshop for Batchelor students in Interactive Performance in the use of arduino and a broad range of sensors for analogic and digital performance projects. The final project resulted in the creation of a Rube Goldberg machine.

23-25 Jan 2018 Workshop: Motion-Tracked Performance
HKU University of the Arts, Utrecht, Holland
A workshop for masters students of Scenography to introduce motion-tracking for live performances and installations.

30 Nov 1 - Dec 2017 BodyText

Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany


Human Meets Digital, Zurich, Switzerland
A motion-tracked dance performance as part of Volvo Art sessions 2017 performed at the Schifbau. video>>

1-3 Dec 2016 BodyText
Gorki Theater. Berlin, Germany
An Iranian-German dance production presented as part of "Uncertain States - Artistic Strategies in States of Emergency" project. Link to site


29-30 Nov 2016 BodyText
Akademie der Kunst. Berlin, Germany
An Iranian-German dance production presented as part of "Uncertain States - Artistic Strategies in States of Emergency" project.


21 Mar 2016 The Wishing Tree Exhibition
Nova Galeria. Campinas, Brazil
On-going interactive sound and visual artwork with artists collective from Brazil and India.


22 Oct 2015 The Wishing Tree - Exhibition

Performing Arts Center, Sommerville, New Zealand
On- going interactive sound and visual artwork with artists collective from Brazil and India.

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10-12 Dec 2015 Sound-Art Installation

Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey
"Media as a Cultural Bridge: TV, Print, Radio, Internet between Germany and Turkey"


20-21 Nov 2015 Winner at Hacking the [Dancing] Body

Prague, Czech Republic
International Centre for Art and New Technologies (CIANT), Dancer as Sound/Visual Composer.


12 Sep 2015 Alterborn

Blackout Festival 2015, Basel, Switzerland

Contemporary dance performance with Interactive sound and visuals. Invited artist.


30 May 2015 Live Electronic Performance

Solo electroacoustic performance with live sound processing. Support to Hoof & Mouth concert.

Kulturzentrum Lagerhaus, Bremen Germany.


28 Nov 2014 Dancestoned

TheaterSpace, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

Tribal dance performance with live generative visuals. Choreographer: Veneta Gerganova.


22 July 2014 Siest du Mich?

Haus am Park, Bremen, Germany

A dance/theatre/audio/visual production directed by Christine Witte in collaboration with Academy and Quartier GmbH.


28–30 May, 2014 New Beginnings

TheaterSpace, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

Contemporary dance and interactive media performance, directed by Özen Odag.


03–05 Apr 2013 ! H e l l

TheaterSpace, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

Contemporary dance performance organized by the Oriental Dance Club. Live generative visuals and sound. Choreographer: Veneta Gerganova.


23 Nov 2013 Dancestoned

TheaterSpace, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

Contemporary dance work in conjunction with live generative visuals. Choreographer: Veneta Gerganova.


9 July 2013 Algorithmic Music and Art

Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

Live performance for the Modern Mathematics International Summer School.


5–6 July 2012 CoraMesophyll

Arts and Technology Research Lab, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

An experimental physical–theatre performance directed and choreographed by Cindy Cummings. Live audio–visuals generated using motion–tracking technologies and biometric data processing.


12 March 2012 The Wishing Tree

Professor João de Meira School, Guimarães, Portugal, and Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil (UNICAMP).

A transcultural interactive installation and accompanying workshop which integrated art education teachers and students between 10–12 years in Brazil and Portugal. Collaboration with SESI (Serviço Social da Indústria), Campinas, Brazil,


10 Feb 2012 Beyond The Bubble

Kult Theater, Bremen, Germany

European Musical Academy and Ballettschule Jaqueline Davenport in conjunction with dancers and professional musical artists from various Bremen dance institutions and dance schools. Director Joèl Detiège.


12 December 2011 Interactive Dance Perfomance

Die Glocke, Bremen, Germany

Visual Art and Sound. Director: Dr. Özen Odag, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany.


19 Nov 2011 Dancestoned

Theaterspace, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

Contemporary dance work in conjunction with live generative visuals. Choreographer: Veneta Gerganova.


24 Aug – 16 Sept 2011 G–Spots: Storming

AIR/HMC, MAVF, and Library Thoughts, exhibition, Budapest, Hungary

Collective installation. Curator: Beata Szechy – HMC, Istvan Sziranyi (president of the Hungarian BookArt Association).


31 May – 02 June 2011 Stillness

Theaterspace, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

A contemporary dance performance. Sound design and visual production of dance performance. Choreographer/Director: Özen Odag.


23 April 2010 Leather Ice

Contemporary Music Centre New Music Marathon (CMC),

Limerick, Ireland

Electroacoustic performance: piano, cello, violin, flute, vocal and electronics.


05 and 12 Sept 2010 G–Spots

Casa das Caldeiras exhibition centre, Sao Paulo, Brazil

An interactive multimedia technology art installation.


10 May 2010 Bwaajige Ngwaagan (Dreamcatcher)

TheaterSpace, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

What if the dancer could compose the music?


29 April 2010 From Drums To Light

Beckett Theatre, Dublin, Ireland

A live interactive music composition for dance.


13–18 Nov 2009 An Interactive technology art installation Entertainment=Emotion, Benasque, Spain

International congress in communication and media psychology.


13 June 2009 Touchless Sensorial Interfaces

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil.

Systemic Poetics and Interactive Music. Interface development used in the PhD thesis of Dr. Paulo C. Teles.


12 Sept 1997 Portraits of Lunacy

Campinas City Museum, Campinas, Brazil

"It is the Others who are Crazy". Collective multimedia exhibition and visual art Installation in collaboration with local asylum.


1997 Os Loucos sao os outros

Sibgraph – 1997, México City

"It is the Others who are Crazy". Multimidia Exhibition and Visual Art Installation in collaboration with Alessandra Meleiro.



_publications_



book chapters


‘Psytrance’ Influences in Touchless Interactive Experiences: New Roles for Performers and Audience within the Electronic Music Scenario

Authors: A. Boyle. P. C. Teles. Book title: Exploring Psychedelic Trance and Electronic Dance Music in Modern Culture. Publisher: IGI Global Publication. ISBN13: 9781466686656. August, 2015

Rhythm, Dance and Interactive Composition (submitted) Oct 2015


papers


Technological Migration and Recycling Process in the Wishing Tree" Workshop: Multicultural Media Literacy and Protagonism

Paulo Cesar da Silva Teles, Mousumi De, Aidan Boyle, Celia Ferreira, Holly Cavrell. Libro de Actas. XIII Congreso Internacional Ibercom, Comunicación, Cultura e Esferas de Poder. Santiago de Compostela. 2013. Pg 2545–2555.


Integrating Visual Arts Curriculum With New Media Technologies: Making a Case For Media Art Practices in Art Education Classrooms

Mousumi De, Paulo César Teles, Celia Ferreira. Aidan Boyle. Paper presentation InSEA (International Society for Education through Art), European Regional Congress, Tales of Art and Curiousity, Cantebury 2013.


Interactive Dance Performance: An Exploration of Dancer Participation in Musical Composition

Masters thesis. Music & media technologies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. 2010. (unpublished work).


15­ -21 Nov 2009 The Twilight of Flesh: Body, Mind, Art and Sensorial Artificiality

Aidan Boyle and P. Teles. Paper presentation at Entertainment=Emotion, Centro de Ciencias de Benasque, Spain


28–29 Feb 2008 Touchless Interactive Multimedia Interfaces – from electronic music to endo–instrumental post–music: aesthetic considerations and preliminary experiments

Paper presentation at iEnter (Conference on Interactive Entertainment), Barcelona, Spain


5–7 June 2008 Developing an ‘Antigenous’ Art installation based on a Touchless Endo–System Interface

Paper presentation at New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Genova, Italy. ​



_on–going_works_



2013–2015 Sonic Interface Design for Affective Computing

EMOTE (Embodied Perceptive Tutors for Empathy–based Learning). Conference paper entitled The movements of emotions: an exploratory classification on affective movement data - 10th Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group, Cagliari, Italy. October 2015 more>>


BEST (Bremen Emotional Sound Toolkit)

The affective sounds were created for the EMOTE project to augment the nonverbal capabilities of the NAO robot.

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2009–present Non–Haptic Interactive Art Installation Project with visual art teachers and s students
In collaboration with: Mousumi De, Paulo César Teles, Celia Ferreira, Maria Letsiou, Bernadette Thomas.


2012–present Live Sound Processing Controller MAX/MSP patch for asynchronous looping, pitch transposition, and layering.


2011–present Virtual Universal Controller. Midi/OSC virtual interface for sound or image control via LAN


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