Andrew Senior's Gallery

I am a new media artist, sculptor, photographer and computer vision researcher working in New York. My principal media are electronic images, welded steel and landscape art with found materials. For a description of the unifying themes in my art, informed by my research, please read my statement, resume, and publications. The pages showing my art works are organised by media, or you can visit the focus page for a selection of recent work, or the shows page for shows. .

Media

Electronica	Works in digital media	Landscape art	Cairns and more
Sculpture	Works in steel and other media	Design	Furniture, lighting and furnishings
Photography

Keywords

Landscape, cartography, identity, biometrics, science, religion, language, texts, interactive multimedia, artificial life, video, sculpture, photography, earthworks.

What's new March 2011

A new work "The Nine Billion Names of God" will premiere at the Julliard school in Manhattan as part of their "Beyond the Machine 2011" programme March 24-27. This work is part of the Streaming Museum's sub-programme, "We write this to you from the distant future"

What's November 2010

Two language-based works, "Shibboleths" and a new work, "Machine Translation", are in a new exhibition "Ancient Stories with Modern Technology" curated by Nina Colosi of the Project Room for New Media at Google. I'm organising the speakers (Chris Rainier and http://www.djspooky.com/) for the exhibition and gave a short presentation of the works to SVA students.
There's a new web-based version of "Shibboleths" online.

What's August 2010

"Couch Potato Farm" and a new work "Refugium" with Jason Weston and Sandra Cordero are in the "Digital Art @Google: We Write This to You From The Distant Future" show curated by Nina Colosi of Chelsea Art Museum, August 20-October 22. Reception August 20th. I gave an artist's talk at the show on October 21st.

What's new July 2010

With Scott Draves I am co-organising the speaker series for the "Data Poetics: Digital Art @Google" show in July and August.
The Blind Art Permanent collection, including my Quipu II is on show at the Hove Museum and Art Gallery, New Church Road, Hove. 12 June-5th September 2010, and is featured in the press release.

What's new July 2008

The Blind Art Permanent collection (which owns my Quipu II is on show at the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, UK from 25th July.
Quipu II will be hosted permanently at the Royal National College for the Blind, UK. Quipu II is featured in the Press release

What's new May 2008

I am participating in The Studio's Artists' Open Studio Tour May 17th & 18th 2008. I'm showing "Earthwords" at the Copperhead Press in Yorktown Heights 10am-4pm. Details on The Studio's web site.

What's new February 2008

I have a solo show "Inscription" in Peekskill's WCC Extension Gallery February 26-April 5 2008, with a talk at the opening reception, 5:30-7pm Tuesday 26th February. I showed a site-specific installation "Reticulum", and have some new prints "Thesaurus: Closure (Phaestos)" and "Thesaurus: Inscription (Gortyn)". Pictures and description here
Quipu II as part of the Blind Art Foundation collection is in "Touching Art Touching You at the Museum of Modern Art, Wales, Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth, Powys. 12-2pm Sunday 16th March 2008. See the PV invite here.
Video documentation of a new work, "POMONA" is up on the site.
I have a presentation (on my artificial life projects) accepted at ISEA 2008 in Singapore in July. I have yet to decide if I can attend.
I gave a talk at dorkbot NYC (Location One, 26 Green St) on Wednesday 6th February 2008 about my artificial life projects. NPR's "The Bryant Park Project" broadcast a segment about dorkbot and my talk. (See "Press")
My short videos Public Inanity/Private Insanity are being shown as part of the Madrid Abierto festival in Spain. The works will be visible at La Casa Encendida, Madrid from February 7th to March 2nd 2008, with a presentation on February 7th.

What's new August 2007

I will be participating in the Art Education for the Blind's "Telephone Conference Crash Course" on October 15th.
I won a jury prize in the Intervenciones competition. and my videos Public Inanity/Private Insanity will be shown as part of the Intervenciones festival in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain on the 28th of September, and as part of the Madrid Abierto festival in February 2008.

What's new May 2007

A couple of new video pieces on the theme of "TV in public and private" in the Intervenciones competition. (Vote for me!)

What's new April 2007

I have started a new project of short video "Urban Circumambulations". I've proposed this as a project for the Conflux Festival in Brooklyn in September.
"Couch potato farm" is in the Seleccion III Muestra Monografica de Media Art 6th Festival Internacional de la Imagen in Manizales, Colombia.
Quipu II as part of the Blind Art Foundation collection is in Boundless 1-5th May 2006 at the Menier Chocolate factory, 51/53 Southwark Street, London, SE1 1RU. See the PV invite here.
A slow overhaul of the whole web site. The photography page has been rearranged, and I've put all the videos up (through Google videos- watermarked and heavily compressed).

What's new January 2007

Earthwords is now on the web site: "an exploration of the secret lives of texts". This is a web-based work written in processing.
An online version of Shibboleth is now available, as is a new, web-based version of "Boustrophedonic".

What's new October 2006

Media coverage of the Blind Art show, including a BBC Radio 4 reviewer finding Quipu II "one of [his] favourites."

What's new September 2006

Quipu II was awarded the "purchase prize" at the Blind Art "Sense and Sensuality" show and will now tour with Blind Art's permanent collection.
Quipu II is on its way to London for the Blind Art "Sense and Sensuality" show in the Bankside Gallery starting 13th September. See the (pdf) gallery directions/show flyer.
"Last Refuge" photographs are up in the "New Impressions" show in Pleasantville library, NY. Reception on 10th September.
A friend just told me that I was "Name-checked by the Guardian" (a British daily newspaper- in "Critics' Choice" of the education section) for my cardboard chair design.
The announcement for the Vida9.0 competition uses a still from my (Honourably mentioned) "Couch Potato Farm" entry in Vida 8.0
You can now buy cards of some of my electronic works from this website.
The fingerprint landscapes series is now featured on Handscape Art

What's new August 2006

I gave a workshop on "Computer Vision for Artists" at ISEA/ZeroOne San Jose on August 7th.

What's new June 2006

A nice review of my piece in the Westchester Biennial (now over) by the Journal News:
"Perhaps the most ambitious and compelling work in the show is the video installation "Shibboleth" (2004) by Andrew W. Senior...."

What's new May 2006

Couch Potato Farm in Intervenciones competition.

What's new April 2006

"Money Cairn II"/"Money Cairn" will be in the "Art of the Northeast USA", Tuesday, May 2nd- Friday, June 9 at Silvermine Artists Guild
My new piece "Quipu II" will appear in the Blind Art "Sense and Sensuality" exhibition in the Bankside Gallery in London in September.

What's new February 2006

Shibboleth will appear in the Westchester biennial at the Castle gallery of the college of New Rochelle April 2nd-June 18th 2006.
I am now part of The Studio's website The Studio is a gallery in Armonk, New York
I am in "Contemporary Sculpture" at The Studio with my piece "Bough Cairn"

What's new January 2006

Press and publications pages.
I'm mentioned, with a photograph of Money Cairn II in the New York Times review of the Winter Solstice exhibition.
Preliminary page for a proposal with Alex Jaimes for "Interactive Cities" at ISEA 2006 watch this space for our workshop proposal.

What's new December 2005

I have an installation "Original Elements" in "Winter Solstice IV" in the vault at the White Plains Exchange Gallery. 16 December 2005-25th January 2006, consisting of four new pieces: Money Cairn II (video- see image below), Cuboctahedron Tensegrity (steel & light sculpture), Aleatory Landscape (paper installation), and Money Cairn (paper sculpture).

What's new October 2005

"Couch potato farm" earns "Honourable mention" in Vida 8.0 Virtual Life & art competition. The work will appear on a video distributed by the Spanish Fondacion Telefonica.
Video documentation of a new work, "Couch potato farm", is in the electronica section.
Videos are again available for the electronica works.
I am co-chairing the ACM Multimedia 2005 Interactive Art Program that will take place in November in Singapore, and co-curating the art exhibition at the conference.

What's new November 2004

I spoke at dorkbot a new media arts group in New York on December 1st 2004 in Location One in Soho.

What's new August 2004

Bough Cairn on show at The Studio Gallery, Armonk
Shibboleth In "DIGITAL BOUNDARIES: Multiculturalism, Identity, and Awareness" Columbia University's Macy Gallery (at Teacher's College) in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2004. Wednesday, September 29 to Friday, October 15. Reception October 12th.
New Impressions Pleasantville Library, Westchester, NY, USA August 28th-September 30th 2004

What's new April 2004- Four shows on in April/May/June

Subway Lifecycle in 55th Art of the North East at Silvermine Gallery, CT 4th May - June 11th 2004.
I am Artist/Curator of "Outside/In" show. The Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY, 16th April - 28th May 2004. I am showing new digital prints, video, found stones and more. Including new online works The Old Croton Aqueduct Project and Vault Venture.
The Westchester Biennial at the College of New Rochelle, New York, April 25th-June 27th 2004. Reception April 25th 2-4pm. I am showing five video works.
Subway Lifecycle, Quipu and Grendel Gongan (new) in "STAY TUNED: Hypnotic Videos by Contemporary Artists" at The Studio, Armonk, NY, 8th May - June 27th 2004. Reception May 8th 1-5pm.
Tsuki-mi a new video work.

What's new December 2003

Art Museums of the World in F-Stop Magazine December issue.
Digital landscapes computer generated landscapes based on fingerprints.
Hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere rupestral percussion.
Kazoku in "The Science of Art" IBM Research Art Show 18-19 Nov 2003

What's new September 2003

Subway Lifecycle to appear in a curated show in The Studio gallery Armonk, NY 2004.
Outside/In exhibition to appear in White Plains in 2004
Photography - more Art museums of the world

What's new May 2003

Subway Lifecycle to appear in ExpaceProjects' video screening at the Knitting Factory, NY 29th May 2003.
A new show at the Said Business School in Oxford. May 10-June 1 2003:
Cairn Circle, Circumambulation, Warnings of Gales and Mudra cairns.

What's new March/April 2003

Proposal for a show on landscape art
Sculpture - Needle cairn, mudras
Design - Several new lighting designs, more info on the cardboard chair.
Electronica - Karamazof and Subway Lifecycle
Photography - Jali Screens of Orchha, India and Selbstbildnis
Updates to The Heraldry of Trinity Hall - new photographs.

What's new November 2002

Sculpture - Quipu
Photography - Art museums of the world and Selbstbildnis
Travel - Peru & Ecuador

What's new May 2002

New shows in Oxford and White Plains in May
Forthcoming talk (17 June) on `Travels through syncretistic Japan' to the Lower Hudson Valley Sierra Club group
Electronica - La Terre est Bleue and A thousand words- Jefferson
Sculpture - Metrosphere and Portable Cairn

What's new 2001

Newer portfolios include `Man and Rock in the Shimshal Valley', a set of photographs showing the interaction of people and the environment in the Shimshal valley of Pakistan; and "Thirty-six views of a cairn in the Hudson Valley" - translation and transformation of a single cairn, adapting to the environment.