Catch Me Now playing
26/Jan/2012
Catch Me Now at Bath Illuminate 2012
06/Jan/2012
Catch a small moving light and create your own personal spotlight!Tine Bech will show her interactive light installation Catch Me Now during Illuminate Bath from 25-28 January 2012
Illuminate Bath is a free festival transforming the city’s streets over four evenings.
Bath Illuminate festival of light will include seven original installations by international and local artists, alongside art created by Bath school children and students from Bath Spa University. Many of the artworks are interactive, fun and playful, transforming everyday buildings and spaces.
It will take place in Bath City centre in the area around The Roman Baths, Bath Street, Stall Street, Abbey Church Yard and Kingston Parade. Artworks will be on display from 5 – 8pm each night.
People will love to chase this deceptively simple spotlight as it reacts to their movement and leads them on a merry dance. Danish artist, Tine Bech, combines electronics with location tracking technology and the environmental elements of urban spaces to create playful experiences for curious visitors.
Catch Me Now is on show outside The Abbey Church all day.
Press release
Download the Festival guide here
International Festival of Digital Arts Seminars
02/Jan/2012
Interactivity and audience engagement (art, technology and participation)
This seminar explores the role interactivity and participation, as well as light art and new media approaches to the public space as tool that may foster engagement and shared forms of participation.
Saturday 14 January 2012, 16.00 – 19.00
Chaired by Régine Debatty - with artists Tine Bech, Graeme Crowley and Tom Keene
The Watermans’ International Festival of Digital Art, 2012, will coincide with the Olympics and Paralympics in London, and Watermans is pleased to host a Festival of ground-breaking installations exploring interactivity and participation in New Media and Digital Art. The project will include a series of seminars in collaboration with Goldsmiths, University of London and a publication with the Leonardo Electronic Almanac. The issue guest editors are Irini Papadimitriou and Jonathan Munro.
This seminar explores the role interactivity and participation, as well as light art and new media approaches to the public space as tool that may foster engagement and shared forms of participation.
Saturday 14 January 2012, 16.00 – 19.00
Chaired by Régine Debatty - with artists Tine Bech, Graeme Crowley and Tom Keene
The Watermans’ International Festival of Digital Art, 2012, will coincide with the Olympics and Paralympics in London, and Watermans is pleased to host a Festival of ground-breaking installations exploring interactivity and participation in New Media and Digital Art. The project will include a series of seminars in collaboration with Goldsmiths, University of London and a publication with the Leonardo Electronic Almanac. The issue guest editors are Irini Papadimitriou and Jonathan Munro.
Catch Me Now at The Science Museum
19/Sep/2011
Tine will show Catch Me Now at Player, a live game festival at the Science Museum Antenna gallery, Welcome Wing in London from: Wednesday 28 September, 7 pm - 10 pm and
Thursday 29 September - Sunday 2 October, 10 am - 6 pm, all day.
Press release
Curated by Trigger and The Science Museum.
Techy Tea pots at the V&A
18/Sep/2011
LightPot by Tine BechChi-TEK, a tea inspired showcase celebrating the work of international acclaimed women artists who utilise computers, electronics and technology in their work, will be launched at the Victoria & Albert Museum as part of the London Design Festival Digital Weekend, September 24th - 25th 2011.
20 international women artists and designers have been invited to hack a teapot to showcase their unique use of technology in the arts. This is the first time so many contemporary women artists working with technology have been brought together under one roof. Chi-TEK, based on the acronym for Computer Human Interaction - aims to raise the profile of women artists, an under-represented group in this pioneering field. World-renowned artists Shu Lea Cheang and Tine Bech are among the participants, who include interaction designers, sound artists, industrial designers, bio artists, architects, and performance artists, as well as women who work with wearable technologies and sustainability. The work was commissioned by MzTEK.
Artists will present their teapots and talk about their specialist techniques during a series of scheduled presentations over tea and cake.
See video from The Digital Weekend made by V&A - includes fun tips about digital making.
See the artist and more about the project here Chi-TEK
And see all the fantastic and crazy teapots in action here
Press Release and opening times
Invite flyer
Help name a gaming Festival at the Science Museum
18/Jun/2011
The Science Museum & Trigger are creating the ultimate gaming festival and they need your help to name it!
They are looking for a name for the festival that sums up the adventurous nature of this real life gaming experience. From being chased by aliens to journeying to space, players can’t hide behind a console in these real world games.
More details at the Science Museum game blog.
Tine will be showing Catch Me Now at the festival.
They are looking for a name for the festival that sums up the adventurous nature of this real life gaming experience. From being chased by aliens to journeying to space, players can’t hide behind a console in these real world games.
More details at the Science Museum game blog.
Tine will be showing Catch Me Now at the festival.
Women artists at the top of their game
13/Jun/2011
Tine Bech is participating in Chi-TEK Chi-TEK combines Art, Technology and Tea in an exciting new showcase of technologically-modified teapots, by 20 leading women artists and designers working in computer and new media arts today. Chi-TEK will run events and workshops, including a giant tea party, this autumn in a celebration of what women are achieving in media and technology arts today. Chi-TEK offers a tongue in cheek take on what women can really achieve around a kitchen table.
The Chi-TEK project will run this autumn at the Victoria & Albert Museum Sackler Centre, in London, England, coinciding with the Crafts Council’s Power of Making and London Design Festivals. The techie tea pots will be on display from September through October 2011.
The Chi-TEK Tea Party, will display the teapots at the V&A garden as part of London Design Festival Digital Weekend, on the 24th & 25th September. Come along and chat to the artists whilst enjoying tea and cake.
The Chi-TEK project is curated by MzTEK who provides a learning community in technology and arts for women.
You can support the project at Indiegogo.
The Big Swim Blog
12/Jun/2011
Dive into art and swim through a cloud of light and colourAs part of the build up to the Olympics in 2012 ‘The Big Swim’ took place during the London Open Weekend at Camberwell Leisure Centre in London on Saturday 23 July an at Barton Leisure Centre in Oxford on Sunday 24 July 2011.
The project is part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad and is created by artist Tine Bech. The Big Swim is supported by the Creative Campus Initiative, a consortium of 11 universities across the South East, including the University for the Creative Arts. CCI is the largest university creative programme to be part of the London 2012 Inspire programme.
Tine Bech, said: “The Big Swim is a unique opportunity for the public to immerse themselves – quite literally - in the London 2012 Games”
Tine added: “We wanted to create a playful piece of work which seamlessly combined art with sport. My focus is on light, colour and locality, and the project is intentionally accessible and aims to enhance familiar surroundings through a captivating community experience.”
See more at The Big Swim blog
The Big Swim is awarded London 2012 Inspire Mark
08/Jun/2011
The Big Swim is an art installation, which takes place in a swimming pool and aims to encourage playful art experiences and promote local community interest in swimming ahead of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London. It is a unique live event where participants will experience swimming in a cloud of light and colour, based on one of the five Olympic colours; blue, yellow, purple, green and red. Talk at the V&A Create Digtal Programme
05/Feb/2011
Tine will give a talk at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London as part of a digital programme for young people on the 5 March.
Create! is a programme of workshops, courses, and free events for 11 to 19 year olds, linked to V&A collections and exhibitions on Fashion, Digital and Graphic Design, Performance and more.
Create! is a programme of workshops, courses, and free events for 11 to 19 year olds, linked to V&A collections and exhibitions on Fashion, Digital and Graphic Design, Performance and more.
The Kinetica Art Fair News
10/Jan/2011
Tine Bech will show work at The Kinetica Art Fair at the Ambika P3 Gallery from the 3rd - 6th February 2011
Bech will show Catch Me Now and Echidna ll
Surrey Sculpture Society Artist Talk
09/Aug/2010
Watermans Art Centre Exhibition
05/Aug/2010
Watermans Art Centre
1 September - 22 October 2010
Private View: 15 Sep
Unleashed Devices is a group exhibition bringing together recently developed DIY, hacking and Floss (Free/libre/open source software) projects by artists who explore technologies and new media critically and creatively and challenge our understandings of technology.
The artists on show engage with the deluge of new technologies online, mobile devices, gadgets and toys, and hardware/software hacking and circuit-bent instruments become the site of productive creation. Everyday electronic devices become deconstructed, remixed and reinvented; they are given a new lease of life. The craft element in DIY media becomes the intimate connection between artist/designer and outcome/end product as artists reveal technologies to the public and the power of DIY modes of tools, communities and sharing as forms of social reflection and participation.
Works in the show include playful installations, interactive electronics-sculptures, movement tracking artworks, coding and hardware projects which have either been built using free software, or have been created by modifying an existing devise to produce a hybrid mutilation or a completely new device in their own right.
The exhibition will be the leading event of the nodel (www.nodel.org) autumn season in London focusing on DIY media in an exciting opportunity to explore the aesthetics and ethics of DIY culture as well as bring together an exchange and sharing of knowledge and skills.
Additional events include a series of OpenLab DIY workshops at SPACE (www.spacestudios.org.uk/) and DIY instrument performances at A10 Lab (http://a10lab.info/). The workshops and performances will offer learning and participatory opportunities to wider audiences in association with the exhibition at Watermans.
The exhibition is curated by Watermans (Irini Papadimitriou) and Tint Arts.
1 September - 22 October 2010
Private View: 15 Sep
Unleashed Devices is a group exhibition bringing together recently developed DIY, hacking and Floss (Free/libre/open source software) projects by artists who explore technologies and new media critically and creatively and challenge our understandings of technology.
The artists on show engage with the deluge of new technologies online, mobile devices, gadgets and toys, and hardware/software hacking and circuit-bent instruments become the site of productive creation. Everyday electronic devices become deconstructed, remixed and reinvented; they are given a new lease of life. The craft element in DIY media becomes the intimate connection between artist/designer and outcome/end product as artists reveal technologies to the public and the power of DIY modes of tools, communities and sharing as forms of social reflection and participation.
Works in the show include playful installations, interactive electronics-sculptures, movement tracking artworks, coding and hardware projects which have either been built using free software, or have been created by modifying an existing devise to produce a hybrid mutilation or a completely new device in their own right.
The exhibition will be the leading event of the nodel (www.nodel.org) autumn season in London focusing on DIY media in an exciting opportunity to explore the aesthetics and ethics of DIY culture as well as bring together an exchange and sharing of knowledge and skills.
Additional events include a series of OpenLab DIY workshops at SPACE (www.spacestudios.org.uk/) and DIY instrument performances at A10 Lab (http://a10lab.info/). The workshops and performances will offer learning and participatory opportunities to wider audiences in association with the exhibition at Watermans.
The exhibition is curated by Watermans (Irini Papadimitriou) and Tint Arts.
V&A Digital Programme showing Catch Me Now
01/Jul/2010
Catch me Now by Tine Bech
V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Sackler Centre, Design Week
20th - 26th September 2010
Catch me now by Tine Bech is a unique interactive spotlight, which plays with the audience. A small spot light is moving randomly around on its own, until the audience catches the light when the light stops and opens up to the user in a play of light. The focus is moved to the audience, the playful light when caught will grow, enabling the person to step into the light and take centre stage, encouraging participation and possibilities for play and performance.
Programmed by Tarim.
Drop by to meet Tine Bech during Digital Design Weekend the 25 and the 26th where you can make your own your own light drawing or participate in a big unique digital binary light portrait.
If you miss it you can see Catch Me Now at the Watermans from 1st Sep - Fri 22nd Oct as part of the exhibition Unleashed Devices
V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Sackler Centre, Design Week
20th - 26th September 2010
Catch me now by Tine Bech is a unique interactive spotlight, which plays with the audience. A small spot light is moving randomly around on its own, until the audience catches the light when the light stops and opens up to the user in a play of light. The focus is moved to the audience, the playful light when caught will grow, enabling the person to step into the light and take centre stage, encouraging participation and possibilities for play and performance.
Programmed by Tarim.
Drop by to meet Tine Bech during Digital Design Weekend the 25 and the 26th where you can make your own your own light drawing or participate in a big unique digital binary light portrait.
If you miss it you can see Catch Me Now at the Watermans from 1st Sep - Fri 22nd Oct as part of the exhibition Unleashed Devices
Tine Bech at V&A Digital Drop-in Afternoon
01/Jun/2010
The next session of the V&A Digital Drop-in Afternoons is taking place on Wednesday 23 June in the Sackler Centre Digital Studio with Tine Bech. Drop in anytime between 1pm and 4pm to meet Tine and see 'show and tell' presentations of her work.
Victoria & Albert Museum
Digital Studio, Sackler Centre
South Kensington, Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL
The Mayor's Thames Festival
05/May/2010
Big fun balloon sculpture made in collaboration with two schools as part of House of Fairy Tales participatory schools project Waterwheel. Workshops will run over the summer
Mayor's Thames Festival
11 & 12 September 2010
The Culture of Rowing and Swimming Artist Talk
16/Apr/2010
The Culture of Rowing and Swimming is a series of events organised by Oxford Brookes University and funded by Creative Campus Initiative, as part of the celebrations leading up to the 2012 Olympics. The project takes place in Oxford in July and aims to start new dialogues across rowing, swimming and art.
Friday 16 July 10am-5pm The Isis Farmhouse, Thames Towpath
The Culture of Rowing & Swimming Symposium
Speakers include Kate Rew, author of Wild Swim/Outdoor Swimming Society; Joel Cahen, curator of Wet Sounds; Tine Bech, artist; Tiffany Black, artist; Gediminas & Nomeda Urbonas, artists; Dervis Konulralp, Paralympic swimming champion; and Hans Maarten van den Brink, rowing novelist.
Locws public artwork Commission
07/Apr/2010
Artist Tine Bech will work with the community of Port Talbot in Swansea over the summer to create a temporary public artwork to be on show from 8th October 2010
Locws International is an artist led organisation that works with UK-based and international artists to create temporary visual arts projects for public and accessible spaces across the city of Swansea in south Wales, UK
Locws International is an artist led organisation that works with UK-based and international artists to create temporary visual arts projects for public and accessible spaces across the city of Swansea in south Wales, UK
SIGGRAPH Art Gallery and Artist Talk
03/Mar/2010
Tine Bechs work Echidna - a new version made in collaboration with PhD student Tom Frame University from Surrey‘s Surrey Space Centre will be shown at SIGGRAPH Art gallery exhibition TouchPoint: The Haptic Exchange Between DigitsReception Tuesday, 27 July, 2-3:30 pm:
Celebrate the intersection of art and technology in TouchPoint: Haptic Exchange Between Digits and the Special Issue of Leonardo. Talk with the artists, designers, and Art Papers authors about their work. And meet the members of the SIGGRAPH 2010 committee who organised this year's Art Gallery.
See the work exhibited in TouchPoint SIGGRAPH Art Gallery in a special issue of MIT Press’s Leonardo.
Artist presentation at the Studio 28 July at 10.45 am:
The Studio is the place for making and creating at SIGGRAPH 2010. It is an amazing space where the latest technologies, experts, and attendees are brought together to create new works, experiment, and collaborate.
SIGGRAPH 2010 The 37th international Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Technologies July 22 - 29th 2010 Los Angeles Convention Center, California, USA
Blind Art touring exhibtion
05/Feb/2010
Bechs new work Pink Echidna will be part of The Blind Art touring exhibition, opening at Banbury Museum in February 2011
LightTAG project gets funding!
03/Feb/2010
LightTAG is an Arts and Science collaboration between Artist Tine Bech at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) and the South East Physics Network (SEPnet): University of Surrey; Royal Holloway; University of Kent; Queen Mary’s College; University of Southampton and the University of Sussex.
The project is funded by Mediabox and South East Physics Network (SEPnet).
LightTAG is an ambitious youth-led project, which will enable 72 young people, from six communities to build confidence and achievement through a unique science and media art collaboration. Focused on using light and creative photography to produce light drawings (light graffiti) and light animations, the project is intentionally accessible for young people. The project will provide an opportunity for participants to express themselves through light and create a high profile, visually engaging outcome which challenges common perceptions concerning media, science and youth culture. The project will culminate in a large celebratory event for all the participants, their family and friends at the BFI Southbank. The exhibition will then tour all the Universities involved.
Follow the LightTAG blog
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The Big Swim Installation is announced
02/Feb/2010
The Big Swim is an art and swimming pool installation, which aims to encourage participatory art experiences and promote local community interest in swimming ahead of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London.The Big Swim is a unique live event, in which participants interact with their wider community and experience swimming in a cloud of light and colour, based on the five Olympic colours.
The Big Swim, aims to act directly at the interface of art and sport. It has taken up this challenge in the spirit of Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Movement, who said, ‘The Olympics is the wedding of sport and art’.
The Big Swim has been recognised as part of the London 2012 Inspire programme.
The project is funded and endorsed by the University for the Creative Arts as part of the Creative Campus Initiative, The CCI is an innovative and dynamic programme of cultural events and activities leading up to London 2012 which reflects the distinctive strength of creative and performing arts in South East higher education.
PhD Grant from DCRC at UWE
02/Dec/2009
Tine Bech has been awarded a PhD research grant by UWE new Digital Cultures Research Centre. She will be researching and working at the Pervasive Media Studio.Bech practice-based PhD research explores the artistic application of interactive technologies and play theory to create interactive installations in public spaces and galleries.