http://www.tinebech.com/index.htmlNews feedeninfo@tinebech.comCopyright 2011 Tine Bech2012-04-24T18:19:30+01:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:55:48 +0100info@tinebech.comTalks2012-04-24T18:19:30+01:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/c810addbffc8528cd62bce0b26f946ad-37.html#unique-entry-id-37http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/c810addbffc8528cd62bce0b26f946ad-37.html#unique-entry-id-37Tine will be presenting at Royal British Society of Sculpture's (RBS) professional development seminar 'Sculpting a Living' on Monday the 30th April 2012

Join fellow sculptors for this highly informative and inspiring professional development seminar chaired by strategic management advisor to the creative industries, Sarah Thelwall www.mycake.org
]]>info@tinebech.comProject Blogs2012-04-11T00:54:50+01:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/d9264820615c08488486f3179d02bef9-36.html#unique-entry-id-36http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/d9264820615c08488486f3179d02bef9-36.html#unique-entry-id-36In February 2012, the British Council and Watershed brought together twelve artists and designers from across East Asia and the UK, for a five-day sprint at Watershed’s Pervasive Media Studio around the theme of The Playable City. For the sprint, participants worked together to experiment and prototype playful interventions that use creative technologies to rethink public space.

Group C Bang & Lee (Korea) Julian Sykes (Cardiff, UK), Tine Bech (London, UK) developed an exciting BikeTAG project - a game which makes your bike glow!
See more at the Playable City Sprint Blog

]]>info@tinebech.comTalks2012-01-18T13:25:40+00:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/e97fe958f3db71e4f439b0bc9045bacc-34.html#unique-entry-id-34http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/e97fe958f3db71e4f439b0bc9045bacc-34.html#unique-entry-id-34Tine Bech delivered a lecture about her sculptural work tonight at Bath Spa University in the School of Art and Design. Her fascinating talk detailed how her work explores simplicity, interactivity and intuitiveness, using colour in a bold and striking way. Tine engages with technology when she needs to, as opposed to because she has to. Tine’s artworks bring pleasure and delight to the audience as they experience them, touching, moving and playing.

Tine was delighted to see her talk announced by posters made up by BA Graphic Communication students Sebastian Ingham and Will Harvey. In homage to the work that Tine has done, Sebastian made a series of printed balloons showing the date of the lecture and Will made a lit up poster, drilling in plywood.

Catch Me Now by Tine Bech will be showing at Illuminate Bath 2012, by Bath Abbey. For this installation, previously shown at the Science museum and never before shown outdoors, she worked with Tarim, a technologist, programmer and juggler based in the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol. A coloured spotlight will react to the audience as they chase it, growing and shrinking. This simple moving shape takes on a life of its own as the audience applies their own meaning to what it is doing.

Text by Arilda Tymko
Photos by Anthony Head and Tine Bech


]]>info@tinebech.comProject Blogs2012-03-27T17:28:00+01:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/748e5a9c131dea2608d01af59b1c6767-33.html#unique-entry-id-33http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/748e5a9c131dea2608d01af59b1c6767-33.html#unique-entry-id-33Catch Me Now, by Tine Bech was really shining and enticing people to play on the corner of Bath Abbey. The spotlight is dancing around and making everyone play with it - Children have been jumping on the spotlight and so have the adults' (Anthony Head, Creative Director of Illuminate Bath).

Chased an interactive spotlight around Abbey Churchyard on the way home at 12.30am. Me and hubby giggling like kids (Tweet feed, @ArtBathSpa 25/01/2012)

Catch Me Now was shown outside for the first time during Illuminate Bath 2012, located next to Bath Abbey.

See more at the Catch Me Now Illuminate Bath 2012 Blog
]]>info@tinebech.comTalks2011-11-29T19:02:56+00:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/c3b8e176bfa2056b3ae030ecbda9dff1-31.html#unique-entry-id-31http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/c3b8e176bfa2056b3ae030ecbda9dff1-31.html#unique-entry-id-31
Photos by Sophie Mutevelian

Craft & Technology in the 21st century
Tine was invited by the Crafts Council UK to join a small artist panel to present their thoughts on digital art and craft in the future at House of Common. The event was chaired by Barry Sheerman, MP for Huddersfield ‘an eloquent and enthusiastic champion for British design, craft and manufacturing’.

See more at the Craft Council blog about the event here.
The full report ‘Crafting Capital: New technologies, new economies’ by the Crafts Council is found here:

Previous to the event the Craft Council, The Pervasive Media Studio and Watershed organised a seminar about’ The Internet of Things’ or networked objects - physical things' with sensors that connect to digital networks of data such as smart meters or wearable electronics.
See a short video from the seminar 'Internet of Things here.

]]>info@tinebech.comExhibition & commission newsOther news2012-01-26T18:59:14+00:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/4fcb39a0baae08e96cb00670cbfd6080-30.html#unique-entry-id-30http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/4fcb39a0baae08e96cb00670cbfd6080-30.html#unique-entry-id-30Catch Me Now facilitated lots of interaction and play for both young and old at Illuminate Bath 2012.

Chased an interactive spotlight around Abbey Churchyard on the way home at 12.30am @Illuminatebath. Me and hubby giggling like kids :)
Tweet 25/01/2012

Loved all the installations at @Illuminatebath tonight. Missed having a go on @t_bech Spotlight. tomorrow = #moveoverchildren
Tweet 25/01/2012



]]>info@tinebech.comTalks2012-01-09T15:53:00+00:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/c2260f5f3f8755e7a1c62b2a69d27dd7-27.html#unique-entry-id-27http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/c2260f5f3f8755e7a1c62b2a69d27dd7-27.html#unique-entry-id-27Interactivity 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.
]]>info@tinebech.comExhibition & commission news2012-01-06T22:01:00+00:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/f3b4fe398e88185f8b83cb1d45a87554-25.html#unique-entry-id-25http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/f3b4fe398e88185f8b83cb1d45a87554-25.html#unique-entry-id-25Catch 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.

Press release

Download the Festival guide here

]]>info@tinebech.comExhibition & commission news2011-09-19T18:33:43+01:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/c751231b1ecd540ef8405d8263278dc5-22.html#unique-entry-id-22http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/c751231b1ecd540ef8405d8263278dc5-22.html#unique-entry-id-22Tine 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.

]]>info@tinebech.comFunding news2009-12-02T16:54:00+00:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/d7fda6a862d876a056c73da0bbda825e-20.html#unique-entry-id-20http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/d7fda6a862d876a056c73da0bbda825e-20.html#unique-entry-id-20Tine 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.]]>info@tinebech.comTalks2011-02-05T15:46:00+00:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/744f825d698bf5cd825f76391e95097a-17.html#unique-entry-id-17http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/744f825d698bf5cd825f76391e95097a-17.html#unique-entry-id-17Tine 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.
]]>info@tinebech.comOther news2011-06-18T19:23:57+01:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/ce718df33456252809c0fabcdcd52c96-16.html#unique-entry-id-16http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/ce718df33456252809c0fabcdcd52c96-16.html#unique-entry-id-16The 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.]]>info@tinebech.comExhibition & commission news2011-08-13T20:54:00+01:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/d63ed6ae7aee621b3efb4c4470e6726c-15.html#unique-entry-id-15http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/d63ed6ae7aee621b3efb4c4470e6726c-15.html#unique-entry-id-15LightPot by Tine Bech

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.

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.

Chi-TEK will be launched at the Victoria & Albert Museum as part of the London Design Festival Digital Weekend, September 24th - 25th 2011.
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.
Press Release and opening times
Invite flyer





]]>info@tinebech.comProject Blogs2011-06-12T20:54:27+01:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/2daa2ce95d91b6bf5c4302a32740faf1-14.html#unique-entry-id-14http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/2daa2ce95d91b6bf5c4302a32740faf1-14.html#unique-entry-id-14Dive into art and swim through a cloud of light and colour

As 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
]]>info@tinebech.comExhibition & commission news2010-02-05T14:26:29+00:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/44c70c0531ef9d575afe7929e7591ba6-13.html#unique-entry-id-13http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/44c70c0531ef9d575afe7929e7591ba6-13.html#unique-entry-id-13
Bechs new work Pink Echidna will be part of The Blind Art touring exhibition, opening at Banbury Museum in February 2011
]]>info@tinebech.comExhibition & commission news2011-01-10T14:06:00+00:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/ac19a22a9ba320f4565ade1f62882f90-11.html#unique-entry-id-11http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/ac19a22a9ba320f4565ade1f62882f90-11.html#unique-entry-id-11
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
]]>info@tinebech.comExhibition & commission news2010-07-01T07:35:00+01:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/ecc7820b7bb28a50cceef00a48924901-10.html#unique-entry-id-10http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/ecc7820b7bb28a50cceef00a48924901-10.html#unique-entry-id-10Catch 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]]>info@tinebech.comFunding news2010-02-03T22:12:49+00:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/3153396b3e51c8708c07f1ce4ed0dfa6-9.html#unique-entry-id-9http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/3153396b3e51c8708c07f1ce4ed0dfa6-9.html#unique-entry-id-9
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

Or find LightTAG on Facebook]]>info@tinebech.comExhibition & commission news2010-08-05T00:35:00+01:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/fb48416fa64d272f27f435e5defe0c25-8.html#unique-entry-id-8http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/fb48416fa64d272f27f435e5defe0c25-8.html#unique-entry-id-8Watermans 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.]]>info@tinebech.comOther news2011-06-08T00:22:00+01:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/d34948ad03df557209abdc561009b75a-7.html#unique-entry-id-7http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/d34948ad03df557209abdc561009b75a-7.html#unique-entry-id-7The 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.
]]>info@tinebech.comExhibition & commission news2010-02-02T00:13:48+00:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/aa20e559c153f4e5731655efa709b40b-6.html#unique-entry-id-6http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/aa20e559c153f4e5731655efa709b40b-6.html#unique-entry-id-6The 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.


]]>info@tinebech.comTalks2010-08-09T00:03:00+01:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/798a7a44b4a5157a5de183fe089fe495-5.html#unique-entry-id-5http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/798a7a44b4a5157a5de183fe089fe495-5.html#unique-entry-id-5
Artist Talk by Tine Bech at the Surrey Sculpture Society

Wed October 13th 2010
University of Surrey
]]>info@tinebech.comOther news2010-05-05T23:57:00+01:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/6475f1e884beb481aa1c1384e63afaec-4.html#unique-entry-id-4http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/6475f1e884beb481aa1c1384e63afaec-4.html#unique-entry-id-4
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
]]>info@tinebech.comExhibition & commission newsFunding news2010-04-07T23:50:00+01:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/8f63e422e463452f09f0f5b9f781c2bb-3.html#unique-entry-id-3http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/8f63e422e463452f09f0f5b9f781c2bb-3.html#unique-entry-id-3Artist 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
]]>info@tinebech.comTalks2010-04-16T23:45:42+01:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/014e91b852388707624abd74f8ade43b-2.html#unique-entry-id-2http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/014e91b852388707624abd74f8ade43b-2.html#unique-entry-id-2
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.
]]>info@tinebech.comTalksExhibition & commission news2010-03-03T23:24:00+00:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/a403323391f000074582b80b2373c2a8-1.html#unique-entry-id-1http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/a403323391f000074582b80b2373c2a8-1.html#unique-entry-id-1Tine 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 Digits

Reception 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
]]>info@tinebech.comTalks2010-06-01T23:13:44+01:00http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/67ccc06af3e4678fb0c1d265b33f8742-0.html#unique-entry-id-0http://www.tinebech.com/news/index_files/67ccc06af3e4678fb0c1d265b33f8742-0.html#unique-entry-id-0
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
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