Experiencing Art in Unexpected Places with Tine Bech

05 Jun 2010

To meet local artist Tine Bech is to be instantly drawn into a completely different world of experiencing art first hand. Many people think of art as something to ‘view’. We go to an ‘Art’ space (gallery), pick up a leaflet about the current exhibition, or maybe we have a hi-tech listening device telling us about what we are looking at. We walk a circuit carefully devised by qualified curates, we purchase a postcard at the book shop to remind us of what we saw. We are quiet (Shhhh!), polite and apologise if our shoes squeak on clean floors. Unlike more traditional gallery experiences, Tine Bech’s work is exciting, loud and very public. It begs to be touched and requires audience interaction to be complete...
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Reesa Amadeo Wolf, Transmitter, June 2010, Crystal Palace, London, UK.

Light Graffiti Workshops

27 May 2010

Watershed are working with Tine towards the installation of an interactive artwork and these workshop were the first step in researching people's thoughts and feelings in relation to the public space in front of the Watershed.

In a series of workshops members of the public and Watershed staff ‘painted with light’ to investigate the spaces in and around Watershed. This documentary shows some of the images made and talks to the participants and artist/ researcher Tine Bech about the process and outcomes of this ‘playful enquiry’.

See the documentary made by Geoffrey Taylor at DShed.

See more, check out Thought Den’ blog about the workshops In the name of research, business & consultation… and the DCRC blog Light Research.

Interview Tine Bech: Light Graffiti

22 Mar 2010

In advance of the public Light Graffiti Workshops, researcher and artist Tine Bech discusses her arts practice and research approach, and how these combined to create a consultation of ‘playful enquiry’.
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by Shirin Packham, Pervasive Media Studio.

DShed: Imagination, inspiration & innovation from Watershed.
An online showcase of creative work, talks, commissions, innovation, artist journals, festival diaries and archive projects.

PhD Grant from DCRC at UWE

02 Oct 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.

Method Cultural Leadership Programme

17 Sep 2009

Tine Bech was selected for the Cultural Leadership programme Method. Method has been one of two programmes supported by the Cultural Leadership Programme which focus support on the development of independent leaders in the cultural and creative industries in the UK.

Artists who are leaders understand how their work can achieve wider cultural transformations in the world
Mark Waugh, Director, A Foundation.

On the Edge Research wrote: The Artist as Leader research focuses on the role of the artist working in public and indicate that artists are uniquely placed to inform and creatively develop public life. In seeking to understand the Nature of Creativity in public contexts, this research focuses on the concept of ‘leading through practice’. It opens up a new trajectory of thinking about leadership that is not predominantly management based, in which the role of artist operating within social, cultural and environmental contexts is scrutinised for what it can reveal about creativity in general.
http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/subj/ats/ontheedge2/artistasleader/index.html

Watery Looks

30 Apr 2009

Everything is secretly alive in Tine Bech’s work: shoes, bridges, streetlights, balloons and coloured blobs. They hum and react with a playful anthropomorphic life that is liable to take you by surprise. Boundless in Space is a pink blob looking a little like a cushion on wheels that moves and clicks when you come close to it. Echidna is a black wiry sculpture, emitting sounds in response to your touch, which was inspired by the Australian hedgehog of the same name. Coloured lights are activated as people pass on the bridge beneath in Tracing Light. A large red blob accompanies the artist on a bicycle tour of Toronto Island in another work. And in Mememe, visitors move around in flamboyant sculptural shoes creating sound compositions in a gallery space. Bech’s sculptures and installations are full of bright colours evoking sunlight and playgrounds. Her drawings, on the other hand, employ the black, white and sepia end of the colour range. In the Water trees series, created for this exhibition at Open Studio, Bech is concerned with the other end of the weather range too - with the rain that falls incessantly against your windowpane some days.
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by Tracey Warr, Open Studio Catalogue, visiting artist exhibition, Toronto, Canada 2009

Seeing Blind Art

09 Feb 2009

Echidna by Tine Bech and Sam Woolf is a work that does require touch, and truly does work on multi-sensory levels.
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Nick Jardine, Seeing Blind Art, Cent magazine, ‘Fundamental Love’ The Kevin Carrigan Issue, 2008

Farnham artist trips the light fantastic

03 Nov 2008

UCA's exciting Danish scuplture artist Tine Bech set Farnham alight with bright coloured lights in an event sponsored by Farnham Creates and the Arts Council England. Over 150 people joined a light trail on 18 October beginning at the Crafts Study Centre and culminating in a permanent light installation on a bridge at the Maltings Arts Centre.
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University for the Creative Arts, Staff Newsletter Nov 2008 issue 11

Tripping the light fantastic at Maltings

31 Oct 2008

A new permanent light installation has been erected on the Farnham Maltings bridge over the River Wey. Farnham Creates commissioned Danish visual artist Tine Bech to create an ‘interactive streetlight’ in which the light will change regularly according to the time and movement of people.
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Farnham Herald, 31 Oct 2008

Tine Bech Creates Evening of Light

30 Oct 2008

The London based Danish artist has been commissioned to create Tracing Light - three events with light as their main component in Farnham, Surrey. Three creations by Danish artist Tine Bech will brighten up Farnham on Saturday 18 October as a light Trail, a light installation and a light workshop create a connection between art and the local community.
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Danish Embassy website ‘News’, Oct 2008
http://www.amblondon.um.dk/en/menu/TheEmbassy/News/Tine+Bech+creates+evening+of+light.htm

ARCHILight Magasin

07 Mar 2008

Swimming through colour
Developed by artist Tine Bech, Purple Membrane is an original interactive installation consisting of coloured lights. The installation is placed in the swimming pool of the Camberwell Leisure Centre in London. A cloud shifting from violet to fuchsia surrounds the swimmers. A fresh and colourful thickening mist can be cut through during people’s daily training, representing a simple but definitely impressive idea. Mist becomes increasingly visible as the sun sets. Tine Bech is renowned for her sound, light and tactile matter installations that viewers can interact with. In this case, the end result is so striking that even the laziest people will be tempted to take a dive!

ARCHILight Magasin March 2008

Tine Bech, Sam Woolf, Dave Lawrence: Mememe, Aarhus, Danemark

28 Nov 2006

Mememe est le fruit de la collaboration entre l'artiste Danoise domicilié à Londres Tine Bech et les artistes britaniques Sam Wolf et Dave Lawrence. Leur travaux se caractérisent par une prédilection pour l'interactivité et les installations qui explorent la relation entre œuvres et spectateurs via une combinaison de sons et de mouvements, de robots et d'objets quotidiens, et de technologies interactives complexes accordées à une simplicité visuelle.
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Published at exporevue magazine art vivant et actualité Marie Nipper, traduction Raya Baudinet-Lindberg, 2007

Digitale udfordringer

20 Nov 2006

Kaos, avantgardisme, radikalisme, kriminalitet, hacking, cracking. Det er nogle af de begreber, der hæftes på digitalkunsten, når Århus i disse dage huser Danmarks hidtil største internationale festival for digital kunst. Kunsten udspringer af de antiautoritære og systemkritiske miljøer, hvilket den centrale udstilling På grænsen/On the Edge understreger.
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Merete Sanderhoff, Digitalkunst, Dagbladet Information, 20/11/2006

Støjende grænser

05 Nov 2006

Århus Kunstbygning fremstår indtil den 26. november, da 'På Grænsen' slutter, som et eksperimentarium. Et ganske underholdende ét af slagsen. Hvis man vil have genereret lyd ud af Tine Bechs installation 'Mememe', må man selv udgøre et aktivt element i sammenhængen. Der er ingen vej udenom, at man ifører sig en passende fodbeklædning.
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Lars Svanholm Artinfo.dk Netmagazine om kunst, 2006

Kulturkamp I cyberspace

05 Nov 2006

Digital kunst er på vej frem, nu med en International Digital Kunstfestival i Århus måneden ud. Det er her, den næste kulturkamp kommer til at stå, og digital kunst kan noget, traditionel og mere håndgribelig kunst ikke kan, mener en af festivalens aktører, der forsker i digital kunst.
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Anne Bech-Danielsen, Politiken, Interview of Annette Damgaard and Søren Pold about the exhibition ‘On the Edge’, 5.11.2006

On the Edge

03 Nov 2006

The work Mememe is the fruit of collaboration between the Danish, London-based artist Tine Bech and the British artists Sam Woolf and Dave Lawrence. Their work is characterized by a predilection for interactivity and for installations that explore the relationship between work and viewer through a combination of sound and movement, robots and everyday materials, complex interactive technology and visual simplicity.
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Marie Nipper, Annette Damgaard, Thomas Markussen, Thorsten Sadowsky, Denmark. Århus Kunstbygning (Centre for Contemporary Art) and International Digital Art Festival 2006

Crazy Teknologi Kunst

03 Nov 2006

Tidens teknologi kan bruges til meget andet end kedelige, praktiske løsninger. Her er for eksempel den engelske kunstner Tine Bech hoppet i et par egenproducerede lydsko, som får alt fra kobrøl, baabuu-lyde og magiske trylle klirren til at lyde afhængig af position i rummet. Teknologien, der kan bruges til at styre varelagre i for eksempel et supermarked, er blevet til kunst som en del af udstillingen 'På Grænsen' i Aarhus Kunstbygning. (Front page text)
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Louise Witt, Aarhus Stiftstidende, 3 Nov 2006

Sense and Sensuality - an interactive show

14 Sep 2006

A spectacular art show aimed the dispelling the misconception that visual ability is essential to artistic experience is launched in the UK. This Sense and Sensuality exhibition actively encourages visitors to get a “hands on “ experience.
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British Satellite News,Worldwide, interview, Sense and Sensuality–An Interactive Show. 14 Sep 2006

VIEW on CANADIAN ART

09 Aug 2006

Best, I thought, were the Danish, London-based artist Tine Bech, whose balloon sound sculptures floated seductively around her studio.
The Gibraltar Point Open Studios. Toronto Island hosts an annual artist residency, courtesy of Artscape. I hadn't known about it at the time, but the facilities seem both simple and quite idyllic. At the back of the island, the grouping of small buildings gives the feeling of a small, secluded community, looking out over the lake towards the US, and yet a 15 minute ferry ride from downtown Toronto.

ANDREA CARSON VoCA July 2006

On Richard and Judy

11 Jul 2005

Tine Bech talks about Art and the installation Purple Membrane
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Channel 4, Richard and Judy, 11 July, 2005

Purple Membrane makes swimming in the mist a hit

15 Jun 2005

London Pools Campaign 2005
More Comments:
It was one of the most successfully interactive art works I have been to, and I've been to a few over the years. Not only did you transform a vast area but you shifted the way the whole space was treated as well as experienced. It was beautiful to swim in a slightly disorienting dream of fog and light for an array of reasons. Althea Greenan

I heard from a lot of swimmers that it was truly amazing. Jacqui

We all had a great time, my daughter said she wanted to stay in the pool the whole night! Pavla

Convergence of Art and Science

31 May 2005

Contemporary life can hardly be imagined without the inﬂuence and impact of science and technology. But often the arts are viewed separately from the scientiﬁc world. The world of ﬁne arts is even seen as an escape from the technological, empirical busy-ness of today’s society. However, more and more artists and scientists are ﬁnding that one can inﬂuence and enhance the other’s work and world. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs has hired an artist-in-residence to help illustrate and visualize the work done at the labs, which often exists only in the imaginations of the scientists. Artists are using new materials and technology to ﬁnd new ways of expressing their ideas and forms. And as always, artists interpret and express the impact and inﬂuence that science and technology have on our contemporary lives. As the two worlds of science and art converge, new insights and possibilities arise through the creativity of both disciplines.
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Convergence of Art and Science, Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, April – June 2005

Aarhus Nu, Review: Floating Field

17 Apr 2005

Tine Bech unites body and world in a formless intersection on the edge form. It is in this meeting that we are reminded that we exist in the world and that we leave behind traces that impinge on our surrounding world. This thinking is strengthened by the choice of tactile material, which brings out sensuality.
The installation therefore seems to comment on the western tradition of dualistic thinking that separates body and mind. In a way the installation almost has Buddhist elements in the way it attempts to go beyond the classic dualistic dichotomy: Body and Mind are interdependent. Hans Christian Andersen wrote about this 200 years ago and Tine Bech now re-ignites the debate in case anyone should have forgotten the old poet.
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Rene Lundgaard, Aarhus Nu, Review: Floating Field, 17 April, 2005

The UK’s Sculptural Newcomers

06 Jan 2005

With her reactive robotic sound sculpture Rain Balloon, the Danish artist Tine Bech, who studied fine art at the Arhus Kunstkole in Denmark and the Surrey Institute of Art and Design University College in Britain, has gained one of the membership awards.
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Selma Stern, ‘The UK’s Sculptural Newcomers’, NY Arts Magazine, Vol. 10 No. 1/2 January/February 2005

RBS Bursary Review

02 Jan 2005

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Morgan Falconer, ‘RBS Bursary Review’, AN Magazine, January 2005, p. 6, ISSN 02613425

Experiments with Reactive Robotic Sound Sculptures

09 Dec 2003

This paper describes two robotic sound sculptures produced in collaboration with Danish artist Tine Bech. ‘Echidna’ and ‘Boundless in Space’. The sculptures were exhibited at the Aarhus Kunstbygning gallery in Aarhus, Denmark from the 3rd to the 25th August 2002. I will describe the sculptures and also defend the use of simple reactive robotics in interactive art.
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8th International Conference on Artificial Life, Sam Woolf, Interact Lab, Dept. of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, Sussex University, 2003

Moscow TV

21 Nov 2003

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Moscow TV, interview, Capital, Russia, 21 Nov 2003

Big Blip

15 Oct 2003

I attended my first Big Blip on 11 October with a colleague and my 8 year old son. It was a marvellous festival of science and art and I feel compelled to write and tell you this. The Interact Lab exhibition was excellent for both the young and grownup alike... My son still talks about why a ball of wire reacted the way it did to human touch and....

The arts and science forum Blip, a joint venture between the universities of Brighton and Sussex, organises local talks and performances and provides an opportunity for artists and scientists to show work in progress in an informal atmosphere.
At the Big Blip 03 a one day festival of creative arts, science and technology, there were a number of invited speakers and performers as well as an exhibition of generative art curated by Andy Webster. Featuring speakers, performers and an exhibition of art and interactive technology, The Big Blip attracted over 400 people and showcased the wealth of creative talent.
The Big Blip 2003

The Inbetween: Plus & Pulse Catalogue

03 Aug 2002

MATERIALISATION
Tine Bech and Annette Damgaard are two artists who are both working with categorical ruptures. They are grafting technology onto textiles and exploring a hybrid of biology and materials in order to examine the notion of materiality. The naked human body is the explicit subject of Damgaard's work. The body is also everywhere suggested and evoked in Bech's work, and in some of her 'action drawings' she has literally used her own body as a tool - jumping on charcoal to make drawings. Through an exploration of materials and materiality these artists address the body's languageless experience of the world. Their approach is not logocentric. They are addressing the gap between sensuous, bodily experience and its interpretation in words and categories.
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Tracey Warr, The Inbetween: Plus & Pulse Catalogue, Aarhus Kunstbygning (Centre for Contemporary Art), 2002

Puls i Aarhus Kunstbygning

03 Aug 2002

Tine Bechs værker er udstillet under titlen "Puls", fordi hun forsøger at få pulsen frem i det, hun laver. “Mine værker må gerne være interaktive, så der er en dialog mellem kunsten og publikum. Materialerne er stoflige og bløde, for jeg synes, man både skal opleve kunsten med kroppen og hjernen. Og så kan jeg lide kunst med humor,” siger Tine Bech.
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Louise Wilhelmsen, Jyllandsposten, Puls i Aarhus Kunstbygning, 3 Aug. 2002