Chi-TEK at The Digital Design Weekend at the V&A
02 Dec 2011
The Chi-TEK Tea Party celebrates the talent and prestige women bring to arts & technology, under the playful guise of a tea party. Showcasing newly commissioned works of art from leading women designers, artist, and technologists, Chi-TEK runs Autumn 2011 at the Victoria & Albert Sackler Centre
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.
See the artist and more about the project here Chi-TEK
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 was launched at the Victoria & Albert Museum as part of the London Design Festival Digital Weekend, September 24th - 25th 2011. Artists presented their teapots and talk about their specialist techniques during a series of scheduled presentations over tea and cake.
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.
See the artist and more about the project here Chi-TEK
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 was launched at the Victoria & Albert Museum as part of the London Design Festival Digital Weekend, September 24th - 25th 2011. Artists presented their teapots and talk about their specialist techniques during a series of scheduled presentations over tea and cake.
‘Big Swim’ part of Cultural Olympiad
01 Sep 2011
More than 200 people in London and Oxford were given a unique opportunity to swim in a cloud of light and colour based on the five Olympic colours....Visual artist Tine Bech, who is based at UCA Farnham, said: “The Big Swim proved to be a fantastic way to celebrate one year until the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
“It was a great that so many people took part in a Cultural Olympiad event like this and we hope they enjoyed becoming part of a live piece of art and, of course, the unique experience of swimming in a cloud of Olympic colours.
“The installation was meant to be a playful art experience which promoted the local community’s interest in swimming ahead of London 2012 but I think people took a lot more away from it than that.” Article
Swimming Times, Vol LXXXVIII, Issue 9, September 2011
The Big Swim by Tine Bech
27 Jul 2011
Last weekend, London celebrated one year until the 2012 Olympic Games with special events and exhibitions featuring art, dance, film, and sports events. One such event was the Big Swim, an interactive light installation held at two local swimming pools. At this open to the public event, 220 guests swam in clouds of colour as filtered lights covered the water.Visual artist and researcher Tine Bech created the event in partnership with the Creative Campus Initiative to allow local communities to immerse themselves in the spirit of the 2012 Games. True to Bech’s artistic style, the Big Swim was an interactive public experience reliant on audience engagement and play. Bech wanted to encourage playful art experiences and promote an interest in swimming in prior to the Games.
See article WGSN 27th July 2011
Großartige Installation kündigt Olympiade 2012 an
22 Jul 2011
The Big Swim: Großartige Installation kündigt Olympiade 2012 an.
The Big Swim: Great installation announces Olympics 2012
Leider kann man nur an zwei Tagen in den schönsten Farben abtauchen: Am Samstag, den 23. Juli, im Camberwell Leisure Centre in London und am Sonntag, den 24. Juli, im Barton Leisure Centre in Oxford. Dort errichtet Tine Bech ihre interaktive Installation »The Big Swim«, in die jeder, der sein Badezeug mitbringt, hinein springen kann. Read more
See article PAGE, 22 July, Germany by Sabine Danek.
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Design Week Going Swimmingly
14 Jul 2011
You might not be the next Mark Foster or Rebecca Adlington, but thanks to a new art installation you could still swim at the Olympics - well, sort of. Read more.
See article Design Week, 14th July 2011 By Angus Montgomery
Big Swim press news
12 Jul 2011
The Big Swim‘In her latest project the Danish artist Tine Bech honours the spirit of Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Movement, who said, ‘The Olympics is the wedding of sport and art’.
See Article The Embassy of Denmark London, 1st July 2011.
‘The innovative experience perfectly combined the often contrasting cultures of art and sport ...most importantly it incorporated the key ingredient of fun, leaving the participating public quite literally in the pink’.
See Article B&C Online Journal 9 August by Jamie Rowe
Dive into art and swim through a cloud of light and colour
See Article Creative Boom Magazine, 30 June, UK, by Jaselyn Melling
Arts Professional
28 Feb 2011
Collaboration is a good thing…What I saw as a huge success of the project was the interdisciplinary nature of it, bringing together art and science. Having the physical scientific aspect to the workshops enabled the young people to experience the more tangible side to art; its physical relationship to us in the world. It also introduced them to the world of employment in the arts, or not necessarily in the arts, but into other things through the arts. Read more
LightTAG is a collaborative project led by visual artist Tine Bech. It brings together the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), the University of Surrey and the South East Physics Network (SEPnet).
See Article Arts Professional by Phoebe Gardiner
News from the Kinetica Art Fair
04 Feb 2011
News from the Kinetica Art Fair‘Two works by the Danish artist Tine Bech was featured at the Kinetica Art Fair in London. They both encourage the audience to interact with light and sound.’ The Embassy of Denmark, Get Interactive with light and Sound, Feb, UK.
‘Expect the unexpected - Bringing together art from around the globe, Kinetica Art Fair 2011 boasts quite a collection of robots, flashing lights and interactive fun.’ New Scientist
Kinetica Art Fair 2011, UK's only art fair dedicated to kinetic, robotic, sound, light and time-based art.
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BBC News LightTAG at Southbank
23 Jan 2011
Light graffiti' art project gets Southbank showcaseAn exhibition that was created by young people from across the South East and uses light and cameras to make art is to be showcased on London's Southbank.
Whether you’re a graffiti enthusiast (or even artist); a Banksy book for the coffee-table type or ‘exasperated by wall-scribbles of Godalming’, there’s no doubt of the merits of the Light Tag project.
The project, led by artist Tine Bech and scientist Dr Kathryn Harkup, involved the use of LED lights to make drawings dubbed light graffiti. More than 50 young people created the pieces at workshops in London, Hampshire, Kent and Surrey. They will be shown at the BFI in February and then South East galleries.
See article BBC News 23 January 2011
Design Week - Light graffiti
20 Jan 2011
Whether you’re a graffiti enthusiast (or even artist); a Banksy book for the coffee-table type or ‘exasperated by wall-scribbles of Godalming’, there’s no doubt of the merits of the Light Tag project.Visual artist Tine Bech, from UCA, who led the Light Tag Project, says, ‘Light Tag has been a fantastic experience for everybody involved. The young people who participated have created a really visually engaging project.
‘One of the project goals is to show youth culture in a positive light and increase the visibility of young peoples’ voices, which I think we’ve achieved.’
Design Week, 20 Jan 2011 By Emily Gosling