ARC Projects

Born in 1964 in London, England. Lives and works in London.

Education:
1987 - BA Hons Fine Art from Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
1990-91 - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2001 - Fine Art PhD, University of Reading

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2006 - "Fenlandia"- Babylon Gallery, Ely/Film and Video Umbrella
2002 - "Transporting Skies"- Site Gallery, Sheffield; Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
2000 - "In Conversation", Chapter Arts, Cardiff
1998 - "Suspect Devices", LUX Gallery, London/Film and Video Umbrella
1997 - "In Conversation", Fabrica Gallery, Brighton
- "Suspect Devices", Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle/Film and Video Umbrella
1995 - "Every Dog Has Its Day", Warrington Museum and Art Gallery/Videopositive 95
1993-4 - "Handle With Care", Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2007 - "Outlook Express(ed)", Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada
- "Digital Prints", Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
- "Digital Aesthetic 2", Harris Gallery, Preston
2006 - "Extraordinary Experiences: A Retrospective of British Media Art", Kunsthaus, Dresden
- "Timeless", York Quay Art Centre, Toronto
- "REMOTE", Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2005 - "Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology and the Paranormal", Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC, Baltimore
- "StoryRooms", Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
- "Rhizome ArtBase 101", New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
- "Data Agency", SCAN online and at http gallery, London
2004 - "Fenlandia", commissioned as part of Film and Video Umbrella's "Silicon Fen" ; Norwich School of Art and Design; BCA Gallery, Bedford; King's Lynn Arts Centre, Peterborough Digital Arts; Babylon Gallery, Ely
- "Haunted Media", Site Gallery Sheffield
- Microwave Media Art Festival, Hong Kong
2003 - "Festival @rt Outsiders - Space Art", Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
2001 - "Digital Aesthetics", Harris Gallery, Preston
- "In Conversation", British Council, Hackescher Markt, Berlin
1999 - "Cruisin’", online work for Containership, commissioned by e2 and NMP Japan
1999 - "Bacterium Bulgaricus Art", Museum for Foreign Art, Riga
1998 - "Encoded Identities & Mobile Zones", MuuMedia Festival, Gallery Otso, Espoo, Finland
- "Travelogue", The Travelling Gallery, Scotland
- "Avatar", De Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
- "Tumblong", online project, The Laboratory, Ruskin School, Oxford University
& The Institute for Interactive Multimedia, Sydney, Australia
1997 - "Imaginary Places", Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; and touring
1996 - "Ex Machina", Zone Gallery, Newcastle
- "Triplicate", Southampton City Art Gallery; Towner Gallery, Eastbourne; Tate St Ives
- "Objekt:Video", Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria
- "Command, Shift, CTRL", NAME Gallery, Chicago
1994 - "V-Topia", Tramway, Glasgow
- "On Location", Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool
1992 - "Wonne/Bliss", Vitrine, Shöneberg, Berlin
- "Computer Art: Pushing The Boundaries", State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago
- 36th London Film Festival
1991 - "Luz Elasticá", Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- "Brave New Pixels", A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago
- Berlin Videofest

Public Commissions:
2005-6 - "Underglow, Light Up Queen Street", Modus Operandi/Corporation of London
- "Glenlandia", commissioned by Horsecross for Threshhold artspace
2005 - "The Ectoscope", permanent commission for University College London Hospital
2004 - "Pixelscape for Glastonbury Tor", permanent commission for C & J Clarks collection
2003 - "Pixelscape", permanent commission for Arts Council England, Brighton
2002-3 - "Tate in Space", net art commission for Tate Online (www.tate.org.uk/space)
2001-5 - "Classroom of the Future", Art and Architecture collaboration with architect Sarah Wigglesworth for Mossbrook Special School, Sheffield
2001 - "Holy Mackerel", Whitefriars, Canterbury
2000 - "Viewfinder", Minehead, Somerset (Da2/Artlife)
1998 - "Awash", Canary Wharf, London.
1993 - "Pedestrian Gestures", Arts Council Film/Video Commission, Hull Time Based Arts.
1993 - "Introductory Exchanges", Woolwich Foot Tunnel, London (for River Crossings)
1990 - "Going for Goldfish" (with Julie Myers) videotape & videowall, Manchester Olympic Video Exhibition. Film & Video Umbrella, London and Cornerhouse, Manchester,

Awards, Fellowships, Residencies & Prizes:
2007 - Garry B Fritz Imagemaker Award for Excellence, SPE Miami
2006 - Artist in Residence, Monash University, Melbourne.
2006 - British Council Visual Arts Award
2004 - "Tate in Space" nominated for BAFTA interactive
2003 - ITEM research and development new technology bursary, FACT Liverpool
2001 - Royal Society of the Arts, Art for Architecture award with Sarah Wigglesworth
2000 - Arts Council of England Combined Arts R & D grant
1998 - Royal Society of the Arts, Art for Architecture award (with PACA)
1997 - London Arts Board Awards to Individual Artists
1996 - British Council Visual Arts Award
1996 - European Artists Pepinière (residency), Köln, Germany
1995 - Arts Council/Channel 4 Hi-Tech Fund Award
1990 - Fulbright Travel Award.
1990 - American Association of University Women (AAUW) Rose Sidgwick Memorial Fellowship.

Selected Bibliography:
2007 - Susan Collins interview with Sean Cubitt, Fourth Door Review, forthcoming
- Susan Collins, profile by Davina Thackara, Contemporary, no.91
- Digital Performance, Steve Dixon, MIT Press
2006 - Carlo Zanni in conversation with Susan Collins, Magazine électronique du CIAC No 25
- Is the World Wide Web Arts Final Frontier?, by Grayson Perry, The Times (09/08/06)
- Willing Spirits : Art of the Paranormal by Nancy Princenthal, Art in America, February 2006
- London: Light Up Queen Street by Davina Thackara, Contemporary, no.81
- From Technological to Virtual Art, Frank Popper, MIT Press
- A History of Video Art, Chris-Meigh Andrew, Berg
- A History of Artists' Film and Video in Britain, David Curtis, British Film Institute
- The New Media Handbook, Andrew Dewdney & Peter Ride, Routledge
- Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology and the Paranormal, catalogue, ed. Mark Alice Durant & Jane D. Marsching, Centre for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC, Baltimore
- Storyrooms: Interactive Networks, Media Art and Installations, Catalogue/DVD
2005 - Illumination comes Regardless of Taste by Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times
- Web Works That Insist on Your Full Attention by Sarah Boxer, New York Times (28/06/05)
- Nature Study, article on Classroom of the Future, by Mark Dudek, Building Design (06/05/05)
2004 Fenlandia, Slow Pixels. Neural.it by Alessandro Ludovico (09/07/2004)
- Interview with Jemima Rellie on Tate in Space as part of Watershed's Digest
- Review of Haunted Media in The Guardian by Alfred Hickling
2003 - Article on Tate in Space by Jenn Kahn, Discover Magazine (US). September issue.
2002 - Review of Transporting Skies in Art Monthly Dec 02-Jan 03, by Emma Safe
- ‘Mekani ve alani yeniden düsünmek:uzayda sanat’, Gulsen Bal on Tate in Space in “RH + Sanat” No. 02
- Transporting Skies, The Guide, The Guardian 02/11/02
- Preview of Transporting Skies in ArtPreview, the Gallery Guide, November 2002
- Transporting Skies previewed in Contemporary by Sotiris Kyriacou, October 2002
- 2002: An Art Odyssey, article on Tate in Space by Jamie Walters for Metro 18/09/02
- Kunst im All, review of Tate in Space by Axel Lapp, d’Lëtzebuerger Land 13/09/02
- Greetings, art lovers. We come in peace, by Leah McClaren, Canada Globe and Mail, 31/07/02
- Ruimte voor de kunst, by Pieter Van Bogaert, Tijd Nieuwslijn 16/07/02
- Floating Worlds - a text on Tate In Space, by Paul Bonaventura for Tate Online
1999 - LondonArt Online Magazine, Review of Cruisin’
1998 - In Conversation Susan Collins interview with Joanna Krysa, Magazyn Sztuki, NR18 (2/98)
- Netwatch on In Conversation, Guardian Online, Nick Babaian 22/10/98
- Susan Collins, review of Suspect Devices at Lux by Mark Currah, Time Out 16/9/98
- Fatally Flawed Gadgetry, Review of Suspect Devices, The Independent 7/9/98
- Archis - Internet Column, July 1998
- AVATAR by Nat Muller, Fringecore Magazine, May 1998
1997 - Brisbane Speaks unto Brighton, review of In Conversation, The Daily Telegraph, 29/12/97
- A global chat...., article on In Conversation in The Independent, Network Section 9/12/97
- All Things Bright and Beautiful, profile in Mute no. 8 by Pauline Van Mourik Broekman
- Review of Imaginary Places in Make Sept-Oct 97, by Nicky Hodge
- Susan Collins - In Conversation, catalogue, BN1
- Susan Collins - Suspect Devices, catalogue, Film and Video Umbrella
- Out of Time, ed. Andrea Phillips, Hull Time Based Arts.
- Review of Triplicate in Art Monthly Dec 96-Jan 97, by John Tozer
- I like to be in 3, Make Dec 96-Jan 97, by Anne Hamlyn
- Missing Kisses, Make Dec 96-Jan 97, by Nicky Hodge
1996 - A Directory of British Film and Video Artists. ed. David Curtis, Arts Council of England.
- Ex Machina, catalogue, Zone Gallery
- Triplicate, catalogue, Southampton City Gallery, Tate St Ives, Towner Art Gallery
- Objekt:Video, catalogue, ed. Gottfried Hattinger, Landesgalerie, Linz, Austria.
- Review of Triplicate in Contemporary Art issue 13.
- Review of Triplicate by Richard Ingleby, The Eye, The Independent 30/11/96
- Oct Flash Art News, Flash Art on Triplicate
- Review of Objekt:Video, Noema Art Journal No. 43, Andreas Stockinger (Austria).
- Review of Objekt:Video by Irene Judmayer, OÖ. Nachrichten 10/10/96 (Austria)
1995 - July Similarities and Dogs, by Helen Sloan, Womens Art Magazine.
- May Womens Art Magazine, Susan Collins, colour cover.
1994 - Without Walls, profile on Susan Collins in Design Week 7/10/94.
- Review of V-topia, The Observer Magazine 14/8/94.
1993 - Jun River Crossings, review in Hybrid.
1992 - Oct Recent Computer Art in Chicago, Artpaper
1990 - July Going for Gold, review of Going for Goldfish in Videographic by Steven Bode


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