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The curatorial team (Brown, Charles and Marshall for Fast-uk; the Creative
Director and Programme Manager for folly) each selected their choices for the
commissions by means of the project wiki that resulted in a shortlist of the top
eight practitioners as shown in Table 13. The first five practitioners had been on
the list initially presented by the researcher. Theo Jansen had been proposed by
folly’s Creative Director, Torolab by folly’s Programme Manager and Chris Bosse
by the researcher. Invitations were sent out by email to the top six choices for
commissions with Torolab and Chris Bosse held as reserves:
I represent the curatorial team putting together a forthcoming exhibition
taking place this autumn in Lancaster in the North West of England.
Entitled 'Perimeters, Boundaries & Borders', it is an exhibition of
contemporary art and design practice that is concerned with object and
spatially oriented disciplines, the use of digital technologies and the
convergence of sculpture, product design and architecture.
This exhibition will bring emerging and existing contemporary
practitioners and technologies into the public arena and help to make
cutting edge developments in art and technology more accessible. The
show will be held from 29 September - 21 October 2006 at venues across
Lancaster, the main exhibition space being the ground floor of the new
CityLab development in Dalton Square. There will be six principal
artists 82 .
The aim of this exhibition is to present the examples of work that blur the
conventional boundaries of art and design practice through the use of
technology. The exhibition is international in scope with artists and
designers invited from Australia, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands as well
as the United Kingdom.
We would like to invite you to participate in this exhibition and present
either a specially commissioned work/s or more recent work/s that has
not previously been shown in the UK. If you would like to know more, I
would be happy to answer any questions you may have. I look forward to
hearing from you and hope we can work together on this exciting project.
The initial response from the first five practitioners contacted was positive.
Extra information was requested by these practitioners or their representatives.
There was no response from Theo Jansen. A request was made that these
practitioners should indicate what they would like to do for the exhibition by
30 th May. We subsequently received notice that Patricia Piccinini would not be
82 This should have read ‘practitioners’.
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