ALICE ANGUS

BRIEF CURRICULUM VITAE

1999- Proboscis

Alice sits on the board of directors and manages the company with its founder Giles Lane. She is currently leading the development of the LIQUID GEOGRAPHY research theme for which she recently edited the Landscape and Identity, Language and Territory series of DIFFUSION eBooks and organised two associated Creative Labs, part of an ongoing collaboration with inIVA (Institute for International Visual Arts), London exploring how new technologies can be used in innovative ways to increase access to knowledge and provide a catalyst for the development of new ideas. She is leading the development of the TOPOLOGIES initiative and is currentlydeveloping a project for Libraries in the South of England with curator Deborah Smith. She is co-curator of PRIVATE REVERIES, PUBLIC SPACES and is editor of the MAPPING PERCEPTION CD-ROM.
She was Consultant Editor for the Pandemonium Film Festival 2001 Catalogue.

 

Glasgay Festival 1999-2001

Visual Arts Consultant to the Glasgay Festival in Glasgow for whom Alice curated exhibitions and events including including a solo show of the Columbian artist, Fernando Arias; a show of work by Louise Shambruck and Ian Passmore (2000- 2001) and the group show In A Different Light: Nelson Henricks (Can), Steve Reinke (CAN), Cyndra MacDowall (CAN) and Tina Keane (UK) (1999), all at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) Glasgow. Supported by: Scottish Arts Council, Glasgow City Council, Gordons Gin, the International Initiatives fund of the Arts Council of England, Visiting Arts, the Canadian High Commission, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Ontario Arts Council, Canadian Arts Council, Quebec Delegation, Ontario College of Art and Design and Sheridan College, Toronto, Delta Video, BP Global Social Investments.

Fotofeis International Festival of Photo based Arts 1997–1998

Programme Manager for Fotofeis International Festival of Photo based Arts March 1997–November 1998.
The festival projects took place in 40 venues across Scotland including Tramway, The Arches, Street Level, Tron Theatre, Glasgow Film Theatre, the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; Aberdeen City Art Gallery; Traverse Theatre, Filmhouse, National Gallery of Scotland, and Mansfield Place Church in Edinburgh. It included events, performances and projects in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow to an audience of 300,000.
Projects and artists included: Lyndall Jones (Aus); Dumb Type (Japan); Scenario Urbano (Aus); Stelarc (Aus); Patricia Piccinini (AUS) and Ron Athey (USA).
Editor, (Re)visions of sex, Fotofeis 1997.
A parallel project and companion to the festival including essays by: Sue Golding, Sean Cubitt, Sue Best, Beatrix Campbell, Denise Robinson et al.

New Visions, 1993-2000

Board of Directors, Programming and Selection Committees.
New Visions promoted independent experimental film video and new media through a biennial festival of international work and latterly through a series of ongoing screenings and commissions and was involved in developing the brief for the Consultancy into the “Strategic Development of Film Video and New Media in Scotland 1999”.

Glasgow School of Art, School of Fine Art, 1992–1997

Organisation of collaborative events, conferences and publications including the series of public lectures which included speakers such as: Hal Foster, Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak, John Baldissari and Marina Warner. The events resulted in two anthologies edited by Pavel Buchler and Dr Nikos Papastergiadis:Random Access I, On Crisis and its Metaphors and Random Access II, Ambient Fears, Rivers Oram Press 1995 & 1996.

PUBLISHED TEXTS

Near Real Time published in Cultural Snapshots, Proboscis, January 2003
Outside the Margin published in [a-n] magazine October 2002
Kingdom of Nothing published on the exhibition CD The Camera has Been Drinking, Max Reeves 2001
Four Days in Venice, Review published in LOG 14, New Zealand, November 2001
Painting by Numbers, New Media Scotland, Timelines: moving image commissions catalogue essay November 2000
A Spirit in the Mirror published in LOG 10, New Zealand, May 2000
Dropping to Zero, Audio and Internet based projects at Video Positive 2000: The Other Side of Zero published in LOG 10, journal, New Zealand, May 2000
List of Deferred Beginnings and Unfinished Ends published in LOG 9, New Zealand, January 2000
Echoes in the Vacuum, Audio Art at the International Symposium of Electronic Art 1998 published in Variant Magazine, Glasgow March 1999

LECTURES / TALKS

Alice has lectured and given talks at:
Royal College of Art, London
New York University, New York
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada
Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary
Sheridan College, Toronto
Articule Gallery, Montreal
Mercer Union Gallery & G44 Toronto
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
Open University, Milton Keynes
Space Place Studios, London,
ARLIS/UK & Ireland Annual Conference 2001
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Photography Department, Bournemouth Institute for the Arts
Banff International Curatorial Institute Curatorial Think Tank, Banff, Canada
Glasgay Festival, Glasgow
Architeture Foundation, London
Arches Theatre, Glasgow