boredomresearch: Short Bio

boredomresearch is a collaboration between Southampton UK based artists Vicky Isley and Paul Smith. The collective are internationally renowned for creating software driven art, highly aesthetic both visually and acoustically. boredomresearch has shown at festivals, galleries and museums world-wide including most recently KUMU Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia (2011); [DAM]Cologne (2011); Electrohype Biennale, Ystad Art Museum, Sweden (2010); FILE Prix Luz, São Paulo (2010); Today Art Museum, Beijing (2010); LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial, Gijón, Spain (2010). Their artwork 'Ornamental Bug Garden 001' is housed within the British Council's Collection and has been awarded honorary mentions in Transmediale.05, Berlin (2005) and VIDA 7.0 Art & Artificial Life International Competition, Madrid (2004). Currently they are both Research Lecturers in Computer Animation & Computer Art at the National Centre of Computer Animation, Bournemouth University UK. http://www.boredomresearch.net/